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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.

ROBERT STACK: Tonight
on "Unsolved Mysteries,"

this peaceful,
suburban neighborhood

in New Jersey concealed
a violent and secretive

Colombian cocaine gang.

The vicious ring leader of
this gang vanished in 1986.

The FBI wants your
help tracking him down.

The sweetheart swindler is a
charming but ruthless con man

who preys on unsuspecting
women by stealing their hearts

and then their money.

In an 11-hour period
in March of 1988,

a sadistic spree of violence
left four people dead

in two different states.

And shockingly, the suspects
are two teenage boys.

Also, we will present a most
unusual and poignant case

of kidnapping.

In 1944, two teenage girls
took 10-week-old Lawrence

Harding, Jr. in front of his
mother's Chicago apartment.

For over 45 years, his
brother, Geoffrey has

been trying to solve this case.

He is convinced that Lawrence
is still alive, and may

even be watching tonight.

Join me.

You may be able to
help solve a mystery.

[music playing]

Imagine watching
television and suddenly

learning you've been
kidnapped as an infant

and had a brother and two
parents that you never thought

existed.

Well, somewhere in
the United States

there is a man, who in
the next few minutes,

may make this
shocking discovery.

It all began 37 years ago, 1953,
when an 8-year-old boy named

Geoffrey Harding was
taunted by schoolmates

about a brother he never knew.

[music playing]

That same day, Geoffrey's mother
showed him some scrapbooks

stored in the attic.

She explained that he did,
indeed, have a brother.

But the boy was kidnapped
before Geoffrey had been born.

What was he like?

Well, baby, Mama really didn't
know what was he was like.

See, I didn't get to
spend a lot of time

with him like I spend with you.

GEOFFREY HARDING: I just
didn't know what to do.

I felt so empty inside.

And I felt so, so
sad for my parents.

I could just look in my
mother's eyes and see the pain.

These two girls came
and they took him.

And they ran.

Will I ever see him again?

No.

GEOFFREY HARDING: And I
also wanted to know what

it was like to have a brother.

And I always felt cheated that
I couldn't communicate with him.

I couldn't play with him.

I couldn't wrestle with him.

Couldn't go to a
ball game with him.

I couldn't do anything
like everybody

else did with their
own brother and sister.

This is the article,
"FBI Reported and Searched

for Kidnapped Baby."

The Federal Bureau of
Investigation yesterday--

ROBERT STACK: Geoffrey's
mother brought out a baby book,

and read him reading clippings
she had saved about the events

of June 30th, 1944.

The baby was kidnapped eight
days ago by two Negro girls.

Spencer Dayton of the
Chicago FBI Department

declined comment.

According to federal
law, however--

[music playing]

ROBERT STACK: That morning,
with 10-week-old Lawrence,

Jr. in is carriage, Geoffrey's
mother made her customary trip

to the corner market.

GEOFFREY HARDING: And
while she was in the store,

there were two girls there--

teenage girls that didn't look
like they were up to anything

bad.

Oh, what a doll.

Aw!

You really have a cute baby.

Oh, thank you.

It's my first.

ROBERT STACK: Margaret didn't
recognize the two girls

from the neighborhood, but
felt that their attention

was innocent.

GEOFFREY HARDING:
As my mother was

coming home from the market, the
two girls were following her.

But she didn't think
a whole lot of it.

She just thought
that the two girls

were walking down the street
as she was going home.

Then when she pulled into the
yard with the baby carriage,

she saw a neighbor
who lived upstairs.

Can you mind little
Lawrence for me?

Sure, I will.

I'm just going to
run these inside.

OK.

GEOFFREY HARDING: The
lady who was supposed

to be watching my brother didn't
keep an eye on him long enough.

She watched him
for a little while.

And then she kind
of turned away.

[music playing]

Hey!

You two stop!

Margaret!

Hey!

[screams]

Come back!

My baby!

Stop!

Wait!

GEOFFREY HARDING: By the time
my mother, who was running

as fast as she could,
got to the alley

and could run after the girls,
could give chase to the girls,

the girls were gone.

Lawrence!

Lawrence!

Lawrence.

[crying]

[music playing]

[phone ringing]

Hello?

