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ANNOUNCER: This program is
about unsolved mysteries.

Whenever possible, the
actual family members

and police officials
have participated

in recreating the events.

What you are about to see
is not a news broadcast.

ROBERT STACK: In a
rural area of Canada,

a woman claimed to
see unusual red flames

and an extraordinary
flying object landing

in a field behind her house.

Six months later, this
remarkable videotape,

broadcast the night
for the first time

on network television,
seemed to verify her account.

Could it be evidence
of a close encounter or

a clever, sophisticated hoax?

After Geraldine George separated
from her husband, Larry,

she had no idea that he was
watching her every move.

Finally, Larry George
erupted in a jealous rage,

shot Geraldine, and
left two innocent people

murdered in his wake.

In September of 1992, this
mysterious young woman

showed up in a small
California community.

She has no identification and
can neither speak nor hear.

Perhaps you know who she
is and where she came from.

Also, a poignant,
heartwarming update.

While watching a recent
broadcast, one of our viewers

was surprised to
discover that he

was a subject of an
intense 30-year search

by his long-lost sister.

We'll share their remarkable
reunion on tonight's

"Unsolved Mysteries."

[theme music]

The Canadian township
of West Carleton

lies 40 miles north of the
Canadian/United States border

in the province of Ontario.

Life in West Carleton
is usually unremarkable.

But late in 1991,
one resident had

an extraordinary experience.

On August 18, at
around 10:00 PM,

Diane Labenek had just
put her children to bed.

Her husband was out
running an errand

when the dogs began to howl.

[barking]

DIANE LABENEK: I walked
right to the window

and I saw flames right on the
back of to field, extremely

red flames and lots of smoke.

It didn't look like a fire.

I know what a fire
looks like when

you start a fire out there.

And the grass was very dry,
so if you start a fire,

you will see it moving,
whether this way

or closer to the woods, and the
fire was standing on one spot

only.

I saw a ship coming down
close to the flames.

Right on top of this ship,
I saw a blue flashing light.

And another light was on
the bottom, very bright.

I didn't know what to do.

I was looking at it
about 10 minutes or so.

And then the ship went a
little bit back over the trees,

and it disappeared.

I saw all the flames turn
out at the same time.

I don't think I'd
like to see it again.

It's very scary.

I lived here for
many, many years

and I have never been
so scared in my life.

It did enter my mind
to phone the police.

When this was all over, I came
to the telephone but I said,

what am I going to tell them?

I'm going to tell them I have
seen flares out there at 10

o'clock or past 10
o'clock at night

and there was a ship up there?

Who was going to say,
OK, Diane, that's fine.

We're coming over?

So that's why I didn't call.

ROBERT STACK:
According to Labenek,

10 minutes after the mysterious
lights abruptly blinked out,

a helicopter appeared
just as unexpectedly.

The unmarked craft
flew low to the ground,

over the field where
the unexplained lights

had appeared.

After crisscrossing the area,
it flew over Diane's house

and rushed off into the night.

At the crack of
dawn, Diane Labenek

ran out to the
empty fields which

surround her house,
searching for evidence

of the previous night's events.

DIANE LABENEK: I
searched everything.

There was no marks.

There was no spots.

There was no matches.

There was just nothing.

The only person I told
is my mom and my husband.

It kind of bothered me
inside for a long, long time

not to come forward
and say it to anybody.

But when I went out on
the field and I could not

find anything, who
was going to believe

me that this really happened?

So I kept it to myself.

The 1991 sighting was
the second unusual event

Diane Labenek had
witnessed in West Carleton.

In 1989, she was one
of several residents

who observed a sudden explosion
of extraordinarily brilliant

light over a nearby swamp.

Labenek might have remained
silent about the 1991 episode

if not for this
controversial videotape which

seems to verify her account.

A tape was mailed to the
office of a UFO researcher,

and tonight it will be
shown for the first time

ever on national television.

In February of 1992, six months
after Labenek's sighting,

a package from Canada arrived
at the Edgewater, Maryland

office of Bob Oechsler.

A former NASA mission
specialist, Oechsler is now

a well-known UFO researcher.

The package had
no return address.

Inside were documents, pictures,
a map, and the videotape

all pertaining to the 1991
incident at West Carleton.

BOB OECHSLER: Most
unusual, there

seemed to be somewhat
of a symbol with regard

to the videotape.

On the label was
the name Guardian,

and it was accompanied
by a fingerprint.

Guardian, to me, was an enigma.

Certainly nothing I had heard
about in the UFO literature.

So it was a mystery
starting from scratch.

