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ANNOUNCER: This program is
about unsolved mysteries.

Whenever possible, the
actual family members

and police officials
have participated

in recreating the events.

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

ROBERT STACK: 1970.

Across the country,
student protests

escalated into campus violence.

One small group turned to
bank robbery and murder

to finance their vision
of the revolution.

In March of 1950, in the
town of Beatrice, Nebraska,

an explosion blew
apart a small church.

12 devoted choir members were
spared from certain death

by an amazing chain
of events which today

remain an unsolved mystery.

On a lonely backroad
in Tennessee,

three men out for a joyride
go straight into a nightmare.

They were blown apart by
multiple shotgun blasts.

We'll also bring you
the intriguing story

of a 20-year-old
girl who was plagued

by a series of bizarre
and troubling dreams

that some believe foretold
her ultimate fate.

One year later, Cindy
Anderson disappeared.

She has never been seen again.

[theme music]

In 1980, 20-year-old
Cindy Anderson was plagued

by a series of vivid dreams.

Please, don't hurt me.

ROBERT STACK: In one episode,
Cindy recognized the man

at the door and let him in.

Then, in the nightmare,
her trust was betrayed.

Please!

ROBERT STACK: Cindy became
increasingly tormented

by these bizarre dreams.

[gasp]

One morning, while I was
getting ready for work,

I overheard Cindy
talking to my mother.

CINDY'S MOM: What's wrong?

CINDY: Mom, I had
a dream last night.

CINDY'S MOM: Well,
tell me about it.

CINDY: There was this man
and I could try and get away

and he kept chasing me
and coming after me.

CINDY'S MOM: Cindy,
it was only a dream.

No, Mom.

He murdered me.

CHRISTINE SAVIDGE: I didn't
believe that the dreams could

have been a premonition
of fears that Cindy

actually had in her
subconscious at the time.

ROBERT STACK: The nightmares
lasted for a year.

Then, on August 4, 1981, Cindy
Anderson went to work as usual.

She was employed as a legal
secretary and, in the mornings,

usually manned the office alone.

She kept the door
locked at all times.

A buzzer had even been
installed at her desk

so that if trouble did arise she
could alert the shop next door.

At noon, Jim Rabbitt and Jay
Feldstein, two of the lawyers,

had arrived back
at their office.

JIM RABBITT: Jay and I came back
from downtown, got to the door.

And the lights were on.

The door was locked.

We unlocked the door and went
inside, yelled for Cindy.

And there was no answer.

Look at the sign.

Hey, Cindy!

JIM RABBITT: I started
to look around out front.

Cindy, when she would leave,
would place the phones on hold

and that wasn't done, either.

Hey, Jim?

Yeah, Jay?

JAY: Come back here and
take a look at this.

Take a look at this for a sec.

Look what that
page was turned to.

ROBERT STACK: The lawyers
discovered that Cindy had left

her romance novel open
at the only violent scene

in the entire book,
where the heroine

is abducted at knifepoint.

Perhaps we should
call somebody?

JIM RABBITT: It wasn't until
really looking at the book,

particularly reading the
passage in the novel,

I just had a sickening feeling
that something was wrong.

Cindy was never heard
from or seen again.

There was no body, no
farewell letter, no hint

where she had gone or why.

Were Cindy's dreams
premonitions of a terrible fate,

or were they just coincidences?

For eight years, this
extraordinary case

has baffled the police and
Cindy's friends and family.

Was this young girl
abducted and murdered?

Could Cindy be alive somewhere,
suffering from amnesia?

Or did she simply run
away to start a new life?

Cindy Anderson was raised in a
strict religious environment.

Her family, her boyfriend, and
most of her inner social circle

were all devout Christian
fundamentalists.

MICHAEL ANDERSON: She was a very
quiet, obedient type of a girl.

She never made waves with
either myself or her mother.

And she had lots of friends.

She was the type of daughter
that you just enjoyed.

I mean, the type
of daughter that--

just a beautiful young girl.

CHRISTINE SAVIDGE: At the
time Cindy's disappearance,

there were no circumstances
in her life that any of us

were aware of that would
have caused her to run away.

She was looking forward to
quitting her job in two weeks

and going to a Bible
college where she would

attend with her boyfriend.

She was very excited about it.

Just before she
disappeared, however, she

was becoming like a debutante.

She was spending a lot of
time on her face and herself.

