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LAVONA ROWE-RICHMOND:
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 (VOICEOVER):
In New Hampshire,

freak accidents take the
lives of a mother and her son

25 years apart.

Some believe that Rena
and Danny Paquette

were in reality murdered
because they had seen

the face of the same killer.

In Aurora, Illinois, LaVelda
Richmond was injured in a car

crash on a lonely country road.

Simultaneously, her identical
twin sister, LaVona,

claims that she saw the
accident from her living

room 20 miles away.

Could this be a case of ESP
between identical twins?

And FBI Director
William sessions

will announce the latest
edition of the FBI'S

10 Most Wanted List.

Perhaps you can help track
down a serial child molester.

Also, we have a heartwarming
update from our story

of a Tennessee
adoption home which

abducted children and sold
them to wealthy clients.

After our broadcast,
one of those orphans

was reunited with
her two brothers

after a 30-year separation.

You can share their
joyous reunion tonight

on "Unsolved Mysteries."

[theme music]

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
30 years ago,

Hooksett, New Hampshire was home
to 2,500 people, many of them

farmers.

The surrounding woods concealed
an abundant population

of deer that attracted hunters
from all over New England.

But by the winter of 1964,
a hunter of a different kind

had arrived in the area.

Two teenage girls had been
found murdered after having

first been tortured.

The second victim was a
15-year-old high school

sophomore named Pamela Mason.

It was thought that her
killer lived in the area,

and neighbor regarded
neighbor with suspicion.

One area resident had good
reason to be frightened.

47-year-old Rena Paquette
told her friends and family

that she believed
she knew who had

killed the two teenage girls.

At the time, nobody
took her seriously.

February 3, 1964.

Rena's son, 13-year-old
Danny Paquette,

had the day off from school.

Ma?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Danny and Rena were alone

at the family farm, but when
the boy came down for breakfast

his mother was gone.

Uncle Charlie, this
is Danny speaking.

Yeah, I can't find my mom.

Well, she said she was going to
take me to the dentist today.

NADINE LARRABEE: When
Danny got up that morning,

he couldn't find my mother.

All right.

Bye.

Dan couldn't understand
where she was because her purse

and her winter coat were there.

And it was extremely
bitterly cold

and it was highly unlikely
that she went anywhere

without her coat or her purse.

She's not in
there, Uncle Charlie.

Let's try the big barn.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Danny's uncle immediately came

over to help look for Rena.

Though the two searched
for over an hour,

Rena was nowhere to be found.

Mom?

Rena!

Mom?

Rena?

Rena?

Rena?

Look, smoke!

Mom?

No.

Mom.

No, Mom.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Rena Paquette was dead.

Her charred body was
found in the Paquette barn

one mile from the family home.

Police conclude that she had
somehow set herself on fire

and then crawled
into the barn to die.

However, no flammable
substances or containers

were found near the area.

Though her death
was ruled a suicide,

her other son, Victor,
believes that she was murdered.

I don't really believe
my mother committed suicide

because of the tremendous
amount of fear and panic

in the community
because of the two

earlier brutal murders
that I think it was just

kind of like kept
very low profile

not to create more
public hysteria.

I feel at the time of my
mother's death, the person that

was found to be the person
responsible for killing

the young Pamela Mason girl
was the same person that

was responsible for
my mother's death.

In February of 1964, a local
delivery man who was arrested,

convicted, and sentenced
to life in prison

for the murder of Pamela Mason.

At long last, the
nightmare seemed over.

But 20 years later,
Rena's son, Danny,

was also found dead, gunned
down in front of his house.

There are those who believe
that Danny and his mother both

died for the same reason,
they know too much.

Though Rena Paquette left
behind five children,

her son, Danny, seemed the
most affected by her death.

His brother, Victor,
became his closest friend.

Mom being killed was
very traumatic for Danny.

I think everybody's mom is
a little security blanket

and from there you
lose that, emotionally

it leads to a lot of problems.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Danny
grew from a troubled adolescent

into a troubled adult. He
married, became a father,

but then divorced in 1981.

In a bitter legal battle, Danny
lost custody of his children.

I believe that Danny loved
his children more than anything.

I'm sure that
Danny was extremely

upset, angered at the thought
of losing his children.

It would, of course,
mean to him another loss.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): In
the summer of 1983, frustrated

by not being allowed
to see his children,

Danny went to his
former wife's home.

Dee?

What are you doing?

