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this program is about unsolved mysteries
whenever possible the actual family
members and police officials have
participated in recreating the events
what you're about to see is not a news
broadcast
[Music]
summer 1977
in the city of new york year-long
nightmare was coming to an end
on august 10th a man named david
berkowitz was arrested
police believe that he was a lone gunman
behind the son of sam killings a brutal
series of shootings that had left six
people dead and seven seriously injured
the media rejoiced
the elusive son of sam was behind bars
or was he
the general perception among the public
for years had been that david berkowitz
was a lone gunman
the facts and the evidence not
speculation the facts and the evidence
say otherwise
in 1977 the nation believed the son of
sam murders were solved
in the last 11 years reporter maury
terry has collected convincing evidence
that david berkowitz did not act alone
tonight we examine terry's theory and
present other mysteries where you may be
able to help
and a tiny baptist church in rural
georgia a deacon and his wife were the
victims of a double murder
the killer dropped a pair of glasses
that may lead to his identity
and from omaha nebraska a poignant story
of unrequited love a frugal bachelor who
left an unclaimed fortune of 200
thousand dollars
someone watching tonight may be his heir
join me
you
may be able to help solve a mystery
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son of sam's reign of terror began on
july 29 1976
it occurred in an area in the bronx
called pelham bay
the time was 1 10 am
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two young girls were hit by 44 caliber
bullets one died
a composite sketch of the gunman was
created from the survivor's eyewitness
description
on october 23rd in the borough of queens
another 44 caliber shooting occurred
a man suffered a serious head
injury a month later again in queens two
girls stood on a stoop talking
a man appeared out of the shadows
both survived but one would be confined
to a wheelchair for the rest of her life
eyewitnesses were able to help police in
creating a new composite of the gunman
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1977
two separate shootings took the lives of
two women
as in the earlier attacks a 44 caliber
bulldog revolver was used
eyewitnesses created two more composites
of the killer
they showed a very different face from
the earlier drawings each appeared to be
a different person
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on april 17 1977 another shooting
occurred again in the pelham bay section
of the bronx just three blocks from the
scene of the first shooting
this time a hand printed letter was left
at the scene it read quote
i am a monster i am the son of sam
i'm a little brat
the city was paralyzed with fear
the people in the local neighborhoods
particularly in the bronx were petrified
i remember people yelling
to people in the street get in that nuts
out there and this is an
early afternoon
no one double parked their cars
uh business at the local entertainment
places such as bars restaurants
will knill no one went out on memorial
day another letter from the son of sam
was sent to columnist jimmy breslin
written in the same distinctive style it
contained taunts and references to
satanism
finally on july 31st son of sam struck
for the last time
stacey moskowitz was killed her date
robert violante partially blinded
that guy came over
to the car and blew those people away in
less than four seconds like
you know you pre you press the trigger
and then both would you know
both could have died luckily robin's
alive
but
i'll never forget it
zayno gave police a description of the
shooter
another composite was created showing
the gunman
again there were more differences and
similarities when compared to the
earlier drawings
one of them would to look like
david berkowitz the others did not
resemble them at all it was completely
different
uh i thought it was rather strange
although we know that these drawings are
done by victims or witnesses who see the
killer for a brief period of time
and then a day or two or several hours
later they have to go to a police
department artist and he has to put that
on paper that's a very difficult thing
to do so many times these sketches are
not very accurate so i thought perhaps
maybe that's why we saw so many
different versions of the son of sam
on the composites
in their investigation of the moscowitz
shooting
police discovered a parking ticket had
been issued near the scene to a ford
galaxy owned by a postal employee named
david berkowitz
right back into the park
the police traced this ticket to
berkowitz's home
as they approached the building they saw
the car they spotted a duffel bag with
what looked like a rifle but protruding
through the opening automatic rifle
when they entered the car they found a
letter threatening another attack
it was signed
son of sam john look at this we got him
let's get back to these uh
the police staked out the ford galaxy
