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ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): 1966.

Quang Tri Province,
South Vietnam.

A helicopter crash claims the
life of Navy medic Mark Dennis.

Four years later,
this photograph

of an unknown
American POW appeared

in "Newsweek" magazine.

The Dennis family
became convinced

that Mark had survived
the crash and was

captured by the Viet Cong.

Dorothy Izatt, an unassuming
Canadian homemaker,

has captured these
eerie lights on film

and believes there is no
explanation other than UFOs.

The skeptics are unconvinced.

Ricardo Caputo, a
charismatic ladies' man

and allegedly a brutal killer.

According to the police,
Caputo has murdered

at least five women,
and authorities

need your help to catch him.

Also tonight, an update
on our recent profile

of one of the FBI'S 10
Most Wanted criminals.

Thanks to our broadcast, a
suspected serial child molester

is now in custody.

Join us.

You may be able to
help solve a mystery.

[theme music]

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): March 1966.

Miamisburg, Ohio.

Well, if I remember right,
this is the hardest part.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The
war in Vietnam was escalating.

Navy medic Mark Dennis
said goodbye to his family.

See you later.

Take care, bud.

All right, will do.

OK, I'm gonna miss you.

Promise to write, OK?

I will.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Mark
had joined the Navy in 1964

at the age of 17.

He chose to be a
medic because he

believed it would be useful
his desire to one day

become a missionary.

Son, be careful.

Do what they tell you to do,
and you're gonna be all right.

Yes, sir.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Mark Dennis

was a deeply religious
young man with strong sense

of compassion.

According to his family, he
had volunteered for service

in Vietnam so that a married
soldier with a family

would not have to go.

Once in Vietnam, Mark was
attached to the Marine 2nd

Battalion, Company E,
stationed in Dong Ha

next to the demilitarized zone.

In combat slang,
the sector was hot.

Go!
SOLDIER: Let's go!

Come on!

Get out of here!

JERRY DENNIS: We all knew
he was going into combat,

but it was really
not on anybody's mind

that it was as bad as it
became a few months later.

So we all felt, you
know, it was dangerous,

but it was his place to go.

He had volunteered.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
July 15, 1966.

Mark and 15 other men were
aboard a Chinook helicopter

bringing assistance
to a battalion

hemmed in by the
North Vietnamese army.

The helicopter ran into
heavy enemy gunfire.

This is an actual photograph
of Mark's helicopter

shortly after it was hit.

The helicopter crashed
and exploded in the midst

of an infantry firefight.

According to Navy records,
only three men survived--

the pilot, copilot,
and the gunner.

13 men had perished
in the crash.

JERRY DENNIS (VOICEOVER):
When I came down the street,

I saw the Navy vehicle.

The first thing that hit my
mind is, did Mark get killed?

I pulled up to the house,
and I heard my sister yell,

Marky's dead.

He's dead!

Oh, God.

Hold me!

No!

JERRY DENNIS: It was
just a total shock.

Then the wait for the casket,
it just was days and then

turned into weeks.

The whole thing was really a
trauma that is difficult today

to even talk about.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Mark Dennis

was buried on August 9, 1966.

Due to the condition
of the body,

the Navy suggested that the
family not view the remains.

They complied.

The first four
years was rough.

And the Vietnam War went on,
and we just tried to shut it

out of our lives, until 1970.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
On November 30, 1970,

"Newsweek" magazine
published this photograph

of an unknown prisoner of war.

When the Dennis family
saw the photograph,

they thought it
looked just like Mark.

Suddenly faced with
the possibility

that Mark might be alive, they
immediately contacted the Navy.

Naval authorities requested
additional photographs of Mark

to see if they could make
a positive identification.

Six weeks passed.

Finally, the Navy
concluded the man

in the photograph
was not Mark Dennis

but rather a previously
documented prisoner.

The Navy continued to maintain
Mark had been killed in action.

Unconvinced, Jerry Dennis
requested that the Navy forward

Mark's death certificate.

The death certificate brought
a disturbing revelation.

It appeared that every
man killed in the crash

had been positively
identified except Mark Dennis.

The Navy stated that
they were definitely

able to match 12 bodies found
in the wreckage with 12 men

from Mark's unit.

The 13th body was burned
beyond recognition.

They apparently
assumed it was Mark

by a process of elimination.

Jerry Dennis, still believing
the man pictured in "Newsweek"

might be his brother,
now became convinced

that Mark had survived.