- Dee, open the door.
- What are you doing here?

Dee, I want to see the kids.

I haven't seen them in a month.
Now open the door.

You're not going
to see the kids.

You're not even supposed
to be around here.

Dee, I'm telling
you if I have to come

through this plate glass
door, I want to see my kids!

I'm gonna call the cops.

Now get out of here.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): After
this frightening outburst,

Danny's former
wife called police.

They took him into custody.

I'm going to take you
back to February 3, 1964.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Danny was ordered

to undergo psychiatric
examination at Concord

State Mental Hospital.

It was during this time that
the tragedy from his past

began to catch up
with his present.

Under hypnosis, Danny began to
recall details of the morning

that his mother was killed.

I remember I--

I woke up because I heard--

I heard voices.

It's my mom's voice and--

[voices echoing]

--there's a man's voice.

[voices echoing]

He was a delivery man and
he was yelling at my mom.

And I remember I
went back to my room.

I was scared.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Danny became convinced that he

had seen his mother's murderer.

He told friends
that he was certain

that the killer was the
same delivery man in prison

for the murder of Pamela Mason.

However, there has
never been any evidence

to support this belief.

How's things going
in here, anyway?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
During this troubled time,

Danny's brother would
visit every day,

and when Danny was
released after five months

he found that Victor had
paid all of his bills.

--mailed out.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
After Danny went home,

he tried to pick up
the pieces of his life.

He and Victor would spend many
afternoons to motorcycling

through the countryside.

We spent time together and
we started to enjoy life.

It was a real turning
point for him.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Saturday morning,

November 9, 1985.

Danny was repairing a bulldozer
while two of his friends

worked on a car in the garage.

At 11:00 AM, Danny's
friends heard a loud pop.

[popping sound]

I ran up towards
where Danny was working.

It appeared to me that
he'd been electrocuted.

We noticed air escaping from a
hole in the middle of his chest

and I thought that it was
a welding probe that he

fell on when he hit the ground.

At the time, we didn't
know it was a bullet wound.

[inaudible] let's look around.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Danny Paquette

had been shot through the
heart with a single bullet.

He died instantly.

After police arrived,
they discovered

footprints behind
Danny's house where

the bullet may have come from.

The distance between the
individual footprints

raised the possibility
that someone had

been running from the scene.

A search of the
area revealed about

50 to 80 yards away footprints
heading toward the woods.

Whether it was coincidental
or in fact someone's

footprint that was
fleeing the scene

is speculative at this time.

Telephone service had
been interrupted at about

the time Danny was shot.

The lineman had
discovered a projectile

in the telephone cable.

We did recover a
bullet from it that was

in line with Danny's position.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Investigators determined

that the bullet in
the telephone line

was the same one that
had killed Danny.

The day of Danny's death was
also the beginning of hunting

season, and police began
to theorize that he

had been shot accidentally.

In order to test this theory,
they tried to pinpoint

the location of the gunman.

We were able to ascertain
that there were hunters

in a gravel pit approximately
a mile away that were sighting

their weapons in at the time.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): If
Danny was shot accidentally,

the fatal bullet may have
come from this gravel pit.

For this to happen, the bullet
had to travel nearly a mile,

climb 1,000 feet,
pass through Danny,

and lodge in the telephone wire.

[gunshot]

In the summer of 1990,
ballistics expert R.J. Breglio

was brought in from
New York City in order

to determine if such a
shot could have occurred.

After examining the
locations, Breglio

concluded that such a shot
would have been impossible.

I would rule out the
possibility that there

was an accident, that the gun
was fired from a mile or more

away.

Rather, it was a shot fired
in the vicinity deliberately.

It would have to
traverse through woods,

would have to travel
around vehicles,

get through a 24-inch
opening on a bulldozer,

and hit somebody
directly through

the heart before being
projected upwards

into the telephone cable.

I think that's very hard to
believe that that could happen.

I'm not any expert, but
I just don't buy that.

If anybody thinks that I'm
going to lay down or go away

on this one, they're wrong.

We as a family are, I think,
pretty well determined

that the system is
going to have to work,

the system is going to have to
get out there and do its job.

[gunshot]

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Was Danny Paquette

the victim of a freak
hunting accident,

or was he deliberately murdered?

If you knew
anything about me--

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Did someone

want him silence
about what he claimed

to have witnessed the morning
of his mother's death?

You've been telling
everybody in town

that I did something
that I did not do.