waiting for its owner to emerge
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at 10 p.m berkowitz walked to the car
inside the brown paper bag he was
carrying there was a 44-caliber revolver
as detectives moved into
he sat in his fort galaxy
almost passively
what took you guys so long step out of
the car
berkowitz confessed to all of the
shootings
he told the police that he received his
orders to commit the crimes from the
barking dog of an elderly neighbor named
sam carr
berkowitz pleaded guilty to all the
charges against him
he was sentenced to 25 years to life in
new york's attica prison
but to maury terry his confession seemed
too convenient
after the arrest of berkowitz uh just
through fate or whatever i started
poking around into the case because i
had some suspicions that uh
maybe there was more to it than the
public was being uh being led to believe
and that's when i started my own
investigation in into the case right
really the day after berkowitz got
arrested
maury terry believes that david
berkowitz did not act alone that he was
part of a gang of killers and it was the
killing of stacey moskowitz that first
aroused his suspicions
next we will go through a step-by-step
reconstruction of the events leading to
the killing of stacy moskowitz
mauri terry believes that this last
killing was deliberately planned and
executed not just by david berkowitz but
by at least three people
and he says that there is eyewitness
testimony to corroborate this theory
well the very early reports that um on
the moskowitz killing had me concerned
david berkowitz's resemblance his
features were widely different from the
sketches of the killer that had been
done by the police artist started
seeking out witnesses found tommy zayno
who was a key witness in the to the
shooting
tommy zano was with his girlfriend
parked on shore parkway in front of the
car that held stacy moskowitz and her
boyfriend
was looking through the mirror in the
car and i seen i noticed somebody you
know standing in the park
what i seen is he had long hair and it's
hard to really see the face but it was
he was then
he looked like he was in pretty good
shape
from looking through the mirror when he
was into the in the park
the guy who came over to the car
it's nice he walked up to the car like
as if he was gonna get in the car then
he went into a stance
shot and that was it
turned around and ran
i can't picture burka which run like
that
that's the thing that confused me after
they quote him if they seen him
as either he was he you know i in a week
he can't get that fat you know he that's
all i could say he's he's
you know he didn't look like the type of
guy run and do
that this is a map showing the
neighborhood where the last killing
occurred
stacy moskowitz and her boyfriend were
parked here
two blocks away on may 17th stream david
berkowitz received the incriminating
parking ticket on his ford galaxy parked
here
according to terry the events leading up
to the shooting began here at the shore
parkway entrance to the park at about
1am
witnesses saw a yellow volkswagen arrive
at the park entrance
two men emerged
this same car was seen fleeing the crime
scene after the shootings
30 minutes later tommy zano noticed the
yellow volkswagen drive past more than
once
a half hour later at 205 a policeman
issued a parking ticket to berkowitz's
ford galaxy
a neighborhood resident named cecilia
davis pulled up in a friend's car just
ahead of berkowitz's ford
she then said goodbye to her friend
we were triple parked
and i was looking in the in the back so
in case a car comes up
i saw
that guy taking the summons off his
windshield
and keep on looking watching the cops as
they still gave tickets
then he got in the car
and he came behind us
he couldn't pass because we were
blocking the whole street
and he blowed the horn at us
so i got out
and i took a look at him
more or less i gave him a dirty look
what's the percussion middle in the
night
cecilia has identified the man in the
car as david berkowitz
after she left her friend she saw
berkowitz drive up bay 17th street
and turn right on bath
following the police
the fact that david berkowitz
pulled up behind mrs davis and her date
as he did uh with the police car still
on the block or just pulling off the
block blaring his horn he would not be
doing something like that if he's the
elusive ingenious son of sam carrying
that 44 bulldog in his car he would he
would try to be as stealthy as possible
15 minutes after the parking ticket was
issued stacy moskowitz and robert
violante went for a late night stroll
as they walked in a nearby park stacy
and robert saw a man standing next to a
restroom watching
this restroom was over two blocks from
cecena davis's apartment
at 2 33 am
mrs davis returned to her apartment
after walking her dog
she saw david berkowitz the man who had
honked earlier walking straight towards
her
i know it was the same guy because i saw
him when i got out of the car for my
friend
i looked
at him because he blow their horn
cecilia saw berkowitz here
over two blocks away from where stacy
