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ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): The saga

of Noah's ark, one
of "The Bible's"

most enduring stories is now the
focus of a tantalizing debate.

Was there truly a
great flood, which

Noah following the instructions
of God, managed to survive?

In recent years two
research expeditions

have combed the mountains
of Ararat in Turkey.

The incredible,
both believe they

may have found the
remnants of Noah's ark,

in two separate locations.

In Austin, Texas, three
men noticed a strange car

cruising their neighborhood.

Moments later, they heard the
desperate screams of a woman.

And they were caught up in the
search for a brutal kidnapper.

Join me for another addition
of "Unsolved Mysteries".

[theme music]

Noah's ark, one of the
most famous and evocative

of all bible stories.

As recorded in "Genesis",
the first book of The Bible,

God looked down upon
the earth he had created

and saw it had become
evil and wicked.

He came to a righteous
man named Noah

and ordered him to build an ark.

And God said to Noah,
make rooms in the ark

and cover it inside
and outside with pitch.

You shall make it with lower,
second, and third decks.

And of every living
thing, of all flesh,

you shall bring
two of every sort

into the ark to keep
them alive with you.

And so it came to pass, God
brought forth a great flood.

[thunderstorm]

For 40 days and
40 nights, rain

descended from the heavens.

All living things
were destroyed, save

for the occupants of the ark.

[ocean waves crashing]

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
When the waters receded,

God said to Noah, bring out
with you every living thing

of all flesh that is
with you so that they

may abound on the Earth and
be fruitful and multiply.

So ends the story of Noah's ark.

But for centuries,
people have wondered,

was a story based on fact?

Or was it a legend handed
down from generation

to generation as a
symbolic morality play

in a hostile and corrupt world?

Contrary to popular
belief, The Bible

was not the original
telling the story

of Noah and the great flood.

In ancient Babylonia
and Sumerian,

the same story was
recorded thousands of years

before "The Bible" was written.

Even here in North America the
early Spanish explorers were

starting to discover
the Hopi Indians

told a tale that was
remarkably similar to the story

of Noah's ark.

In fact, no fewer than 200
variations of the legend

could be found in cultures
throughout the world.

Leading many to
believe that there

was indeed a cataclysmic
flood thousands of years ago.

In recent times,
some researchers

have seized upon
this speculation

and gone in search
of definitive proof,

the remains of Noah's ark.

According to Middle Eastern
versions of the story,

the ark was built near the
ancient city of Shuruppak,

in what is now Iraq.

In the book of
"Genesis" chapter 8,

The Bible says the
ark came to rest

on the mountains
of Ararat, which

are in present day Turkey.

More than 500 miles
from Shuruppak.

It is a desolate,
sparsely populated region.

Rising above the headwaters
of the Tigris River.

In recent years, several
separate research expeditions

have explored the
mountains of Ararat.

Incredibly, two separate
teams both believe

they may have found the ark,
in two different locations, 17

miles apart.

One of the sites lies on the
Northeast side of Mount Ararat

under a permanent 23
square mile glacier.

In 1969, a Turkish businessman
named George Hagopian,

went public with a
remarkable story.

He claimed that as
a young boy in 1906,

he had actually seen
Noah's ark wedged

in a glacier from which the
ice had temporarily receded.

Hagobian described the vessel
to archaeological illustrator

Elfred Lee.

ELFRED LEE: He said it
looked like a long box.

It's rectangular
and the corners were

kind of rounded a little bit.

The sides sloped in, slightly.

The roof, he said,
was basically flat

with just a slight pitch to it.

And there was a stair kind
of a apparatus at one end.

His uncle hoisted him
up onto this ladder

and he walked on
up onto the roof.

And there all the way down
the middle of the roof

he saw these holes.

And he stuck his head
in and it was dark,

he shouted and his voice
echoed and re-echoed inside.

It was hollow.

George Hagopian went back
a couple of years later,

saw the same thing.