She'd skip breakfast
for this reason.

She spent more time on herself
than she did on her stomach,

and that may be
part of the problem.

Keith, here's
some latent prints.

ROBERT STACK: The
day Cindy vanished,

the police immediately
began a search for clues.

Could not find Cindy's
car keys and purse.

The office was undisturbed.

There were no signs
of a struggle.

WILLIAM ADAMS:
Her car was parked

in front of the law office.

Her bank account, which had
a nice substantial amount

of money, was never touched.

Her social security
number has never shown

up under any other workplace.

It's a complete mystery how
and why Cindy disappeared.

ROBERT STACK: 10
months earlier, Cindy

noticed an odd coincidence.

On the parking lot wall
across from her office,

someone had painted the words
"I love you Cindy by GW."

CHRISTINE SAVIDGE: There are
lots of Cindys in the world,

but I think, from the very
beginning, she wondered.

It was so largely printed
and so visible to her,

it was just very eerie.

That was the only
graffiti on the wall.

There was no other
woman named Cindy working

in that side of the strip mall
that it could have been for,

so it was strategically placed.

And it really gave us
the heebie-jeebies.

ROBERT STACK: The spray painted
sign was visible for about six

months, then it was covered up.

Within weeks, the same
message reappeared.

This time it was even larger.

TERRI KOWALSKI: Cindy tried to
figure out who GW could have

been and we couldn't
think of anyone at school,

at church, in our
group of friends,

at home, in the neighborhood.

So it did bother us a lot.

WILLIAM ADAMS: We attempted to
locate people that Cindy would

know with those in initials.

Among the people that were
investigated with the initials

GW was the maintenance
man who had worked

for the law firm for some time.

He had keys to both doors.

In fact, he had keys
to all the offices.

ROBERT STACK: The police
did not find any evidence

that the maintenance
man wrote the graffiti

and are still puzzled
by the message.

The day before Cindy
Anderson disappeared,

I had been in the law offices
to pay off a legal fee.

[phone ringing]

She got a phone call.

Law offices.

LARRY MULLINS: She kind
of reacted like maybe

it was obscene or something.

She hung up real quick.

It's $30.

OK.

[phone ringing]

LARRY MULLINS: And she
got another phone call.

And the look on her face,
still, I can picture it today.

She was scared.

She was honestly,
sincerely scared.

It gives me shivers to think
of the look on her face.

Some kind of problem?

No.

It's just been happening lately.

- You sure?
- Yeah.

Yeah, OK.

OK.

Well, here you go.

I'll call him later to
see how things are going.

- Great.
- Thank you.

- Thanks.
- Bye-bye.

LARRY MULLINS: I went home and
I called the police department

and asked them to do a
drive-by and check on her.

Something scared the hell
out of her in my opinion.

ROBERT STACK: In September,
1981, a month after Cindy

vanished, another
strange phone call gave

police the first concrete lead.

I'm calling regarding
the Cynthia Anderson case.

ADAMS (ON PHONE): Who is this?

No, I can't give you my name.

WILLIAM ADAMS: She said
that she was scared,

and she was talking
in low whispers.

WOMAN (ON PHONE): All I know is
I was told she was being held

in a basement of a white house.

Can't you give me the address?

No, no, no.

I can't.

WILLIAM ADAMS: She kept
saying that she had to go.

I kept begging her
to stay on the line,

give me more information,
give me an exact address,

something that we could act on.

I've got to go.

[phone ringing]

WILLIAM ADAMS: A short while
later, she again called.

Detective Adams.

WOMAN (ON PHONE): I'm calling
again about the Cynthia

Anderson case.

I'm glad you
called back, ma'am.

ROBERT STACK: Adams signalled
Sergeant Mihailoff to pick up

the extension, but as soon
as he came on the line,

the woman abruptly
hung up again.

She's called twice
now and she hangs up--

The lady mentioned that
there were two houses side

by side owned by the same
family and that the family

was out of town.

But their son was home and
he was the party that was

holding Cindy in the basement.

We did check street after
street on the north end

to see if we could find
two houses side by side.

There's so many that you
can't get a positive location

of the house.

If she is watching, I would
like her to call us again.

I appeal to her to call
for any further information

that she might have.

My hope is that
my daughter is alive

and well, living a normal life,
perhaps with loss of memory.

But if she herself
is out there, we

want her to know
that we love her

and we certainly
want her to come

back whatever the case may be.