and robert were parked
approximately one minute later in her
apartment cecilia heard the sounds of
gunfire in the distance
those four shots killed stacey moskowitz
and almost blinded robert violante
how could berkowitz have traveled from
this spot where cecilia last saw him
to this area where stacy and robert were
shot in one minute
when it takes at least two and a half
minutes to briskly walk the two blocks
from bay 17th street to the park
just 15 seconds after the shooting
witnesses saw a man wearing a cheap
light-colored wig run out of the park
get into a yellow volkswagen and speed
away up 17th avenue
in his haste he ran a red light and
narrowly missed colliding with another
car
maury terry believes that at least three
people including david berkowitz were
involved in the moscowitz killing
he claims they were members of an
organized conspiracy responsible for
every single one of the son of sam
shootings
david berkowitz was selected to be the
fall guy on the son of sam killings
he was not a willing fall guy he wanted
it to be another way but berkowitz knew
that he had been involved in all the
shootings uh he has pulled the trigger
definitely two times responsible for
three murders he's not an innocent man
and was on the scene of all the others
as a lookout a wheel man whatever
so berkowitz was involved and berkowitz
knew he was guilty he also was
responsible for getting a parking ticket
on his car that night which also made
him susceptible to be the guy to be
picked out to take the fall and on top
of that the real killer escaped in the
yellow volkswagen and that person was
deemed more valuable to the conspirators
than david berkowitz was
no i didn't think it was david berkowitz
then and i don't think it's him now
i definitely don't think it's him it has
crossed my mind
and it's a strong opinion of mine that
david berkowitz was not the sole killer
and was aided
by other accomplices
we um
received information
that um
other people may have been involved
i had a statement made to me by someone
who allegedly spoke to david berkowitz
wherein david berkowitz is supposed to
have stated
that others were involved
new york prosecutor john santucci has
moved the status of the son of sam
investigation from inactive to active
next week we'll continue maury terry's
investigation
he has discovered that david berkowitz
and at least two friends were members of
a satanic cult
these two friends were brothers and
their father's name
was sam
next the poignant tale of curly green
for half a century he lived a solitary
frugal life in a tiny omaha apartment
when he died his friends were amazed
that he had amassed a 200 000 fortune
someone watching tonight may be his heir
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until ten years ago walter greene lived
alone in a small apartment near downtown
omaha
his nickname was curly and he lived a
simple frugal life
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he was cordial to his neighbors but kept
mostly to himself
on april 24 1978 curly green had a heart
attack
he died while working in his yard
everyone who knew him was astounded to
find that curly during his lifetime had
accumulated more than two hundred
thousand dollars
he left no will and his next of kin
could not be located
ten years after his death curly green's
fortune remains the largest unclaimed
estate in nebraska history
when it came out in the papers
that he
had the amount of money that they said
he had we were shocked
i can't imagine how he amassed that
amount
they found stock certificates i
understand they found a coin collection
and they found much to everyone's
surprise that curley actually owned the
apartment building where he was living
it is extraordinary that a man who lived
as simply as curly green could have
accrued such a large sum of money
it is even more extraordinary that the
money remains unclaimed
but this is not just a story of missing
airs and unclaimed fortunes
it is also a love story a sweden
haunting that began nearly eight decades
ago
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we don't know much about curly green's
early life
but we can surmise is this
when he was nearly 17 he hopped a train
bound for omaha
curly jumped off outside the city near a
small farming town called skyler
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curley immediately began to pound the
pavement looking for work
hal rominger a local tavern keeper saw
the young stranger and offered him not
only a ride but a home-cooked meal with
his family
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catherine the younger of the rummager
was then only nine years old
i don't know if my dad brought him
we suppose he came from denver we were
curious when he set up the table because
we'd never seen him before but he was a
nice looking young man
well i'll bet it's been quite some time
since you smelled cooking like this
curly well yeah a little while at dinner
curly was secretive about his family and
his birthplace in montana
where is your family curly
well i left my mom and my stepdad back