Several weeks after
the photograph

appeared, Jerry received further
evidence that his brother might

not have died in the crash.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): In 1971,

an article about
Jerry Dennis' efforts

to find out what
happened to his brother

appeared in a local newspaper.

The next day, Jerry was visited
by a Navy dental technician

named Steve Wilcox.

Steve Wilcox had been Mark's
best friend in boot camp.

Six months after Mark
was reported killed,

Steve met another medic who had
served with Mark in Vietnam.

Everybody that
came to the hospital

had to come through my office.

They had to deliver their
dental records to me.

So I knew where
everybody came from,

and I knew there was just one
medic who had come from 'Nam.

I saw him later, and we
had a chance to talk.

We worked together a lot
in the field as medics.

He's one of the best
medics in the group, too.

STEVE WILCOX
(VOICEOVER): I mentioned

that I had a friend
that was killed in 'Nam,

and mentioned that
it was Mark Dennis,

and he was in Mark's unit.

Hey, were you there when
that chopper went down?

No, I wasn't actually there.

Look--

STEVE WILCOX
(VOICEOVER): Then he

started to share some
information with me that was--

caught me off guard.

It really surprised me.

I don't think
Mark died that day.

But they sent the body home.

I mean, the family buried Mark.

Well, I was in the first
recovery crew, right?

STEVE WILCOX: First
of all, he said

that Mark was not supposed to
have been on that helicopter.

And secondly, nobody
really in the unit

believed that Mark was dead.

There was no evidence
at the crash site

that he was on the
helicopter when it crashed.

Let's go!

Let's get out of here!

Come on!

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): In the
chaotic aftermath of the crash,

the medic recalled that no
equipment bags belonging

to Navy medics were
found in the debris,

nor were Mark Dennis' dog tags.

Most alarming, he reported
that there were not 13 bodies

recovered, as
claimed by the Navy.

STEVE WILCOX: I was
very frustrated that I

could not remember his name.

There are a lot of things
that were unsettling with him.

I was more concerned
with Mark, naturally,

so that's what I
remember the most.

But I do remember that he was--

he indicated things were
happening there that he didn't

understand and bothered him.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Based on Steve Wilcox's story,

the Dennis family
chose to ignore

the Navy's recommendation
not to view the body.

They decided to have
the remains exhumed.

Well, I guess I'm about
as ready as I'll ever be.

Let's go ahead and do it.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Because the body had been

burned beyond recognition,
military procedure

called for the uniform
to be placed on top.

The remains were underneath,
wrapped in a plastic bag

covered by a Navy blanket.

JERRY: Dog tag.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Jerry found

dog tags pinned to the blanket.

The tags seemed brand new
and still had sharp edges.

I immediately grabbed
the dog tag to read it,

and a burr in the dog tag
sunk into my thumb, actually

drew blood.

And I immediately realized
these dog tags were never worn,

or they would have cut
your chest to ribbons.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Jerry also noticed

curious burn marks on the tags.

They were not from
a helicopter crash.

I was into the arson field.

I knew what the temperatures
reached in that helicopter

as it burned and melted down.

These dog tags were
not in that helicopter.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Jerry Dennis

once again contacted the Navy.

Their initial response was
that the tags must have

been thrown from the helicopter
and burned at a lower

temperature.

Later, they arrived at
a different conclusion.

The ID tags that are
recovered from a crash site

would have been brought to
the mortuary with the remains.

But since it was not mentioned
on the death certificate

that ID tags were part of
the identification process,

I have to assume that
new ID tags were made

at the Army mortuary in Saigon.

That was standard
policy at that time.

That is normal.

It is not normal to
make up a dog tag

and burn it to make it simulate
that it was in a crash.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Jerry had lab technicians

examine residue from the tags.

They concluded the tags had
been charred in a low-grade fire

under a controlled flame.

A forensic
anthropologist determined

that the height of the dead man
was approximately 5 feet 7",

which corresponded with
the Navy's estimate.

However, in 1963, Mark Dennis
was measured at 5 feet,

9 and 1/2".

Further, his family
claims that when

he left for Vietnam
three years later,

he had grown to 6 feet tall.

Jerry also ordered
tests on scrapings

taken from the remains.

The tests revealed traces of
lead, another inconsistency.

The body was not blown
up in a Chinook helicopter,

because a Chinook
helicopter uses JP-4

or JP-5 non-leaded kerosene.

This body had been burned
with regular gasoline.

What he failed to consider
as possible other contaminants

of lead in that incident
were military radio batteries

on board the
aircraft, ammunition,

paint from the aircraft,
that kind of thing.

