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ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
In Roanoke, Virginia,

21-year-old Rae Ann
Mossor was shot and killed

by single blast from a shotgun.

The official
verdict was suicide,

but Rae Ann's grieving parents
believe that verdict was wrong.

In New Mexico, Ed Barbara lured
investors to his gold mine

with dazzling demonstrations
and glittering promises.

But in reality, Ed
Barbara was a conman.

In tiny Saxonburg, Pennsylvania,
a routine traffic stop

escalated into a harrowing
life or death struggle

for police chief Greg Adams.

His attacker is now on the
FBI's 10 Most Wanted List.

In the 1940s, Georgia Tann
was a respected director

of a model Tennessee orphanage.

Years later, authorities
would discover

that this idyllic
setting was, in fact,

a front for a babynapping ring.

These intriguing
stories all need

one final clue, one final
piece of information

before they can be solved.

Perhaps someone watching
tonight can help.

Perhaps it's you.

[theme music]

Hi, kids.

Are you looking
for new furniture?

Come on down to
Furniture USA right now.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): In
the San Francisco Bay Area

during the early
1980s, Maurice "Ed"

Barbara was an
inescapable fixture

on late-night television.

--for an unbelievable 595.

We have dozens of dining
room setts starting at 199.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): The owner

of a successful furniture
chain, Ed Barbara

soon became a local cult hero.

No credit?
Bad credit?

Bankruptcy?

No problem at Furniture
USA, where you can get--

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Each of

his self-starring
commercials featured

the same distinctive tagline.

Bye, kids.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
In 1984, Ed Barbara

turned from selling furniture
to prospecting for gold

and purchased a
mine in New Mexico.

The Golden Gulch had
never produced any gold

for its previous owners.

But Barbara was confident
that with a secret processing

technique, he would extract
gold from the mine's

worthless dirt--

$93 million worth in the
first year of operation.

And he claimed he
would share this wealth

with investors in his
holding company, Dynapac.

Ed told me many, many
times, you're going to make

a lot of money on this stock.

You have nothing to worry about.

And I went along with it.

I believed him.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Barbara's company also planned

to manufacture
automatic sofabeds,

as well as producing an
internationally syndicated

television series on bingo.

One of the major
Dynapac shareholders

was prominent San Francisco
attorney Melvin Belli.

Belli signed a glowing
testimonial that helped Barbara

recruit even more investors.

Later, Belli was to
claim he never read

the letter before he signed it.

I called all my friends,
told them about Melvin Belli.

And they became excited, and it
convinced a lot of people that

hadn't gone into it
before to go into it,

plus the ones that were
already in it to buy more.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Within months

Dynapac's value quadrupled
and then quadrupled again.

With an estimated 17 million
shares, Barbara was at one time

worth over $136 million.

Listen, Ed, I've been, uh,
spending a little sleepless

night wondering and
thinking about selling

some of my stock to get
some of my investment back.

Ed, please.

What do you think?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
At this time,

Ruby Gullo wanted to recoup her
initial investment by cashing

out some of her shares.

$90?

You think that stock
actually might hit $90, Ed?

You know, he said, Ruby,
if anything should happen,

I promise you that I will give
you back every penny of money

that you have
invested personally.

I will do it personally.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
The meteoric rise

of Dynapac alerted the
Security Exchange Commission.

They suspended trading
pending an investigation.

Dynapac's value
immediately plummeted.

It first starts,
and, of course,

the conveyor belt comes up.

And we separate the big stuff--

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): In order

to regain his fortune
and credibility,

Barbara opened up his
mine for scrutiny.

He invited financial analysts
to come to New Mexico

and promised to show them
firsthand his mining operation.

Look at that, huh?

That's where the gold
really is, in there.

Can you smell it?

[laughs] All right.

He would bring
investors out to the mine,

give them red hardhats with
"VIP" written across the front.

And he would give them a tour
of what, for all appearances

to someone who was expecting
to see an operating gold mine,

looked like just that.

What we're going to do here is
pour some actual molten gold--

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
During his presentation,

Barbara relied upon his
background as a performer.

Now, watch yourself.

It gets real hot.

Step back.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The
pouring of this molten metal

created the grand finale
of Barbara's production,

a pyramid made of solid gold.

99.9% pure gold
grown on this property.

Come on, come on.

Come on up and touch it.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
On March 24, 1985,

the FCC allowed Dynapac
back on the stock exchange.