The door is open.

We certainly want
anybody and everybody

that can possibly help in
this situation to do so.

ROBERT STACK:
Cynthia Anderson has

been missing from the Toledo,
Ohio area since August of 1981.

If she is still alive, she
would be 28 years old today.

These composites show what
she might look like now.

She's 5'4" tall with
brown hair and brown eyes.

[music playing]

Calls from our viewers
continue to help authorities

track down wanted fugitives.

Recently, your tips led to
the arrest of an escaped felon

wanted by the
Illinois state police.

In November, we featured a
story about a family of fortune

tellers who have allegedly
conned their clients out

of millions of dollars.

53-Year-old Lena Marie Wilson,
her 26-year-old daughter,

Ann Corricelli, and
their accomplice,

39-year-old Joe Marks, were
all wanted by authorities

on charges stemming from a
fortune-telling scheme operated

by Wilson and Corricelli
in Peoria, Illinois.

Update.

Joe Marks has been captured.

Within minutes of our broadcast
a Springfield, Missouri police

department received
a call from a viewer

who recognized Joe Marks.

On November 20, Greene County,
Missouri sheriffs deputies

arrested Marks at
his parents' home.

His mother was operating
a palm reading business.

[music playing]

[music playing]

(SINGING) Hymns of praise,
then let us sing, hallelujah.

ROBERT STACK: February 22,
1950, the West End Baptist

Church, Beatrice, Nebraska.

Between the years
of 1920 and 1950,

choir director Martha Paul
ruled the roost every Wednesday

night.

She demanded punctuality.

If you wanted to
sing in her choir,

you showed up no
later than 7:25 PM.

All the members of Martha's
choir towed the line.

MARILYN PAUL MITCHELL:
On Wednesday evening,

Mother expected all
of us to be punctual.

No one was ever really late.

There might have been very,
very few circumstances,

but most often, everyone
was there all the time.

I really can't think of a
time that anyone came late.

Hallelujah.

Very nice.

See you Sunday and
next week at 7:15.

ROBERT STACK: Though
no one knew it,

that night would be the
last choir rehearsal

in the West End Church.

One week later, the
members of the choir

became part of a baffling
unsolved mystery.

Some called it a
strange coincidence,

but others believe it
was something more.

On March 1 at exactly
7:27 PM, tragedy struck

the West End Baptist Church.

But despite years of
unfailing punctuality,

this Wednesday
night was different.

The afternoon of March
1 turned bitter cold.

The church's pastor
Reverend Walter Klempel

stopped by the church at
4:30 to light the furnace

so the church would be warm in
time for that evening's choir

practice.

Reverend Klempel
and his wife always

brought their
18-month-old daughter

with them to choir practice.

But that night, the baby stained
her dress and Mrs. Klempel

had to iron another one.

It was 7:15, and they
were running late.

At the same time, Martha Paul's
teenage daughter, Marilyn,

was sound asleep.

Marilyn was the
choir's accompanist.

We've got time.

We've got time.

There's lots of time.

She's had a tough day.

MARILYN PAUL MITCHELL:
I was very tired

and I wanted to rest for a
very short period of time

before going to the
church to practice,

so I decided that maybe a little
15-minute nap wouldn't hurt.

And it ended up being
a little bit longer,

probably about a half an hour.

ROBERT STACK: A few
blocks away, Herbert Kipf,

who sang bass in the
choir, was preoccupied

working on church business.

I know.

I just need to finish
this by tonight.

OK.

HERBERT KIPF: That night
I was writing a letter

to our denomination
headquarters and it

seemed very important for
me to get it into the mail

that evening.

Fact of the matter
is, my mother was

hounding me to get going because
the time was late already.

But I felt it was more
important to get it in the mail

and drop it on
the way to church.

ROBERT STACK: 18-year-old
Lucille Jones, who sang alto,

let herself get hooked on
a radio program that night.

LUCILLE JONES KRAMER: I
turned on radio to listen

to "This Is Your Life."

So I just sat down
and listened and I

thought, well, I'd have time
to make it up there on time.

I don't know why I turned it on
that night, but I turned it on.

They said this was going
to be Edgar Bergen's life,

and I just decided I was
going to listen to it.

ROBERT STACK: Lucille
was also responsible

for picking up
another choir member,

but tonight she didn't care.

Edgar Bergen was
worth being late for.