WOMAN ON PHONE: Is
this Mrs. Harding?

ROBERT STACK: After
three agonizing days,

the Hardings received
a phone call.

We have your baby.

You have the baby?

GEOFFREY HARDING: And the girl
on the other end of the line

identified herself as one of
the people that took the baby.

And the girl said, we're going
to bring the baby to you.

And my mother said, when?

Will you please
bring him home?

GEOFFREY HARDING: And as she
was waiting for an answer,

the girl hung up on her.

When?

[dial tone]

GEOFFREY HARDING: She was
never asked for a ransom.

And that was the last contact my
mother had with the kidnappers.

ROBERT STACK: The FBI
and the Chicago police

searched for Lawrence,
Jr. to no avail.

Finally after four weeks, the
investigation was called off.

Lawrence Harding, Jr. had
vanished into thin air.

GEOFFREY HARDING: 45 years
ago, because the authorities

couldn't help my parents, and
because everyone was advising

them that they should
try to adjust to the fact

that they would never
see their son again,

for the last 45 years,
they've had to do just that.

They've had to try to live
in a life, a full life,

knowing that they would
never see their son again.

When my mother told
me what had happened--

and I think it was then that a
seed was kind of planted inside

of me-- that because
I love my parents,

I wanted to make
this right for them.

ROBERT STACK: Geoffrey's
search for his missing brother

ran into one stone wall after
another, until August of 1986.

Thanks to the Freedom
of Information Act,

he was able to secure
the original FBI

records pertaining to the case
of his brother's disappearance.

In these files, Geoffrey
found a startling new lead.

And he hired a private
investigator Paul Rigsby.

Together, the two men
learned that in 1944

the FBI had interviewed
two railroad porters

who told a curious tale.

[fireworks exploding]

July 4th, 1944,
Chicago's main train

station, four days
after Lawrence

Harding Jr.'s disappearance.

PAUL RIGSBY: The FBI
file from Washington

that we were able to
get a copy of indicated

one of the teenage girls
showed up at the train station

with a baby meeting the
description of Lawrence.

Excuse me, ma'am, are
you going to St. Louis?

Yes, I am.

Well, would you mind
holding my baby for a moment?

I don't know.

Well, I just have to
run to the washroom.

And there's really nowhere for
me to put them down in there.

Well, I've got
to get that train,

so you-- you hurry up now.

I don't want to
be a [inaudible].

OK, I'll be back
in just a moment.

[music playing]

PAUL RIGSBY: More than
likely, the woman was

on the platform with the baby.

The train is fixing to pull off.

And she's not sure if the
teenage girl is on the train

or not on the train.

CONDUCTOR: All aboard!

PAUL RIGSBY: And realized
that it was her time

to get on the train, and was
believing the teenage girl when

she had told her not to worry.

And more than likely,
she got on the train

with the child waiting for
the teenage girl to find her.

However, after the
train took off,

it became obvious
that the teenage girl

didn't make the train.

ANNOUNCER: Track 3
arriving from Chicago.

PAUL RIGSBY: When the
older woman with the baby

arrived at Union
Station in St. Louis,

she approached two
porters, George Hill

and a Charlie McCall,
and explained to them

how she came by the baby.

Can you help me?

Yes, ma'am.

I was in the
Chicago Train Station.

And this teenage girl left
this child for me to hold.

She said she was
going to the washroom,

but she never came back out.

Have you seen anybody around
here looking for a child?

No, ma'am.

What was she wearing?

PAUL RIGSBY: She also told him
that she was going to Magnolia,

Arkansas, but told them
that if that mother decided

she wanted the child,
she'd be in Magnolia

and she could find her there.

I got nine children of my own.

I know one more won't hurt me.

Well, I'll keep an
eye out for her, ma'am.

Thank you.

Yes, ma'am.

GEOFFREY HARDING: When
Paul first told me

about the lady
taking my brother all

the way to Magnolia, Arkansas,
it made me really feel good.

I was really kind of hoping
against hope that the lady

had taken him to
Magnolia, Arkansas--

which is a very small town.

Everybody knows each other--

and it would be easy
to locate my brother.

Hi.