The standard reference
used by the FBI states

that there are also minute
presence of lead that

occurs naturally in human bone.

We weren't talking
about bone marrow.

We're talking
about the residues,

the smoke on the surface of
the burned areas, the bone,

the flesh, the skull itself.

So they were comparing
eggs and oranges.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
In November 1971,

Jerry officially requested
a change in Mark's status

from killed in action
to missing in action.

The Navy refused.

I was given a choice--

either accepting
that body, you know,

or if we refused to
accept it, the Navy

was going to bury it
in Arlington Cemetery

with Mark's headstone on it.

And I decided there
was no way in hell

they're going to do that.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Two months

later, the Dennis
family reburied

the body in Miamisburg.

Jerry placed a ribbon
upon the headstone.

It read, "In memory of
one known only to God."

March 1973.

The war in Vietnam was over.

The first prisoners of
war began coming home.

The Dennis family prayed that
Mark would be among them.

He was not.

The arrival of the Vietnamese
boat people in the late 1970s

brought renewed hope,
stories of American GIs still

being held captive in Vietnam.

For most of us, the Vietnam
War had begun to fade by 1980.

For Jerry Dennis and the
families of other men

whose fate was still
unknown, the war raged on.

Jerry decided to
renew his efforts

and petitioned his
congressman to investigate

the circumstances
surrounding Mark's death.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): In 1981,

pressure from
Jerry's congressman

forced the Navy
into interviewing

Capt. Gary Lucas, the helicopter
gunner who survived the crash.

In a signed affidavit,
Lucas stated that two men

had jumped from the
helicopter, though he

assumed they were killed.

The man who got
out of this alive

said men jumped out of the
aircraft in enemy territory

prior to the crash.

At least two he saw jump.

Did he see it?

The pilot said that
the smoke was so bad

after the aircraft
was hit he could

not see to fly the helicopter.

Or did he see two people
move towards the rear

of the aircraft to try and
get away from the fire?

The fact remains
that all the remains

of those that perished on
that aircraft were recovered.

When I first became
involved in this,

it was a personal issue.

It was a brother, Mark
Dennis, the kid that got left

behind by the US government.

And it was a very
personal thing.

Everybody involved in this
issue, the family members,

start out that way.

But you don't remain
that way very long.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Over the next four years,

Jerry Dennis became increasingly
active in national POW and MIA

organizations.

He made numerous trips to
Washington to plead his case.

Then in December
of 1986, Jerry got

another piece of
compelling evidence

that Mark had not
died in the crash.

Where did you get
these bracelets?

WOMAN: This is a
bracelet of Jerry's

brother, who's a POW/MIA.

A gentleman to my left really
became absorbed in listening,

and I knew he was interested.

JERRY: --probability
he may be alive today.

- Excuse me.
- Yes, sir.

I didn't want to interrupt,
but I happened to overhear

part of your conversation.

My name is John King.

John, I'm Jerry.
This is Carol.

Hi.

Hi.

I heard you talking
about the POWs.

When I was in the Air
Force, I happened to be

a POW myself from '66 to '69.

Um, I was moved around a
lot, four different camps.

In the last camp I was
in, there was a gentleman

by the name of Dennis.

And I said, well,
what was his first name?

He said, I don't know.

We all went by nicknames.

I said, what was his nickname?

When he told me his nickname
was Preacher, I got cold chills.

Mark was very close
to the Church.

He talked about
becoming a missionary

before he went in the service.

While in the service, he had
just written home in letters

that his unit was separated
and he was the acting chaplain

for the group he was in.

He was proud of that.

Here's a man telling us
all these years later--

excuse me-- that that
was his nickname.

Then we pulled out
Mark's picture.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's him.

JERRY: You're sure?
- I'm positive.

That's him.

It's what I had been
saying all along could be--

probably was-- that he lived.

He definitely lived
through the crash in '66.

The odds he was still alive,
especially if he was once

captured as a medic-- he
was useful to these people

as a medic.

I basically feel I have
become pretty good friends

with Mr. Jerry
Dennis over the years

since I've been
working with him.

And I've made every effort
on behalf of the Navy

to try and convince him that we
have a positive identification

of his brother Mark's remains.

I get the impression
from Mr. Dennis

that he still does not believe
they are his brother's remains,

or for some reason doesn't
want to believe it.

But I, in my own heart,
feel that for sure we have

the remains of Mark Dennis.