But ice and snow were
beginning to cover it up again.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
17 years later, Elfred Lee

was introduced to a
man named Ed Davis,

who in 1943 was stationed
in Iran with the US Army.

He too, claimed he
had seen the ark.

When Ed Davis started talking,
the hair on the back of my head

just stood up.

Because I could like hear
an echo of George Hagopian

from years before.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Ed Davis' sighting

occurred in roughly the same
area as George Hogopian's.

However, when Davis saw
what he thought was the ark,

it had broken in two.

We waited a while and
the fog kind of lifted

and it shown through
kind of a funnel.

And it showed they
ark, in the end.

You could see in the end of it.

And we saw both parts.

You stand there with
your mouth wide open.

ELFRED LEE (VOICEOVER): Ed Davis
described three decks inside

and large cages on
the bottom deck.

Smaller cages on
the second deck.

And on the roof a venting
system with many holes on it.

And, so that you could see how
the light and ventilation could

go clear to the bottom deck.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
In this illustration

Elfred Lee has reconciled
the two accounts.

The intact art depicts George
Hagopian's sighting in 1906.

Below are the two pieces
as described by Ed Davis.

However, Hagopian and Davis
are unable to pinpoint

the exact locations
of the sightings

but their stories helped spark
the interest of Don Schockey

an amateur archeologist.

I can't think of
anything more exciting

that I could be
doing in my lifetime

than having a small
part in seeing

this, whatever it is, verified.

And we have good
reason to believe

it's, there's something there.

And we got, we've
got to prove it.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): In
1989, Don Schockey launched

an expedition to Mount Ararat.

The mountain is on the
easternmost edge of Turkey

bordered by Iran and the
Georgia Democratic Republic,

formerly a part of
the Soviet Union.

Schockey chose his
destination based

upon classified US satellite
photographs, which have

been analyzed by an expert.

For three days, Don
Schockey and his guides

made their way up the
south side of the mountain.

Our whole goal was
to get to the spot,

over the top, down the glaciers
to this particular location

and verify what the satellite
information had told us.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
However, the Turkish government

restricts access to the
north side of Mount Ararat,

foreigners are forbidden.

One of the Turkish guides,
Amet, continued on with camera

in hand.

Amet crested Mount Ararat and
started down the north slope.

At this point, at an elevation
of nearly 16,000 feet,

he spotted something
half buried in the snow.

From a distance of 300 yards,
he took this photograph,

which seems to show the
end of a rectangular object

with a peaked roof.

DON SCHOCKEY: He came back and
I said, is anything showing?

He said, a coop, a coop.

And I said, what are
you talking about, Amet?

A coop, a coop.

Like a chicken coop.

Oh.

It kind of had a pointed top
and he said that you could see

the outline of it in the side.

He said, in all
of my years you've

never seen anything like it.

He said, there's
some artifact there.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Don Schockey

believed that Amet
might have discovered

the remains of Noah's ark.

Schockey returned
to the United States

where he took the photograph
to forensic anthropologist, Dr.

Jim Ebert.

DR. JIM EBERT: It certainly
does not look natural.

It looks very strikingly
man-made to me.

Of course there are
no scale cues in here

so we can't really
tell how big it is.

What I see when I look at this,
is something that stands out

from the rest of the terrain.

And that is a, what looks
like a solid structure.

You'll never know
until you get up there

and can see it and
stand next to it.

But it's, the
rectilinear outline

suggests to me that this isn't
a normal part of a glacier.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
In 1990, Schockey

returned to Mount
Ararat and undertook

an extensive aerial search.

Unfortunately, the site
photographed by Amet

had been completely
covered with snow.

Schockey was forced
to abandon his effort

but remains
convinced that he has

probably found the resting
place of Noah's ark.

Others disagree.

We've been told for years that
Noah's ark is on top of Mount

Ararat because that's
what "The Bible" says

and that's not what
"The Bible" says.