At 7:23, Ladona Vandergrift,
a 15-year-old soprano

in the choir, was struggling
with a geometry equation.

She was determined to find
a solution before she left

for rehearsal, but the
problem was difficult

and Ladona was running late.

Two miles away, Royena Estes
couldn't get her car started.

She, too, was supposed to
pick up another choir member,

so they were both late.

Joyce Black, who lived across
the street from the church,

was ready for choir
practice, but just

couldn't seem to get moving.

JOYCE BLACK LARIMORE: I was late
because I was just plain lazy.

And I just didn't want
to get out in the cold.

And so I kept putting
off going out the door.

At last, I couldn't put it off
any longer so I put my coat on.

And when I opened up the
door and stepped out,

our church just disintegrated.

ROBERT STACK: All over
town the lights went out.

Uh-oh!

JOYCE BLACK LARIMORE:
What really impressed

me was our sheet music
and our songbooks

flying through the air.

We had a lot of those things.

It was really something to see.

A real nice choirbook
fell right near me

and it was in pretty good
condition, so I picked it up.

I didn't think anybody'd care,
'cause I wanted to keep it.

ROBERT STACK: Minutes
after the explosion,

the choir members
began to arrive,

each one thinking that
the others had perished.

Come on!

There might be some
more people in there!

ROBERT STACK: Frantically,
choir members searched

the rubble for survivors.

Are you all here?

ROBERT STACK: One
by one all of them

straggled in, each fortuitously
late for his or her own reason.

MARILYN PAUL MITCHELL:
When we found out

that everyone was safe and that
no one was in the explosion,

we were standing there
holding each other's hands

and one of the members said,
let's give thanks to God.

And we offered a
prayer of thanksgiving

that we were indeed spared
and that no one lost

their life in this explosion.

Thank You for keeping
us all together.

HERBERT KIPF: If this had been
a busload of people stopped

by a flat tire or
any such occurrence,

it might be considered
a coincidence.

But where you have 10,
12, 15 people scattered

throughout the entire city
and each of them detained

by some trivial little
thing, each different thing,

it can't be.

When I realized what
had happened, I thought,

well, if I wouldn't
have been listening to

"This Is Your Life," my
life would have been over.

I believe that night--

and no one will
convince me otherwise--

that God didn't want us there.

We were spared.

And I'm very grateful.

ROBERT STACK: It turned
out that the explosion

was caused by a gas leak
from an underground pipeline.

Today, residents of
Beatrice, Nebraska

still wonder about
the unexplained events

that kept each and
every choir member

safely away from the church.

To some, it was simply a
remarkable coincidence,

but others believe it
was a careful design

of a greater power.

[music playing]

Everybody, this is a holdup!

ROBERT STACK:
September 23, 1970.

Three criminals robbed the
State Street Bank in Brighton,

Massachusetts at gunpoint.

Two other gang members
waited outside in cars.

A well-organized heist
netted over $26,000.

As police arrived at the scene,
a Boston patrolman was shot.

The next day, he died.

The search for the thieves now
became a murder investigation.

What was unusual about this
professionally-staged crime

was that two of the felons were
Kathy Power and Susan Saxe,

college students at prestigious
Brandeis University.

Kathy Power, the driver
of the getaway car,

is still wanted by
the FBI for murder.

Kathy Power's
involvement with robbery

was symptomatic of the
troubled and turbulent 1960s,

when radical students erupted a
rash of violent demonstration.

Her commitment to the
politics of protest

eventually thrust her into a
world of mayhem and murder.

[music playing]

Two decades a drawn-out
conflict in Vietnam

triggered a stronger political
awareness throughout America.

As a government was pushed
unwillingly towards and end

to the war, demonstrations
and sit-ins fueled

the fires of social change.

[protestors shouting]

As Kathy Power entered
college in 1967,

the mood became increasingly
confrontational.

Some peaceful demonstrations
became bloody riots.

Student activists
became zealous radicals.

Splinter groups emerged
whose devout aim was

to overthrow the government.

To finance their revolution
they turned to crime.

JAMES AHEARN: There was a
loose but effective network

of underground groups that
were responsible for numerous

robberies, numerous
thefts of weapons,

and funneling this
money and material

through an underground
system to some

of the more radical,
more violent groups that

existed in those days.

The groups that were
the most violent

were the Black Panthers,
the Weather Underground

group, and groups of that type.

