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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.

HOST: Glendale, California.

A bookkeeper dies
during a late night

visit to a doctor's office,
apparently of a heart attack.

Within weeks, instigators
begin to unravel

an intriguing tale of
multiple identities,

insurance fraud, and murder.

In Montana, a century old
legend of a lost treasure.

Some believe the state's
most vicious high runner,

a sheriff turned outlaw,
buried $6 million

in gold in the rugged mountains.

Lake Michigan.

In 1985, a wealthy
investor named Woody Kelly

went out for a boat cruise.

A few hours later, his yacht
was found adrift and empty.

No trace of Woody Kelly
has ever been found.

Also tonight, the poignant
story of a woman's

search for her missing
half-brother and sister.

Today, Leanne Robinson wants
to reunite with the only family

she has ever known.

The family she's not
seen for 18 years.

Maybe with your help, she will.

Join me.

You may be able to
help solve a mystery.

[THEME MUSIC - "UNSOLVED
MYSTERIES"]

A Hippocratic oath
is a solemn pledge

that represents
the highest ideals

of the medical profession.

In essence, it places
the good of the patient

above all other concerns.

In Glendale, California, police
suspected a physician named

Richard Boggs may have
betrayed this oath in the most

shocking way imaginable.

Boggs is currently
in jail charged

with being one of the
ringleaders of a complex plot

that has led police
on the bewildering

trail of conspiracies, false
identities, and murder.

It all began on the early
morning of April 16th, 1988.

Just before 7:10 AM, paramedics
responded to an emergency call

at the Glendale,
California medical office

of Richard Boggs.

Inside they discovered
a man lying on the floor

of an examining room.

Boggs identified him as
Melvin Eugene Hanson.

INVESTIGATOR
STOUTSENBERGER: Boggs

says that he'd
received a phone call

from one of his
patients, a long term

patient, Melvin Eugene Hanson.

The man said he'd
been drinking heavily.

He was having chest pains.

And he wanted to come
in and be examined.

INVESTIGATOR
STOUTSENBERGER: Boggs

said that he had treated
Hanson for seven years,

and that his
patient had recently

complained of heart trouble.

Boggs claim Hanson had asked to
meet him at his office at 5:00

in the morning for an EKG
and other medical tests.

INVESTIGATOR
STOUTSENBERGER (VOICEOVER):

He brought Hanson
in, examined him,

left him in a treatment
room by himself

to rest for a few minutes.

I really don't think you
have any need for alarm.

Now, why don't you just lie
down here for a few minutes,

and I'll be right back.

INVESTIGATOR
STOUTSENBERGER (VOICEOVER):

And Boggs went into another
room to sort through things

while he was waiting for Hanson
to rest when he heard a thud.

INVESTIGATOR
STOUTSENBERGER: Boggs

said he rushed back only to
find Hanson lying unconscious.

Boggs then claimed that he
immediately called the 911

number, but found it busy.

Boggs said he tried to
revive Hanson for 30 minutes.

And at 7:04, he finally got
through on the 911 line.

INVESTIGATOR STOUTSENBERGER:
Finally, paramedics arrived.

He-- the body was pronounced
dead at the scene.

And originally, it was
just a normal death.

Just a natural death
in a doctor's office

with a doctor in attendance.

And that makes it
just a routine death.

And the majority of
deaths in this county

are in the attendance
of a physician.

Pupils are fixed and dilated.

What kind of history?

Cardiovascular problems.

And he--

HOST: When paramedics examined
the body in Boggs' office,

they noticed that his
condition seemed inconsistent

with the doctor's story.

He's got some rigor in
his neck and in his jaw.

HOST: The body's
rigor mortis suggested

that death had occurred
significantly earlier

than Boggs was claiming.

In fact, the EKG tape
revealed that the machine

had last been used just
after midnight not 5:00 AM.

How long do you
say he's been down?

HOST: Suspicious, paramedics
called the police.

You thought your patient
was having a heart attack,

but you didn't
call an ambulance?

You were going to treat
him at your facility?

Yes, because he trusted me.

And believe me, it's hard
enough to even get him to come

in for his regular checkups.

Dr. Boggs ignored basic
lifesaving protocol.

A doctor is not going
to try and help a heart

attack patient in his office.

He's going to have an
ambulance waiting for him.

Dr. Boggs, could you tell me a
little more about the 911 call?

Are you sure you dialed 911?