But Barbara had not convinced
everybody that his operation

was legitimate.

DANIEL PEARLMAN: The pyramids
were said to be worth $150,000,

and investors were
almost beside themselves

holding that much
money in their hands.

As it turns out, the pyramids
were about 99 and 1/2% copper.

And even the copper ore had to
be trucked in from somewhere

else, because
Barbara's mine didn't

even have any copper in it.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
At this time,

an investigation by the
New Mexico Bureau of Mines

and Mineral Resources began
to turn up irregularities

in Barbara's mining practices.

ROBERT EVELETH: Based upon
all of the samples analyzed

by the New Mexico
Bureau of Mines

and in comparing that with the
literature put out by Dynapac,

we had to conclude that there
was a scam in the making here.

They simply could not
produce gold in the amounts

that they were claiming.

In fact, not
anywhere close to it.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): In 1986,

Ed Barbara hired a geologist
named David Fingado.

Barbara was anxious to have
his extravagant production

figures confirmed.

He was confident that
Fingado would produce

figures that substantiated
his glowing projections

to investors.

Barbara was wrong.

MICHAEL FINGADO: While
David worked for Dynapac,

he found virtually no gold.

He said that either Ed
Barbara was an idiot

or he must have been
doing something wrong,

like trying to launder money.

Because he was certain that they
were getting almost no gold,

negligible amounts of gold
out of the operation, and he

wondered how long Barbara
could continue to operate

under those circumstances.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Fingado finally had had enough.

He quit and, after an
argument with Barbara,

was thrown off the
mine's premises.

Now, that's the last I want
to hear about this subject!

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): As
a result of this encounter,

Fingado was concerned
about both his safety

and the safety of his family.

He moved from the
area and contacted

the local authorities.

In light of the fact that
the authorities were not

responsive to my
brother's information,

David went to national news.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
In this interview,

Fingado made it very
clear why he quit Dynapac.

The crookedness, the
illegalities that were going

on, the lies and falsehoods.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
In the same story,

Barbara responded to
these reports of fraud.

I can only tell you that
after reading the report,

um, that their opinions--

I'm gonna use this
word loosely--

suck.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Five days after this interview

and two days before
the story was

to air, David Fingado was
dead, crushed when his truck

ran off a road near his home.

Though the circumstances of
his death were suspicious,

the official verdict was
that it was an accident.

I think that when Barbara saw
David Fingado on CNN describing

how the gold figures
were all bogus

and they weren't really
producing the gold

that Barbara
claimed, he realized

that the game was over.

And it was a matter of
days before he disappeared.

I got a call from
my broker one day,

and he said, do you know
what's happening to Dynapac?

And I said, no.

Great.

Is it going up again?

And he said, no, I hate
to tell you this bad news.

But he said, this man Ed
has skipped the country.

[beep]

MAN (ON ANSWERING
MACHINE): Sorry,

we're not here right now--

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Phone calls to Dynapac

and the mine were answered
by a reassuring message

that business was
proceeding normally.

But in reality, the
mine was deserted,

and Ed Barbara had fled.

It took them
months until after we

did our story
before they finally

moved in and filed a lawsuit.

And the local sheriff was
being bribed by Ed Barbara,

so there wasn't really
anybody to investigate.

DANIEL PEARLMAN:
It's hard to estimate

how much money was lost.

If there were eight
million shares out there,

that's somewhere between
$15 and $20 million

that was lost by investors
on Dynapac stock.

I had been cleaned out.

My life savings were gone.

He ruined me.

What can I say?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
After Dynapac crumbled,

Barbara moved to Canada,
changed his name,

and made a living through fraud.

But nine months later,
he was arrested,

tried, and convicted
on 12 felony

counts relating to Dynapac.

But before he
could be sentenced,

Barbara jumped
bail and vanished.

He has not been seen since.

I will never be
able to understand

a person that could be so--

I call it evil, really evil--

to do that people,
to just go out

and just ruin people's lives.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Several weeks ago, we

profiled the shocking
case of a baby boy

who was abducted
from a Sinai Hospital

in Baltimore, Maryland, just
two days after he was born.

On the morning of
September 21, 1989,

a woman disguised as a nurse
entered the maternity ward

room of Linda Norris.

The woman instructed
Mrs. Norris to hand over

her two-day-old son, Avery
James, and return to her bed

for a physical examination.

The woman pulled the privacy
curtain closed and then

disappeared with Avery.