ROBERT STACK: At
the time, Oechsler

was unaware of
Labenek's sighting,

but he would later
find that the video

depicted what she has reported
with stunning accuracy.

The tape showed a cluster
of brightly burning

red flames similar to flares.

To the right hovered a
dark disk-like object

emitting a bright glow
from its underside.

The object was capped by a
rapidly strobing blue light.

It is among the most
convincing documentations

of a UFO Oechsler had seen
in his 12 years of research.

BOB OECHSLER: It was clearly
a disk-looking shape.

We could resolve that because
the flashing light on top

would reflect off of the
curved surface of the disk.

I got a sense, initially, that
this was a real event occurring

in a field, as
opposed to some prop

set up in a room somewhere.

It had such an
extraordinary amount

of luminosity
characteristic to it

that I had a sense I might be
dealing with something that

was potentially authentic here.

ROBERT STACK: The map
sent with the videotape

shows the area of west
Carleton, Canada as the location

where the tape had been made.

Oechsler went to West
Carleton along with UFO

researcher Graham Lightfoot.

Diane, can you tell us
exactly what you saw that night?

ROBERT STACK: Together, they
interviewed Diane Labenek,

whom Lightfoot had met when he
investigated her 1989 sighting.

Yes, I'd seen a bright light.

What time of the day was this?

This was at night, eh?

Yes, it was at night.

I would say about 10 o'clock.

ROBERT STACK: To their
surprise, Labenek

described exactly what
the two researchers had

seen on Guardian's videotape.

When we talked to
Diane about the sighting,

I asked her had
she seen anything.

Her description was so vivid
that it's something I didn't

think she could have made up.

She had not seen a tape.

She had no idea what
we knew, and yet she

was able to describe things that
we already knew from the tape.

And when he
showed me the tape,

it was exactly what I've seen.

And it was-- it was
still scary for me,

but at least I had
something to go by.

Something that now I can tell
the people, because now I

have little bit more evidence.

That's one of the
clearest videos I've seen

that show a structured object.

ROBERT STACK: Dr.
Bruce Maccabee,

a US Navy physicist
and photojournalist,

has studied UFOs for years.

Here's the beacon
light with blue light,

evidently, a
reflection down here

on the body of the craft, the
outline of the object itself.

You can see some sort of
dark lines that appear.

Some brightness
structure indicating

something generating light as
hanging down below the object.

It's generating green light
as well as blue light.

Probably there is
other structure in here

which, however, the glare
from this bright light

is blurring out.

ROBERT STACK: Dr. Maccabee,
who believes that tape is not

a hoax, was
particularly intrigued

by the bright, strobing light.

BRUCE MACCABEE:
Now, first of all,

it's an unusual one because
it's blue and it's very fast.

It was running about
7 cycles per second.

This is much faster than
ordinary flashing beacons

on aircraft, for
example, that typically

run about 1 flash per second
or maybe 2 flashes per second.

The section of the
video which shows

the object just sort of
appearing over a rise

is quite convincing to me.

It would be what you would
expect if somebody were

in the field trying
to get closer to it,

not knowing how
close he could get.

So he turns on his camera
and, while he's walking,

he knows he's going to come
up over a rise and see it.

And you can see in the video,
farther and farther down

until you see the whole device.

And suddenly, the light
coming towards him

gets brighter and
brighter and you

get a great, big, diffuse
reflection or image

in the camera, which suggests
to me that this object shined

a blue beam right at him.

ROBERT STACK: Dr.
Maccabee estimated

the unknown object to be
20 to 30 feet in diameter.

According to Oechsler,
the object's apparent size

argues against it being a hoax.

It appeared to be
so large that it would

not be logical to try
to set all this up

at night under darkness.

There would have been evidence
during the day of movement,

of generators, of
somebody hauling cables,

maybe a big apparatus
or something

that they would have had to
bring in there for that night.

Clearly, if there
was a hoax involved,

Diane would have seen
evidence of it in advance.

ROBERT STACK: Audio
analysis of the tape

revealed only the distant
barking of dogs, perhaps those

reported by Diane Labenek.

[barking]

The craft itself
seemed to be silent.

There was no audible trace
of power generators, which,

if the object was staged, would
have been necessary to run

its massive lights.

Dr. Robert Nathan of NASA's
Jet Propulsion Laboratory

reviewed the tape in a
non-official capacity.

Dr. Nathan could not
explain the images,

nor could he categorically
dismiss the tape as a hoax.

In a puzzling coincidence,
low-flying helicopters

had cruised over West
Carleton regularly

since the August '91 incident.