The group that Katherine Power
and Susan Saxe belonged to

didn't carry any
particular name,

but nonetheless was very
violent and involved

in numerous violent activities.

ROBERT STACK: By 1970,
Katherine Ann Power

was a 21-year-old
college senior who

became swept up in
the maelstrom of

radical underground politics.

A straight-A student
named Outstanding Teenager

of Colorado, Kathy
won a full scholarship

to exclusive Brandeis University
in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Kathy majored in
sociology and made

the dean's list every year.

But like many students, Kathy
wanted to change the world.

[interposing voices]

Kathy was an active member of
the National Strike Information

Center, a clearinghouse
for student

protests across the country.

List how many people
you're expecting again.

How many of those do you think
have been at a demonstrations

before?

Malcolm's in Alabama.

We gotta give Malcolm
the Alabama [inaudible].

ROBERT STACK: Susan
Saxe and Stanley Bond

were also closely
involved with the center,

and Kathy's close friends.

Susan Saxe was an honor
student from Philadelphia.

Stanley Bond was
a convicted felon

who was studying at Brandeis
as part of an innovative parole

program designed to
rehabilitate convicts

at nearby Walpole Prison.

JOHN BARRY: Stanley
Bond was a criminal,

but with revolutionary ideas,
if I can use that expression.

He is very strong
in his beliefs.

He has said publicly if he was
in the commission of a crime,

he would kill a policeman
and consider it an act

of war rather than a crime.

He would justify that.

And he would justify
whatever he did

in his revolutionary tactics.

Even here in
the United States,

great universities are being
systematically destroyed.

ROBERT STACK: April of 1970
saw a new wave of protest

as President Nixon expanded
the war into Cambodia.

At Kent State University, four
students were shot to death

by Ohio National Guardsmen.

REPORTER (ON TV): This
was the scene yesterday

at Kent State University
as demonstrators

and National
Guardsmen squared off

for the second straight day.

Monday's confrontation escalated
to a tragic conclusion.

Just after noon, the guardsmen
opened fire after rocks

were allegedly thrown at them.

13 seconds later, four
students were dead

and nine were wounded.

The dead students
have been identified

as Allison Krause, Jeffrey
Miller, Sandra Scheuer, and--

[MUSIC - THE JIMI
HENDRIX EXPERIENCE,

"ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER"]

This is revolution.

This is really revolution.

There must be some
kind of way outta here,

said the joker to the thief.

There's too much confusion.

I can't get no relief.

Businessmen, they drink my wine.

Plowmen dig my earth.

None were level on the mind.

Nobody up at his word.

ROBERT STACK: Kathy,
Susan, and Stanley

Bond felt strongly
that violence was

a proper means to their end.

In three months, the group
robbed over a dozen banks

to fund the revolution.

Stanley Bond recruited
two fellow convicts also

on the parole program,
Robert Valeri, a convicted

armed robber, and
William "Lefty" Gilday,

a convicted bank robber.

JAMES AHEARN: The
group was notorious.

Aside from the State
Street robbery,

they committed numerous other
crimes, up to maybe 17 others,

several of which we did
identify either one or more

members of the group of five.

ROBERT STACK: On
September 20, 1970,

the group stole explosives
and automatic weapons

from a Massachusetts armory.

After the heist, they
firebombed the building.

Three days later,
the radical gang

prepared to rob the
State Street Bank

in Brighton, Massachusetts.

JAMES AHEARN: Kathy Power
got mixed up in a movement

that absolutely
got out of hand--

a revolutionary movement.

Let's go.

JAMES AHEARN: There was room
for protest in this country.

Kathy Power and others
took that protest

to the point of
violence, so I have

no sympathy for her activities.

I have sympathy for
her views in some ways.

I can't understand how she
got swept as far as she did,

but I also have a lot more
sympathy for the family

of the slain police officer.

I can certainly
understand people wanting

to make changes in our society.

There are a lot of inequities.

A lot of people
are disadvantaged.

And I believe very strongly
in trying to give some power

to disadvantaged
people, but I don't

think the way that
you do that is

to go about killing somebody.

Nothing, nothing is
worth human life.

Nothing replaces human life.

No amount of money
that you could steal

from a bank or anything else.

ROBERT STACK: September
23, 1970 started normally

for Boston Police
Patrolman Walter

Schroeder and his
partner, Frank Callahan.