Hi, my name is Paul Rigsby.

ROBERT STACK: Armed with
this promising information,

Rigsby immediately
went to Magnolia.

He conducted interviews and
combed through the towns

records, but unfortunately,
turned up no trace

of the woman or her family.
- Thank you for your help.

GEOFFREY HARDING: When Paul
returned from Magnolia,

Arkansas, and he basically
came back empty handed,

it was a blow.

But it wasn't one that
I couldn't overcome,

or that Paul and I
couldn't overcome.

Then Paul theorized--
and I do believe

this is true-- that
more than likely,

because it was July 4th
weekend, that this lady returned

from Magnolia, Arkansas,
either to Chicago, or maybe

even to Detroit.

And that may be where
my brother is today.

PAUL RIGSBY: The
woman at the train

station probably
thought that the girl

didn't want this child.

I believe that this woman
was a good Samaritan.

She took care of the child.

She did everything she
could to let the porters

know where she was going.

And in no way, shape, or
form, did she have anything

to do with the abduction.

ROBERT STACK: Geoffrey
Harding will not

give up his search
until he finds out

what happened to his brother.

He is certain that he is
alive, and probably unaware

of his strange past.

GEOFFREY HARDING: If there's
anything that I dream about

as being the happy ending, it
would be finding my brother,

finding out that he was raised
in a loving environment,

finding out that he would be
willing to accept me and accept

my family, and
that we could spend

our lives together as friends.

ROBERT STACK: Next, the
story of how FBI surveillance

on a quiet New Jersey
suburb revealed

a vast money
laundering and cocaine

distribution crime ring.

[music playing]

It the summer of 1986,
a cat and mouse game

between the FBI and a
notorious drug dealer

played out in an unusual
setting, an affluent suburb

of Cliffside Park, New Jersey.

The FBI had managed
to trace a money

laundering ring to its lair.

And they wanted to track
these illegal millions

to their source, cocaine.

This quiet, wealthy
neighborhood would

seem to be an unlikely place
to find a criminal gang.

But its isolation
and security was

exactly what the mastermind
of this money laundering ring

was looking for.

[speaking spanish]

ROBERT STACK: Pedro Uribe
was a 38-year-old Colombian

with direct ties to the
infamous Medellin cartel.

And he ran his
criminal organization

with a ruthless hand.

[speaking spanish]

SPEC.

AGT.

GARY L. PENRITH: Pedro Uribe
ran this organization by fear.

Informant information tells
us that one of his couriers

lost 75 kilos of cocaine.

Uribe on hearing this, had
this individual, as well

as his family members murdered.

ROBERT STACK: It later turned
out that the man was innocent.

This only added to Urebe's
reputation for viciousness.

Surveillance site 4 is ready.

MAN ON RADIO:
Roger, standing by.

ROBERT STACK: In
May of 1986, the FBI

decided to set up round the
clock surveillance of several

of Uribe's properties.

[camera clicks]

They soon learned that, in order
to keep the outward appearance

of normalcy, people
posing as families

were trucked in on weekends.

Ironically, the surveillance
showed that these mock families

changed from week to week.

In the evenings, in
order to make these homes

look less suspicious,
each was occupied

by a live-in babysitter.

Uribe was also careful in
selecting the style of house

he occupied.

SPEC.
AGT.

GARY L. PENRITH: One
of the primary features

that they look for when
renting these houses

was an attached garage with an
automatic garage door opener.

And if it didn't have
it, they'd install one.

This was done so that
they could get in and out

with different individuals
and less chance

of being seen by the neighbors.

ROBERT STACK: Using
these houses as a base,

Uribe had developed a simple
and seemingly foolproof money

laundering scheme.

Low level operatives,
nicknamed smurfs by the FBI,

were dispatched from the houses
to banks throughout the New

York metropolitan area.

May I help you?

Yes, could I please have
a money order for $1,980.

ROBERT STACK: These
smurfs would then

use small amounts
of the illicit cash

to buy legitimate money orders
from many different banks.

SPEC.
AGT.

GARY L. PENRITH: At the
height of the operation,

there were seven smurfs
identified that were

money laundering $50,000 a day.

