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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 (VOICEOVER):
During the late 1960s,

thousands of curiosity
seekers lined up

to catch a glimpse of
the legendary Iceman,

a mysterious creature reportedly
half man and half ape entombed

in a block of solid ice.

But when the police
began to investigate just

who or what was in the frozen
tomb, the Iceman vanished.

At the age of 10,
Tom Vaughn landed

in a children's home,
the innocent victim

of his parents' bitter divorce.

Tom was absolutely miserable
till he met a boy named Brendan

whose sense of humor and
the irrepressible spirit

helped Tom survive
his darkest hours.

Tonight, Tom would like
to thank the friend

he hasn't seen since 1957.

In 1953, at the height
of the Cold War,

a government scientist
named Frank Olson

plunged to his
death from a hotel

window, an apparent suicide.

22 years later, it was revealed
that just days before he died,

Frank Olson been
unwittingly dosed

with the hallucinogenic
drug LSD as part

of a secret CIA experiment.

Join me as we begin a
fascinating new season.

Perhaps you may be able
to help solve a mystery.

[theme music]

Well, as you can
see, gentlemen,

these are not
ideal circumstances

in which to view the exhibit.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
On a chilly December evening

in 1968, a promoter
named Frank Hanson led

two renowned scientists
into an isolated

barn in southeastern Minnesota.

Mr. Hanson, is the exhibit
ever shown outside the trailer?

No.

It is always shown
only in the trailer.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Ivan Sanderson and Dr. Bernard

Heuvelmans were experts
in the esoteric field

of cryptozoology, a
study of hidden species.

They had come to examine
a peculiar artifact that

had fallen into
Hanson's possession.

Gentlemen, here
is the exhibit.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The
two scientists were astonished.

Entombed in a block
of solid ice was

a mysterious creature
that appeared

to be half man, half ape.

These are actual
photographs of the Iceman.

Sanderson and Heuvelmans
departed, convinced

that this bizarre
sideshow attraction

had genuine scientific value.

But within just a
few short weeks,

the enigmatic
creature had vanished,

and with it any future
opportunity for study.

Who, Or rather what,
was the Iceman?

Most people assumed it was just
what it was purported to be,

an entertaining illusion
created by a master showman.

Sanderson and
Heuvelmans disagreed.

They theorized that the
Iceman was, in reality,

a prehistoric ancestor
of man that has somehow

survived into the 20th century.

This machine
predates the Model T.

It is one of the oldest
tractors in the world,

revolutionized farming--

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
In 1967, Frank Hanson

was traveling the state
fair circuit exhibiting

an antique mechanical
contraption

that he billed as the
first gas-powered tractor.

At one stop, Frank was
allegedly approached

by a mysterious
soft-spoken stranger.

The following recreations are
based upon published accounts.

Sir, may I have a
word with you, please?

Why, certainly.

I find what you're doing
here, sir, is fascinating.

I have an exhibit
that I think would

benefit from your expertise.

Please give me a call.

It might be worth your while.

Thank you.

Thank you.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Hanson later met

the stranger at a
refrigerated warehouse

in some unknown location.

What you are going
to see belongs to me.

How I came by it is my
business and we need

not discuss that at the moment.

Is there some reason it
needs to be kept in such cold?

I think that will be obvious
to you in just a few moments.

Is it real?

Where did you get this from?

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Frank Hanson

knew a golden opportunity
when he saw one.

He agreed to take the
creature on the road

and billed it as an
educational exhibit.

Over the next two
years, the Iceman

became a star attraction at
carnivals and state fairs

throughout the Midwest.

Thousands of people
were fascinated,

but no one seemed
to know what it was.

Zookeeper Bob Surpleski
saw the Iceman

when he was 18 years old.

What I was looking at
was not made out of latex,

it was not made out of rubber.

It did not appear to
be a man-made thing.

It appeared to be something.

But as far as my
opinion, I don't

know what I was looking at.

But I'm sure I was
looking at something dead.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Environmentalist David Rivard

viewed the exhibit in 1968.

The first thing that went
through the average person's

mind was that this was not a
wax animal that he had there.

This was not something
that was a machine.

It was some kind of a
formerly live animal

that was in the block of ice.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Dr. Terry Cullen

is a zoological and
veterinary researcher.