Within 24 hours,
Schroeder would be dead.

Ironically, just two years
earlier, Officer Schroeder

had received a
special commendation

for foiling another robbery
at the State Street Bank.

FRANK CALLAHAN:
I don't think I'd

get a better partner than Walter
because I could depend on him.

I saw your daughter
Clare the other day.

How's she doing?

FRANK CALLAHAN: I never had to
worry about my back with Walter

with me.

Nothing seemed to scare him.

Nothing fazed him
at all, especially

if someone was in trouble.

He'd go all out to see if he
could help them regardless

of what the situation was.

I never saw him back
down from any incident.

All along the watchtower
princes kept the view.

ROBERT STACK: At
9:00 AM, as Schroeder

and Callahan were patrolling,
the gang left their hideout.

Bond, Valeri, and
Susan Saxe planned

to go into the bank itself.

Lefty Gilday was assigned
to watch the bank entrance

from across the street.

Kathy Power was waiting a few
blocks away in the switch car.

Two bodies were approaching
and the wind begin to--

ROBERT STACK: At
approximately 9:20 AM,

Bond, Valeri, and Saxe
pulled up to the bank.

Saxe entered the bank
through a side door

and her comrades went
through the front door.

Everybody, this is a holdup!

ROBERT STACK: Bond
ordered the tellers

to place all their available
cash into money bags.

One teller pressed the silent
alarm and the authorities

were alerted.

DISPATCHER: Car 14-4,
we have a silent alarm

at the State Street Bank.

Please respond.

Car 14-4, please respond.

Frank, we're only
a couple blocks away.

Why don't we back
that 14-4 car up?

14-3, we'll back up that
unit at the State Street Bank.

I got a strange feeling that
this one might be for real.

Better hurry up
and get up there.

Come on!

Come on!

Let's move it!

Hand me that bag!

ROBERT STACK: As the
robbers ran out of the bank,

the well-planned heist
started to unravel as Gilday

began firing indiscriminately.

FRANK CALLAHAN: When
we arrived at the bank,

I heard six or eight
shots but didn't know

where they were coming from.

Evidently, Walter
didn't realize where

they were coming from because
he ran right toward this man.

And he finally realized
where they were coming from,

and he tried to turn
around and run--

get around the
corner of the bank,

but he didn't quite make it.

I realized Walter was
hurt when I saw him fall.

I was hoping that
he had just tripped,

but deep down I knew
that he was hit.

REPORTER (ON RADIO):
A Boston policeman

remains in critical
condition tonight

following a shootout at the
State Street Bank in Brighton.

Patrolman Walter Schroeder, 1
19-year veteran of the force,

was shot once in the back as
three gunmen left the bank--

Not bad for a day's work, huh?

A day's work?

Why did you go and
pick off the cop, man?

What's your problem?

I think we deserve
a little extra.

ROBERT STACK: The robbery
had netted $26,000 in cash.

No Stanley Bond distributed
$500 in spending money

to each member of the gang
and held onto the remainder

himself.

Let's get out of here.

ROBERT STACK:
Within eight hours,

the five robbers had all
gone their separate ways,

and Officer Schroeder lay
in St. Elizabeth's Hospital,

fighting for his life.

His partner kept a silent
vigil through the night.

FRANK CALLAHAN: Walter's
injury was very serious.

The ordinary person
wouldn't last five minutes.

He was shot in the back through
the aorta, the main artery

to the heart.

I guess Walter died around
10 o'clock in the morning.

It really hit me
like a ton of bricks.

I mean, he was real--

I was real close with Walter.

He was a real friend.

He was like one of the family.

And I'll never get
over it, really.

I haven't gotten over it yet.

The effect of his
death was devastating.

As time has passed, we've
learned to adjust to it.

But I think that it's created a
void that has never been filled

and really can't be filled.

You know, it's scary
when anybody gets killed.

It's particularly scary when
the people who are charged

with the responsibility of
taking care of the rest of us

are killed.

ROBERT STACK: Within 24
hours, the Boston Police

Department had
picked up the trail

of one of the fleeing killers.

JOHN BARRY: A
source on the street

gave us the name
of Robert Valeri

as being one of the people
involved in the bank robbery.

Boston police arrested Valeri.

He was interrogated
for quite a few hours.

He finally gave the
names of all the people.

He named William Gilday.

He named Stanley Bond.