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.

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
Carleane Victoria Wilkenson,

said she wished to obtain a
birth certificate for 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 prayed for us.

And I thank you from my husband
and myself and for our baby.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): On
February 4, 1986, at 7:53 PM,

a quiet neighborhood
in Roanoke, Virginia,

was shattered by a single
blast from a shotgun.

[sirens]

21-year-old Rae Ann
Mossor was pronounced

dead at the scene with a
shotgun wound to her chest.

M. DAVID HOOPER: When
officers arrived at 7:57,

they did find the
body of the young girl

lying beside the car.

They found a shotgun lying
on the trunk of the car

pointed in the direction
of where the young lady

would have been standing.

In reconstructing what
had occurred prior

to their arrival, they found
that she had dated a young man

who lived in that house nearby.

It was his car that
she was lying beside.

It was his car where the shotgun
was found lying on the trunk.

They found no one
else in the area.

It was a pretty
heated argument.

She wanted to know why I
hadn't been seeing her lately.

So as she stormed out, the
last thing she said to me

was, "What do I have to do
to prove my love to you,

kill myself?"

And then she ran out the door.

You didn't come
to the door when

you heard this shotgun blast?

No, sir.
No, sir.

I didn't go outside.

I didn't even look outside.

I-- if there was anybody
outside with a shotgun,

I was going to stay inside.

I feared for my life.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
After questioning Rae Ann's

ex-boyfriend, the police
investigation failed to find

any evidence of foul play.

It was officially
ruled that Rae Ann

Mossor had committed suicide.

At first glance, the
death of Rae Ann Mossor

appears to follow a tragic
but all too common pattern.

Rejected by her
ex-boyfriend, she

was overheard by three witnesses
threatening to kill herself.

Yet in this case,
the obvious solution

may be too easy, too pat.

Over the past three
years, Rae Ann's parents

have assembled disquieting
and convincing evidence

that raises serious questions
about their daughter's death.

They believe Rae
Ann was murdered.

They want her death
reclassified as a homicide.

Most of all, they simply want
to have Rae Ann's name cleared.

When-- when our
daughter was murdered,

she was charged and
convicted of a crime

she did not do to herself.

And the power within
me and my husband

both is to find out why,
who, and what happened.

This definitely
was not a suicide,

and I really don't care
what anybody thinks.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Rae Ann worked as a waitress

and lived at home
with her parents.

She had recently taken a test
to enlist in the Navy, where

she hoped to study radiology.

ANN MOSSOR: Rae Ann had
a real good personality.

She loved life.

She loved people,
hardworking-type young lady.

She had too much
of my personality,

too much of a temper
to commit suicide.

All yours, guys.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Examining police reports

of the crime scene,
Rae Ann's parents began

to discover evidence that
cast doubt on suicide

as the cause of death.

Rae Ann's car was parked
directly across the street

from where she died.

The driver's door was wide open.

Music was blaring
from her car stereo,

and her key was still
in the ignition.

She seemed to have left
the car in a hurry.

Also, the police had
found the 12-gauge shotgun

lying on the trunk of the
car after the shooting.

Ron and Ann felt if Rae Ann
really had shot herself,

the weapon would have fallen
to the ground beside her body.

How long was Rae Ann's arm?

29 inches.

OK, 29 inches.

Right there, and that's on
the tip of your finger and--

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Finally, Rae Ann's arm

measured 29 inches,
but the distance

from the trigger of the
shotgun to the muzzle

was 36 and 1/2 inches.

ANN MOSSOR (VOICEOVER):
My arm length

was right close to my
daughter's arm length,

so I took a broomstick
and measured it out

to be able to push that
trigger with my thumb

and to be able to
get it in after we'd

seen the body diagram.

I can't even get
to the trigger.

ANN MOSSOR (VOICEOVER):
I couldn't reach it.

There ain't no way that
you gonna even reach it.

There's no way.

She couldn't have pulled
that trigger and shot herself.

There's no way.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): On
the night of Rae Ann's death,

authorities told her parents
that an autopsy would

be carried out automatically.

Two weeks later, Ron
and Ann discovered

that an autopsy had never been
performed or even requested.

When I found out the
autopsy was not performed,

I was shocked.

How did she die?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
The Mossors requested

that Rae Ann's body be exhumed.

At last, six months
after her death,

an autopsy was performed
by Dr. David Oxley,

the original medical examiner.