in denver and that's about all the
family i really have curly said he
hadn't gotten along with his stepfather
so he had traveled east
he had a very nice way of evading see
when mama asked him said didn't you have
some cousins or something he just said
well
i did once
and he
changed the subject and that's the way
curly was
and we respected him
for it
do you have any brothers or sisters
well
none as pretty as your daughters ma'am
the moment curly first saw jessamine
rominger catherine's older sister he was
smitten
he would never feel the same way about
anyone else
al rominger found curly a job working at
the local garage
the automobile was still a pretty
newfangled machine curly had a knack for
fixing cars
he earned enough to enable him to move
into a boarding house
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he wasn't a spendthrift
and i used to like it when i have to get
paychecks because he'd give me nickels
and dimes
with his new salary curly began to court
jessamine
he only had one problem
getting rid of catherine the little
sister go to the movies yeah
well i was thinking of the park how
about if you go to the movies and me and
justin go to the park
okay okay
well here we are
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he and jasmine would go wherever they
went
they had some friends in skyler
and but i didn't care where he went i
got the nickel and dime
that's all i cared about
curly's got quite a bit of adjustment
because he never went with other girls
only jasmine
in 1917 curly left his job as a mechanic
to enlist in the
army he also left his beloved jessamine
she began training to be a nurse
curly served on the european front
it was his unenviable duty to drive the
dead and wounded in a makeshift army
hospital
the suffering he witnessed scarred curly
but when the war ended he returned home
full of hope to skylar nebraska and to
jessup
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catherine it's good to see you again
have you been
fine
is justin in here
no curly i'm sorry he's gone to omaha
well nothing flowers
jasmine liked him and he was a gentleman
always
but she wanted other things out of life
and he didn't appear to be educated
and his earning capacity wasn't great i
suppose
and anyhow they didn't go together
anymore
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curly followed jessamine to omaha and
got a job
first as a mechanic at a newspaper the
omaha b
then as a night watchman for the union
pacific railroad curley refused to give
up on jessa
but jessamine rominger married another
man curly never fell in love again he
never married or had a family
curly spent the next 60 years alone
in all those years he never told anyone
who his real family was
other than catherine curley's best
friend was riley marr his barber and a
fellow member of the masonic lodge
i really never really got that close to
him actually i thought i was a pretty
good friend of his because he did invite
me over to his
home on occasion and we did sit around
and have coffee and talked about things
once riley noticed some postcards and
pictures neatly displayed in curly's
apartment
he was curious to know if they were from
curley's family i picked one of them up
and it had a postmark of brooklyn new
york and i asked him something about
where that was
it was a long ways from home and he said
never mind and he took it and put it
away
well it made me feel like i was probably
intruding on his privacy of some sort
and that he had something that he maybe
didn't want revealed or maybe he'd had a
tragedy in his lifetime somewhere along
the way that he was trying to avoid
talking about
over the years kirliad amassed a
considerable fortune but he kept that a
secret too
some people attributed curly's wealth to
an extremely valuable coin collection
but catherine thought he just plain
saved every penny he made
well he said he would get up in the
morning and after he'd eat breakfast
he'd put a can on the pilot light
and by the time he'd come back and ready
for lunch or the evening meal it was
just right to eat he was that saving
maybe that's how he got the money
when he died curly green had accumulated
a fortune of more than two hundred
thousand dollars
held primarily in real estate stocks and
bonds
so far no legitimate heirs have claimed
curley's estate
in 1986 investigator josh butler who
tracks down missing heirs professionally
began researching the case of curly
green
josh had heard that curly once mentioned
having a brother who was killed in a
shootout indeed there had been a man
named al green who was
shot and killed shortly after the fourth
of july in 1921. we really went to some
extremes in this case
but were surprised and a little
disappointed never to have found any
clear connection with curly green
part of the mystery here is that al
green's
father
i believe to have been a joseph greene
and i now understand that curly green's
father was a harry albert green
so
quite probably al green and
curly green we're cousins rather than
brothers
the man named al green was killed in
1921.