And during five working days,
they could money launder up

to $2 million a week.

ROBERT STACK:
Though the FBI knew

Uribe was a money
launderer, they had yet

to prove that he dealt cocaine.

But one day, they got lucky.

On September 3rd, 1986, outside
of one of Uribe's safe houses,

agents observed the
surreptitious delivery

of some mysterious boxes.

Gambling that there was cocaine
hidden inside those boxes,

the FBI decided to try and
catch Uribe red-handed.

On the following night,
they made their move.

[music playing]

FBI, open up!

Freeze!

Get down!

Get down!

This is Richie.

Listen, I got a female
subject in the living room.

Come up here.
I need a search.

Bam, we 20 kis.

ROBERT STACK: In their
search of the house,

the FBI found 307 kilos
of 95% pure cocaine

wrapped in plastic bags.

Hey, jackpot, 30 kis at least.

ROBERT STACK: The
total amount of cocaine

seized that night would
have been worth $7 million

on the street.

FBI agents searched
Uribe's other safe houses.

And in one home, a
specially trained dog

led the FBI directly to
a large potted plant.

What do you got?
[dog barks]

What's that?
[dog barking]

We got a hit.
Good dog.

Good boy.

ROBERT STACK: When the
plant was examined,

the agents got a surprise.

They found $800,000
in cash covered

with enough traces
of cocaine to have

attracted the dog's attention.

But unfortunately,
Uribe and his henchmen

had been tipped off,
and managed to escape.

And today, he and his
associates are wanted men.

Pedro Uribe is believed
to be regularly

commuting between the
United States and Columbia.

He was last spotted in 1989
in New Jersey at a christening

ceremony for a relative.

Three of Uribe's
partners in crime

are also Colombian nationals.

They have been identified
as Hugo Balbin and two

brothers, Luis and Ivan Arango.

The three fled to Colombia.

But the FBI have
reason to believe

that the Arango brothers are
back in the New York area.

Another Uribe henchman,
Miguel Velligas,

is believed to be in
the Los Angeles area.

[music playing]

Recently, law enforcement
officials in Utah

contacted us with
an urgent request.

Police believe they are
very close to solving

one of the most appalling
crimes in the state's history.

They hope that someone
watching tonight

may be able to supply the
final piece of evidence.

They are offering a $20,000
reward for information leading

to a conviction in this case.

On August 26th, 1982,
three-year-old Rachael Runyan

was abducted from a playground
near her home in Sunset, Utah.

24 days later,
Rachael's body was

found, partially
submerged in a small creek

about 20 miles from
the playground.

Eyewitness describe
Rachael's abductor

as a black male in his 20s or
30s, proximately 6 feet tall.

Two and a half
years later, police

discovered a gruesome message
scrawled across a bathroom wall

of a local all-night laundry.

It read, "Beware.

I'm still at large.

I killed the little Runyan girl.

Remember.

Beware!"

The message was signed
with an upside down

crucifix and the numbers 6 6 6.

LT. PHIL OLMSTEAD: With
the upside down cross

and the triple 6,
it indicates to us

that there could very well
be a satanic cult involved

in the kidnapping
of Rachel Runyan.

ROBERT STACK: In recent
months, investigators

had uncovered even
more disturbing

information in Rachael's case.

LT. PHIL OLMSTEAD: The new
information that we have

received through
an informant leads

us to believe that the motive
behind the kidnapping of Rachel

Runyan was done for making a
movie of her being tortured,

and her being sexually molested,
and exploited by these people

that had kidnapped
her, and being

murdered on what is commonly
known as a snuff movie.

ROBERT STACK: In
this photograph,

Rachael is wearing the same
dress that she had on the day

she was abducted.

Police speculate that she may
also be wearing it in the film.

[music playing]

Next, the story of
a cunning Casanova

who has used at
least 15 different

aliases to bilk lonely
women of their savings.

[music playing]

Our next story profiles a
particularly devious conman.

Police have nicknamed him
the Sweetheart Swindler.

He victimizes women vulnerable
divorcees and widows

in their middle years.

One of his victims,
a woman from Missouri

whom we will call
Sara, has agreed

to describe her five-day
ill-fated romance

with the Sweetheart Swindler.