"The Bible" says
the ark came to rest

on, upon the
mountains of Ararat,

that word is in the plural.

And if we--

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): David
Fasold is a former Merchant

Marine Officer and
merchant salvage expert,

who believes that
the ark is buried

beneath this unusual mound.

A full 17 miles south
of Mount Ararat.

Fasold's team has made several
expeditions to the area.

They have combed the site
with a metal detector

and discovered traces of
iron beneath the mountain,

which do not appear to
be natural deposits.

(METAL DETECTOR BEEPING)

DAVID FASOLD: Every 20 to
30 inches approximately,

we have the remains
of an iron fitting

or an iron pin of sorts
that are still there

in the soil and discernible.

Well, this is one of 5400 iron
fittings that we've located.

Of course, we haven't pulled
them all out of the boat.

It's been cut in half
by a diamond saw,

scanned by electron
microscopes at Los

Alamos National Laboratory.

And this particular
iron fitting is

94.84% man-made wrought iron.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Looking at the mound

from above, the
iron deposits form

a distinct pattern
of intersecting

lines, which Fasold believes
is a framework of the ark.

From end to end,
the lines measure

515 feet, or 300 cubits.

The length of the arc as
recorded as in "The Bible".

The width averages 85
feet, or 50 cubits,

which also corresponds to
the biblical dimension.

Given the shape of the thing
and the size of the thing

and where they found it.

I mean, if it walks like a
duck and quacks like a duck

until somebody finds
something else.

What else could it
possibly be but Noah's ark?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Are
the metal fittings remnants

of Noah's ark?

Some have suggested
that David Fasold

has, in reality,
found the remains

of an ancient Mongol Fort.

Others say it is merely
a geological formation.

However, the Turkish
government has

declared the mound
as the official site

where Noah's ark came to rest.

The man who was in
charge, Professor Salih

Bayraktutan, who is
also a geologist,

he says it's Noah's ark 200%.

It is not a geological anomaly,
it's a man-made structure.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Has one

of mankind's great
mysteries finally

been solved in this
remote mountain range?

It seems obvious
that Don Schockey

and David Fasold are
both investigating

something very unique.

But only years of
further exploration

and detailed
analysis will reveal

exactly what they have found.

It is tantalizing to think that
Noah's ark may actually exist.

However unlikely it may
seem, such a discovery

would not be unprecedented.

In fact it was less than 100
years ago that archaeologists

uncovered the ruins of the
ancient city of Troy, which had

always been considered a myth.

Finding Noah's ark would no
doubt prove more elusive,

perhaps is a story best
left as a metaphor.

A cautionary tale for
a world that has grown

ever more complex and chaotic.

Next, a young woman is
found murdered in Louisiana.

Perhaps you can help
identify her killer.

[theme music]

Everything all right
out there, Tracy?

They just seated 20 more.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
In November of 1988,

26-year-old Tracy Wofford-Bunn
began working as a waitress

in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

I think they keep coming back.

Same people.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
She arrived from Milwaukee,

Wisconsin three months earlier.

Looking for a new
start in a new city.

SOLOMON BUNN: Tracy
was a beautiful person.

Outgoing, fun to be with.

She would do things
very spur of the moment.

She could say, well tomorrow
I'm going to Minnesota.

Tomorrow she'd go to Minnesota.

With no care whatsoever,
wondering about what might

happen, what would happen.

No care.

She knew where she was going.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Tracy and Solomon

Bunn had married in 1986.

2 1/2 years later, the marriage
was on the skids and Tracy

turned to her younger
sister Danielle,

who lived in Baton Rouge.

She had spoken many
times about leaving

Milwaukee to sort of spread her
wings and try something new.

And so she just came to visit me
and we had a really good time.

And I introduced her to quite
a few different type people.

And so she stayed with me,
I think a couple of weeks.

And then she went back home and
stayed about a week and a half

and came back down with all
of, the rest of her stuff.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Tracy settled in quickly.