josh butler now thinks it is probable
that curley's actual brother was killed
several years earlier
the search for curly's heirs continues
it's very strange that a man would
accumulate 200 000 in his lifetime
and that he would have no known
relatives that anybody knew about
and not leave some sort of a written
document
concerning the disposition of this money
somewhere there's somebody who has
enough information in their own family
that they're going to be able to come
forward and prove their entitlement to
this it'll be a case of
going from the people back to the money
these are five of the few known
photographs of curly green
showing him as a young man
in middle age
and before he died
we know he said he was born in kendall
montana and lived in denver
we know he had a collection of gold
coins some of which he might have
obtained in mexico
he received postcards from someone in
brooklyn new york
curley claimed he had a brother who was
killed in a shootout
and he stated on a 1938 birth
certificate that albert harry greene
born in england and anne morin green
born in latvia
were his parents
none of these three relatives has been
traced
at curley's funeral a mysterious wreath
of flowers became the final clue to his
past this card came with the flowers
it signed mrs joe greener denver
colorado
perhaps mrs greener is the key to the
puzzling life of walter curly green
next the story of a double murder in a
tiny baptist church in rural georgia
the only clue is a pair of ordinary
glasses left behind by the killer
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[Applause]
there
waverly georgia population 825 is a
predominantly black community nestled in
the baptist bible belt
lumber farming and the paper mill
provide the income for this small
isolated area over 35 miles from the
nearest big city
jacksonville florida
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for years rising daughters baptist
church has served not only as a place of
worship but also as a social center for
the small township
[Music]
but on march 11 1985 this quiet
community was shattered by violence
the quiet sanctity of rising daughter's
church was violated by the brutal double
murder of harold and thelma swain
harold swain was a well-respected deacon
of the church a member of the county
jury commission and a spokesperson for
the black community
thelma swain was also closely involved
with church affairs harold and film had
been married for over 43 years
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harold was always happy and jolly
laughing it's something like that might
have come natural to harold
because of his love and kindness for
everyone
and he would always go out of his way to
help someone at any time
day or night no matter what time
if you needed a favor of any type and he
could do it he was there
same thing about them
all the people up here
well they came to this funeral most
people ever saw a funeral
here in my life
just
called everybody who you know thought
that much of hell and respect
on the night they were murdered harold
and thelma held their weekly tuesday
night bible class
nine women
do i put my attended
let me never be put to confusion
now let us pray
oh god i want to thank you for bringing
us together tonight
in jesus name
amen
now is there any father of business that
you care to discuss sister brenda yeah
well i'd like to remind everybody at 8
50 one of the women excused herself
may i help you
yeah i want to talk to somebody oh
some money in there
she encountered a stranger in the church
festival
i want to talk to him they'll be right
back
some of the other women in the group
caught just a glimpse of the man a young
white male
in april
excuse me
what's happening
[Music]
the women rushed into the pastor's
office and tried to call for help
the phone didn't work
20 minutes passed while the women waited
in fear
finally one of them made a dash for her
car and went to summon help
that night the georgia bureau of
investigation was brought in
a massive manhunt started in this tiny
black community
harold and thelma were personal friends
of mine and my families
and it was kind of a
shock to me i think i was in shock for a
while
when i got there there was a lot of
confusion
no one really knew what had happened
they didn't know what the facts were
they didn't know who had done the
killing they didn't know what the motive
was the swain's highly respected people
very active in the community
are just not the type of person that
you know would be the victim of a murder
plot
there was a lot of physical evidence at
the scene
bullet casings
two pair of glasses
for one we were able to determine belong
to the emt harold swan
the other pair
no one knew who they belonged to
the first gut reaction that i had was a
transient
because the glasses appeared to belong
to a person who did not have enough
money to
properly maintain their glasses or to
buy glasses when they needed them
these are the glasses found on that
night
and they're not ordinary glasses
the lenses are thick
the surface pocked by a welding torch
the earpieces don't match
or they drop by the killer
when the police discovered these glasses
they investigated the theory that the
murder may have been a transient
rising daughter's church is located on
busy highway 17.