I've got Danny upstairs.

I don't care about Danny.

Let's go outside.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Or did
someone just want Danny dead?

No one knows.

In 1949, the
Tennessee Children's

Home Society in Memphis was
considered a model orphanage.

Director Georgia Tanh was
credited with placing 5,000

orphans with new families
and won national praise

for her efforts.

But Georgia Tan's orphanage
had a darker side.

CINDY LU PRESTO: When
I was growing up,

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

After my adopted
mother passed away,

I found correspondence on
the Tennessee Children's Home

and that's when I
started my search.

Two and a half years
later, I found my name;

two hours later,
I found my mother.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Cindy Lu Presto

discovered that her mother had
never placed her for adoption.

CINDY LU PRESTO: I was
playing on the playground

and Georgia Tanh drove up in
her proverbial black limousine.

OK, George.

Let's go home now.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Georgia Tanh

had simply abducted Cindy.

Good morning, children.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): A
few days later, Judge Camille

Kelley ordered that
custody of Cindy

be given to the Tennessee
Children's Home Society.

Ms. Tanh.

Thank you, Judge Kelley.

I'm confident
that Camille Kelley

was involved with Georgia
Tanh in this operation.

Georgia Tanh 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):
In 1950, Robert Taylor

investigated Georgia
Tanh and the Tennessee

Children's Home Society.

He discovered that Tanh was
using the orphanage as a cover

for a black market baby
ring and that she was making

a fortune in the process.

On September 12, 1950, Robert
Taylor presented his report

to the governor of Tennessee.

Three days later, Georgia
Tanh died of cancer.

Two months later, Judge
Camille Kelley resigned.

The Tennessee Children's
Home Society was shut down.

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

Kelley because of what
they've done to me

and thousands of other people.

It makes me very angry because
my mother 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): Lynne Heinz

was five years old
when she was adopted

by a wealthy California couple.

I was adopted into a
very, very fine family,

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

And even though 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
Tanh'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.

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.

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.

It took me that
long to find you guys.

She walked off
the plane and I knew

who she was just like that.

She's the spitting
image of her mother,

the very spitting image.

We had this void that had
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.

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.

Do you me to take it
with me when I leave?

PAUL MCKELL: It's just like
yesterday, you know somebody

to love and be loved by.

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

everything rolled up into one.

When I found my family,
I felt like I was queen

for a day and [inaudible].

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): There are

over 15 million sets
of identical twins

living in the world today.

Throughout history,
they have fascinated

and delighted us all.

Their mirror images
are a perfect example

of nature's whimsy.

The physical similarities
of identical twins

can easily be
explained by genetics,

but in the three stories
you're about to see

these eerie likenesses go
beyond the realm of science

and defy explanation.

Mark Newman and Jerry Levy
are identical twin brothers

who were separated at birth.

For 32 years, neither one
knew the other existed.

When they met for the
first time three years ago,

they were amazed to discover
their uncanny resemblance

was more than skin deep.

Too much.

The first time we met,
we went into the bathroom

and looked in the mirror.

To me, it was a little spooky.

Now I was seeing
four of my faces

instead of just the one when
I normally look in the mirror.

I graduated in '72.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Incredibly, Mark

and Jerry's separate
lives and personal habits

were nearly identical.

Both are volunteer
firemen and have

worked in the lawn
care industry,

both are confirmed bachelors.

They always drink the
same brand of beer

and they even carry their keys
in the same distinctive manner.

MARK S. NEWMAN:
We were instantly

comfortable with each other.

The only way I
can explain it was

it was almost like a brother
who moved away for 32 years

and then came back
and what have you

been doing for
the last 32 years?

And as it turned out, we were
doing the same exact things.

And still after 32
years of separation,

it was like there
wasn't any separation.

Our lives were
basically parallel.

That's too much coincidence.

Too much.

These identical
twins were apart

are remarkably alike on
almost everything we look at.

OK.

Mark and Jerry,
let's have you stand

up against the wall over here.

THOMAS J. BOUCHARD:
Mark and Jerry are

alike in a wide array of ways.

They have a lot of gestures
and postures that are the same.

They tend to hold their
beer can in the same way,

they tend to laugh
in the same way.

There's kind of a cycle and
a pattern to their laughter.

And I've watched
them sit in chairs

and just watched the way
they cross their legs,

things of that sort.

There's a whole pattern
to their behavior

that's very much alike.