No matter what
we come up with--

I swear if I marched Mark Dennis
into the United States Navy

headquarters tomorrow, they'd
find some excuse to discredit

his identification.

It doesn't matter
what you present.

They aren't going to change.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Did Mark Dennis

die in the helicopter crash?

Or did he survive, only
to be taken prisoner

by the North Vietnamese?

Jerry Dennis may
never know who is

buried in his brother's grave.

But if it isn't
Mark Dennis, then

another family has never been
able to put their son to rest.

Whether Mark is alive
today, I don't know.

What condition he would
be in, where he would be,

I don't know.

But in my opinion, no
one else knows, either,

except some Vietnamese
who hold the keys.

But the point is,
Mark Dennis has

a right, a constitutional
right, to not be listed

dead by the stroke of a pen.

He has a right to
be accounted for.

He has a right to be demanded.

And that's never been done by
our government for Mark Dennis.

After this story
originally aired,

additional details emerged
which may shed new light

on the mystery of Mark Dennis.

We were contacted by the
Department of the Army,

which sought to clarify some of
the more controversial issues

presented in our broadcast.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
As we reported,

Jerry Dennis first
became convinced

that his brother
might still be alive

when "Newsweek"
magazine published

this photograph of an
unidentified prisoner of war.

Jerry felt that it bore a
strong resemblance to Mark.

Six months later, the Dennis
family was told by the Navy

that the man had been positively
identified as Paul Galanti,

a US Navy commander shot down
over North Vietnam in 1966

and released from
captivity in 1973.

Nevertheless, Jerry
Dennis continued to press

his case against the military.

When I was in the Air
Force, I happened to be

a POW myself from '66 to '69.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): 16
years later, in 1986, Jerry met

a man named John King.

King presented himself
as a former POW

who had managed to escape.

He claimed to have
met Mark Dennis

while both were in captivity.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's him.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): It
is now known that the name John

King is not officially
listed as a POW

in any branch of the military.

Perhaps the most controversial
aspect of the case

concerns the remains exhumed
from Mark Dennis' grave.

Jerry Dennis did not believe
X-rays taken of those bones

matched X-rays
taken of his brother

at the time of his enlistment.

With the cooperation of the
US Department of the Army,

we contacted Dr.
John Fitzpatrick,

an independent
forensic radiologist.

To positively identify
the body, Dr. Fitzpatrick

examined a blowup of a
known X-ray of Mark Dennis

with an X-ray of the remains
buried in Mark Dennis' grave.

When he compared three specific
points from the X-rays,

he concluded that the bones had
exactly the same configuration.

I compared the X-rays taken
on the three vertebrae that were

excavated from the
site in Vietnam

with the X-ray of Mark Dennis.

The three vertebrae
are identical.

There's enough unique
about everybody,

no matter what we look at,
that no two people are alike.

And therefore, the vertebrate
are those of Mark Dennis,

and this is a 100%
identification.

After we received Dr.
Fitzpatrick's analysis,

we contacted Jerry
Dennis for his comments.

In spite of the new
forensic findings,

Jerry still believes
that his brother did not

die when the Navy said he did.

The Department of
the Army considers

the case of Mark Dennis closed.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Next, our viewers

help capture Kenneth Robert
Stanton, one of the FBI's

10 Most Wanted criminals.

Recently, the director of
the FBI, William Sessions,

made a special appeal
on "Unsolved Mysteries"

to announce the latest
addition to the FBI's 10

Most Wanted list.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): In
1964, Kenneth Robert Stanton

was convicted of
child molestation

and diagnosed as a
criminal sexual psychopath.

He was later declared
fit to re-enter society

and was set free.

In 1989, Stanton was identified
in Jackson, Mississippi,

by a 12-year-old girl he
allegedly attempted to molest.

According to the girl, Stanton
gained entry into her home

by posing as a policeman.

Hi.

Is your mother home?

No.

Well, I'm Officer Tom Coles.

I'm with the local
police department.

FRED C. STOFER (VOICEOVER):
He has a high IQ,

and he's very
intelligent, and he's

able to gain their confidence
to get inside the house.

- And 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.

GIRL: [screaming]

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): According

to the 12-year-old girl, Stanton
fled when she began screaming.

FRED C. STOFER (VOICEOVER):
After the Jackson, Mississippi,

assault, there were
identifications

of Stanton in
Columbus, Mississippi,

as well as Tuscaloosa,
Alabama; Leesburg,

Georgia; Douglasville, Georgia;
and Warner Robins, 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): 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
Moraine, 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
had seen our broadcast

and fled.