Yes, I'm certain, and
I got no response there.

LOWREY: His comments
regarding the 911 bothered me.

He had told us he had
gotten a busy signal.

That time of the
morning, I found

it hard to believe that he'd get
a busy signal on a 911 system.

HOST: Though three credit
cards and a copy of a birth

certificate were discovered
in Hanson's wallet,

no ID with a photograph
of Hanson was found.

Boggs gave police the
name of Hanson's business

partners and emergency contact.

John Hawkins.

Columbus, Ohio.

H-A-W-K-I-N-S.

HOST: Police were reluctant
to further question Boggs

without more evidence,
as he had once

been one of the most
respected physicians

in southern California.

By virtue of his
skill and hard work,

he had built up an extremely
lucrative medical practice.

But by the 1980s,
Boggs had experienced

severe personal and
financial reverses.

There were rumors that he
was dangerously overextended.

That his practice and medical
license were in jeopardy.

The most probable
cause of death

is acute nonspecific
myocarditis.

HOST: On April 17th, when the
body found in Boggs' office

was autopsied, the pathologist
noticed something peculiar.

The body is noted to be
that of a Caucasian male,

appearing to be younger
than the stated age of 46.

HOST: Though the body
appeared to be younger

than the 46-year-old Hanson's
birth certificate has stated,

the opportunity to
examine it further

vanished when Hanson's
business partner, John Hawkins,

arrived from Ohio.

25-year-old John
Hawkins and Melvin

Hanson had co-owned a
successful clothing store chain.

Hawkins made it clear
he needed to settle

Hanson's affairs
quickly in order

to return home to his business.

What I need to
know is, when is

the body going to be cremated?

PERKINS (VOICEOVER): When John
Hawkins arrived from Columbus,

Ohio, he made arrangements
with a local mortuary

to have the body cremated.

When Hawkins learned that the
ashes would not be scattered

until a much later time,
that being up to a month,

he was upset.

Business there.

I need to expedite this
as much as possible.

Is there any other way?

Hawkins, through the
mortuary personnel,

located a local scattering
service that scattered

those ashes the following day.

[phone ringing]

Glendale Police Department.

[inaudible] How may I help you?

HOST: Two months
later, this case

took another intriguing turn.

PERKINS: On June 9th, a
detective received a phone call

from a insurance company
representative who informed him

they were about to
pay a $1 million

life insurance policy for
the death of Gene Hanson.

The beneficiary
of that policy was

John Hawkins of Columbus, Ohio.

The representative inquired
if the photographs of the body

had ever been compared
to any other known

pictures of Melvin Hanson.

Up to that point,
that had not occurred.

The detective sent away for
a California driver's license

photo of Melvin Eugene Hanson.

HOST: Several weeks later
when the photographs arrived,

police made a
shocking discovery.

The man found in Boggs'
office was not Melvin Hanson.

PERKINS: The detective
contacted the insurance

representative immediately,
and it was too late.

And that the
insurance company had

already paid out the $1 million
to the beneficiary, John

Hawkins.

HOST: But if the body in Boggs'
office was not Hanson, then who

was it?

Police used finger prints
to match the dead body

with missing persons reports.

The body that Boggs had
identified as his patient,

Melvin Eugene
Hanson, was in fact

that of a 32-year-old
North Hollywood bookkeeper

named Ellis Henry Greene.

Investigators now wanted to talk
with John Hawkins, the man who

had ordered Greene cremated.

PERKINS: Investigators
in Columbus, Ohio

followed up on John Hawkins.

They found that he had
abandoned the residence

that he had lived in.

And later discovered
his convertible Mercedes

parked at the airport, top down,
keys still in the ignition.

Indicating an obvious quick
exit from that particular area.

Dr. Boggs, during
our investigation

a concern has
arisen when the body

that you identified as
Mr. Hanson may not in fact

be Mr. Hanson.

HOST: In spite of
evidence to the contrary,

Boggs continued to
insist to police

that the man found in
his office was the man he

knew as Melvin Hanson.

Right there.

The same man I identified
to the other officers.

Have you ever seen
the other man before?

No.

PERKINS: Dr. Boggs
later claimed that he'd

been duped by this individual
who died in his office,

and demanded to know why
this person represented

himself as Melvin Hanson.

HOST: The police were not
convinced and issued a search

warrant for Boggs' files.