According to Labenek and
other local residents,

the helicopters are black,
green, or maroon in color.

They are unmarked and have
darkly tinted windows.

The Canadian military denies any
involvement in this incident.

Where the helicopters come from
and what they are searching for

remains a mystery.

The helicopters that are
used in this area of Canada

do not fly low in that area.

We have designated
flying training areas

about 30 miles west of here.

We also have them north.

Therefore, there
are no requirements

for our military
helicopters to go and fly

near private citizens'
property like that.

Either this is one
extraordinary, elaborate hoax,

a military operation
on private property,

or something that's very
unusual in the UFO category--

something suggesting,
perhaps, non-human technology.

ROBERT STACK: The key
to the entire episode

lies with the person
using the name Guardian.

The presence of this mysterious
informant in a remote field

late at night with
video camera in hand

just in time for a UFO sighting
can hardly be ascribed to luck.

According to Bob Oechsler,
whether the event was real

or an elaborate hoax,
Guardian had prior knowledge

that it was going to happen.

I think Guardian
has to be connected

to the event in some way.

I don't see any
way Guardian could

have just happened onto this.

I don't see Guardian
as a UFO investigator.

Guardian is much
more involved in this

than the evidence even
suggests, in my opinion.

ROBERT STACK: Virtually
nothing is known

about Guardian's true identity.

Curiously, the
secretive informant

has contacted UFO
researchers only

in connection with
the two sightings

reported by Diane Labenek
and others in West Carleton.

GRAHAM LIGHTFOOT:
When we started

looking into the
events, it would

be simple to say that it
was a hoax because Diane

was involved in both of them.

But when you get to know Diane
and see the way she lives

and the circumstance,
it's apparent

that she wasn't involved
in any way other

than being an observer.

ROBERT STACK: But purported
military documents

that arrived with a videotape
raised serious questions

about Guardian's credibility.

Among other preposterous
claims, the papers

allege far-reaching
conspiracies involving UFOs,

Red China, and nuclear weapons.

BOB OECHSLER: There
was some question

immediately with regard
to the authenticity

of the documentation.

It didn't look like it was a
typical government document,

even Canadian government
documents, of which I

had no familiarity at the time.

This document is
clearly a fabrication.

There are way too many
errors in the document

to make it authentic.

Someone with very
little effort could have

come a lot closer than this.

ROBERT STACK: Also
included on the videotape

are obscure images
which Guardian

claimed show an alien being.

Clearly, this could
have been someone

dressed up in a costume.

But that posed a major question.

If, in fact, the video images
of the disk were authentic,

why would anyone
contaminate such

an extraordinary event with
fake images of alien creatures?

The stories that he writes
to go along with the events

don't seem to match the
quality of the event itself,

if it makes any sense.

These stories are
rather far-fetched,

and yet the events are
seen by credible witnesses.

ROBERT STACK: In spite
of the dubious images

and questionable
documents, many experts

believe that the event shown on
the tape did indeed take place.

What really happened in the
fields of West Carleton?

In the wake of its
brief appearance

during the summer of 1991,
the strange luminous object

left only questions.

Questions, perhaps,
the person called

Guardian alone can answer.

BOB OECHSLER: This is either
an extraordinary, top-secret

flying vehicle of
somebody's government,

or it is of a non-human origin.

Having no contact
with Guardian is

probably the biggest frustration
to an investigation like this.

We don't know who Guardian
is, what Guardian represents.

We don't know if Guardian
was sent or went on his own.

We have no idea
what the solutions

to many of these
mysteries are going to be.

We may never know.

ROBERT STACK: On a
recent broadcast,

we brought you the
poignant story of a woman

named Brenda Merrill.

In 1961, Brenda's mother bought
a restaurant in Lawrenceville,

Pennsylvania, and moved
her children to a farmhouse

just outside town.

I'm going to ride into
town with the movers,

so you have to take care of
your brothers and sisters.

Aren't you coming
back up here tonight?

ROBERT STACK: Brenda
was the oldest child,

and at the age of
16, she suddenly

found herself responsible
for the welfare

of five brothers and sisters.

BRENDA MERRILL: It was
just like a normal family

because I was like their mother.

It just went, you
washed clothes.

You did the dishes.

You got their dinner, and
you got their breakfast,

and you got their
supper, and you'd

get them scrubbed up for bed.

And you sing them songs
before they go to sleep,

like a normal household.

ROBERT STACK: Through
a long, hard winter,

Brenda struggled to
care for the children.

Often, she was forced
to hunt small game

to keep food on the table.