It all began last August
with a phone call.

[phone ringing]

Hello?
MAN ON PHONE: Oh, hi.

This is Jerry Gamble calling.

Do you remember me?

Uh, no.

MAN ON PHONE: Uh, we met
last year at a restaurant.

You with two friends--

SARA: This gentleman called me.

And he said that he
had met me, and that he

was calling to see if I would
go out and have dinner with him.

How would that be?

I was divorced at this time.

And I wasn't in the
habit of dating.

So it sounded kind of pleasant
to be able to go out and have

dinner at this particular time.

And this is one reason
why I agreed to go

have brunch the next morning.

I've been divorced
for a long time.

And I raised my children
myself, so I work very hard.

ROBERT STACK: At brunch, Sara
quickly gave up her effort

to remember where she
had met Jerry before,

and simply enjoyed
the conversation.

On the phone,
you were so cool.

ROBERT STACK: Soon, he had
completely won her over.

I didn't think you
were interested at all.

I'm glad we were finally
able to get together.

Well, I didn't know anything
about you, or who you were,

but--

SARA: I enjoyed the brunch.

It was pleasant.

And we decided to kind of
spend the day together.

ROBERT STACK: Jerry told Sara
he was in the jewelry business,

on the road constantly with
a company car and driver.

He said he had sent
his driver to make

a delivery in another town, and
was temporarily without a car.

He told Sara he was a
widower and very lonely.

He needed someone
to share his life,

traveling from one
luxury hotel to another,

dining at the best restaurants.

He confessed to Sara that she
was just the type of a woman

he had been looking for.

SARA: I wanted to
believe him and all

these bright, beautiful
pictures that he painted.

Life really hasn't
been easy for me.

And you know, it was really nice
to think that I maybe would be

able to relax, to travel, to
have all these nice things,

and I wouldn't have to work.

To me, this was
appealing, very appealing.

One of the goals I made
for myself before I die

is to visit all 50 states.

ROBERT STACK: That
same evening, Jerry

took Sara and her daughter,
Ellen, out to dinner.

Ellen was skeptical, but Jerry
soon ingratiated himself.

He impressed both
women when he brought

out samples of the jewelry
he said he sold city to city.

Look at those rings
and those stones.

Aren't those gorgeous?

Ellen, here, just try on
that little cocktail ring.

That's not so little, I'd say.

Well, compared to some of
the other stones I have, it is.

- May I try one on?
- Well, sure!

Go ahead.

That's what jewelry
is for is to be won.

[banging on table]
Look at that.

That's a real diamond.

Don't break it.

You can hurt it.

It's indestructible.

It's a diamond.

[banging on table]

ROBERT STACK: Jerry did not
make any sexual advances.

The day after he and Sara met,
he began to plan their wedding.

He asked her to go with him
on a road trip, which would

culminate in their marriage.

SARA: He was the type of
a man that took control.

This was something that I liked.

I like someone to kind of
take over, take charge.

I need to ask a favor of you.

I've got some checks
coming from the east coast.

ROBERT STACK: Jerry told
Sara that he would soon

be receiving several
checks, and that one

would be made out to her.

He wanted her to deposit
it in her account,

so that she could pay her
bills before they left.

What Sara had no
way of knowing was

that Jerry had stolen
the check from one

of his former girlfriends and
made it out to Sara himself.

[music playing]

Late the next afternoon,
Jerry rushed Sara to the bank,

telling her the check
had just arrived.

At the last moment, he asked
her to take out cash for him.

Hi.

Hello, may I help you?

Yes, I'd like
the deposit this.

And I'd like to withdraw $3,000.

Ma'am, this is an
out-of-state check.

Yes.

I'm going to have to get
my supervisor's approval.

BANK OPERATIONS OFFICER:
Coming in at that time,

east coast banks are closed.

I looked at the check, saw
that it was made to Sara.

She was a good customer.

And she was insistent
the check was good.

So I went ahead and
OK-ed the check for her.

- You have a good day.
- Thank you.

Oh, thanks, Mike.

I appreciate it.
- Nice meeting you, Jerry.

OK.

Bye.

SARA: We were immediately
going to start traveling.