Stanton's wife and
neighbors were stunned.

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

in front of the house
staying in the yard

just in case he come back.

And, you know, I
don't want someone

like that running around
the streets at all.

You know, anyone
that does anything

like that should be put away.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Five days later, Stanton

was identified in Rock
Hill, South Carolina,

after he allegedly attempted
to molest a 9-year-old girl.

JOHN PIERSON: 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 proceeded
on an 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 (VOICEOVER):
After identifying the vehicle,

we established a 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.

JOHN PIERSON: 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 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.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
When we return,

the police are hunting for a
suspect who they believe has

murdered at least five women.

July 31, 1971.

Nassau County, New
York, 11:00 PM.

A 20-year-old
Argentine man named

Ricardo Caputo made a
late-night call to the police.

OFFICER (ON TELEPHONE):
Police Department.

I'd like to talk
to the police.

OFFICER (ON TELEPHONE):
How can I help you?

I want to report
something very important.

OFFICER (ON TELEPHONE):
Where are you calling from?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): He
told police to go to the home

of his girlfriend's parents.

Her name was Natalie Brown.

Caputo had been dating
Natalie for over a year

and had told authorities that
he intended to marry her.

DET.

VANCE E. RENDELL: I responded to
the scene on Middle Neck Road.

It was a small,
cottage-type, Cape Cod house.

I went in the front door.

And immediately on my
left, I saw a kitchen,

and in the kitchen was
the body of Miss Brown.

She had been stabbed repeatedly.

The room was covered with blood.

It was really a
vicious assault on her.

It was the worst I ever
seen in my history,

and I've covered a lot
of homicides in my life.

During the time that Natalie
and Ricardo were seeing

each other, I never saw any
signs of volatile behavior

on his part.

Both my father and mother
seemed to like him.

They got along with him well.

They both thought
he was a nice boy.

Natalie Brown's
friends and family

described her fiance as
amiable and attractive

with a winning personality.

But in the case
of Ricardo Caputo,

appearances were
more than deceiving,

they became a lethal weapon.

Police believe that
since 1971, Caputo

has employed his charms to
kill again and again and again.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): After
Caputo was taken into custody

for Natalie Brown's
murder, authorities

learned that before arriving
in the United States in 1970,

he had been treated
for mental illness

in an Argentine hospital.

The psychiatric review
ruled that Caputo

was incompetent to
stand trial, so he

was remanded to the
Matteawan State Hospital

in upstate New York.

Matteawan is a maximum
security institution,

and it was there
that Caputo would

meet a 26-year-old psychologist
named Judith Becker.

Well, hello there.

My doctor, my friend.

How are you?

I'm very well, thank you.

How are you?

Fine.

Now, listen.

There's something I want
to talk to you about.

The other doctors and I were
discussing a project which

would involve taking you
and a few other patients

outside to grow a garden.

I think it--

JANE STORRS: I believe it was a
relationship of a psychologist

and a patient.

She felt that her patients
were also her friends.

She wanted them to
trust her, and I

think she felt they had to
trust her in order for her

to be able to help them.

I will grow you
the biggest tomatoes.

OK.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Judith
Becker was charmed by Caputo,

and over the next
two years he worked

overtime to gain her trust.

Apparently, he succeeded.

I do not like to remember.

In speaking to other inmates
of Matteawan State Hospital,

several of them stated that
Ricardo Caputo had been

bragging that he
was going to use

Judith Becker to
gain his freedom

from Matteawan State Hospital.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): In
1973, with Judith Becker's

assistance, Ricardo
Caputo managed

to get transferred out of
Matteawan to a Manhattan

psychiatric hospital.

It had been two years
since Natalie Brown

had been stabbed to death.

This hospital was much less
restrictive than Matteawan

and allowed patients to leave
the facility during the day.

This new freedom allowed
Judith and Caputo

to spend more time together
outside the hospital walls.

Today, there is still
a debate on just

how intimate they became.

From there, their
relationship became romantic.

From time to time, he
would leave the grounds

and go up to her
apartment in Yonkers.

Judy and Ricardo did not
have a romantic relationship.

She never described it that way.

And I believe she knew
enough about her profession

and her patients to not
have allowed that to happen.

I think she felt that
he needed whatever help

she might be able to give him.

What about your
family, though?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Judith even took

Caputo home to meet her family.

JANE STORRS: When
we met Ricardo,

she introduced him
as a fellow who

worked with her at Matteawan.