--and the anterior
chest, corresponding

to the wound seen at a
previous examination of 2/5/86.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
According to the autopsy,

Rae Ann was killed by a
contact wound to the chest,

meaning the muzzle of the
gun was against her skin.

In addition, powder burns were
found on Rae Ann's left wrist.

After the autopsy, the
medical examiner declined

to change the manner of death.

It remained listed as suicide.

The more that we got into
the detail of it, there

was nothing matching.

It was still confusion.

The things weren't
adding up right.

So that's where we started
back for another opinion.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The
Mossors contacted Dr. John

Butts, the chief medical
examiner for the state

of North Carolina.

His conclusions differed
significantly from the findings

of the autopsy.

It seems that suicide
is extremely unlikely.

I could see that the
muzzle of the weapon

was several feet from her body
at the time it's discharged.

The appearance of the
powder on her hand

indicate that that hand was
close to the muzzle of the gun

at discharge, perhaps
grabbing at the gun,

perhaps holding the gun.

Now, whatever was at the other
end of that gun, I don't know.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Based on Dr. Butts' findings,

the medical examiner officially
changed the manner of death

from suicide to pending.

Still, there was
no investigation.

We knew then when we read Dr.
Butts' statement it had to go.

It had to go on until we
found out what happened.

Ladies and gentlemen, this
is Mrs. Ann Mossor, who's here

this morning to present
evidence to this grand jury

for the purpose of--

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Ann Mossor

now tried another approach.

She appeared before a grand
jury as a public citizen

and pleaded with them
to order an inquiry

into her daughter's death.

ANN MOSSOR (VOICEOVER):
I was nervous when

I went into the grand jury.

I had never seen a
grand jury in my life.

What is the basis for that?

Is this a personal feeling, or--

It's to cover up the
fact that an autopsy

was not done February the 5th.

They were nice people.

I thought it went real well.

All of those who are
in favor of referring

this case for re-investigation,
indicate by saying "yea."

Those opposed to referring
this case for re-investigation,

indicate by saying "nay."

Nay.

Nay.

Nay.

Nay.

Nay.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Ann
was unaware that the grand jury

could only change
the cause of death

to homicide if there
clearly was a suspect.

Since in this case
there was no suspect,

the grand jury
declined Ann's motion.

I was emotionally
drained when I come

out of the grand jury room.

Defeated, just
defeated, let down.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Still,
the Mossors refused to give up,

and they set out to get a
third scientific opinion.

They contacted to Dr. Vincent
Di Maio, one of the country's

foremost forensic scientists.

DR. VINCENT DI MAIO:
When I received

the material that
they had, well, I

think the case was screwed up.

The police had a preset notion
as to what had happened,

and they just didn't follow
through with an investigation.

The medical examiner should
have performed an autopsy.

He should have been
suspicious as soon as he

saw the pattern of injuries.

It's not a contact wound.

She couldn't have inflicted it.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
With the help of an assistant,

Dr. Di Maio demonstrated how
the wound in Rae Ann's chest

could not have been
self-inflicted.

This is the closest that
the muzzle was to the body.

So if we move it
even further away,

she'd have even greater
trouble getting to the trigger.

But if we move it
to the closest,

and then if she tries to
reach, look what happens.

As she reaches,
the body rotates,

and there is no way she
can get to the trigger

and yet have the
gun pointed almost

directly at her right chest.

What this means is that somebody
else pulled the trigger.

It's possible that the
reason her left hand was

adjacent to the muzzle
at the time it was fired

was that she had grabbed it and
was attempting to push the gun

away at the time it was fired.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
The new findings

were sent to Donald Caldwell,
the commonwealth attorney

for the City of Roanoke.

Again, the Mossors asked for the
investigation to be reopened.

Again, the response
was negative.

We was working with the
commonwealth attorney,

just would not help us.

He was just-- he
was stonewalling us.

He just would not do anything.

He just was sitting on his
buns and wasn't doing anything,

you know.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
The Mossors then contacted,

RJ Breglio, a forensic
ballistics expert.

He attempted to discover whether
Rae Ann might have discharged

the gun accidentally by
dropping it on the ground

or striking it against
the car in anger.

The butt test is a test to
see if, by dropping or slamming

the butt against the floor when
it is cocked, if it could fire.

I performed this test many
times with the shotgun,

and I could not get
it to discharge.

In my opinion, I don't see how
it would have landed neatly

on the trunk of that car.