A trace of his phone records
showed frequent calls

to Hanson's business number, and
more suspiciously to Hanson's

business partner, John Hawkins.

Investigators also noticed
that Boggs had received calls

from a Wolfgang Von Snowden.

In fact, Boggs had spoken
to him the same night

that Greene's body was found.

They wanted to know why.

And Snowden's name was
distributed to law enforcement

agencies around the country.

Several months passed.

January 29th, 1989, Dulles
International Airport.

Nine months after Ellis Greene
was found in Richard Boggs'

office, a
suspicious-acting man was

interrogated by
customs officials

after getting off a
flight from Mexico.

When his bag was examined,
$14,000 in undeclared cash

was discovered.

Oh, that?

I closed out a bank
account in Mexico.

I had an account there.

And I didn't fill out the forms.

I'm sorry.

Let me see your bag.

Why?

Wait-- I can--

PERKINS: When the customs
agents searched the man's bags,

he discovered not only the
identification that he was

using at that time,
but he also discovered

photo identification
of the same person

with the name of
Wolfgang Von Snowden.

But the most critical
discovery was

the original California driver's
license for the dead man,

Ellis Henry Greene.

Take off your sunglasses.

Why?

Take off your sunglasses.

PERKINS: The customs agent
made a computer inquiry,

and learned that
Wolfgang Von Snowden was

in fact wanted by authorities.

I didn't lie to you.

I told you, I
filled out the form.

I'll put down--
we'll figure out--

Wolfgang Von Snowden is
wanted in a murder case.

What?

We'll hold you
until police get here.

HOST: Within a few hours, a man
who carried ID as Wolfgang Von

Snowden was finally
identified by his real name,

Melvin Eugene Hanson.

If Melvin Eugene
Hanson was alive,

why had Boggs claimed he
had died in his office?

In order to answer
this question,

police began to piece
together an alleged conspiracy

that they believe had almost
resulted in the perfect crime.

Do you recognize this
phone number at all?

HOST: Melvin Hanson and John
Hawkins were business partners.

It is thought that they came
up with a scheme of murdering

Ellis Greene,
switching his identity

with Hanson's, and
then collecting

on Hanson's insurance policy.

I have to get back to Ohio.
My business--

HOST: By ordering that
the remains be cremated,

the state's proof that
Greene had been murdered

would literally have
gone up in smoke.

I could offer an agency
that could do that for you.

HOST: Five days after the
apprehension of Hanson,

Richard Boggs was arrested
at his Glendale office.

He was charged with
insurance fraud

in the murder of Ellis Greene.

PERKINS: What we
do know about Ellis

Greene is that he had a 0.29
alcohol level in his body.

That would suggest
to us that he was

lured to the doctor's office.

And along with that
level of intoxication,

a final mechanism of death
was inflicted upon him.

Because of a doctor's
involvement in this case,

it has forced us to
look into other areas.

Drugs when used in combination
with high levels of alcohol

could cause death.

Poisons, medications, and not
to exclude the fact that he

may have suffocated him.

HOST: In a television
interview conducted just

before his arrest,
Richard Boggs stoutly

maintained his innocence.

Saying that there
was no evidence

he had profited from the plot.

I'm not guilty at all.

I didn't take off with
the money as they did.

I didn't vanish.

I've been here all
the time getting all

the heat from what they pulled.

And I've benefited
absolutely in no way

from this little
scheme of theirs.

You know, and to add
insult to injury,

they didn't even pay
the medical bill.

HOST: Next, the story of
a successful entrepreneur

who literally sailed off
the face of the earth.

HOST: 9:30 PM, June the
8th, 1985, Lake Michigan.

A derelict yacht
had been reported

drifting just off shore, its
occupant apparently in danger.

Anyone on board?

Police department.

HOST: Officer Wayne Brooks
responded to the call.

BROOKS (VOICEOVER): When
I initially got there,

I heard the engines running.

And as I was approaching
closer, the engines died.

The boat was then just drifting.

I was able to pull
myself up over the side.

I was looking for a victim
of a possible heart attack.

Police.

Is anyone on board?

BROOKS (VOICEOVER): I searched
the boat, the cabin area

down below.
I found nobody on the boat.

Police department.

When I arrived, the way
the engines were running,

if someone had
fallen off that boat,

it's my opinion they could not
have gotten back onto the boat.

It would have been moving
away from them too quickly.