She landed a job and even
found a new boyfriend.

It seemed like life was
starting all over again.

Then six months later, on the
morning of April 1st 1989,

it all came crashing down.

Outside of an apartment
complex, a passer

by noticed a young
woman apparently asleep

in the front seat of a car.

It quickly became obvious that
the young woman was not asleep.

Tracy Wofford-Bunn
had been murdered.

About what time was it
when you first saw the car?

It was about 8 o'clock
when I first saw the car.

And when I came out,
it was about 8:30,

to really see what was, was
lady asleep or what in the car.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Tracy had been

raped and strangled to death.

, Oddly investigators found
no sign of a struggle.

In fact there were a number of
things about the crime scene,

which did not seem quite right.

Clothes all ruffled up
and her shoes are missing.

Would you mind taking
me a few shots of that?

DETECTIVE WHEELER: Upon
examining the body,

we could see that
the clothes were

all jumbled up in a fashion
that I have seen before.

And it's usually when a person
has had their clothing put back

on them and they're either
in an unconscious state

or they're deceased.

We also found that
the stick shift

was broken off in the car.

Was lying on the floorboard.

I still believe the vehicle
could have been driven

but it would have taken
somebody with a little expertise

at doing it to drive
it with a stick

shift broken off like that.

The motive's the main thing
that has me puzzled is,

because there was no robbery.

Jewelry was still
on the victim, purse

was there, identification.

This was just a total loss
of life, for no reason.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): With
no physical evidence to go on,

Detective Wheeler turned to
the people who knew Tracy best.

He started with
her new boyfriend.

--That we were
together and we just

rode around for a little while.

DETECTIVE WHEELER : You
were in Tracy's vehicle?

Yes, yeah, we rode around.

DETECTIVE WHEELER: Well, when
I spoke with the boyfriend,

he advised me that about
4:30, March 31, 1989,

he dropped Tracy off at work.

And he kept her vehicle.

He and his cousin were
riding around in the car

and he was supposed to
pick Tracy up that night

at 12 midnight, when
she got off work.

Oh, man.

DETECTIVE WHEELER:
Unfortunately, he

said the shift lever
broke off in the vehicle

at Texas and East Polk.

Then he parked the
vehicle and went

to the cousin's house, which
is about a half mile away.

Let's go ahead
and leave it here.

We'll come back and
get it tomorrow.

Let's walk on back
to your house.

Tracy's gonna be mad at me.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Around midnight,

Tracy called her
boyfriend and learned

that he had damaged the car.

I'm out of here, Timothy.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER) : She left

work and walked to his cousin's
house, about a mile away.

How you doing, Erik?

Hi, Tracy.

What happened to the car?

It's, it's broke, it's broke.

How'd it break?

I was just, Erik and I
would just riding, right Erik?

And the whole shift
just snapped off.

A stick shift
doesn't just snap off.

Well, you're shift
just snap-- you

know all the problems you've
had getting it into third gear.

The shift, this time
just snapped off.

I don't have any problems.

You're the one
causing the problems.

OK, OK Tra--

Give me the keys.

For what?

So I can go get the
car and take care of it.

Say what?

Give me the keys.

Tracy!

Tracy!

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER)
: Tracy walked

the half mile to her car.

Police estimate that she
arrived around 12:30 AM.

DETECTIVE WHEELER (VOICEOVER):
We know she got to the vehicle

because it was locked up
by her boyfriend, when

he left it there.

And when we found the
vehicle, that next morning

the keys were in the vehicle.

But that is the last place
that we could positively

say she was alive in.

When she arrived at the car.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): An hour

and a half later,
Tracy's car was driven

to the apartment complex
where she would be found

murdered the next morning.

DETECTIVE WHEELER (VOICEOVER):
I was advised by the apartment

manager that there was possibly
a witness who saw the vehicle

when it came into the
parking lot around 1:30 AM

and saw somebody
walk away from it

and didn't pay any
much attention to it.