We were going to Nashville.

And he was going to get
my engagement ring there.

And then we were going
to go on further east.

And when we met up with
his daughter and son,

then we were going
to get married.

He told me he was
going to buy me

a five carat diamond
engagement ring.

That was quite a
large engagement ring.

ROBERT STACK: That
same afternoon,

just four days
after they had met,

Jerry and Sara were on the road
to Tennessee in Sara's car.

Jerry had invited
Sara's daughter,

Ellen, to go with them.

Mama, we're five
minutes early.

Don't worry about it.

OK, now this is the picture.

It's exactly
where he said to be.

ROBERT STACK: In Memphis, Jerry
said he had a business meeting,

and asked Sara and Ellen to
meet him in the hotel lobby

afterwards.

He never showed up.

He was wonderful.

I guess he should be
coming from over there.

Yeah, right over
there by the desk.

SARA: We waited
around the hotel.

And after a couple hours, I
knew that he wasn't coming.

And as time went
along, I realized

that we had been taken.

I realized we were being
made fools right there.

I was angry.

Truly, I was angry.

I really didn't know what to do.

ROBERT STACK: Back
in Missouri, Sara

found out that the check Jerry
had given her was no good.

She had been conned
out of $3,000.

Sara finally went to the
local police to file a report.

They discovered
that Jerry had been

practicing the same scam
all over the country

for at least two years.

Since I started
my case, I believe

he's a suspect in at
least 22 other cases in as

many as 15 different states.

Unfortunately, probably
only a third of the cases

get reported due to the
victims being embarrassed.

We think he locates victims
primarily through newspaper

articles or advertisements.

We've known that, on occasion,
he has accessed Lonely

Hearts clubs, or mailers.

You have to understand
that that is all he does.

He's very, very good at it.

That's how he makes his living.

And one shouldn't particularly
be embarrassed by being

pulled in by this type of scam.

I meet a lot of woman
in my line of work.

But I never know if
they're interested in me,

or they're just
after my jewelry.

Well, I'm an attorney and--

SARA: I'd like to
see him stopped.

I'd like to see him pay for it.

I mean, I know how I
feel from all this.

It's a very devastating feeling.

Yeah, well, well, I
can understand that.

Well, maybe we can get
together some other time then.

ROBERT STACK: The Sweetheart
Swindler is still active.

He has recently
surfaced in Nevada,

Colorado, California,
and Washington

state using the aliases
Jerry Roberto Gamble, Robert

Jake Culpman, and 15 others.

He left his latest
victim in the lurch

after she had invited 60 guests
to their engagement party.

Police believe is almost
certainly involved

in another whirlwind
romance at this very moment,

and that the object
of his affection

should watch her
checkbook very carefully.

These are bank
surveillance photos

of the Sweetheart Swindler.

He is between 5' 5"
and 5' 8" in height,

weighs 150 to 160 pounds,
and is around 48 years old.

He has a New York accent, and
is known to own a .22 revolver.

To date, he has made off
with a total of $125,000, all

in relatively small amounts.

Update, the Sweetheart
Swindler has been captured.

On March 20th, 1991, police
in Kenosha, Wisconsin

arrested a man calling
himself Robert Cook

after he allegedly romanced a
woman and then swindled her out

of $10,000.

At that time of Cook's arrest,
police recovered a dozen

false identification cards,
all issued in different aliases

from various states.

They also found blank
checks apparently

stolen from previous victims.

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Next, the shocking story
of a brutal crime spree

that left four people dead
in less than 24 hours.

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Last March, the FBI asked
"Unsolved Mysteries"

to help them unravel
one of the bloodiest

and cruelest crime sprees in the
history of Texas and Arkansas.

Perhaps the most
frightening thing

is that the FBI
believes the killers are

two teenage boys,
who on the surface

appear innocent and harmless.

Gainesville, Texas, a
small bedroom community

30 miles north of Dallas
close to the Arkansas/Oklahoma

border, 10:00 AM, March 7th,
1988, just outside Gainesville,

Tommy Matthews and Kenny
Davis, local electricians,

see two teenagers poking
around their father-in- law's

Lincoln Continental.