You Now, that
raises the question,

how is that two individuals
reared apart in entirely

different environments come
40 years later when they're

reunited to be so similar?

We really as scientists
simply do not know.

In some cases, the unique
bond between identical twins

is even more mystifying.

Some identical twins claim to
have paranormal experiences,

such as telepathic
communication or ESP

and even a bizarre phenomenon
known as shared pain.

Scientists can neither
dismiss nor explain

these strange occurrences.

There's a saying among twins
that's very, very common--

it's us against the world.

So when we go back to back,
we can see 360 degrees,

we're not blindsided, we see
things that other people don't,

and we protect each other.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Identical twins Lewis

and Donald Keith have lived
in separate cities for most

of their lives but believe they
are connected by a sixth sense.

They even claim to have
experienced shared pain.

The first incident
occurred three years ago

while Lewis was working out
at a health club in Chicago.

I took a swim, I did
a few bicycle exercises.

And I tried this exercise
which had been told to me

was good for getting
rid of those--

I guess they're colloquially
called Love handles--

that everybody would
like to get rid of.

Anyway, I tried the exercises.

It was going along very well.

It's not difficult,
it's not painful,

it doesn't take a great
intellectual talent.

But I hurt myself.

It was probably the
most intense pain

that I ever felt in my life.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
At that exact moment,

Donald was over 500 miles
away at his office just

outside of Washington, D.C.

DONALD KEITH: I had some
papers to Xerox at the office,

and as I was walking
down the corridor

there was this pain in
my right groin area.

This pain was unlike any that I
had ever experienced in my life

and then it was gone.

And I wondered, what was
the pain and what caused it?

Later that day, I called
Lewis and his secretary

said that he had injured
himself and he was home.

And then my curiosity
got the best of me and--

Curiosity or sixth sense?

I don't know.

I really don't know whether it
was curiosity or sixth sense.

But I wanted to know
where you hurt yourself.

And then I found out
that he had injured

himself in the same place
that I felt this pain.

And then I asked
him about the time.

And when the time
clicked, I remember

distinctly the hair on the
back of my neck standing up.

It was electric.

I could just feel every
hair sticking straight out.

The experience of
sharing pain proved again

that we were
identical twins, again

that we were very close,
again that psychologically

and psychically we were
able to communicate with us.

It didn't surprise us, it just
confirmed what we already knew.

We feel pain for each other.

Whenever anything
happens to one,

the other one can experience
it like if they're going

through the same thing herself.

For example, I fell
down stairs at school.

They came in to
tell my sister they

were taking me to the hospital
and she was unconscious.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
LaVona and LaVelda Richmond

were born in 1933 and have
lived together ever since,

even after they married
they're identical twins

husbands, Alwin and Arthur.

We are what they call
identical mirror image twins.

Our medical history
has been pretty much

the same throughout our life.

In fact, when one
gets ill anymore,

they check the other one to
make sure she's going to be OK.

We've had tonsils
taken out together.

We've had breast
biopsies at the same time.

And we had major
surgery together.

Our eye correction is the
same except for opposite eyes.

My left eye is
my week eye and--

My right eye is my weak eye.

And our cavities have
appeared on opposite sides.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
LaVona and LaVelda

have taken part in
many scientific studies

of twin behavior.

In one study, they
were rated highest

among the 300 sets
of twins tested

for extrasensory perception.

We feel among every set
of twins one is the sender

and one is the receiver.

I happen to be the receiver.

And I am the sender.

And whenever LaVelda
has been in an occasion

where she has felt pain
or has been in trouble,

I have sensed it.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): The most

startling example of this unique
psychic bond occurred in 1952.

LaVelda was riding in
a car with a young man

who had asked her to join him
in town for a cup of coffee.

Where are you going?

The coffee shop isn't this way.
- Relax.

Don't worry about it.

We're going to go
somewhere nice and quiet

where you and I can talk.

When this gentlemen turned
the opposite direction

of what he was supposed to turn,
I knew something was wrong.

I got very, very
uneasy and I moved

over as close to the passenger
side of the door as I could.

And the more he drove,
the more agitated he got

and the more frightened I got.

And I thought I was in trouble.

Then when the car skidded, the
only thing I could think of

was oh my god, what are they
going to tell my sister?

And evidently, that's when I
got the strong message was when

she started thinking
of me and how

I was going to react if
something had happened to her.