I feel like Tracy
Bunn was probably

killed between the hours of
12:30 and 1:30 in the morning.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Authorities

are particularly disturbed
by several unsettling details

surrounding the murder.

Not only had Tracy been
raped and strangled

but there were second
degree burns on her thighs

and on the back of her hands.

MEDICAL EXAMINER:
About nine o'clock.

DETECTIVE WHEELER: We haven't
been able to determine what

caused those burns
and we've thought

about every type of
heating apparatus

or device you could think of.

We just can't find
anything that would

make that particular burn.

We also don't understand
the method of leaving

the body the way it was.

It was like they wanted
this person to be found

and they wanted
everybody to see.

I don't know whether these guys
were involved in drugs or not.

But when you have a case
involving people in narcotics,

if you don't deal
with them in a fashion

that they want you to they
make an example out of you.

I know someone
personally, that was

very heavily involved in drugs.

And he was, I guess
he was trying to make

some sort of drug transaction.

And he was told that that
person was the person

who had murdered my sister.

Dead by the river.

Man, I think one of those
guys killed her, man.

Hey, man let's get out of here.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Authorities

did investigate a known
drug dealer but found

no evidence linking
him to the crime.

It's my feeling
that her boyfriend

knew something because
he had her car that night

while she was at work.

He didn't come and
pick her up from work

at the agreed upon time.

Apparently, when she went
by his cousin's house

to pick up the car, he
told her that it was broken

and that you go on ahead.

And it doesn't sound like a
likely story for the person who

was supposed to be
involved with my sister

to just sort of throw
her to the wolves at 12

or 1 o'clock at night.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Tracy's boyfriend

and his cousin were each given
two polygraph examinations.

They both passed the test and
are not considered suspects.

Always had problems
with the stick shift.

And the transmission
getting into third.

DETECTIVE WHEELER: I've
worked a number of homicides

and this one, I feel has just
a few pieces of the puzzle

that haven't fell in place yet.

And I know it's a solvable case.

And it's frustrating
for me as well

for for Tracy's family to not
know who these killers are.

Because they're walking around
scot-free today and Tracy's

gone.

It's, even now
it's hard to believe,

even though I've seen her body.

I've seen her, I've buried her.

I've heard all this
different information,

all the details and everything.

And still, it's really
difficult to believe.

Because I really don't
know what happened

and I think if I
knew what happened

I'd be able to believe
that it's happened

and sort of leave it behind me.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): When we

return the touching story of
a mans search for his sister.

A search, which has
spanned half a century.

1941 Ottumwa, Iowa.

A family is about
to be torn apart.

Three brothers and
a sister have been

left in the care of
their aunt, who fearing

for the children's
well-being has contacted

the child welfare department.

[knock on door]

Walter, Donald, Richard,
Dolores, I need to take

you to your new home now.

Come out please.

You kids get on
out here, we're gonna

take you to a decent home.

Come on out.

Walter, you're a big boy now
you go on out to that car.

Hurry up, go on.

DONALD STRADT: At that
time there was four of us

and another one on the way.

And I was just, probably
about 5 1/2 years old.

I didn't know anything about
adoptions or stuff like that.

And I thought we was
just going to this home

and later on, we was going
to go back to mama's, see.

Now you just hush
up and sit still.

Sit still.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Donald Stradt's mother

could do little to prevent the
state from taking her children.

She was pregnant with her
fifth child and unable to work.

A few months earlier,
Donald's father

had suffered a nervous breakdown
and had been institutionalized.

The children who ranged in
age from two to 9 years old,

were usually left to
their own devices , until

the authorities stepped in.

Two of the brothers were sent
to Iowa state youth facilities.

Donald and his sister Dolores
were taken to a Lutheran

children's home where
they were placed

in the care of the head nurse .

You need to take
a little rest.

Dolores, here's your bottle.

Mhm-hmm.

Let me try.