I think it would shoot off to
the ground in whichever way

it happened to fall.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Again, the Mossors

sent the new evidence
to Donald Caldwell,

the commonwealth
attorney, and requested

that the case be reopened.

His only reply was, "I am
in receipt of your letter

of September 22, 1987."

RON MOSSOR (VOICEOVER):
We'll never forget her.

We know Rae Ann is gone, and
we'll continue to remember her.

You know, we appreciated
her when she was here,

and we miss her.

ANN MOSSOR: I made a
promise to my daughter

when I kissed her goodbye before
that casket lid was closed.

I told her, I said, Rae Ann, if
this is not what it looks like,

if it takes me the
rest my life, I'll

find out what happened to you.

On November 16, 1988,
almost three years

after their daughter died,
the state medical examiner

changed the manner of
death to undetermined.

There is still no investigation,
and the medical examiner

and commonwealth
attorney declined to be

interviewed for this program.

Yet the Mossors
haven't lost faith

that someday, someone will
set the record straight

and clear Rae Ann's name.

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

of Cindy Lu Presto, who was
stolen from a Memphis park

when she was two years old.

For four decades, Cindy has
searched for her birth mother.

[children singing]

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): In 1949,

the Tennessee Children's
Home Society in Memphis

was a model orphanage.

Its director, Georgia
Tann, worked diligently

to find homes for the
children rather than

allow them to languish
through their teenage years

in an orphanage.

Tann won national praise
for her progressive approach

and singlehandedly placed 5,000
orphans with new families.

But the Tennessee
Children's Home Society

was not all that it seemed.

Georgia Tann and her
orphanage had a darker side.

CINDY LU PRESTO: When
I was growing up,

I was told that I was adopted
from Memphis, Tennessee.

I asked numerous questions.

I never got any answers.

After my adopted mother passed
away, I was packing her things.

I found correspondence from
the Tennessee Children's Home,

and that's when I
started my search.

Two and 1/2 years
later, I found my name.

Two hours later,
I found my mother.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Cindy Lu Presto

discovered that
she was separated

from her family in 1947 when
she was just two years old.

She had originally
been christened

Sandra Lee Bridgewater.

But only when Cindy
recently found

her birth mother,
Evelyn Bridgewater,

was she able to piece
together the sinister events

that led up to her adoption.

CINDY LU PRESTO (VOICEOVER): I
was playing on the playground,

and Georgia Tann drove up in
her proverbial black limousine.

Hello, pretty girl.

Would you like to ride
in my new car with me?

Can you run?

Oh, what a big girl.

Oh, thank you.

Yes, you can.

OK, George, let's go home now.

Sandra Lee Bridgewater.

Tommy McCoy.

Michael Hawkins.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Cindy was

simply stolen by Georgia Tann.

She and several other
children were then

taken to juvenile
court in Memphis,

where she was brought
before Judge Camille Kelley.

Thank you.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Cindy's fate was now completely

in Judge Kelley's hands.

Good morning, children.

I've asked you to
come here this morning

for a very special reason.

You're going away
on a long trip.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Cindy's mother,

Evelyn Bridgewater, had
no idea that her daughter

had been kidnapped until she got
a call from the juvenile court.

Incredibly, Evelyn was
asked to sign papers making

Cindy eligible for adoption.

She refused.

JUDGE KELLEY: It is
the order of this court

that these children be released
to the custody of the Tennessee

Children's Home Society.

Miss Tann.

Thank you, Judge Kelley.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Judge Kelley

overruled Cindy's mother,
and Cindy was taken away.

Judge Kelley was a well
respected citizen of Memphis.

In 1948, a national poll
selected Judge Kelley

as one of the six most
wholesome women in the world,

along with Queen
Elizabeth of England.

I'm confident
that Camille Kelley

was involved with Georgia
Tann in this operation.

Georgia Tann could not have
carried it on without her,

and Camille Kelley
could not have

lived in the style she lived
unless she had outside income.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
For 12 years,

Georgia Tann used the
Tennessee Children's Home

Society as a cover for a
black market baby ring.

But in 1950, after
a number of doctors

resigned in protest
over health standards

at the orphanage, Robert
Taylor, a Memphis attorney,

was appointed by Gov.

Browning of Tennessee
to investigate

Georgia Tann and the Tennessee
Children's Home Society.

And how many of
these little ones

do you need for California?