Finally, as winter broke
into a damp, chilly spring,

a fire at the farmhouse
drove the youngsters

to seek refuge
with their mother,

but she was unwilling
to take them in.

Brenda tried to keep
the children herself

but was forced to give
them up one by one.

You take good care of him, OK?

Don't worry, honey.

We'll take good care of him.

ROBERT STACK:
Eventually, Brenda was

reunited with her sister
Linda and her brother Butch.

Together, they set out
to find the two youngest

brothers, Eric and Keith.

On the evening of our
broadcast, Brenda Merrill's

single-minded determination to
bring her family back together

finally began to pay off.

An hour after
Brenda's story aired,

a man named Keith Robinson
of Hornell, New York,

contacted our telecenter
and said that he

was Brenda's long-lost brother.

Brenda called me that same
night, like five minutes later,

and we was talking
and I mentioned

about having a photograph that
she had aired on the program.

And I basically told
her, detail for detail,

what was in the photo so she
knew that I was her brother.

ROBERT STACK: On December
19, 1992, just in time

for Christmas, Keith Robinson
and his wife and children

traveled to Montour Falls, New
York for an emotional reunion

with his sisters, Brenda and
Linda, and his brother, Butch.

He had not seen them
in more than 30 years.

KEITH ROBINSON: I
thought a lot about what

they were going to be like.

If they were going to love me
for just being their brother

or love me for what
I am now today;

if they were going to accept
my family into their heart.

Because over a 30-year period
of waiting and looking.

BRENDA MERRILL: It's a
great Christmas present.

You don't know.

He is the greatest Christmas
present, especially

his wife and kids, too.

He has a nice wife and kids.

ROBERT STACK: For
everyone involved,

the reunion was
bittersweet, their joy

tempered by the knowledge that
one brother was still missing.

Eric Nickerson was
still a toddler when

his family was split apart.

Just five weeks after
we filmed this update,

he, too, was found.

Eric's name is now Richard Moore
and he lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma

with his wife and two children.

In February of 1993,
he was reunited

with his sisters,
Brenda and Linda,

after more than 30
years of separation.

Brenda Miller's long search
to find all her brothers

and sisters was finally over.

OK.

Smaller, playing with the
propeller in the front.

The propellers in the front.

ROBERT STACK: Recently,
this young woman

was found wandering through the
streets of a small California

community.

She was completely incapable
of speaking or hearing

and carried no identification.

For the past five months,
local social workers

have been counseling but still
know almost nothing about her.

Tonight, they ask your help
to find the young woman's

family or friends.

Our story begins in Port
Hueneme, California,

on September 8, 1992.

That afternoon, a motorist
came across the young woman

frolicking on the meridian
of a busy thoroughfare.

Can I help you?

You don't hear what I'm saying?

Do you live around here?

ROBERT STACK: The motorist
quickly determined that

the woman was hearing impaired.

Fearing for her safety,
he took her to the Ventura

County Police Station.

Hi.

What's your name?

ROBERT STACK: The police
attempted to question the woman

but found that she was unable
to communicate who she was

or where she had come from.

A wallet?

ROBERT STACK: The only
clue to her identity

was a receipt from a bank in San
Diego, 200 miles to the south.

The authorities
could see no reason

to detain the young
woman, and a short time

later, she was released.

I'm 10-6 with the subject.

I'll bring her into the station.

ROBERT STACK: The
next day, a patrolman

came upon this same
young woman once again

in the middle of a busy
street less than a mile

from the police station.

She appeared to be
terribly confused.

Come with me.

It's OK.

ROBERT STACK: This
time, the authorities

placed her in a homeless
shelter for women.

When she first
came to the shelter,

she had no means of formal
communication with anyone

and so a lot of it was
pantomiming and mimicking

and what is known as
home sign language.

This is a picture of you.

ROBERT STACK: Communications
specialist Chris Barrows

was enlisted to help
pierce the walls

of silence that surrounded
this most unusual Jane Doe.

One of the first things
that we tried to do

was we wanted to get
a name and an age

so that we could find out if
we were dealing with a juvenile

or whether we were
dealing with an adult.

All right.

Let's see if we can
figure out her name here.

Let's try this.

CHRIS BARROWS: We sat
down with paper and pen

and we tried communicating
with her that way.

We wrote our names, Marti
and I. I wrote my name,

gestured to myself
several times.

Marti wrote her name, gestured
to herself several times.

Who are you?

You try it.

CHRIS BARROWS: And then we
asked her to write her name,

if she could write.

Your name.

This is me.

OK, I think she got it here.