DONALD STRADT (VOICEOVER): Even
though I wasn't the oldest boy,

I was the babysitter.

And I played with my
sister and I enjoyed that.

I'd push around a
little tricycle.

And brush her hair
and take care of her.

I always liked to help
her, this is my sister.

Donald, here's some bananas.

You feed it to your sister.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Within days, Donald

realized that he and
his sister would not

be going back to their mother.

Donald cooperated
with the nurse,

but was always alert for a
chance to take his sister

and escape.

DONALD STRADT (VOICEOVER):
This nurse basically,

she was busy in the kitchen.

She had her back turned to us
and I guess you 'bout to say

she was intent on her job.

And so I just took my sister
out the door, right quite.

This was our chance to go home.

And I sneaked her out the
door and down the steps

and out to this
old Model-A Ford.

And I opened it up and helped
her in on to the floor.

And I helped her up on
the seat and I told her,

now you sit right there. 'Cause
we're going home to see mama.

I didn't know anything
about cars really

but I knew if you pushed
that button down on the floor

that car would go.

I had to look out the window
and hang on the steering wheel

and then I'd get down
and push that button.

That car would go
ahead a little bit.

And then I'd get up
and take another look

and I was trying to get this car
down there on that main road.

I didn't know which way I
was going when I got there

but I knew that
road, I came in on it

and I need to leave by it.

What do you
think you're doing?

Let go of me.

I wanna see my mama.

You get out of
that car right now.

Don't you know you
could kill somebody?

DONALD STRADT
(VOICEOVER): The car

door was just kind
of jerked open

and she reached in and
grabbed me up by the collar

and went to thrashing on me.

And I couldn't tell you
today whether she whipped me

with her hand or
whether she had a board

or whether she had
a strap or anything.

But I didn't, I knew
she was whipping me

but I didn't feel no pain and
I was fighting her because I

was wanting to go home.

Donald, there's some cookies
for you in the kitchen,

if you'd like them.

Thank you.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Two weeks later, unbeknownst

to Donald, Dolores was adopted.

Come on baby.

We're going to
get you a new home.

These people come
and took Dolores away.

I didn't know what the
deal was but I thought,

well they're gonna
bring her back here.

Because me and her was
family and that's all I had.

I kept asking this
woman, where's my sister?

And--

Where's my sister?

DONALD STRADT: --I
want my sister.

And she'd tell me, well you
just don't need to know.

And that, it ain't
none of your business.

And stuff like that.

And of course I got unruly
and ornery because I

was wanting my sister.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The
separation was short lived.

Dolores's adoptive
parents sent for Donald

as soon as they
realized that she was

more than they could handle.

Like the nurses at the home,
they turned to Donald for help.

DONALD STRADT: Dolores
wasn't adjusting

to these folks or bond
with these folks, at first.

And just cried and wanted
her brother and stuff.

Because we'd been together
and these people were

strangers to her.

(DOLORES CRYING)

She just cried and
wouldn't eat or whatever.

And that's the reason
they come and got me.

So I could be a quieting
factor, you might say.

It's all right, baby.

It's all right.

Ready?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Under Donald's influence,

Dolores began to adjust.

Donald even stayed
on for a few days

but was expected to remain
well in the background.

ADOPTIVE MOM: OK, your turn.

(DOLORES LAUGHS)

I like--

DONALD STRADT (VOICEOVER): These
people got Dolores where she'd

eat for him and play with them.

And they treated her quite well.

And I don't know, a day or two,
whatever, this nurse come back.

And she said--

Donny, you want to
go downtown with me?

DONALD STRADT (VOICEOVER):
I remember looking up

and this woman was
feeding my little sister

and I thought, well,
everything's all right.

And yeah, I'd like
to go downtown.

I'm five 1/2 years old.

I love to ride in automobiles.

Of course, I didn't realize
this automobile wasn't

ever going to bring me back.