I was sitting in the living room
studying and all of a sudden,

it's just like if I
went into a trance.

I could see what was
happening, but I could not

stop the vision from happening.

LaVona, what's wrong?

Dad, call the police.

The police, what for?

Sis has been in an accident.

LAVONA ROWE-RICHMOND: And I
told Father to call the police

and I could not convince
him that Sis was in trouble.

She's hurt, Dad.
She's been in an accident.

How do you know?

I can see it.

She's on a country road.

He told me I was a jealous
because I couldn't be

worth her, that this was
the first time we had been

separated for any
event and I better

get used to it
because there would

be other times that I would
be separated from her also.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): The car

stopped just inches
before plummeting

into a water-filled ravine.

Are you OK?

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): LaVelda

hit her head on the dashboard
but was not seriously hurt.

I did not see her hit her
head on the dash at the time.

What I did see was a farmer
coming with a tractor,

pulling the out of a ditch.

And I turned to Dad ans
said, it's all right, Dad.

The danger is passed.

She's going to be OK.

See, Dad?

I told you.

Are you OK?

LAVONA ROWE-RICHMOND:
I was not surprised

when LaVelda came in the house
showing a little bit of wear

for her adventure because I
could sense what was happening

and I knew what was happening.

I was surprised
at Dad's reaction.

Listen.

Now, don't say a word.

LaVona, you said you saw
this thing happen, right?

We're going to get
in the car right now

and you're going to take us
to where this thing happened.

LAVONA ROWE-RICHMOND: And I said
to Pa, I'm not going to do it,

Dad.
I've never been there.

He said, you saw it you,
can show me where it is.

Just keep going this way.

All right.

LAVELDA ROWE-RICHMOND: Dad
asked LaVona which way to go

and she directed him.

I sat in the back seat and I
kept very quiet all the way.

LAVONA ROWE-RICHMOND:
And as we were driving,

I'd tell Dad, turn here, Dad.

He said, have you
ever been here before?

I said, no.
How do you know?

I said, I feel it.

Turn here.

LAVELDA ROWE-RICHMOND:
And she directed Dad

to the actual road.

And when she got
there, you could

see the tire tracks
where we went off

and where we were pulled
back onto the road.

Is this Is this
the place, Honey?

Yeah.

It happened right here.

LAVONA ROWE-RICHMOND: After
we reached the crash site,

he said, you were right.

I never actually believed
it could happen before.

He said, I know you told me
it has happened in the past,

but he said, this is it
first time I actually saw it.

I will never doubt you again.

If you tell me one
of you is in danger,

he said, I will believe you.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Three intriguing stories,

three sets of identical twins.

Are they born with
a paranormal ability

to silently communicate?

If you are an identical twin,
perhaps you already know.

The rest of us can only wonder.

When we return, a poignant
story of a Tennessee family's

search for their missing sister.

Our next story is about
a family in the best sense

of the word, a family that
has survived hard times

and endured to see better times.

But for the Hinkle
family of Tennessee,

there is a sadness that
the passing of 65 years

has not managed to erode.

It began when two infant girls
were torn from their home.

Tonight with your help,
those painful memories

may finally be put to
rest and you may be

able to help reunite a family.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Greeneville,

Tennessee, a small
rural community 60

miles northeast of Knoxville.

It was the summer of 1924 and
though the Great Depression was

five years away, it
had arrived earlier

for tobacco farmers who had
carved out a marginal living

in the countryside.

Times were tough that
summer, and tenant

farmer Rufus Hinkle was forced
to make an agonizing decision.

Shortly after giving
birth to twin girls,

Rufus' wife of 22
years had died.

With nine other mouths
to feed, Rufus felt

incapable of making ends meet.

Where are you
going with the twins?

Well, they're a
little bit sick, son,

so I'm going to take them to the
hospital for a couple of weeks.

Here, hold your sister
while I get in the truck.

Now, be careful.

Be careful with her now.

Now, while I'm gone,
son, Lloyd is in charge.

You pay attention to what
Lloyd says, you hear me?

You be a good boy.

He was a man who
loved his family

and he hated to part with any
of us, especially the twins.

But sometimes you've got
to sacrifice and just do

the best you can do.

Bye, Mary.

Bye, Martha.

Bye, Papa.

Bye, son.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
On that hot July afternoon

in 1924, Rufus Hinkle
took his two baby girls

on a one-way trip
to the orphanage.