L?

L. L. L. V?

No.

ROBERT STACK: The young
woman who was apparently

unable to write,
and it was clear

that she had no formal
training in sign language.

But she was able to
spell out her name

using symbolic hand gestures.

X?

CHRIS BARROWS: And when I
copied it onto the paper,

it was instant recognition.

And in our field,
instant recognition means

this has got to be the truth.

ROBERT STACK: The
name she spelled

up was Lucxi, which
may be a derivative

of a Spanish first name.

For convenience sake, Chris
and Marti dubbed her Lucy.

Let's see if we
can get an age here.

She got very
excited when she found

that someone finally had known
her name and had gotten it.

We did the same
thing with her age.

How old are you?

10.
20.

2.

1.

23.

23?

You're 23?

ROBERT STACK: Despite the ease
with which Chris and Marti

determined Lucy's
name and age, finding

someone who knew
her would present

a far greater challenge.

In the days and weeks after
Lucy surfaced in Port Hueneme,

the FBI and various
missing persons

organizations ran checks on
her, but all turned up empty.

The only solid lead was
a bank receipt from San

Diego found in her pocket.

But that, too, led nowhere.

And authorities now find
themselves at a dead end.

Baby?

Baby.

Little baby?

You draw the baby.

ROBERT STACK: This is
Lucy as she appears today.

Over the past few
months, she has

slowly begun to reveal
fragmentary glimpses

into her past.

CHRIS BARROWS: There's just a
particular story that she tries

to tell about having
come over on an airplane

and having had a child and the
child being taken from her,

and that she was left here.

One of the things that's
puzzling about Lucy

is she has all of
the grooming habits

and she has all of the
appearances of someone

who has been well-kept.

She's been taken care
of all of her life.

She doesn't have cooking skills,
but she understands to come

and eat when it's time to eat.

So I think that she's
been in an environment

where she's been well cared
for and well loved by somebody.

When they found her
in the beginning,

I don't think she had been
on the streets very long.

Although the genuine concern
is for her immediate safety

and her immediate
protection, there

are people out
there who know Lucy,

who have loved her in the past.

Who have taken care of her.

And she needs to be
with those people.

ROBERT STACK: Next, a
man shoots his estranged

wife and two of her neighbors
in a murderous rampage.

February 12, 1988.

Talladega, Alabama.

Well, thanks for
the ride, girl.

Give me a call this weekend.

ROBERT STACK: At
8:00 PM, Geraldine

George, a 27-year-old mother of
two, returned home from work.

She had been separated from
her husband, Larry George,

for six months.

Despite a restraining order,
he had continued to harass her.

Larry was a former
army-enlisted man who considered

himself a survivalist.

That evening, his obsession with
Geraldine would turn deadly.

TOM BOWERMAN: Geraldine
went inside her apartment

and dropped her
belongings off-- her purse

and whatever other items she
had brought home from work.

She walked next door to
Janice Morris' apartment

and Ralph Swain's apartment.

[knocking]

It's Geraldine.

ROBERT STACK:
Geraldine had become

friendly with her next-door
neighbor, Janice Morris.

Janice had two young
children of her own

and had agreed to take care
of Geraldine's children

while she was at work.
- All right.

Say goodbye to everyone.
Say goodbye.

- Bye.
- Bye!

See that?

TOM BOWERMAN: She went
in, sent her kids home,

talked briefly with Janice.

It was rather brief because
Janice was on the telephone

with her mother.

Geraldine, after talking
briefly with Janice,

walked back next door and,
as she entered her apartment,

Larry George was already
inside the apartment,

talking to her kids.

Larry, what are you
doing in my house?

I'm here with my children.

You know you're not
supposed to be here.

We've been through this before.

You want me to call
the police again?

Where you been?

That's none of your business.

You know you're suppose to
be here taking care of them.

I want you out of my house.

I don't want those people
taking care of my kids.

You don't tell me
what to do anymore!

Look, you're going
to listen to me.

You're going to listen to me!

Larry, put the gun away.

Ain't nobody running
my house but me.

Honey, I want
you to go upstairs.

You call your grandaddy and
you tell him that Larry's here.

Go on.

Larry, no!

Let go of me.

No!

Let me see that.

Janice!

ROBERT STACK: Geraldine
ran next door to get help.

Janice was still on the
phone with her mother.

Call the police!

Larry's next door
and he has a gun!

Please, hang up the pho--

LARRY: Hey, what's going on?

JESSIE MORRIS: I heard a woman's
voice yelling, Janice, Janice,

call the police.

So I asked Jan, who was that?