And we got in the
car and we drove off

and I haven't seen
my sister since.

I think of Dolores
almost every day.

She's still my sister.

Don't matter what time has done.

Want to try and to catch up
with 50 years of time, somehow.

I'd like to her neck and
tell her I missed her.

Yeah.

Donald Stradt and
his two brothers

as well as another sister
born after the family was

split apart, were
all reunited in 1965.

Their father remained
institutionalized

for the rest of his
life and their mother

was granted a divorce.

Velma Stradt remarried and
had five more children.

So now there are nine
siblings all looking

for their lost sister, Dolores.

Update.

Just minutes after we
first broadcast this story,

a woman named Penelope Sue
Lewis of Bolivar, Missouri,

called our telecenter and
identified herself as Donald

Stradt's long lost sister.

Donald was overjoyed to
discover that Penelope

lived just 50 miles from his
home in Stoutland, Missouri.

Three days later, at a
park near Penelope's home,

Donald, Penelope, and
their extended families

gathered for a heartwarming
and long overdue reunion.

All right.

God, it's been so many years.

DONALD STRADT: I love her,
I always have loved her.

And sometimes when I get
alone and just think about it

I'd just sit down and cry.

And I don't mind crying this
time because I'm already there.

Yeah, already there.

I got another surprise for you.

Yeah?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Soon after Donald arrived,

Penelope shared
a poignant moment

with her natural mother
Velma, whom she had

not seen in more than 50 years.

I never thought
I'd see this day.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): The reunion

was a culmination of
an emotional roller

coaster ride which
had begun 72 hours

earlier when Penelope sat down
to watch "Unsolved Mysteries".

I try not to miss any
because I like to watch

it for the reunions and things.

And I thought, I've
always thought, well,

maybe someday it'll be my turn.

And all of a sudden, it dawned
on me, well, I, that's me.

That's my family.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
For Penelope, the gathering

was also the chance
to meet all the family

members she never knew she had.

One full sister,
two half sisters,

three half brothers,
and countless nephews,

nieces, and cousins.

DONALD STRADT: We'll
just probably try

to get everybody
acquainted with everybody

and just go from there.

- Family get togethers?
- Yeah.

Yeah, that's right.

Yeah.

PENELOPE SUE LEWIS:
I felt so helpless.

I felt like I didn't belong.

And now I'm at peace.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Next,
a woman is brutally abducted

from a car wash in Texas.

Most of us never imagine
that we will become

part of an unsolved mystery.

That we will suddenly
hear a scream in the night

and find ourselves involved
in a criminal investigation.

Yet, that is exactly
what happened

to three young men in Austin,
Texas on December 29, 1991.

All because they happened to
cross paths with a kidnapper.

At 8:55 PM, Steve
Marks was on his way

to meet his two
brothers-in-law at a friend's

house on Powell Street.

Less than a block
from the house,

he pulled behind
a tan colored car.

STEPHEN MARKS: That evening in
question, I was driving down

Powell Street and I
noticed a car in front

of me driving very slowly.

I followed it down the
street and I pulled

in front of my friend's house.

The car in the
meantime, had pulled up

into the parking garage
ahead of my friend's house.

And my brother-in-laws
arrived about a minute later.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Mike and Bill Goins

had encountered the same car
two blocks from the house,

going the wrong way
on a one way street.

And when they
stopped and we stopped,

they looked at us like,
what do we do next?

And we looked at them like, OK,
you fools, get out of the way.

And that gave us an
opportunity to see them

but unfortunately,
there was no reason

for us to try to memorize
their faces or anything.

And it was just two people
passing in the night.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): At
9 PM, Mike and Bill Goin's

rendezvoused with Steve Marks.

The house where they met was
just 200 feet from a 24-hour

do it yourself car wash.

I don't know.

We were thinking of
going out we to eat.

STEPHEN MARKS: Well,
we could go over

to my house for some spaghetti.