We need two
infant boys, a girl,

and there's a toddler upstairs
getting ready right now.

OK.

Oh, and don't
forget, Regina will

be going to New York
on Thursday and will

need an additional four.

Alma, you worry
about California.

I'll worry about New York.

We have a plane to catch.

Girls, get the babies ready.

30 minutes till plane time.

WOMAN: Yes, Miss Tann.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Taylor discovered

that a large number
of the children

were being sent out
of state for adoption.

Even though in Tennessee there
was a long list of couples

waiting to adopt
a child, Tann was

ignoring these local couples.

Time to go, George.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): In
order to find out the reason,

Taylor followed Georgia's
assistant, Alma Walton,

on her next trip to Los Angeles.

It seems to have been
the regular practice

to leave at 3 o'clock in
the morning, where there'd

be no one at the airport and the
planes would not be filled up.

Mr. and Mrs. Myers, say
hi to your son, Ashley.

ROBERT TAYLOR (VOICEOVER): She
would call the adoptive parents

to meet her in the lobby.

And she would go down into
the lobby with one baby,

and she had some maid
there in the hotel

staying with the rest of them.

We can sit down.

Just sign right there.

After talking with
them for a few minutes,

they were anxious to
leave, and so was she.

And she'd go back
and get another baby,

and it went on that way till
she got rid of all of them.

Miss Walton, do you have
the receipts for the payments

we've already made?

We'll be sending that
along with the decree when

the adoption becomes final.

I found that Georgia
Tann had placed out

over 1,200 babies for
adoption in New York

City and Los Angeles alone.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Taylor also discovered

that Tann increased revenues
by charging childless couples

a fee to conduct
background investigations

in preparation for adoptions
that would never take place.

Over the 20 years she
had been operating

this black market in babies,
Georgia Tann made a fortune.

In total, she made
over $1 million,

a remarkable sum back in 1950.

With her ill-gained
profits, Tann bought

a vast amount of property.

She developed an awful lot.

She owned a lot of real
estate around Memphis.

She owned a big tourist
court down in Mississippi.

She owned a summer home
down on the Gulf Coast,

and over a million dollars
passed through her hands.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
On September 12, 1950,

Robert Taylor presented
his report to Gov.

Browning.

Georgia Tann had been
stricken with cancer

and died three days later.

Under pressure from the
continuing investigation,

Judge Camille Kelley resigned
on November 11, 1950.

The Tennessee Children's
Home Society was closed.

I get very angry when I think
of Georgia Tann and Camille

Kelley because what
they've done to me

and thousands of other people.

We're not talking about just
a couple of people here,

we're talking
thousands of children.

It makes me very angry
because of the 32 years

that we were apart and
all that we had missed.

My mother had missed
my growing up,

and those years can
never be replaced.

We've been robbed.

Tonight, we are
pleased to announce

that because of our
broadcast, another orphan

from the Tennessee
Children's Home Society

has been reunited
with her family.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Lynn Heinz

was five years old
when she was adopted

by a wealthy California couple.

LYNN HEINZ: I was adopted
into a very, very fine family,

but there wasn't a lot
of love in the family.

And even though, you know, you
try to make the adopted child

part of the family,
you're always still

just a little bit different.

And so it meant a great
deal to me to find that I

really had a true family.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Lynn
was born Martha Jean Gookin

and was placed in Georgia
Tann's orphanage in 1949.

She never saw or heard from
her natural family again.

Then just three weeks
after our broadcast,

Lynn learned that her father and
two brothers, Paul and Randall,

were still living in Tennessee.

LYNN HEINZ: One of
the things that I

had been fearful of
is that the family

did not want me to find them.

When I did finally
get hold of Randall,

Randall said, if you don't come
here, we're coming there, like,

tomorrow.

You know, it wasn't soon enough.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
The next day,

Lynn flew from her home
in Denver, Colorado,

and saw her brothers
for the first time

in more than 40 years.

I'm glad you
made your way home!

Took me that long
to find you guys.

PAUL MCKELL: She
walked off the plane,

I knew who she was
just like that.

[snaps fingers] Why, she's the
spitting image of her mother,

the very spitting image.

You have this void that
has never been filled.

But it was.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
That afternoon,

Randall and Paul took Lynn to
meet their 86-year-old father,

Rufus Gookin.

LYNN HEINZ: I had pictures
of myself when I was adopted

that the adopted
parents had taken,

and they had pictures of
Randall and I and Mother

before I had been adopted.