When we first seen him,
one, the blonde suspect,

was looking into
the white Lincoln

like he was looking for a
set of keys or something.

We made a U-turn, and
come back out the drive.

And we stopped them in the
driveway in front of his house.

Is there a problem?

Yeah, there's a problem.

I was wanting to know
what you're doing here?

Uh, well, we, uh--

we needed to use the phone.

Well, there's not
a phone in that car.

And there's not anyone
home, so I think you

all need to get out of here.

OK, no problem.

We'll just use the
phone down by the store.

Sorry.

TOMMY MATTHEWS: They didn't
act violent or look violent,

you know?

They just looked like two
kids running around getting

into mischief, you know?

ROBERT STACK:
10:15, the two boys

walked toward the intersection
of County Road 131 and Route 6.

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Around 11:00 AM, just 200 feet
away from the intersection,

23-year-old Deanna Woodard,
and her one-year-old son,

Cory, return home
to their trailer.

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Hello?

Was somebody here?

Why don't you go
and [inaudible].

I'll be right back.

Hello?

Is somebody here?

Hello, hello?

ROBERT STACK: 1:10
PM, Deanna Woodard

is found dead, brutally
stabbed and nearly decapitated

with an axe.

Miraculously, her
baby is unharmed.

From the appearance
of everything out there,

there was a struggle
inside the residence.

And they killed her and
then stole her two guns

and left in her 1981 T-bird.

Deanna

ROBERT STACK: Woodard's killers
head toward State Highway 82.

They drive 60 miles southeast
to the small rural community

of Farmersville, Texas.

JAMES F. BLANTON: When you have
a situation start developing

like this where the
first victim is killed,

then it's panic time.

They run to get away.

And then doesn't get any better.

The further down
the highway they

go, the more
involved they become,

and the more killings
that take place.

ROBERT STACK:
Mid-afternoon, the killers

approach the farmhouse of
85-year-old Cecil Morrison

and his 62-year-old, son
Cecil Leonard Morrison.

Howdy.

Howdy.

Could I use your telephone?

What for?

Uh, my car broke down.

Your car broke down?

In the house!

ROBERT STACK: The killers stay
in the house for between one

and three hours, savagely
torturing and beating

the two old men
with a weapon stolen

from Deanna Woodard's car.

They kill both men with
a .22 rifle, then leave.

5:00 PM, a neighbor
sees two teenagers

getting into the
Morrison's beige 1984

Chevrolet pickup truck.

Shortly after, the
boys drive off.

Mysteriously, Deanna
Woodard's blue Thunderbird

seems to have disappeared.

JAMES F. BLANTON: It was
not just a quick murder.

It was over some period of time.

Quite a battle going
on in that house.

Now why they felt it
necessary to beat the old men

and torture them like
they did, we do not know.

ROBERT STACK: 9:00 PM, Saratoga,
Arkansas, 200 miles away

from the Morrison's farm, the
boys drive the stolen pickup

truck into the shallow
water of a lake,

then throw in Deanna
Woodard's guns.

9:45 PM, an eyewitness
clearly sees the teenagers

three different times as he
drives his own truck back

and forth through Saratoga.

10:00 PM, the boys walk to the
trailer their fourth victim,

29-year-old Kenneth Olden.

He is inside with his
girlfriend, Brenda Gipson.

I don't know.

I'll go check it out real quick.

May I help you?

Uh, yeah.

My truck broke down.

Do you think you
could give us a hand?

Yeah.
Come on in.

OK, thanks.

BRENDA GIPSON: Kenny didn't
think they was dangerous.

He thought they
was really sincere,

else he would have never
attempted to help them.

And when they went out
through the kitchen door,

I looked out the window.

And that was the last
I saw of him alive.

ROBERT STACK: 10:15
PM, the two teenagers

drive away with Kenneth
Olden and his 1983 Mustang.

Unfortunately, Brenda
Gipson does not

get a look at the boys' faces.

Sometime later, they
arrive at Millwood Damn,

five miles from Olden's trailer.

The truck should
be right over there.

I think the cables
are in the back.

OK, I'll go
ahead and get them.

Hey, man, there ain't
no truck around here.

What's going on?