She continued the
relationship as a friend

and as a psychologist and as
somebody he could turn to.

And I don't believe that she
knew she was in as much danger

as she ultimately was.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
October 21, 1974.

Judith had failed to meet her
parents as planned for a family

boating trip.

Concerned, they went
to her apartment.

I did.
It's ringing.

Did you press 2C?
DET.

JOSEPH SURLAK (VOICEOVER):
They located the super

of the apartment building,
and by the use of a pass key,

he allowed them to
enter the apartment.

Judy?

DET.

JOSEPH SURLAK (VOICEOVER):
When they entered the apartment

where she lived, there was
dinner for two on the coffee

table in the living room.

Judy?
DET.

JOSEPH SURLAK: And when they
walked into the bedroom,

they found their daughter
lying on her back in bed

wearing only a half slip.

She had been brutally
beaten about the head

and strangled with
one of her stockings.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Police believe

that Caputo took
Judith's car, checkbook,

and some of her clothing.

Then he disappeared.

San Francisco, six months later.

Ricardo Caputo had met
another trusting woman.

Barbara Taylor was
a local book editor.

These pictures were taken
by Barbara and Caputo

on a romantic
getaway to Yosemite.

But on March 30, 1975,
Barbara was discovered beaten

to death in her apartment.

Caputo's fingerprints were
found at the scene of the crime.

By the time Barbara's
body was discovered,

Ricardo Caputo was
nowhere to be found.

Five days later, El Paso, Texas.

The search for Ricardo
Caputo took a dramatic turn.

A man calling
himself Ricardo Diaz

was delivered into the
hands of US Immigration

by Mexican authorities.

BYRON V. MACDONALD:
He was turned over

to the custody of US officials,
and he was incarcerated

at the alien detention
facility, which is

located here in El Paso, Texas.

It was actually a lockup there
where he was being detained.

No charges had been
filed against him.

It was just an
administrative thing.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): At first,

Diaz attracted little attention,
until he was fingerprinted.

He knew then that it would not
take long for his real identity

to be uncovered.

Ricardo Diaz was, in
reality, Ricardo Caputo.

April 7, 1975.

Caputo and three other
detainees took the guard hostage

and picked up makeshift
weapons in the kitchen.

[shouting in spanish]

The men then fled the compound
and crossed the border

into Mexico in a stolen car.

All the men were recaptured
with the exception of Caputo.

His companions
told police Caputo

was headed to Mexico City.

There, he moved
in with a young

21-year-old college student by
the name of Laura Marie Gomez.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Two years later,

23-year-old Laura Marie
Gomez was found dead

in her Mexico City apartment.

Miss Gomez was found brutally
beaten, stomped to death.

She had been tortured
prior to her death.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Laura Gomez was

two and 1/2 months pregnant.

Police believe the
killer and the father

were the same man,
Ricardo Caputo.

DET.

JOSEPH SURLAK: Handsome,
charming, intelligent,

has a violent
temper which usually

results in homicidal outbursts.

Since he's done this all
over the United States

and in Mexico, we have to
consider him a serial killer.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Incredibly,

police believe Ricardo
Caputo has killed again.

On August 2, 1983,
60-year-old Jackie Bernard,

a prominent author
and social activist,

was found murdered,
her throat crushed,

in her West Side
Manhattan apartment.

On January 22, 1985,
a private investigator

hired by Jackie's
family received

an anonymous phone call
identifying Jackie's

killer as Ricardo Caputo.

The caller also
said that Caputo

boasted about killing several
other women and also some men.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): At
Jackie Bernard's residence,

her superintendent told Gordon
McEwan that he was positive

that he had seen Caputo on the
premises attempting to gain

entry into Jackie's apartment.

Yeah, I know that guy.

GORDON MCEWAN:
The superintendent

was absolutely positive of
his identification of Caputo.

He even added that the
hairline of Caputo's hair

had receded somewhat.

He also informed me
that Caputo spoke

with a South American accent.

He was very positive.

BYRON V. MACDONALD:
Caputo is a chameleon.

He can change his identity,
he can change his looks,

and he can kill and have no
remorse for having killed.

He's a good con artist.

He's a smooth talker.

He could function in probably
just about any situation

he set his mind to go into.

I'd hate to think
that Ricardo will have

the opportunity to do it to
another lady or anybody else,

for that matter.

And I think he'd
be better off dead.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
When we return,

an eerie tale of bizarre
lights in the Canadian sky and

the woman who has filmed them.