He named Katherine Power
and Susan Saxe all being

involved in the bank robbery.

ROBERT STACK: Five days later,
Stanley bond was arrested

in Grand Junction, Colorado.

The next day, Gilday was picked
up in Worcester, Massachusetts

after a high-speed chase.

William Gilday is still
serving two life sentences

for his part in the crime.

Valeri spent five years in
jail and is now out on parole.

Before Stanley Bond's
murder trial began,

he accidentally killed himself
with a homemade bomb he had

built for an escape attempt.

Five years later,
Susan Saxe was arrested

on a Philadelphia street.

She spent seven years in prison
and was released in 1982.

In 1974, a bank
surveillance camera

photographed Kathy Power
opening a bank account

in Louisville, Kentucky.

This was the last reported
sighting of Kathy Power.

Kathy Power has been on the
run for almost 19 years,

living the life of
a fugitive, and has

used the following
different aliases.

Priscilla Coe, Claire Johnson,
Mae Kelly, and Jane Pascarella.

JAMES AHEARN: The
search for Kathy Power

will continue
until she is found.

But we have to be realistic.

The times have changed.

I think the government
and the country

has come back more
to a center space.

That would have to have
some influence upon what

would happen to Kathy Power.

The crime occurred 18 years ago.

And I think if Kathy
were to turn herself in

or to be apprehended,
she could be tried.

She would be found guilty.

But I think a lot of things had
to be taken into consideration

at the time of her sentencing.

There's no satisfaction to
be derived by me or my family.

What's done is done.

You can't bring somebody back.

But I think it's important
because there's a larger

message contained in all
of it, that we all function

as a single unit, as a society,
and that there are lines

of behavior that are acceptable
and once you step over

that line, it's not acceptable.

Her behavior, as with the
other people involved,

is unacceptable.

And you have to be
called to task on that.

You have to take
responsibility for what you do.

And if the individual
doesn't choose to do it,

society, for the protection
of everybody else,

has to be willing to
do it, whether it's

something that
happened yesterday,

last year, or 20 years ago.

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ROBERT STACK: When
we return, the story

of a brutal shotgun slaying of
three men on a rural Tennessee

backroad.

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By last count, 20,000
murders are committed

each year in the United States.

30% of these remain unsolved.

In many of these cases, the
killer is known to the police,

but they are powerless without
the testimony of key witnesses.

In our next story, the police
have received anonymous calls

from people who claim to know
the identity of the killer,

but they will not
testify until the suspect

is safely behind bars.

The reason is simple--

fear.

Signal Mountain, near
Chattanooga, Tennessee.

On the evening of July the
9th, 1988, Airman First Class

Kenneth Griffith,
Sergeant Earl Smock,

and Griffith's
father-in-law, Richard Mason,

warmed up their engines before
taking off for a few hours

of three-wheel riding.

MARTHA MASON: Kenneth and
Earl and Richard, all three

were anxious to go.

They got on their motors
and revved them up

and they couldn't
wait to get out.

They were ready to go
because they knew they had

a few hours of daylight time.

ROBERT STACK: At 6:00 PM, the
three men left Mason's home

on their ATVs,
All-Terrain Vehicles--

to explore the trails in
the neighboring woods.

By the next morning,
they had not returned.

MARTHA MASON: When I
woke up, I realized

that they weren't home.

And I stood at the back
door looking for the sun

to come up because
my feeling was,

maybe it was cloudy
that night and they

couldn't find their way back.

But I knew deep down that
wasn't what happened,

that something was wrong.

ROBERT STACK: All three men
were experienced ATV riders,

and two of them had ridden
in the local backwoods

many times before.

Fearing foul play, friends
and family began searching.

A few hours later,
a local resident

stopped five miles from the
Mason home to check a bad tire.

He saw three ATVs covered
with blood in a trash dump

at the bottom of a bluff.

LARRY SNEED: We received
a call on July the 10th

that a motorist had found some
three-wheelers of the bluff

on Roberts Camp Road.

The dispatcher requested for
us to respond to that area.

They, at this time, informed
us that three men from Signal

Mountain had left a day
earlier going on a ride

and had never returned home.

ROBERT STACK: As police
retrieved the ATVs,

a Signal Mountain resident
told them he had heard

gunshots the night before--

the same night the
men had disappeared.

I heard three shots.

Might've been four.

I told him, I said, damn
if they ain't poachin'

deer awful early out here.