And I had long been an
aficionado of sideshows

and going to see them for
mostly curiosity reasons.

It was always enjoyable.

You always had a great
time trying to find out

what they were doing and
how they had it, what

they did to fool the public.

And about 99% of the--

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): In the past,

Terry Cullen has been reluctant
to deal with the media.

After he agreed
to this interview

to try to clear up past
inaccuracies about the Iceman.

Oh my god.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Cullen first

saw the Iceman when he was 17.

He says the creature
appeared to be a six

foot tall adolescent male.

It was covered with
medium length hair

and had highly
visible follicles.

Cullen also noticed a traumatic
injury to the left side

of the Iceman's face.

There was a noticeable odor
coming out of this casket.

The one thing that there is
no doubt in my mind about

is that the thing
that I observed,

the carcass that I
observed, was in fact

made out of some sort of flesh.

Hi, young man.

You've been here
before, haven't you?

Yes, I have.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Terry Cullen was hooked.

He returned to the exhibit
time and time again.

On one occasion, Cullen
snuck in a magnifying glass.

Frank Hansen had
seemed increasingly

agitated with each
visit, so Terry

made sure he was discreet.

There was something of a
death grimace on the face.

The upper lip was
pulled back a bit.

I was able to observe
all four incisors, which

were very large,
very squarish, very

much like an orang's incisors.

Whatever this was, it
was important enough

to get the necessary
scientific personnel in there

to view it, to establish
that either yes, this

is some form of unknown creature
or no, this is a fake somehow

cleverly constructed from
the parts of other animals

or whatever materials
they were using.

Missing link, huh?

Yeah.

I can't wait for you see this.

Kid, I've been to
a lot of sideshows.

These things always fake.
- No.

This one's amazing.

I think this one's real.

- Don't expect too much.
- Yeah.

Go on.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Over the next few weeks,

Terry Cullen tried to entice
several scientific experts

to view the creature.

Eventually, he convinced
an anthropologist

from the University
of Minnesota.

TERRY CULLEN: He was in
there perhaps 10 to 15

minutes, came back out again.

And he started walking
past where I was standing

and he had sort of a
dreamy look on his face.

I came zipping up to him.

Well, what did you think?

It's amazing.

Yeah?

I mean, well tell me.

It's really amazing.

What did you see out of it.

I mean, what did you--

Thank you.

I remember being practically
close to tears from frustration

that I had finally gotten
someone who at least had

some credibility in the
field of anthropology

to look at this thing and
I couldn't even get six

words out of the gentleman now.

The reasons for that I
can't even speculate on.

At that point, I decided I would
have to pursue other avenues.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): In the end,

it was Terry Cullen
who convinced

Sanderson and Heuvelmans
to examine the Iceman.

TERRY CULLEN: Sandersen and
Heuvelmans were both convinced

that, in fact, this carcass
was a genuine carcass

of some unknown form
of animal or hominid.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
In May of 1969,

Sanderson and
Heuvelmans published

their findings in a tabloid
magazine for science buffs.

National attention quickly
descended upon Frank Hanson,

and before long the authorities
took an interest in Hanson

and the frozen carcass.

In the summer of 1969,
the local sheriff

stopped by Hanson's farmhouse.

Some people think that thing
you've got is the real McCoy.

Of course.

They're supposed to.
- Look, Frank.

If it is, I've got a
couple of problems with it.

Taking a cadaver over
state lines is illegal.

And if it's the real
McCoy, how did it get dead?

Listen, you can come with me
and we'll look at it together.

No, look.

What say I bring a pathologist
back tomorrow morning?

That OK with you?
- Well, sure.

That's OK.

10:00 OK?

That's fine.

- OK.
- See you then.

Sure.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
That very night, Frank Hanson

allegedly beat it
out of town, taking

his controversial
exhibit with him.

A few months later, Hanson
was back on the circuit

with a replica of the
mysterious creature.

The whereabouts of the real
Iceman are still unknown.

This thing may one
day be understood by us

as a genuine object, as
a true representative

of something
primitive and manlike

that is still living today.