She's like, a girl
just left out of here.

I was like, what's the matter?

She said, I don't know.

Yeah, it's the girl
Geraldine next door.

Right.

JESSIE MORRIS: She said
she'd call me back.

Let me call you back, OK?

Bye-bye.

And that's the last I heard--

last time I heard her voice.

ROBERT STACK: Before Janice
could call the police,

Larry George shot
her in the chest.

Larry, please stop!

Larry, no!

ROBERT STACK: Then, in front
of Janice's two children,

he took aim at Geraldine as
she lay cowering on the floor.

RALPH: What's all
this noise down here?

Janice!

ROBERT STACK: Janice's
boyfriend, Ralph Swain,

heard the commotion
and ran downstairs.

Larry shot him in
the back of the head.

Then, according to a
neighbor, Larry George

calmly strode out of the
apartment and disappeared.

Janice Morris was pronounced
dead at the scene.

Ralph Swain was rushed to
a local hospital, where

he died a short time later.

This murder was stupid.

Larry George didn't go
there to kill Ralph Swain.

Larry George didn't go
there to kill Janice Morris.

Ralph or Janice,
neither one knew Larry.

They were simply in the
wrong place at the wrong time

and it was senseless.

ROBERT STACK: Geraldine
George survived the shooting

but was left paralyzed
from the waist down.

The next day, a Talladega
County Sheriff's deputy

was dispatched to a campsite
six miles out of town.

A car had been discovered
hidden in the brush.

It was registered
to Larry George.

TOM BOWERMAN: We found a
campsite, personal belongings

belonging to Mr. George.

We didn't find the weapon
that was used in the attack.

There was no weapons
found with the car.

He had been living in the car.

There was a lot of
clothing in the car.

We found a notebook where it
appeared that Mr. George had

been keeping a
diary as to who came

and went at his wife's apartment
and camouflage clothing.

Since Larry's left
the area, we found

that he spent some time in
South Alabama with his sister.

He spent some time
in the Florida

panhandle area,
which is where he

attended truck driving school.

A large quantity
of his belongings

were covered in the
Roanoke, Virginia, area,

along some railroad tracks.

I want Larry George
to pay for what he did.

I want him to pay.

Because he didn't have any
business killing anybody.

I don't know why he
killed my daughter.

I don't know why
he killed Ralph.

But I think he should be
punished for what he did.

After the most recent
broadcast of this story,

the authorities were
contacted by an "Unsolved

Mysteries" viewer.

The viewer claimed to
have seen Larry George

fishing on the banks
of the Christina River

in Wilmington, Delaware.

Three days later,
two police detectives

were dispatched to the area.

For our cameras, the
officers recounted

their dramatic meeting
with Larry George.

This is where we first
encountered Larry George at.

Right here.

We began a conversation
with him about fishing.

At this time, he
wanted to take us over

here to where his
pole was in the water

and show us exactly
where he was fishing at.

We got about here,
and we started

talking again about fishing.

And it was at this time where
myself and Detective Pinkett

made eye contact and identified
myself as a police officer

to Larry.

At this time, a brief struggle
ensued right about here.

We all three fell
to the ground here.

We got back to our
feet, still struggling.

And at that point,
we just turned

and threw Larry into the water.

ROBERT STACK: While
the officers regrouped,

George attempted
to flee downriver,

but backup units
quickly cornered him

and he surrendered
without further struggle.

At George's campsite,
police found

a makeshift bunker,
complete with generator,

heater, television, and stove.

The subsequent discovery
of several weapons,

including a speargun
and a sawed-off shotgun,

led investigators to
believe that George

had been prepared
to resist arrest

by whatever means necessary.

BRUCE PINKETT: He knew
he was wanted for murder.

He wasn't going to be taken
alive if he would have

put himself in his hideout.

And if we had discovered
it, we probably

would have had gunfire and
officers would have been hurt.

ROBERT STACK: On April 27,
1994, Larry Donald George

was extradited to
Alabama to face charges

of murder and attempted murder.

It was a long-awaited
moment for Geraldine George

and the families of Ralph
Swain and Janice Morris.

MIKE HAMLIN: They're delighted,
bringing this to an end.

And I can understand their
feelings about the situation

simply because it's
been a long six years,

and really not
knowing where he is

and if he would show back up.

I'm sure that brought
a lot of discomfort

and a lot of sleepless
nights to them,

so I know that they're
very happy that this

is sure to be drawn to a close.

ROBERT STACK: Next,
a man's search

for the sisters
and brother he has

not seen for nearly 30 years.