HOST: The owner of the yacht
was a 42-year-old investment

counselor named Woody Kelly.

No sign of Woody or his
body has ever been found.

In 1975, Woody
Kelly and his family

settled near Lake Michigan
in the small Illinois

town of Antioch.

At first, the Kelly's lived
in a modest neighborhood.

But after he began an
investment business,

the family's fortunes
began to change.

They moved to a mansion
near a local lake.

By virtue of his business
and his outgoing nature,

Woody soon became
one of the town's

most respected personalities.

MAYOR WILTON (VOICEOVER):
Woody, I feel,

was considered by
a lot of people

as a pillar of the community.

Hi, Rick.

Hi, Woody.

He belonged to two very
active community organizations.

Participated a great deal
in those organizations.

I think that the
community enjoyed Woody.

They liked him.

He just had this genuine
personality that you

just wanted to talk to him.

He was a real likeable guy.

HOST: Woody was a
dedicated family man,

and often invited his
new friends and neighbors

to his luxurious home.

Soon, many of his
personal friends

became business clients.

You really are.

These two are--

MRS. WILTON: He
became your friend.

He'd actually make you
want to invest money.

God, I wish I had some
money I could give him.

HOST: One of the
principal clients

of Woody's investment company
was veterinarian Daniel Osgood.

OSGOOD: He seemed
very professional.

He had a very substantial
office, office staff.

Here.

I'd like you to meet Brenda.

OSGOOD (VOICEOVER): His
reports were very exacting.

He just had all the instruments
that promoted confidence.

Over here we have George,
another one of our people.

Hi, George.

We're a growing
organization, as you can see.

HOST: Woody was able
to promise and deliver

an amazing 16% to 19%
interest on his investments.

KEARNEY: He was
not pushy at all,

but he was enthusiastic
about what he was doing.

He did not come on hard sell.

He was fairly laid back.

He assured me that this
was a good investment.

That I really
should consider it.

And he would
welcome my business.

And they're just
wonderful investments.

Are they insured?

I mean, is this safe?
- Definitely.

To me, I think they're
just a very, very good

situation for you to be in.

Sounds very interesting.

HOST: Woody's
business flourished.

He bought four luxury
cars, two airplanes, three

different homes, and six boats.

As a hobby, he even started
a yacht charter service.

Hey, Lita, Randy.

How are you?
How you been?

Fine.

HOST: Woody was known to
be extremely generous.

He took his friends and
investors on lake cruises.

A in a few cases, he treated
them to expensive vacations.

You're our kind of kind.

What color do you want?

MRS. WILTON: I asked him if
he robbed banks for a living,

and he just laughed.

We believed in him
so much that we

were building a
restaurant for $350,000

and he was going
to be part of it.

No questions asked.

HOST: June the 8th, 1985.

Woody unexpectedly showed
up at a yacht dealer's

to check on a new boat
he had just purchased.

Hi, Dave.

How's it going?

I'm just ready to have a
few of those [inaudible].

KELLY: He told me he was
going to take the boat out.

So I asked him if
he wanted me to go

with him for a test drive.

Our company policy is that
nobody will go for a lake test

alone.
- This is my boat.

I'm taking it out.

KELLY: He was very
adamant about it.

He insisted that,
no, I have people

waiting for me at the dock.

He said, I wanted
to go out alone.

So I helped him
cast off, and that

was last seen we'd seen him.

HOST: Woody left at
approximately 3:00

PM headed north towards
Waukegan, Illinois

about 20 miles away.

He had told his family he
would home by 6 o'clock.

He never returned.

Over the next few
days, the Coast Guard

retraced Woody's route.

As his distinctive sunglasses
were found on the boat,

they assumed he had
accidentally fallen overboard.

Because victims of drowning
inevitably surface,

they looked for a body.

They found nothing.

After this unusual
disappearance,

the town of Antioch was sad.

But as time passed, sadness
turned to shock and then anger.

Evidence appeared showing
that Woody Kelly was more

than a genial financial wizard.

Much more.

All right, we're going
to grab all the business

records. all right?
I don't want anything left.

HOST: The same week
that Kelly disappeared,

a client filed a civil
suit charging him

with improper
business practices.

Sheriff.

Police.

HOST: After Kelly vanished,
Detective Dan Colin

from the Lake County
Sheriff's Department

became involved in
the investigation.

Detective Colin,
Sheriff's office.

We have a search warrant for
Kelly's business and offices.