[gun shots]

ROBERT STACK: The
two teenagers make

their getaway in Kenneth Olden's
Mustang, leaving him dead.

9:00 AM the next
day, 200 miles west

of the spot where
Kenneth Olden lies dead,

Oklahoma farmer, Bud Sprouse,
finds Olden's Mustang.

He also notices two
sets of footprints.

BUD SPROUSE: They've
done a lot of walking

for the side of the road there.

One of them had a 11
or a 12 tennis shoe.

The other one would be about
a 8, 8 and 1/2 tennis shoe.

ROBERT STACK: In
less than 24 hours,

the killers had
come full circle.

Starting in Gainesville,
Texas, going

southeast to Farmersville,
then northeast

to Saratoga, Arkansas.

Finally, they were turned west
to Brown Springs, Oklahoma,

less than five miles from where
their bloody path started.

The big question
is, why would they

have returned to within
five miles of where they

committed the first murder?

We felt like we were
dealing with something

here in our own neighborhood.

ROBERT STACK: After the
two killers completed

their deadly circle by dumping
Olden's Mustang on the lake,

they seemed to disappear
without a trace.

Four months into
the investigation,

another important
clue turned up.

Cecil Morrison's
grandson found an earring

that the FBI
believes the killers

was left behind in his
grandfather's pickup truck.

JAMES F. BLANTON:
This earring depicted

a skull being carried by a bat.

And that was another key break
in this case, the finding

of that earring in that trunk.

We later ran a photograph
of that earring

in the Gainesville local paper.

And a young man came forward
and identified that earring

as belonging to him.

Where did you get the earring?

A girl gave it to me
a couple of years ago.

OK, do you still
have the earring?

Mm, no, sir, I don't.

What's happened to it?

I lent it to a friend of
mine a couple of months ago.

ROBERT STACK: The
boy, Lee Renfro,

was a 16-year-old
from Gainesville.

He later told police he
had given the earring

to another boy named
Caldwell, who at the time

lived in a house
less than 200 yards

from Deanna Woodard's trailer.

The Caldwell family had
moved out-of-state one month

before Deanna
Woodard was murdered.

Lee had given me
a lot of earrings.

And I would borrow or take some
from him every once in a while,

like whenever I didn't have one.

But as far as that earring in
particular, I have no idea.

I just can't remember.

ROBERT STACK: On the
morning of the murder spree,

witnesses had seen
two teenage boys who

matched the description
of the killers walking

away from the Caldwell house.

JAMES F. BLANTON: This
case has got to be solved.

As long as it goes unsolved,
there's still that concern

that we and the citizens
of this community

have that there are
still some killers

out there walking the streets.

And who's to say when they
might decide to strike again

and go on another crime spree.

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ROBERT STACK: Last season,
we profiled a bank robber,

whose clumsy behavior
during holdups

earned him an unusual nickname.

Authorities called the robber
Fumbles, and believe that he

may be responsible for as
many as 33 bank robberies

throughout Florida since 1984.

They estimate that Fumbles has
stolen an excess of $100,000

in the past five years alone.

Update, the Fumbles
robber has been captured.

Within minutes of our
broadcast, the Clearwater,

Florida Police Department
received a call

from one of our viewers
who recognized Fumbles

as Ross James Preston, a
23-year-old student living

in Clearwater.

On May 24th, 1989, FBI agents,
Clearwater police officers,

and Pinellas County
Sheriff's deputies

arrested Preston he was
test driving a pickup truck.

SPEC.
AGT.

ROBERT W. BUTLER:
A search by warrant

was made of the
vehicle Mr. Preston was

driving when he was arrested.

Inside the vehicle were found
the ball cap with the letters

CAT on the cap.

Also found were a pair
of gardening gloves,

and a pair of
sunglasses, and a jacket.

These were very
similar to items which

were observed being worn by the
bank robber we called Fumbles.

ROBERT STACK: On August
2nd, Ross James Preston

admitted to committing
33 armed bank robberies,

but as part of a plea bargain,
was charged with only seven

of the holdups.

He has since been sentenced
to 25 years in prison.

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Join me next week
for another edition

of "Unsolved Mysteries."

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