If under other circumstances
this kind of thing

is found and
described and matches

those extensive descriptions
by Sandersen and Heuvelmans,

then at that point in time
some day in the future,

we would know that
this was the real thing

that they saw in 1968.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
What was the Iceman,

a primitive human-like
species that

managed to survive
until present day,

an elaborate hoax pulled off
by a professional huckster,

or perhaps some unfortunate
soul who died an untimely death

and ended up as a
sideshow attraction?

Frank Hanson may
be the only person

who can answer these questions,
and he isn't talking.

Despite repeated attempts
to have him share his story,

Hansen declined to
participate in this broadcast.

For now, it seems, the
legend of the Iceman

must remain just that--

a legend.

When we return, perhaps
someone in our audience

will be able to reunite
two childhood friends.

At any moment, any one
of us can meet a person

who changes our lives forever.

In 1956, two
10-year-old boys named

Tom and Brendan met in a
Catholic children's home

in New York City.

By an odd coincidence, they both
had the same last name, Vaughn.

Not so coincidentally,
they both needed a friend.

TOM VAUGHN: I believe
that Brendan saved my life

because he did have
such a unique way

of helping me put things into
their proper perspective.

I don't know what
would have happened

during that first year
had Brendan not been

there to tickle my funny bone.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): How Tom

Vaughn came to be in
the children's home

is a story in itself.

His mother, Jean,
and his father had

gone through a bitter divorce.

By 1954, Jean was hiding Tom
and his little brother, Dick,

from their father.

The boys bounced from rooming
houses to foster homes,

living in nine different places
in less than two years' time.

Finally, they ended
up in the Bronx

in a basement apartment
supervised by kindly

landlord, Sonny [inaudible].

I came about the apartment.

[knocking at door]

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Nevertheless, Jean Vaughn's

life grew increasingly chaotic
and the boys were usually

left to fend for themselves.

Who is it?

It's Mr. C, Tom.

Hey.

Your mother called.

She said she's going to be late.

When's she going to be home?

A couple of hours.

Did you have
something to eat yet?

Oh, we're about to eat.

Oh, yeah.

Well, then maybe--

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Sonny kept an eye on the boys.

In fact, he and his
wife wanted to become

their legal guardians, but
Catholic Charities stepped in.

They were finally convinced
that Jean was an unfit mother.

They pressured her to send
the boy to a children's home.

Tom and Dick were taken
to the Lieutenant Joseph P

Kennedy, Jr Home for
Children in the Pelham

Bay section of the Bronx.

TOM VAUGHN: As we
emerged from the car,

there was an opportunity for
me to take flight and run

down the street and run away.

And yet I knew there
was nothing I could do

and that I had to face what
was about to transpire.

Come along, boys.

Come along.

TOM VAUGHN: I had to
be in charge of Dick

and there was no way in front
of all of these strangers

that I could tell them how I
felt or what I was feeling.

So I was trapped.

And I think maybe
it's time now to go

and get unpacked and settled.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): When
the moment came for the boys

to tell their
mother goodbye, Tom

was paralyzed with fear,
barely able to move

and totally unable to speak.

TOM VAUGHN: I distinctly
remember yelling

to myself, Mom, don't leave us.

Don't allow this to happen.

Don't allow them to
take us from you.

I love you, Dickie.

I was so angry and I
was feeling so much pain

and so much of a
sense of loss that I

was just happy to turn from that
scene and walk out of the room.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): For so long,

Tom and Dick had
been one another's

primary source of strength.

Now, although they can still
see their mother together

on weekends, at the home itself
they were forced to live apart.

Tom sank deeper and
deeper into misery

and turned a sullen
face to his new peers.

Good evening, boys.

I'd like you to meet Tommy.

Tommy, these are going to
be your new dorm mates.

This is Brendan,
Jerry, and Michael.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Tom could never

have guessed that this
boy, Brendan Vaughan,

would be his salvation.

Brendan simply refuse to let
Tom retreat into his shell.

What's your name again, Tommy?

Where you from?

How long you been here?

TOM VAUGHN: He
started talking to me,

but I really wasn't in the
mood for any conversation

whatsoever and sat there
kind of picking at my food.

What happened,
cat got your tongue?

TOM VAUGHN: Well, after
we left the dinner table,

I went back up to my room
and this Brendan character

had the bunk next to mine.

What's your last name?

Vaughn.

Hm.

What a coincidence.

That's my last name.

How do you spell it?