And you could please show
me Mr. Kelly's office.

COLIN (VOICEOVER): When the
office staff began looking

at the records, they
realized that there was

no money in the bank accounts.

This was Woody's office.

So this is where he
kept his private files?

Right.

COLIN: The money was
just being spent.

Every time an investor
would put money in,

it was going right back out.

So basically-- immediately,
looking at the checkbooks,

you knew that it was a fraud.

HOST: When Kelly's
records were scrutinized,

they showed that the bulk
of the investors' money

had gone directly
into his pocket.

Almost $6 million was missing.

In 1981, I gave Woody Kelly
$110,000 to invest for me.

I have never recovered one cent.

My husband and I invested
our money with Woody

after we sold our home.

And we invested, I
estimate, about $30,000.

My investment with Woody
Kelly was in excess of $400,000,

and the entire sum
was eventually lost.

Woody's investment
company took in everybody.

Whether it was a blue collar
worker, a white collar worker,

he included everybody.

You had firemen, you
had schoolteachers,

you had doctors,
you had lawyers.

Woody was non-segregational.

He took everybody.

HOST: What happened
to Woody Kelly?

Some believe that
he had been murdered

by a former partner in crime.

Another persistent rumor was
that an accomplice had picked

him up by boat or sea plane.

If he did fake
his disappearance,

police still have no idea
how he escaped detection.

COLIN: Over the years, we
keep getting phone calls.

Someone's supposedly saw
him down in Rio de Janeiro.

We get inferences that
he's down in the islands.

A solid lead to say, you know,
this is where Woody is at--

I have never gotten one.

When we interviewed
some of the investors,

we have people that who
we talked to, that said,

if he walked in the door,
and asked him for $10,

they'd give it to them.

Even though they had
just lost thousands.

Because he was so likable.

He was a good salesman.

He was a good con man.

HOST: Today, Woody Kelly
would be 46 years old.

He is 5' 11" in height
and weighs 200 pounds.

His eyes are blue, and at
the time of his disappearance

his hair was brown.

At the present time, he
may be wearing a beard.

These are home movies taken of
Woody Kelly in the same year

he disappeared.

Showing how exciting
it is to refuel.

HOST: In a moment, the story of
a fortune in stolen gold, which

has remained hidden in the
rugged hills of Montana

for more than a century.

Our next mystery is a
tale of legendary treasure.

Buried, we've been
told, somewhere

in the hills of Montana.

126 years ago, a crooked
Sheriff and his outlaw gang

went to the gallows refusing
to reveal the exact location

of their hidden booty.

To this day, the tantalizing
lore of buried gold

still attracts prospectors.

It all began in
the summer of 1863,

during what would prove
to be the bloodiest period

in Montana history.

HOST: A Montana territory,
26 years before Montana

would be admitted to the Union.

When gold was
discovered in the part

of the territory known as Alder
Gulch, hundreds of prospectors

showed up.

Each trying to claim
his share of the spoils.

PACE (VOICEOVER): News of any
gold discovery in those days

spread fast and
spread far and wide.

Holy moses, look at this.

Looking right at me.

PACE: Riches were
being made, and people

wanted to get in on them.

That's why there was such
a large gang of outlaws

around every mining camp.

Hey, fellas.

We got company.

What can we do for you guys?

[gunshots]

HOST: In the spring of 1863, the
Montana prospectors were nearly

wiped out by a brazen
group of outlaws

called the Road Agent Gang.

The Road Agents reportedly stole
more than 1,000 pounds of gold,

and nuggets, and
coins, and gold dust.

They were secretly led by
a man named Henry Plummer.

But amazingly, Plummer
had another identity--

Sheriff of the gold boom
town of Bannack, Montana.

The people who elected him had
no way of knowing that Henry

Plummer was an ex-convict.

Ironically, he had
been released just four

years earlier from a
brand new California

prison in San Quentin.

PACE (VOICEOVER): Henry
Plummer was a very

pleasant looking individual.

He was the only man
in Bannack practically

that always tipped
his hat to a lady

when he saw her on the street.

Well, you could call him the
consummate con man of his day.

So he was able to con
people into thinking

he was a competent
man to be the Sheriff.

And of course, he knew
that being a Sheriff

would give him a perfect
cover for whatever he wanted

to do in the illegal line.

Boys, we got a stage
leaving Bannack in two days.