transients often would stop by for a
handout or a free meal
but if robbery was the motive
why were over 300 left in harold swain's
other evidence suggests that the crime
was premeditated
the authorities feel that the church had
been cased before the brutal attack
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the telephone lines at the church had
been cut
which uh could or could not say that
it was a premeditated murder could have
been a premeditated armed robbery
attempt
the woman who left the church early
clearly saw the attacker
fearing for her life she did not want to
appear on camera
he was calm
i was thinking
that he was there for a handout
he didn't seem to be
someone to hurt anybody
i didn't see any weapon or anything
and it seemed like he had on scuff boots
and he had long blonde hair
shoulder-length hair
but i really wasn't looking at him that
hard you know because i wanted to leave
all right
the police attempted to create a picture
of the killer using an identicate but
the eyewitnesses did not agree on many
of the details
an artist was brought in to sketch a
composite drawing
for five months the police searched for
the killer using the composite drawing
but no new leads or clues surfaced
[Music]
finally on july 5th 1985 police 135
miles away in telfair county georgia
pulled over a car for a minor traffic
violation
in the trunk they found an automatic
weapon in a submachine
gun three suspects were taken into
custody one of them
donny baringtine
we were given some information by some
acquaintance of these people
that
donnie barrett
had told people in florida that he had
murdered a black preacher and his wife
in a church
after several interviews with donny he
uh
admitted that he had told these people
in
florida that he
killed a black preacher and his wife
and then he just smiled and said but i
was lying to him
we have never been able to come up with
any hard evidence to
connect
donnie with this case donnie barentine
was then given a polygraph test and he
flunked it as a matter of fact the
polygraph operator told us that mr
barentine was a very good suspect in the
murder the resemblance between the man
on the wanted poster and donnie
berringtime was inconclusive
so the eyewitnesses from the church in
waverly were taken to jacksonville for a
police lineup
you'll be viewing
five individuals
i'd like if you will to place yourself
in your mind
back at the church the night this
incident happened
okay yes sir five individuals on the
other side won't be able to see or hear
you
lights
lights
there was about six men there
and i really couldn't see
that
one of them was him you know because the
person i saw had short hair
his completion was a little bit lighter
but he had the same boots that i saw
that night
the boots was what i recognized
but i i wasn't really really sure
the murder charges against donnie
berringtime were not pursued but he was
subsequently convicted on weapons
charges and is currently serving five
years in a federal penitentiary
one year later the swain investigation
took a new direction
agent joe gregory came across a face in
a state crime bulletin which exactly
matched the identicate picture created
by one of the witnesses at the church
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it gave me a chill
it literally gave me a chill when i saw
the composite because there are so many
hundreds of thousands of combinations to
make a composite and what are the odds
that
two of them being exact
and these composites were exact
matches the kansas suspect was wanted
for armed robbery in a church but was
never taken into custody the kansas
bureau of investigation could not even
give agent gregory the suspect's name
we found that they had never developed
any leads
they don't know who he is
other than the fact that he drove an
older car with a florida tag on it
three years later the brutal murders of
harold and thelma swain remain a mystery
were they just random killings committed
by a violent transient
or were they a planned and premeditated
murder and if so
why
they say your first hunch is usually
your best
everything that night
uh
pointed
to a transit
attempting to pull a robbery
my feelings are
and that the individual did not get any
money
he went around and checked to find out
if there was a phone
and then cut those lines
and singled out one individual from the
church and brought him out to the
vegetable
shot him and then in my opinion intended
that he'd be dead he shot him the last
round in the temple there's no question
that his intent was to kill harold swain
personally
a case like this haunts you
it's it's the type of case that
you never forget
i drive by rising daughters
every day
coming into this county
and i never drive by that i don't look
and
think about the swains
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last february on unsolved mysteries we
examined the case of elmer de boer an
oil company courier who was murdered
execution style on may 11 1987.
the two key suspects in the case were
jerry strickland and his 16 year old
girlfriend missy mundy
local police believe the couple
kidnapped elmer robbed him of ten
thousand dollars then took him to a
deserted wooded area outside of pontiac
michigan
and murdered him
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jerry and missy were never seen again
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update moses lake washington
within minutes of our broadcast 20
viewers in this small rural community
called the police to say they recognized
jerry strickland and missy mundy
seven hours later the police arrested
the fugitive couple at a friend's house
they discovered that jerry and missy had
themselves watched the broadcast and
we're waiting for the police
all he says i'm the guy you're looking
for
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and he was
just real calm and collect
no violence at all
i figured the time was about seven hours
and 15 minutes from the time the
unsolved mysteries aired and he was in
custody
i just felt sick about it
on february 12th jerry and missy were
extradited back to michigan to stand
trial for armed robbery kidnapping and
murder
jerry insists they are innocent
they got circumstance of evidence
all hearsay
it's people talking
but no
witnesses i mean
okay
that's why you know i say
they're gonna learn that we didn't do
this
we have enough evidence
circumstantial evidence and physical
evidence
uh that we feel he's guilty all they
want is a conviction and they don't care
if they burn me or not
thanks to our viewers jerry strickland
and missy mundy will have their day in
court
they're being tried separately and if
convicted could face life imprisonment
without the possibility of parole
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next week we'll continue our examination
of the son of sam shootings reporter
maury terry claims that the attacks are
engineered by a satanic cult a cult he
believes is still alive and has not yet
been brought to justice
join us next week for another edition of
unsolved
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