V-A-U-G-H-N.

I spell my a
little differently.

TOM VAUGHN: He had big
freckles and curly brown hair

and he had the Irish accent.

OK.

Lights out, tuck in.

It wasn't too long before
he had me opening up.

And he had a mischievous
manner about him and devilish,

to say the least.

Tommy, tell me when
you fall asleep, OK?

What?

Tell me when you fall asleep.

How can I tell you when I'm
asleep when I'm already asleep?

TOM VAUGHN: He would
do silly little things

to try and make me feel
not so sad or depressed.

Good night, Brendan.

Tommy, why did God make you?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Brendan helped

Tom in other ways, as well.

Why did God make you?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Especially in catechism

class, where the children
were required to deliver

their answers by rote.

TOM VAUGHN: Brendan
whispered up the answer to me

and once again, he
saved my life there

because I'm certain that I would
have been in serious trouble

had I not had that
simple answer.

So we could love
and serve him.

Perfect.

Know what this is?

A rock.

No, a piece of
the Blarney Stone.

What's a Blarney Stone?

It's a magic rock high up
on the castle wall in Ireland.

And if you kiss it,
you have good luck.

TOM VAUGHN: This constant
cajoling by Brendan

put a perspective
on where we were

and the fact that
it wasn't so bad.

I mean, the treatment
there was wonderful.

He began to draw me towards
that perspective of what

was actually going
on there and that it

was kind of a fun place.

So he really from a
therapeutic standpoint

showed me the way to
overcome my depression.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
A year and a half

after Tom and Brendan met,
the inevitable happened.

What are you doing?

I'm packing my suitcase.

Why?

Sister said to get ready
to leave, pack my suitcase

and get ready to leave.

TOM VAUGHN: Brendan
was very quiet

because I think he
was scared and afraid

and didn't know where he was
going or what was happening.

I do remember Brendan
walking down that long hall

and wanting to run after him,
but once again being paralyzed

by my inability to do that.

I mean, I just couldn't
show that kind of emotion.

You take care, you hear?

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Eventually,

Tom and his brother,
Dick, were sent to live

with their father in Montana.

Their mother, Jean, whose
problems had finally

overwhelmed her, died in 1985.

Tom Vaughn is now a
successful investment banker

in Colorado, happily
married and the father

of an 11-year-old daughter.

Tom credits his young friend,
Brendan, with changing

his outlook and his life.

There hasn't been a week
go by in the last 36 years

that I haven't thought of him.

Think you can get--

TOM VAUGHN: I didn't
have an opportunity

to tell him how much I
appreciated what he did for me.

And I think it's
my turn to make him

smile, perhaps to
kiss that Blarney

Stone just one more time.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Within minutes of our broadcast,

Brendan Vaughan called our
phone center from his home

in New York.

We connected him with
Tom Vaughn in Denver

and finally, Tom had his
chance to say thank you.

The two men agreed to
meet in Manhattan on March

6, 1994 at 8:30 AM sharp.

Tom came outside early so he'd
be there to greet Brendan,

but Brendan--

same old Brendan--
surprised him.

They told me [inaudible].

God almighty.

God.
Yeah.

Well, relatively we're
the same height, yeah.

It seems like we
haven't been apart.

He still has the gregariousness
and the power in his voice

and still seems to have the
same approach to things.

So I don't think he's
changed all that much.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Brendan had brought

along his sister, Noreen.

In the hotel lobby, they
met Tom's wife and daughter.

For Brendan, who is divorced
and has no children,

it was like finding
a long lost family.

Hello.

It's really a nice feeling.

I mean, I was really shocked.

When you sit down and say, what
have I done in my life and one

day you know what have you
accomplished and you can't say,

well, I touched anybody's
life, I haven't done anything.

And then all of a
sudden, this pops up,

it's really flattering.

It's really amazing.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Brendan and Noreen,

who was also at the
children's home,

spent the morning
reminiscing with Tom.

It's hard to tell
the nuns apart.

Well, they didn't care as
long as you went in the water.

I was so bad that they
were trying everything

to try to get me to be good.

TOM VAUGHN: As soon as we
got into that conversation,

it was like our
last conversation

had taken place the day
before, so it was very nice.