It's full of gold,
and I want that stage.

OUTLAW: No passengers?

No survivors.

HOST: Plummer's
targets of choice

were miners trying to
transport their gold

to a major rail-head.

Put your hands up, boys.

We want your gold!

[gun shots]

HOST: During a four
month period in 1863,

it is estimated that Henry
Plummer and the Road Agents

killed more than 120 miners.

At the same time,
stealing gold valued

today at over $6 million.

Yeah.

HOST: The townsfolk
of Bannack, Montana

had no idea that their
chief law enforcement

officer was in reality the
ringleader of the Road Agents.

For eight months, Henry
Plummer's secret identity

remained hidden.

Here he is.

Right out here, boys.

Look at that.

They dragged the hide
right off of him.

HOST: Finally in December of
1863, an incident in Bannack

put the first crack in Plummer's
carefully constructed facade.

A well-liked young man
was cruelly murdered

by the Road Agent gang.

One of the local
ranchers found the body,

and bought it into town.

Yeah!

Saddle up, George!

PACE (VOICEOVER): And
that was enough for them.

They formed a posse.

And during the next six weeks,
the vigilantes worked, picking

people up, giving them a trial.

And we know they hanged
about 22 men, at least.

HOST: The vigilantes
tracked down the outlaws.

Each of them fingered others.

The vigilante posse, armed
with their new information,

rounded up the rest of the gang.

Dispensing rough justice
through makeshift trials.

Finally, when a
Road Agent named Red

Yeager was about to be hanged,
he dropped a bombshell--

naming Henry Plummer as
the gang's ringleader.

PACE (VOICEOVER): Yeager's the
one that spilled the beans.

But of course, when a man
is faced with a noose,

he has second thoughts
about a lot of things.

According to one
account he said,

it looks like you're
going to hang me, boys.

But if you do, I know
a lot of others that

deserve it as much as I do.

With God as my witness, I want
you all to know that Henry's

the one that planned all this.

He's the one to run
all the Road Agents.

He's the man you want.

Ha!

PACE (VOICEOVER): That
was the first firm

indication that Henry Plummer
was the leader of the gang.

HOST: The vigilante
posse immediately

went to Plummer's house.

Put them up!

Get out here!

Get out here!

Get him out of here!

What's going on?

Red Yeager, he named you as
the leader of the Road Agents.

Red Yeager's a liar.

PACE (VOICEOVER): Plummer
wasn't given a full scale trial

because they had Red
Yeager's confession

and the list of the
outlaws, so they didn't

waste time with the trial.

HOST: On January 12th,
1864, only seven months

after the Road Agents had
begun their reign of terror,

Henry Plummer was
marched to a scaffold he

himself had built in
his role as Sheriff.

Before the vigilante
posse could hang him,

Plummer made an unusual request.

I know I've deceived you boys.

I'm sorry for that.

But give me two
hours and a horse,

and I'll bring back
my weight in gold.

We made that mistake once.

We're going to hang you.

Ha!

HOST: Henry Plummer died
without benefit of a trial,

leaving obscure hints of buried
treasure as his only legacy.

Immediately after Plummer
died, a new kind of gold fever

hit the Montana territory.

Instead of looking
for gold nuggets,

prospectors looked for
Plummer's buried treasure.

In the early 1900s, two
mysterious gold hunters

found something.

Local historian, Jim
Edwards, recounts the story.

EDWARDS: One day, they came
into the town of Ennis,

and they have this box.

They went into a local
store that had a vault,

and asked if they could leave
this box in there all night.

And one of the men stayed there
riding shotgun on the vault.

The next morning,
they disappeared.

Nobody knew who they were, where
they went, or what they dug up.

Of course, nobody
at the time thought

much about Plummer's gold.

I don't know that it was,
but they dug something up.

HOST: Even if one box of
Plummer's gold was removed,

much more might remain.

Turo Gomez, Scott
Jones, and Bill Jappe

have been hunting the treasure
for nearly five years.

They are confident that
Plummer's gold still

lies buried somewhere
in the Montana hills.

I think you put enough
money in different get away

routes that you know,
it's probably worth--

something worth finding.

The gold has to be there.

Because Plummer was
the outlaw leader, so

he would have had
control of the gold.

Nobody would bury all
their eggs in one basket.

He was Sheriff of both
towns at the same time,

so it's understandable
that he has it someplace

where he has access to it.