He hoped to reclaim
Mary and Martha

once his fortunes improved.

I'm sure that after he left
the twins at the orphanage

that he worried about them
and thought about them a lot.

And one of his sons,
Lloyd, remembers

going to the orphanage with
Rufus to see about the twins

and see if they
could take them back.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Sadly, it was too late.

The twins had already
been given away.

We did try to
place them together,

but that was just not possible.

They'll be well
taken care of, you say?

You don't have to
worry about that.

They're with fine families.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Well,
it must be the Lord's will.

I'm very sorry, Mr. Hinkle.

Thank you, ma'am.

Come on, son.

We're going home.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Rufus Hinkle never

saw his two daughters again.

He passed away in 1950.

Later on, I heard that they
would not tell us where they

were at until my father died.

So shortly after he died, we
started looking for the twins

and we found Mary.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):

NADINE LARRABEE: In
1955, Rufus' son, Shorty,

contacted the orphanage.

Though unable to locate Martha,
they were able to trace Mary.

In September of that
year, Shorty and his wife

drove into Bluefield,
West Virginia to meet

the sister he never knew.

ALBERT "SHORTY" HINKLE: As we
drove by, my wife said to me,

she said, right there she sits.

And I know that's her, she
looks just like your brother.

And sure it was Mary.

We knew at first
look that it was.

And it was a very
happy time, very.

Mary, it's great to see you.

It was like
finding a part of you

that had always been missing.

And it was just like
putting something together,

and when you put two and two
together, you've got a whole.

And it was just great.

Oh, it feels great to know
that we can all be together

at times and be a family,
that they are part of me

and that I'm part of their
blood, they're part of mine.

Why don't you come on
over here and have a seat

and let me take your picture.

OK.

Sit down.

Smile.

Great.

Shorty, it's amazing how
much she looks like Dalton.

I can't believe it.
- She does.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
That afternoon, Mary learned

that she had a twin sister.

Mary, I've got
some news for you.

You have a twin
sister named Martha.

Really?

Really.

I just can't explain how I
did feel not knowing that I had

a twin sister, a part of me.

Where is she?

Well, we don't
know that exactly.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Shorty
told Mary that the orphanage

had lost track of Martha.

She had never been
officially adopted,

but had instead been
sent to a temporary home.

We can't seem to find her.

I've often wondered
it's been good

or Martha's life has been bad.

You wonder about them things.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): 30 years

later, Rufus' granddaughter,
Jackie, took on a family quest.

Well, I started
my search for Martha

at Holston Home for
Children in Greeneville,

where she was placed
along with Mary in 1924.

And they showed me what records
they could that were available.

Record here.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
In 1986, Jackie uncovered

the original orphanage records.

Greeneville, Tennessee.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): She learned

that in November of 1924, Martha
had been given temporarily

to a Charles and Lyda Meek
i Johnson City, a small town

30 miles away from Greeneville.

Isn't she adorable?

Oh, she is.

JACKIE REYNOLDS:
So then I centered

my search in Johnson City.

And I went through old record
books and census records

and city directories
and things of that sort,

went down Sydney Street, where
she was supposed to live.

And I've never found any
trace of the Meeks whatsoever,

so I really don't know what
happened to them from there.

Congratulations.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Not
much is known about the Meeks,

other than the fact
that Charles was

a 34-year-old farmer and a
member of the Holiness Church.

In April of 1990, three
generations of Hinkles

got together for
a family reunion.

There was only one
person missing.

Today the family refuses to
give up the search for Martha.

They are certain that
she is alive somewhere.

They want her to become part of
a family that has never stopped

caring about one another.

Our family has
been very close--

very close-- but we're not a
complete family without finding

the other sister.

We found Mary, this
was a part of it,

but there's still a
part of us missing yet.

Oh, it would just
be the happiest day

of my life to get to be reunited
with my twin sister, Martha.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
There are no known pictures

of Martha, but there
is a chance that Mary

and Martha are identical twins.

These photographs of Mary may
help identify her lost sister.

The first was taken when
she was eight years old,

the second when she was 17.

This is how Mary appears today.

She and Martha were born
in the spring of 1924.

They were taken to
the Holston orphanage

in Greeneville, Tennessee when
they were four months old.

Shortly after our
broadcast, one of our viewers,

Sandy Detain of San
Bernardino, California,

contacted the Hinkle family
with surprising news.