(WOMAN SCREAMING)

STEPHEN MARKS: When we are on
the porch, all we could see

was the side of the
car wash and the vacuum

canisters where cars are
vacuumed outside of the stalls.

So when we heard the scream
and the car door or trunk slam,

all we saw was the car pull out.

(SCREECHING BRAKES)

As we saw the car pull out
the wrong way on Fifth Street

I realized that that
was the same car

that I had pulled
behind on Powell Street

and that had made the U-turn
in the parking garage.

And the car that later,
Mike and Bill had said

had confronted him going the
wrong way on Powell Street,

pulling out on to Sixth Street.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
A few seconds

later, Steve Marks and Bill
Goins arrived at the car wash.

Unlike most nights, it
was eerily deserted.

STEPHEN MARKS: We
walked up to the car,

we saw a purse, the keys and
then Bill suggested I go back

to the house and call
the police because we

figured something was wrong.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The
owner of the abandoned car

was identified as
28-year-old Colleen

Reed, a Certified Public
Accountant, who had

lived in Austin for four years.

Police traced
Colleen's movements

in the day of the crime.

She arrived at the car
wash around 9:10 PM.

Earlier that day, she had gone
to church with her boyfriend.

Then, she spent several hours
doing community volunteer work.

That evening, Colleen
went to the market

and then withdrew cash
from her bank machine,

before ending up
at the car wash.

Police believe that Colleen
was kidnapped by the two

men in the tan colored vehicle.

No!

No, no, no!

(SQUEALING TIRES)

SGT. MARTIN: We have a situation
where after they have abducted

Colleen Reed, they
went the wrong way

on Fifth Street and
almost collided head

on with two vehicles.

We have not heard from the
drivers or the people that have

occupied those two vehicles.

So hopefully this show
will maybe bring these two

people forward that may
have some information

that will help us.

I've almost convinced
myself that we

will someday see her again.

That she's being held somewhere.

And I know that that's
what we want to believe

and the reality is,
that's probably not true.

But there is a possibility.

I think about when do
I just say OK, it's over,

something happened,
something horrible.

I don't know if I'll
ever be able to do that.

I've gone on with my
life in a lot of ways.

I'm, I work and take
care of my children

and do the things I need to do.

But there's an empty place that
I've had a hard time filling.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Update.

A suspect is in custody.

Just last week a man
named Alva Hank Worley

was arrested in Belton, Texas.

He admitted involvement
in the kidnapping

but denied knowing Colleen
Reed's current whereabouts.

However, Worley insisted that
she was still alive last time

he saw her.

Police are now looking for
this man, Kenneth Allen McDuff.

He is 46 years old,
6 feet 3 inches

tall and weighs 245 pounds.

McDuff was last
seen in Waco, Texas.

Diabolical mind.

The very phrase evokes
a chilling mystique.

On Sunday, "Unsolved
Mysteries" will present

a special report: an
exploration of the mysteries

of the psychopath.

What forces would transform
this impoverished young boy

into a ruthless dictator?

Saddam Hussein's bloody
and brutal rise to power

was ignited by a single
disturbing trait;

A cunning mind unchecked
by remorse or conscience.

G. Daniel Walker
has been convicted

of crimes ranging from fraud
to armed robbery to murder.

In a remarkable
interview, Walker

provides a revealing glimpse
into a diabolical mind.

--Physical
violence because fear

lives with you 24 hours a day.

Fear never goes away.

If you kill somebody,
that's over.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): When
her husband and children fell

victim to a series of
mysterious illnesses

Marie Hilley was a devoted
and caring wife and mother.

In time, her son began
to suspect the worst.

His mother was poisoning
her own family.

MICHAEL HILLEY: The world
as I knew it at that point

just fell apart.

Everything that my mother had
taught me, right from wrong,

I had to go back and re-exam.

Join me, Sunday night at 8:00
for this very special and very

different edition of
"Unsolved Mysteries",

Case Studies of the
Diabolical Mind.