In the summer of 1961,
Harley and Roni Price

of Wyandotte, Michigan, gathered
their children together to pose

for this happy family portrait.

But appearances
can be deceiving.

Within three years,
Harley and Ronnie

would be permanently separated
and their children scattered,

torn apart by alcoholism.

Eugene Price was just nine
years old at the time.

EUGENE PRICE: I want
to see my sisters,

and I want to see my brother.

That's what I want.

I feel responsible to let them
know about how things happened

between my mom and dad.

Things that they may not
understand because they were

younger that I spent more
time with my dad and mom

and know some of the answers.

But most of all, I want to
find my sisters and my brother

because they're my family.

Eugene Price has spent most
of his adult life searching

for his sisters and brother.

He wants them to know that they
were not abandoned as children,

but were the innocent
victims of their parents'

tumultuous marriage.

Today, along with his brother
Dean and his mother Roni,

Eugene hopes that
one of our viewers

can help reunite them with
the rest of the family.

It was the spring of
1953 in New York City.

Harley Price, nicknamed
Smokey, was a navy veteran

who was working as a
roofer when he began

dating a co-worker's daughter.

Roni.

Roni, right?

- Yeah.
- You know me?

Yeah, I think I do.

Yeah, I work for your dad.
I do roofs.

OK, that's right.

I've seen you come by the house
a few times for the truck,

right?
- Yeah.

ROBERT STACK: Eugene's
mother, Roni, was just 16

and was immediately
swept off her feet.

She had no idea that Harley was
married with a child at home.

Well, I try to get out of
the house as much as possible.

RONI QUERCIO: When
I first met Harley,

I thought he was very
good-looking, very charming.

And it just
snowballed from there.

Can I get a beer?

I was a stupid
16-year-old kid.

I wasn't around.

I didn't know anything.

I was having a hard time at home
and he looked like a way out.

I guess that's it.

He gave me what I
wasn't getting at home.

ROBERT STACK: Within a
year, Roni became pregnant

and gave birth to
her oldest son, Dean.

10 months later,
Eugene was born.

Only then did Harley
and Roni marry.

Over the next six years,
the Prices had three girls,

Debby, Terri, and Sherry.

Eventually, the Prices settled
in Wyandotte, Michigan,

just outside of Detroit.

But as the family grew,
Harley's drinking increased.

Soon, his drunken forays turned
into a full-blown nightmare

for his wife and children.

They lived in a
constant state of fear,

never knowing when
Harley would erupt.

Where have you been?

Out.

Having a little fun,
a little recreation.

We've been waiting
here since 3 o'clock!

Don't start with me.

Well--

Don't start with me!

You could've called.

Oh, shut up!

EUGENE PRICE: He'd
come home late at night

and then we'd hear my
mom and him arguing.

Yeah?

So put him to bed!

I need your help!

EUGENE PRICE: When
he wasn't drinking,

he could be one of the
nicest people you ever met.

It's just that's what the
alcohol had done to him.

It just turned him
into a bad person.

And he just had no
control over it.

You guys stay here.

I'll be right back.

ROBERT STACK: On more
than one occasion,

Harley took his children
along as he made

his rounds at the local bars.

He would lock them
in the car and then

disappear for hours at a time.

RONI QUERCIO: One evening,
I was waiting for Harley

to come home with the kids.

He had taken them out.

It was rainy.

It was cold.

And when I got there, the kids
were all curled up in the car

and he was in the bar, drinking.

I was very upset.

I was very angry because,
the way I looked at it,

they were there almost all
day and he didn't care.

You don't leave kids in a
locked car in the cold weather.

But he didn't care.

ROBERT STACK: At
other times, Harley

would use the children as
pawns in a sadistic game he

would play with their mother.

OK, this is the way
it is for everybody.

You kids have to make a choice.

Both of you.

You have to choose.

If your mom and me split--

if she goes, who do you want
to stay with, me or her?

Huh?

Me?
Huh?

Me?

Do you want to stay with me,
or do you want to go with her?

You, Dad.

We want to stay with you.

EUGENE PRICE: We were scared if
we said our mother that my dad

would get very angry and upset.

And that would either start
another fight with my mom

and dad, or else we would
end up getting spanked

or there would be some
kind of retaliation.

ROBERT STACK: In 1963, the
Price family grew larger,

but the new baby,
Jimmy, was born

with an intestinal blockage
and a defective heart.

For Roni, a bad
situation turned worse.

RONI QUERCIO: He
had heart surgery

when he was three months old.

And then it was in and out
of the hospital for a year.