It ain't even cold weather yet.

ROY PARHAM: It was one
of the neighbors there.

A Mr. Joe Skinner stated that it
was close to where he had been

and he heard shots.

And he was sure,
from his experience,

that they came from a particular
place that he called the Gate.

We had never been back
in this particular area.

And of course, where
we wanted to look

is where the shots were heard.

ROBERT STACK: The next morning,
police searched the area

where the shots had been fired.

They found ATV tire tracks.

Nothing else seemed
out of the ordinary

until they approached
the Gate, an area posted

with no trespassing signs.

LARRY SNEED: And as we
came to that section,

Roy had noticed a green
fly had landed on him.

Here, Larry, tell
them to look close.

There's a green fly on my wrist.

There has to be
something around here.

And he made comment that this
green fly is in this area

that we need to
look because they're

usually after decaying flesh.

ROBERT STACK: A short distance
away, just off the road,

they discovered a spot of blood.

Come here.

Look at this.

LARRY SNEED: At
this time we began

searching more around the area.

We found a section
that we feared

that something had been
drug through the woods,

through the grass.

We searched through
that area and we

did find a pool of blood.

And after finding
this, we wrote to REO

and advised the command
post that we think

we had found the crime scene.

ROBERT STACK: Because police
found brain tissue and bone

fragments at the scene, they
were certain that the three

men had been killed.

However, no bodies were found.

Two days later, at a dumpsite
11 miles from the crime scene,

the bodies of Kenneth Griffith,
Earl Smock, and Richard Mason

were discovered.

All three men had been
killed by shotgun blasts.

Police tried to make sense of
the evidence, which was now

scattered over a large area.

The three men left
from the Mason

home, which is located here.

The murder site was here, three
miles to the north at the Gate.

The three ATVs were discovered
here, by Roberts Mill Road.

The bodies were dumped
here, by Suck Creek Road,

11 miles from the crime scene.

Based on the physical
evidence, police

have reconstructed the crime.

LARRY SNEED: It
appears that the three

men were riding the dirt road.

They came to the
area of the fence.

At that time, they were
surprised by someone.

And it appeared pair that
Kenneth Griffith was apparently

the first one that was shot.

And he was shot in the
left side of the head

and it apparently
killed him instantly.

Further indications are
that Richard Mason was

the second man that was shot.

He had one shot
to the chest area.

Earl Smock was shot directly
into the right shoulder.

It appeared that he got
off of his three-wheeler

and attempted to get away.

The second shot went into
the side, through the heart,

and that was a fatal wound.

16 Years in the business,
it is my opinion

that this is one of the most
brutal, uncalled-for murders

ever.

ROBERT STACK: Police believe
that after the murders,

the killer carefully
covered up the evidence.

Then, with the help of
at least one accomplice,

he began his grim
journey to dispose

of the vehicles and the bodies.

An eyewitness told police that
he saw two men in a pickup

truck on Roberts Mill
Road the same night

the victims disappeared.

In the back of the
truck were three ATVs.

At the same time the
pickup was spotted,

another eyewitness
reported seeing

a woman frantically
trying to stop

traffic near Roberts Mill Road.

Her light-colored Chevrolet
was blocking the road

just a quarter
mile from the bluff

where the ATVs were dropped.

After the killer and his
accomplice dumped the ATVs,

police speculate that they
returned to the crime scene

to retrieve the three bodies.

They then drove 11 miles to
the Suck Creek Road dumpsite.

LARRY SNEED: It's obvious that
whoever put the bodies there,

they wanted the
bodies to be found.

They wanted them
to be found sooner

than what they were in order
to keep the actual crime

scene from ever being found.

And had they had been found on a
Monday instead of on Wednesday,

then the actual crime
scene at the fence

would never have been found.

ROBERT STACK: Police are
convinced that the killer

is a local resident.

The murderer and his
accomplices appear

to have a detailed and intimate
knowledge of the backroads

of Signal Mountain.

They also knew the
ideal locations to dump

the ATVs and the bodies.

Like the authorities,
local residents

are worried that the killer is
part of their small community.

LARRY SNEED: The
people in the area

are afraid to come forward.

Not fear of it happening
again in that area,

but fear that who was involved
in it, if they say anything,

will get them.

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For every mystery,
there is someone,

somewhere who knows the truth.

Perhaps that someone
was watching.

Perhaps it's you.

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