I bet there's 1,000 pounds
or better in different places

maybe from Virginia
City to Bannack.

HOST: Is Henry Plummer's
treasure of $6 million

worth of nuggets and
gold dust still hidden

in the stock Montana hills?

That is a question that
may never be answered.

Only the man who
buried it could be

certain of its exact location.

And they, too, lie
buried somewhere

in the Montana countryside.

In 1954, the historical
town of Bannack

was placed under the protection
of Montana's Department

of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks.

That means anyone
without a special permit

is barred from digging for gold
on the state controlled land.

But since no one knows exactly
where Henry Plummer might

have hidden his gold, the search
126 years later still goes on.

HOST: Next, the story of
Jim, Tammi, and Leeann,

three inseparable children
pulled apart by adoption.

18 years have passed.

Today, Leeann wants to see
her brother and sister again.

Our next story is
one of lost love.

A woman searching for her
half-brother and sister.

Sadly, she hasn't seen
them since they were

only five and seven years old.

The clues that remain
are a few photographs

and this small wheel
of home movies.

Movies of herself and her little
brother and sister playing

with other children
at the beach.

Even thought more than 19 years
have passed since this film was

shot, watch closely.

Perhaps you know where
these children are.

HOST: This is Jimmy.

In 1970, when these films were
made, he was four years old.

Today, he is 23.

This is Tammi at two years old.

Today, Tammi is 22.

And finally, this is Leanne.

When the home movies
were made, she was 11.

Today, she is 32.

Leeann has not seen Jimmy
and Tammi since 1972.

LEEANN: I never let a year go
by where I didn't make some kind

of effort to find them.

I can't see any reason in this
world why we should be separate

and why we shouldn't
be together.

They are my brother and sister.

And I'm-- I'm going to keep
searching until I find them.

Do you want to go
to the park today?

- Yeah.
- OK.

Will you hand me
the salt over there?

HOST: In 1971, Leeann
lived with Jimmy and Tammi

in Carson, California, a working
class suburb of Los Angeles.

How about soup for lunch?

Does that sound good?

Yeah.

OK.

There you go.

HOST: Their mother,
Doris, had cancer.

So at 13, Leeann virtually
ran the household.

Hi, Mom.

How are you feeling?

I'm feeling a
little better today.

HOST: Doris and
her first husband,

who was Leeann's father, had
divorced seven years earlier.

LEEANN: I just remember her
losing weight, and getting

skinny, and being tired a lot.

And she'd cry, and tell
me that she was sorry,

but I needed to be home
with Tammi and Jimmy.

HOST: Their next door
neighbor, Ellen Morrill,

was a constant
source of support.

On her deathbed,
Doris asked Ellen

if she would
promise to take care

of Leeann, Jimmy, and Tammi.

ELLEN: She just asked
me to take her kids,

and I told her that I would,
because I loved her children.

They were easy to love.

They were-- and they got
along fine with mine.

They were all like
brothers and sisters.

And so she put it
on a piece of paper

that I would take her children
and keep them together.

And then she just
lasted a few more hours.

Come on, kids.

Got everything?

HOST: Doris died the next day.

Leeann, Jimmy, and Tammi moved
in with Ellen and her children.

LEEANN: Ellen was great.

She took care of all five
of the children and me.

I can really appreciate it now.

Because at that time,
she was 27 or 28.

And I was little, so I
thought of her as old.

You know, now I'm 31.

And I think, god,
how did she do it?

HOST: With six children in a two
bedroom house, life was hectic.

The children seemed healthy.

[door knocking]

HOST: Nevertheless, a social
worker assigned to the case

decided that Ellen could
not provide an adequate home

for Leeann, Jimmy, and Tammi.

- Leeann?
- Hello.

- Put the kids in the back.
- Come on, kids.

Go in the back.

Excuse me.
- Hi.

Sorry.

HOST: The social worker
tracked down Leeann's father,

and began to look for a couple
to adopt Jimmy and Tammi.

Oh, good.

Excuse the mess.

OK.

We've heard from
Leeann's father,

and he wants to take her.

And you know he's in Texas.

But he does not want
to take Jim and Tammi.

I promised Doris, and it
was our agreement that I

would keep the kids together.

I remember feeling immediately
that I was going to run away,

or I was going to
take Tammi and Jimmy.

There was just no way I was
going to have us be separated.

But they talked to me.