UFO sightings can
usually be explained away

as airplane lights, weather
balloons, military maneuvers,

even mass hysteria.

Sightings sometimes
gain credibility when

they're supported by
photographs which cannot be

written off as obvious hoaxes.

All of these photographs
and thousands like them

have been taken over the
last 16 years in Canada.

They baffle even
the harshest skeptic

and raise two elegantly
simple questions--

how and why?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Vancouver, British Columbia,

on the Pacific coast of Canada.

For 35 years, this city has
reported an inordinate number

of UFO sightings.

The most frequent
and well-documented

of the sightings have
all been attributed

to one woman, Dorothy Izatt, a
homemaker and mother of four.

Dorothy's first sighting
occurred 16 years ago

on November 9, 1974.

She was 52 years old.

DOROTHY IZATT: I was in
the kitchen fixing myself

a cup of tea, and
I had a sensation

that something was watching me,
a very, very strong feeling.

So I went over to
the window, and here

was this enormous object
sitting up in the sky.

It looked like an
enormous diamond.

It was just flashing and going
around and around and around.

It was so beautiful
to look at that I

thought I was really lifted up.

It was absolutely a
wonderful feeling.

I wasn't afraid
at all, you know.

I was-- I felt really
privileged to be able to see

something like that.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
At that time,

Dorothy and her family
lived in Richmond,

a modest suburb of Vancouver.

They considered themselves
average working-class people.

Dorothy's husband and children
took her UFO sightings

lightly, almost as a joke.

Their skepticism
motivated Dorothy

to prove that what
she had seen was not

simply a star or an airplane.

DOROTHY IZATT: I said, I must
find some way of communicating

with this thing up there.

So I picked up a flashlight
and said, all right,

whatever I do with
this flashlight,

will you please imitate me?

So I flashed the light
three times to the left,

and this object went
three times to the left.

Then I flashed it three
times to the right,

and the object went
three times to the right.

Then I went three times upwards.

It went three upwards.

Three times downwards, it
went three times downwards.

It was doing everything.

And then zigzagging,
and it went zigzag.

So I said, I'm not
imagining this.

I said, this is
really happening.

So it's intelligent.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Dorothy

was amazed that
the lights seemed

to be trying to
communicate with her,

so she attempted to
capture them on film.

The results would be startling.

What I saw in the sky was
just round objects of light,

round balls of light.

But what was on the film,
you see the balls of light.

But after a couple of
frames, there would be

this enormous blast of light.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): This is

actual footage from Dorothy's
Super 8 millimeter home movies.

On her home viewer,
Dorothy inched

the film back and
forth until she

isolated a single bright frame.

What had at first appeared
to be a simple flash of light

was actually a maze
of colored streaks.

Oddly, the light did not spill
over onto adjacent frames.

I noticed that while
I'm filming these objects,

they'll suddenly stop.

And then I'll notice one
object, like, shooting out

a little beam at
the other object,

and then that object
would be shooting

out another beam back at it.

And so I guess it
must be messages

or something that they're
passing back and forth

on these beams of light.

And then when I
get it developed,

I'll find all these strange,
one-frame shots on it.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Dorothy

had the single frames of film
blown up into photographs.

Bright, kinetic beams
careened in all directions.

She also blew up frames of
the mysterious balls of light.

These photographs began to show
more and more curious details.

Sometimes, they'll
beam a light down at me.

They'll just beam this enormous
light down at me, you know,

and I'll be all lit
up with this light.

I used to ask them to
come closer and closer,

because I wanted better shots.

And they did, you know,
like, come closer and closer.

DR. DU-FAY DERR: I
don't think she's

lying about what she's doing.

I feel that she's quite sincere.

On the other hand, I
am not able to assess

her photographs
professionally, because that's

not part of my expertise.

But her personality makeup
would make me believe that she

is not making things up.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Like most UFO sightings,

Dorothy's experiences
and her photographs seem

to defy conventional logic.

She says she used three
different cameras.

Each one yielded
similar results.

We asked a photography expert
to evaluate Dorothy's film.

VERN MILLER: I have seen several
similar examples of photography

like this.

Light sources in the sky
with dark backgrounds

are quite easy to manipulate.

But these are more
extraordinary in the sense

that they were done with an
8-millimeter camera, a motion

picture camera, rather
than a still camera,

and they have so many
different types of effects.

And there's images that
I can't explain at all,

explain how the lights got
into the individual frames.