So we naturally had to
compare all our pictures

and all that type
of thing, and I

guess we decided that we really
were brothers and sisters.

It was very exciting,
very thrilling.

As we grew older,
why, we just always

had the thought there, the love
there, but she wasn't there.

You want me to take
it with me when I leave?

PAUL MCKELL (VOICEOVER): Feels
just like yesterday, you know.

Somebody to love and be loved
by that you never had before.

I would have to say that this
is like Christmas, New Year's,

everything rolled up into one.

When I found the family, I felt
like I was queen for a day,

and there are no words.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): In a moment,

the story of Donald
Eugene Webb, who

has been on the
FBI's 10 Most Wanted

List for almost 10 years.

Perhaps tonight, you can help
finally bring him to justice.

Saxonburg, Pennsylvania.

Located 60 miles
west of Pittsburgh,

Saxonburg is a community in
the true sense of the word.

Everyone knows everyone
else, and crime

is virtually non-existent.

Police chief Greg Adams
moved to Saxonburg in 1974.

After two years on the
Washington DC police force,

Adams appreciated the town's
relative peace and quiet.

MARIANNE ADAMS:
I was not worried

about him working
here in Saxonburg,

because it is a small community.

And everyone knew Greg.

Everyone appreciated Greg.

They knew where he stood,
where they stood with him.

He was a very
conscientious person.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
December 4, 1980.

At approximately 2:50 PM,
16-year-old Tiger Freehling

heard gunshots, and the
sounds of a fierce struggle

outside near the parking
lot of a local feed store.

[gunshots]

Hey, Ma!

My son was up in his
bedroom, and he came down,

and he said, Mom, I heard
someone shooting outside.

And I said, Tiger,
don't say that.

Because, you know,
it's hunting season.

I said, don't joke
around about it.

And he said, no, somebody
was fighting and shooting.

So I went out to the door,
and I looked, and I saw

someone laying in the bushes.

Oh!

Who's over there?

Who is it?

MIDGE FREEHLING: I
didn't know who he was,

because he was beaten so bad.

But then I saw the stripe on
his leg, and I knew it was Greg.

And he said, I've been shot.

Help me.

And I said, who did this to you?

And he said he didn't know.

So then I just happened
to look up our driveway,

and I saw a white car pull away.

I didn't see the man
that was driving it.

I just saw a figure.

And I said, you'll
be OK, you know.

You'll be fine.

And he said, no, I think
you better pray for me.

He said, I don't think
I'm going to make it.

And I think that he
knew he was dying.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
31-year-old Greg Adams

left behind a wife,
two young children,

and a grieving community.

A loss like that
is not describable.

It's devastating.

That's it.

It's just devastating.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Within hours, the state police

had arrived at the
murder site, the parking

lot of the Agway Feed Store.

The searchers soon made
an important discovery.

Greg appeared to have
been shot in the middle

of a routine traffic stop, and
his assailants driver's license

had been left at the scene.

OFFICER: Stanley J. Portas.

CPL. DANNY MCKNIGHT
(VOICEOVER): It's

our belief that came out of
Greg's hand when he was shot.

Phillipsburg, New Jersey.

The other piece of physical
evidence at the scene

was the gun that was
used to shoot Greg.

And it was empty and void
of any serial numbers,

so it was untraceable.

We still have yet to trace the
gun to see where it came from.

But that operator's license with
the name Stanley John Portas

on it and a date of birth
and an address in New Jersey

was a piece of
physical evidence.

Without that, we have no
idea who shot Greg Adams.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Police immediately traced

Portas' whereabouts
to a cemetery

in Dartmouth, Massachusetts.

He had been dead for 32 years.

Stanley Portas, 1892 to 1948.

I'll get a shot of
it while we're here.

CPL. DANNY MCKNIGHT :
We did our background

on Stanley John Portas and
found out that he had a wife.

And when we contacted
that wife, we

found out that she was married
to a subject named Donald

Eugene Webb, and
Donald Eugene Webb

had totally taken on Stanley
John Portas' identification.

To law enforcement officials
from Massachusetts to Maine,

Donald Eugene Webb was
already a familiar name.

Webb was a member of the Fall
River Gang, a loosely organized

group that robbed
stores and homes up

and down the eastern seaboard.

But for the last eight years,
this small-time hood has been

on the 10 Most Wanted List.