And told me that how much sense
it made that Tammi and Jimmy

needed to have a father figure.

That Ellen really couldn't
financially take care of us.

And what about our future.

And I remembered
doing everything

I needed to do to leave.

And was a--

I believe it was a Monday
morning because I remember

the kids going to school.

I want you guys to
know that I'll be going

away for a little while, OK?

I don't want you to go.

I don't want you to go.

But I promise we'll keep in
touch, and I'll be back, OK?

OK.

I love you both.

Come here.

LEEANN: Even at that moment, I
was thinking, I can't do this.

I've got to stay.

I wanted to fight, but I thought
if I just be good, and do what

everybody tells me to do,
then I'll be able to you know,

reunite with them.

And it won't have
to be very long.

And I still remember them
walking down the sidewalk.

And I remember hugging
them, and waving at them,

and telling them I'd be
back, and that I'd call them.

It didn't even register
to me that they

would be put under adoption.

I mean, I would never
know who they went to,

or where they went.

HOST: Several months
later on May 2nd 1972,

the Department of
Social Services

arranged to have Jimmy and
Tammi picked up by a couple

they had chosen to
adopt the two children.

ELLEN: It was very, very
hard because I loved them.

And my children loved them, too.

But it was best.

And I remember them
getting into their car.

And I knew that I'd
never see them again.

I remember seeing them
through the back window.

And on they waved
through the back window.

That's the last I saw their
little faces in the window.

HOST: For years, Leanne tried
to write to Jimmy and Tammi

through the adoption agency, but
she never received an answer.

13 years passed.

During that time, Leeann
moved back to California,

married, and became a
successful business woman.

Finally in 1987, she
received a letter

from the Department
of Social Services

containing details
about the couple who

had adopted Jimmy and Tammi.

They were both 26 years old,
a Catholic couple living

in Ventura County, California.

The adoptive father
was a career navy

man, who in 1973, had the rank
of First Class Petty Officer.

The couple had been married
for 3 and 1/2 years when

they adopted Jimmy and Tammi.

But the agency lost touch after
the family was transferred

to New York in 1976.

LEEANN: 18 years have
passed since I've

seen Tammi and Jimmy.

And when I look
through my home movies,

I can really see
our life together.

I felt like I had
lost a lot back there.

And that having Jimmy--

it's completion.

It's my family.

It's also important
for me to find

them so that they know the truth
about how much I love them.

How much Mom loved them.

How much Ellen loved them.

They won't know that
unless I find them.

HOST: The children's
mother was Doris Margarete

Beard, born in Austin, Texas.

She died on May the 5th, 1971.

Jimmy's birthday is
February the 6th, 1966.

Today, he is 23 years old.

His given name is James Arthur.

Tammi's birthday is
August 25th, 1967.

And she is 22.

Her given name is
Tamara Christina.

Their family name is not known.

Just minutes after
her story aired,

Leeann Robinson's search
came to an end when she

received a call at
our telecenter from

her 22-year-old sister, Tammi.

Tammi lives in Maine and
has two children of her own.

And immediately put Leeann
in contact with her brother

Jim, an Army Sergeant stationed
near Monterey, California.

HOST: On December 10th, just
four days after our show aired,

Jim and Tammi arrived
at Leeann's home

in Los Angeles, California.

And met their older
sister for the first time

in more than 17 years.

Oh, I can't even tell you.

LEEANN: I just had a really
good feeling that they--

somebody was going to call in.

Either they were or
somebody that knew them.

And today when I first saw
them, I felt so close to them.

It felt like the 17
years just came together,

and that it was
just a few days ago

that we last saw each other.

[inaudible]

HOST: For Tammi,
the biggest surprise

came when she phoned
our telecenter

and discovered that Leeann was
there waiting for the call.

TAMMI: A lady came to the
phone, and she says, hello.

And I said, hello, who's this?

And she goes, this is Leeann.

And I was too excited to cry.

I was just too excited
to do anything else.

I said, oh my god, Leeann.

This is Tammi.

And, um-- I don't even
remember what we said.

The first thing I think
I remember her saying

was that she loved me.

LEEANN: This is the
happiest time of my life.

And I just feel
like we're so young.

You know, they're 22 and 23.

I'm 32.

We have a whole
life ahead of us.

And we're all healthy.

And we're very fortunate that
we could find each other.

For every mystery,
there is someone

somewhere who knows the truth.

Perhaps it's you.