I can suggest ways that
they could have been

put in intentionally,
but no ways

that they could accidentally
have been placed into the film.

I believe that these
images were produced

by a natural occurring
phenomenon in the night sky

and not by extraterrestrial
beings or unexplained objects.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Despite endless skepticism

from the scientific
community, Dorothy Izatt

has become an
internationally known

figure in the world of UFOs.

As Dorothy's fame
spread, people often

came to visit her in Vancouver.

One of them was Gerry
Mackay, a planning

and marketing consultant.

He had read an
article about Dorothy

and felt strongly that
he had to meet her.

GERRY MACKAY (VOICEOVER): I
was interested enough and moved

enough by that
article that I really

did just want to find out more
for my own interest's sake.

I think it's healthy
to be skeptical,

because I was myself.

I didn't have any
previous experience

with the subject matter at all.

I didn't even realize up until
that point that I had as much

of an interest with it as
it's turned out that I do.

And these are, like,
daytime-type shots.

Or they look like it.
Is it?

Or is it just the type
of lighting or whatever?

Well, I was told
to try and get

some pictures in
the daytime as well,

and that's why I got these.

GERRY MACKAY (VOICEOVER): I was
listening very intently to what

she was saying, at which time
I noticed that I was hearing

some kind of audible
sensing thing that was

happening only in my right ear.

--so that they know it's
solid and it's not just a--

Excuse me, Dorothy.

I-- I don't mean to
interrupt you, but, um,

I'm getting a strange
sensation in my ear here,

so I'm sort of losing
what you're saying.

You can hear that?

And I looked at her,
and I said, yes, I can.

What is it?

And just this
brilliant beam of smile

went from ear to
ear on her face.

And I remember the look that
she gave me, and she said,

they're here.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Gerry Mackay

was the first person to say he
actually heard the same thing

that Dorothy heard.

[gentle ringing]

GERRY MACKAY (VOICEOVER): I
don't think any more than 15

or 20 seconds went by, and
she said, do you see it?

Do you see it, Gerry?

No, I don't see anything.

Where are you looking?

I'm looking straight ahead
across to Cypress Ball.

GERRY MACKAY: She
goes, no, no, no.

Look over here to
the left where I am.

To my complete
shock and amazement,

what appeared to
be sitting right

out in front of the
window just to our left

was a hard, metallic object.

I remember the feeling
was so intense,

it was like I was
standing in a vacuum

and all my hair was
standing on end.

And as soon as it disappeared,
Dorothy let out a giggle

that was like, there you go.

What do you think of that?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Gerry
commissioned an artist to draw

what he and Dorothy had seen.

He says he was
completely overwhelmed.

It did not occur to him to
try to photograph the object.

Dorothy has accumulated
more than 25 hours of film

and has had blowups
made of 3,000 frames.

Her enthusiasm remains unabated,
and she continues to film,

hoping that she can one day
decipher the meaning, if any,

of the lights.

DOROTHY IZATT: I feel
there is some sort

of message in there for us.

They're trying to tell us
something from these pictures.

It seems like
they're coming closer

and closer all the time
compared to the first pictures I

used to take.

And each picture now that I'm
getting is far more vivid.

It varies all the time.

My mission is to just
keep filming, I guess,

and receiving these pictures
for as long as I am able to

and hope that one day,
someone or somewhere will

be able to understand
what it's all about.

When "Unsolved Mysteries"
visited Dorothy Izatt's home

in Vancouver, she told
us the lights were there,

and she filmed them with her
Super 8-millimeter camera.

We could not see the
lights, but our cameraman

attempted to film them anyway.

He also asked Dorothy
to operate his camera.

The film from Dorothy's
8-millimeter camera

showed the usual
brilliant light patterns.

When we developed
our film, we did

find one tiny unidentifiable
light in the sky,

but it exhibited none
of the characteristics

seen in Dorothy's photographs.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Next
week on "Unsolved Mysteries,"

in 1986, the body of
28-year-old Debbie Wolfe

was found in an
oil drum submerged

in the icy waters of a pond near
Fayetteville, North Carolina.

The police ruled it
accidental drowning.

The family says it was murder.

80 years ago, Conradina Olsen
boarded a train in Wisconsin

and was never seen again.

Her granddaughter will not
rest until she finds an answer.

Did Conradina simply run
away, or was she murdered?

We'll also bring
you a dramatic update

on our recent story
of a female prison

guard who fell in
love with a convict

and allegedly helped him escape.

Join me next week
for another edition

of "Unsolved Mysteries."

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