During a search for her
mother's biological family,

Sandy accidentally discovered
the location of Martha

Hinkle's adoptive family.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Martha
lived with John and Lyda Meeks

for three years.

When the couple
divorced, Martha was

taken in by the
Dan Jackson family

of Johnson County, Georgia.

In 1940, she
married James Thomas

and together they had four sons.

Sadly, Martha passed away
just weeks before the Hinkle

family could contact her.

I'm glad that I found her.

We won't have to do
no more searching.

But it's so sad that
I couldn't meet her,

that I couldn't be with her
just to talk to her just

for an hour or two and
tell her that I loved her.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Although she never realized

her dream of meeting
her twin sister,

Mary's 35-year search
was not in vain.

On July 27, 1991,
Martha's four sons

met Mary and a side of the
family they had never known.

That day, in a
bittersweet reunion,

two families came
together as one.

Shorty.

We were part of the family
before we ever walked

up and touched a one of them.

It was written all
over their faces.

When we saw those
smiles and tender

hearts, all the
little big fears,

the apprehensions just left.

It was all over with and glad
to be home with our family.

I'm proud that she left
four sons, left part of her

here for me to get together
and know her and her sons.

But part of me is
that I've never found

and I never will find.

But she'll always
be in my heart.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Next, a cunning

and disturbed child molester
is added to the FBI'S

10 Most Wanted list.

40 Years ago, the Federal
Bureau of Investigation

initiated its 10
Most Wanted list

to alert the public of the most
dangerous criminals in America.

Now from Washington, D.C.,
a special appeal by FBI

Director William Sessions.

Since 1950, 125 fugitives
on the FBI'S 10 Most Wanted

list have been captured,
thanks to your help.

Tonight with this broadcast
of "Unsolved Mysteries,"

we are announcing the
most recent addition

to the Most Wanted list.

He is Kenneth
Robert Stanton, who

is wanted on charges of
child molestation, burglary,

unlawful flight to
avoid prosecution,

and impersonating
a police officer.

Please watch carefully.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): In 1964,

Kenneth Robert Stanton was
convicted of child molestation.

He was committed to a
state-level hospital

in Ionia, Michigan.

Stanton was diagnosed as a
criminal sexual psychopath.

A few years later, Stanton was
declared fit to reenter society

and set free.

In 1989, Kenneth Stanton was
identified by a young girl

in Jackson, Mississippi.

The events she described
matched the modus operandi

of numerous molestations
attributed to Stanton.

LAVONA ROWE-RICHMOND: Kenneth
Robert Stanton quite frequently

scouts an upper middle
class white neighborhoods

and carefully selects a house
where the victim is quite often

home alone, usually a young
white female between the ages

of seven and 12.

And his job as a
traveling salesman

permits him time to do this.

He is careful to
approach the house

as not to disturb anybody.

He usually wears a
conservative suit.

He's nice looking,
he's well-dressed.

[knocking at door]

Quite often, Stanton comes to
the front door of the house,

presents himself as a
person of authority,

and quite often shows a badge
as though he were a policeman

dressed in plain clothes.

Hi.

Is your mother home?

No.

Well, I'm officer Tom Coles.

I'm with the local
police department.

We're helping out the
county health service.

There's been a report of
contaminated milk in the area

and I'd like to come in
and check if I could.

I'm not supposed to let
strangers in the house.

I'm not a stranger,
I'm a policeman.

I've been up and down
the neighborhood all day

checking your neighbors'
ice box for the milk

and the expiration date.

LAVONA ROWE-RICHMOND:
He often has a clipboard

and indicates to the
child in the house

that he's taking a survey
or that he's looking

for contaminated milk and
that he is there to test

the milk in the refrigerator.

Do you know where your
milk is coming from?

No.

Well, that's even more reason
I should come in and check.

It'll only take a minute.

If a young person
would resist entry,

Stanton quite often displays a
bag of marijuana or a marijuana

cigarette, stating that he
found this on the front porch

and he's entitled to search
the house for evidence.

Well, how do I know that
you're really a policeman?

Well, here's my badge.

LAVONA ROWE-RICHMOND:
He has a high IQ

and he's very
intelligent and he's

able to gain their confidence
to get inside the house.

- Then I'll be gone.
- OK.

All right.

Once he's inside
and he's determined

that the children
or child is alone,

he blindfolds them frequently.

Quite often he uses eye drops
and a thermometer, possibly

for a distraction.

It's at that time then
that he continues on

and assaults the children.