He has not been seen since
the day Greg Adams was killed.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Police believe

that the day before
the shooting, Donald

Webb and an
accomplice had visited

a Saxonburg jewelry store.

- Hi.
- Hi.

How are you?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Webb asked to see some rings.

I'm looking for a lady's
ring and a good quality stone.

CPL. DANNY MCKNIGHT
(VOICEOVER): Donald

Eugene Webb looked the part.

He looked like he had money.

He acted like he had money.

So a jeweler would be very
quick to pull out his best.

I'll tell you what.

It's for my wife.

I'm looking for something
a little finer quality.

Larger, maybe?

I have just the thing for you.

OK, great.

Thanks.

CPL. DANNY MCKNIGHT : They were
observing where it was kept,

how it was kept, whether
there were alarm systems,

how many employees.

What do I need to get into this
place and get out undetected?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
The next day,

Greg Adams was working his
final shift before taking

his annual vacation.

At approximately 1:45 PM,
Adams left the station to begin

what would be his last patrol.

Witnesses tell
us the last they

saw Greg was on
Water Street heading

towards the intersection
of Butler Street

when they, as well
as Greg, observed

a white Mercury Cougar not
stop for a posted stop sign.

This caught Greg's
attention immediately.

He pulled a U-turn
on Water Street

and proceeded after
the white Cougar.

Greg, losing sight
of the vehicle

upon coming around
the turn, probably

wondered where the white
vehicle went and at that point

spied the white Cougar
attempting to turn around

in the Agway parking lot.

He then immediately blocked
the white Cougar in.

Most police officers
are trained to approach

a traffic stop from the rear.

Greg didn't have that kind of
an ability on this stop because

of the positioning of the cars.

He had to approach that
vehicle from the front.

He was naturally
in a bad position.

Can I have your license
and registration, please?

Sure, hang on.

Here you go.
- Thanks.

CPL. DANNY MCKNIGHT (VOICEOVER):
If Greg has the New Jersey

driver's license
in his hand, he's

scanning that immediately
for the vital information,

date of birth.

Does it match the
person he has stopped?

I believe at that point in
time, Webb got the drop on him.

He's hit twice.

The blood trails on the
ground indicate that

there one heck of
a struggle there,

and Greg actually
shoots with his gun.

And that struggle took them
a long ways through the Agway

parking lot to the Midge
Freehling residence,

where they were found.

[gunshot]

Of course, Greg is a
tough little competitor.

But he loses his gun to
Webb, and the gun's empty.

And Webb just beat
him with the gun.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
On December 8, 1980,

Greg Adams was laid
to rest in a funeral

attended by fellow officers
from all over the state.

GORDON MEINHARDT: At least
200 to 300 police officers

attended in mourning.

I don't think there
was a dry eye in town

or along Main Street as the
hearse and all the police cars

went by.

And it still hurts when
you think about it.

I would like to know
how Donald Webb could live

with himself after
all these years, how

anyone could live with
themselves after killing

another human being.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): The town

of Saxonburg has erected a
monument to commemorate Greg

Adams' life and passing,
and a scholarship has

been established in his name.

On this monument, a grateful
town has inscribed a thank you

to a man who gave his
life in the protection

of their community.

CPL. DANNY MCKNIGHT
: Every day that

we drive by the
Greg Adams memorial,

that crosses your mind.

Greg's in his final
resting place,

and Donald Eugene Webb's still
out there in the great society

functioning as a human being.

Makes me sick.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): This is

what Webb looked like in 1980.

Today, the 58-year-old
Webb would appear more

like these artist's renderings.

Donald Eugene Webb is
5 feet 9 inches tall

and weighs 165 pounds.

Today, he may have a beard.

At the time of
his disappearance,

his hair was gray-brown, and
his eyes were also brown.

Webb has two
distinctive tattoos,

the name "Don" on the
web of his right hand

and the name "Anne"
on his chest.

Donald Webb is considered to be
armed and extremely dangerous.

Next week on
"Unsolved Mysteries,"

we'll profile a poignant
story that began on Christmas

Eve almost 60 years ago.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
100 yards from a remote road,

a couple found a seven-day-old
baby in a hatbox, apparently

left abandoned by her parents.

Her rescue was called
a Christmas miracle.

Now, the baby in the
hatbox, Sharon Elliott,

is searching for the truth
and her lost identity.

Join me next week
for another edition

of "Unsolved Mysteries."

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