He'd be home for maybe a day
and then he'd be back in again.

ROBERT STACK: In
1964, tragedy struck.

During a freak storm,
the Prices' house

was hit by lightening
and engulfed in flames.

Everyone escaped,
but the house was

completely destroyed,
and with it, all

of the family's possessions.

RONI QUERCIO: After
the fire, I cracked.

I broke down.

And from there, it
just snowballed.

It was just too
much for me anymore.

ROBERT STACK: Roni
felt she could no

longer tolerate Harley's abuse.

With the help of a friend, she
fled back home to New York.

Two weeks passed
before she realized

the painful consequence
of her actions.

She had gotten away from her
husband, but in the process,

she had lost her
children, as well.

RONI QUERCIO: I called these
people, social services,

and I told them that I would
like to have my children.

I had left.

I want to have my children back.

And they told me,
absolutely not,

that the only way
I could get them

would be to go
back to my husband.

And I told him, no, because
if I went back, he'd kill me.

ROBERT STACK: The social
services representative stepped

in to protect the children.

The three girls
and the baby were

sent to the St. Vincent,
Sarah Fisher Home,

an orphanage just
outside of Detroit.

Eugene and his
older brother, Dean

remained with their father.

Hi.

Hi.

ROBERT STACK: Several months
passed before Harley finally

took Eugene and Dean
to the orphanage

to visit their sisters.

We're OK, too.

Yeah?

Yeah.

Do you go to school here?

Yeah.

Too bad.

Yeah.

EUGENE PRICE: When we went and
seen the girls at Sarah Fisher,

it was, more or
less, we were just

glad to see each other because
we hadn't seen each other

for a period of time.

And while we were there,
we're anticipating

that we're going to get
the family back together.

I think that was part
of the conversation.

And that everything
would be fine.

After we got done talking with
my sisters, which didn't seem

like a long period
of time, my dad says,

it's time for us to leave.

That was the last
time we seen them.

Haven't seen them since.

ROBERT STACK: A few months
later, Dean and Eugene

were taken from their
father and placed

in the foster care system.

Over the next few years,
they would be shuttled

from one family to another.

Eugene eventually
served in the Army,

then settled down and
started his own family.

In 1971, Eugene and Dean
reunited with their mother.

12 years later, their
father, Harley, passed away.

Today, Eugene is determined
to rebuild the family that

was torn apart so long ago.

EUGENE PRICE: My
sisters and my brother,

Jimmy, have always been
in back of my mind.

I love them.

I miss them.

My ultimate goal is to
bring us all back together.

We deserve-- Dean and
I deserve to see them,

and they deserve to see
us and know a little bit

about their original family.

ROBERT STACK: Update.

On the night of our
broadcast, Eugene

was overjoyed to learn
that Sherry, the youngest

of his long-lost sisters,
had seen the story

and was anxious to contact him.

I started crying.

My husband said, what's wrong?
What's wrong?

I said, that's me!
That's me!

I said, that's our family.

And he just started crying.

I got my kids up
and then he started

calling the show as soon as
they showed the number on it.

When Eugene and Sherry spoke
on the phone that evening,

Eugene was saddened to
learn that his younger

brother, Jimmy, had died
of heart disease in 1973.

However, he was thrilled to know
that Sherry, Terri, and Debby

had all been adopted
by the same family

and had been searching for
Eugene and his brother, Dean,

as well.

On February 7, 1993, all
of the Price children

gathered for an
emotional reunion

at a restaurant near Eugene's
home in Taylor, Michigan.

It was their first time
together in 29 years.

TERRI RICHERT: It's
a miracle to me.

I thought the reunion--

it would never come to this.

I thought we'd never
see each other again.

But it happened.

Oh, my god.

EUGENE PRICE: When we seen
each other for the first

time after 20-some years--

You look just like me.

--my son, he started crying.

My wife started crying.

Her daughter started crying.

It was really exciting.

It's exciting to know we
now have a whole new family.

We have the family that we've
been missing all these years

that I have tried to find.

This is my oldest girl, Tracy.

This is my next-oldest
girl, Ginger.

ROBERT STACK: In reuniting
with her sisters,

Eugene and his brother,
Dean, almost got

more than they bargained for.

A small, divided
family had suddenly

blossomed into a
joyful clan of uncles,

aunts, nephews, and nieces.

Now I got three sisters that
I'm going to be able to see

and I haven't seen in years.

It's just unbelievable.

I'm thrilled to death
to have them back.

Now we'll be able to spend the
rest of our lives together.

Join me next time.

Perhaps you may be able
to help solve a mystery.

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