[screaming]

LAVONA ROWE-RICHMOND: In the
summer of 1989 in Jackson,

Mississippi, Stanton was in the
house of a young white female

and attempted an
assault when she

screamed and scared him away.

When he ran out of the
house, a neighbor boy

saw him jump into a
car and correctly wrote

down his license tag number.

Thereafter, police were able
to use that license number

and identify that car as being
registered Kenneth Robert

Stanton of Mobile, Alabama.

Christy, what I
need you to do is

I need you to look at
each and every picture

and think in your mind
what this man looks like

and then look at each
and every picture

and pick out the picture
that looks like him.

OK?

LAVONA ROWE-RICHMOND:
The young girl

who was assaulted on that
day thereafter picked

out a photograph of
Stanton from a spread

presented to her by the Jackson,
Mississippi Police Department.

- That's the man.
- That's the man?

That's him.

After the Jackson, Mississippi
assault, Stanton apparently

traveled east through
Alabama into Georgia

and committed several crimes
before he was identified

at Houston County, Georgia.

There were identifications of
Stanton at Jackson, Mississippi

and Columbus, Mississippi, as
well as Tuscaloosa, Alabama;

Leesburg, Georgia;
Douglasville, Georgia;

and Warner Robbins, Georgia.

Stanton is suspected of at
least 11 child molestations

from Mississippi,
Alabama, and into Georgia.

After reviewing a
number of these cases

and looking at Stanton's
history from the early 1960s,

we were able to conclude that he
apparently was a lifelong child

molester and probably
could be described

as a serial child molester.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Kenneth Robert Stanton

is 52 years old,
approximately six feet

tall, and weighs 170 pounds.

He has blue eyes and
brown thinning hair.

He usually wears
glasses and occasionally

sports a mustache and beard.

Stanton travels
frequently and works

as a heavy equipment salesman.

He is known to have
relatives in Indiana.

In December of 1989,
his car was found

abandoned in Perrysburg, Ohio.

Update, Kenneth Robert
Stanton has been captured.

Within minutes of our
broadcast, several viewers

called our telecenter
to report that Stanton

was living in a trailer park in
Lorraine, Ohio with his wife.

He had been married just
a few weeks earlier.

Local police and FBI agents
arrived at Stanton's trailer

only to learn that he himself
has seen our broadcast

and fled.

Stanton's wife and
neighbors were stuck.

I've talked to my
son and I've had him

in front of the house
staying in the yard

just in case he comes back.

I don't want someone of like
that riding around the streets

at all.

Anyone that does anything
like that should be put away.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Five days later, Stan

was identified in Rock
Hill, South Carolina

after he allegedly attempted
to molest a nine-year-old girl.

Based on seeing the segment
on the program coupled

with the police
report, we suspected

there was a strong possibility
that Stanton was in Rock Hill

or somewhere in this area and
we proceed on the assumption

that he was possibly
staying at a local motel.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Two days later,

FBI agents spotted
Stanton's car in the parking

lot of this motel.

JOHN PIERSON: After
identifying the vehicle,

we established the surveillance
of the motel with FBI agents

and York County Sheriff's
Department detectives.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Incredibly, a check

with the motel office
revealed that Stanton had

registered under his own name.

He had indicated to the
clerk previously that he wanted

to stay an additional
week, but he also wanted

to move to the main building.

The clerk at our
direction called his room

and told him the new room
was ready and he could move.

When Stanton emerged from
his room, we arrested him.

We asked Stanton his name.

He said, you know who
I am and he indicated

that he was not a
threat to us, that he

was only a threat to himself.

He did indicate that the
following day was his birthday.

Next week, "Unsolved
Mysteries falls on Halloween.

In keeping with that
tradition, four intriguing

mysteries of eerie
people and events

which cannot be explained.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Scores
of witnesses in South Carolina

say they have encountered
the legendary ghost

called the Gray Man.

Some even claim that he has
saved their homes buy warning

them of approaching hurricanes.

We'll also meet a woman
named Katie, whose

apparent psychic
powers have left

eyewitnesses baffled and
skeptics crying fraud.

On Halloween just two years
ago, 29-year-old David Stone

set forth on a spiritual
odyssey in the bleak desert

in New Mexico.

He never returned.

Authorities are still perplexed
by a trail of mystical clues

he left behind.

Join us on Halloween
for a special edition

of "Unsolved Mysteries."

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