I'll be captain [inaudible],,
you know, of the honor guard.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Finally, Tom's childhood wounds

are beginning to heal.

The two boys, best friends
before they were separated

more than 35 years ago,
made an instant connection

to their past and
to one another.

TOM VAUGHN: It's
represented closure

for a chapter in my life that
had been very, very difficult.

And so coming here, facing him,
finding him, being here today

is a way to let go of that.

And so I'm very
pleased about that.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Tom
Vaughn and Brendan Vaughan

now hope they will hear from
other alumni of the Lieutenant

Joseph P. Kennedy,
Jr Home for Children,

the very children all now
in their forties and fifties

with whom they once
shared so much.

Next, a government
scientist falls to his death

from a hotel window.

Was it suicide or murder?

In the early morning hours
of November 28, 1953,

a crowd gathered outside of
New York's Hotel Statler.

A man had apparently
jumped to his death

from a 13th story window.

The victim was later
identified as a government

scientist named Frank Olson.

Frank Olson left behind a
wife and three small children.

His sons are now
grown men and are

still trying to
find out what really

happened to their father.

Now in a final
desperate appeal, they

hope someone in our
audience can help

solve this baffling mystery.

Frank Olson died at the height
of the Cold War tensions.

At the time, our leaders
here in Washington, DC,

faced the very real
possibility that we might be

attacked by the Soviet Union.

Just an hour's drive
from where I'm standing,

the country's
technological brain trust

was working at a
feverish pace to develop

a new generation of weapons.

Frank Olsen was heading one of
these projects when he died.

40 years later, the questions
surrounding his death demand

answers.

Frank Olson worked at Fort
Detrick, Maryland, headquarters

for the military's
Biological Warfare Research

and Development Program.

Frank was an expert
in aerobiology,

the delivery of deadly viruses
and infectious microorganisms

via sprays and aerosol cans.

NILS OLSON: My father
was a research scientist

who was involved
with germ warfare,

associated with
the Division, which

stood for special operations.

That was the most top
secret kind of research that

was done out at Fort Detrick.

And some of that
research was being done

in coordination with the CIA.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
At Fort Detrick,

Frank Olson earned the
respect and admiration

of his coworkers.

Then in November of 1953, Frank
went to a three-day conference

with some of his colleagues
and came home a changed man.

The weekend after
that meeting, my father

was severely depressed.

He felt that he had done
something terribly wrong

and he told my mother that
he had done something wrong,

but he couldn't tell her what.

And she asked him whether or
not he had broken security

and he indicated that he
would never do such a thing,

but he felt that he had done
something terribly wrong.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Frank's boss, Vincent Ruwett,

told the Olson's he believed
Frank was on the verge

of a nervous breakdown.

Just before Thanksgiving,
Ruwett took Frank to New York

for treatment.

In New York, Frank shared a
hotel room with Dr. Robert

Lashbrook, a CIA scientist.

Nearly a week passed before
Frank's family heard from him.

Do me a favor?

Would you kiss the kids for me?

ERIC OLSON: My father
seemed a little

more peaceful than he had.

He made a call to my mother
to say he was all right.

Bob, it's getting late.

I'm going to turn the TV off.

They went to sleep
fairly early, about 11:00.

And the next thing we
know from Lashbrook

is that he was awakened by
the sound of crashing glass.

[glass breaking]

Frank?

Oh my god.

Frank Olson was
dead at the age of 43.

The investigators later
determined that he had either

jumped or fallen to his death.

I remember as a nine-year-old
and actually for years after

that, I was completely stumped
and dumbfounded by trying

to resolve that alternative.

There's a big difference
between fall or jump

and I couldn't understand
how either of them

could have occurred.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
The Olsons weren't alone.

The night manager of the hotel
found Frank's death suspicious,

as well.

I rushed outside to find
Frank Olson, eyes wide open,

looking straight at me,
trying to tell me something.

OK.

OK, buddy.

ARMOND PASTORE: He was
definitely trying to speak,

but there was nothing
coming out but grumbles.

He was in terrible condition.

And by this time, then
the ambulance came

and I stepped back
because now I had

to find out where he came from.

So I looked up the building and
finally I saw a little movement

out of a window shade.

Then when I
concentrated on that,

then I see that the
window shade was

stuck through a broken window.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Armond Pastore I immediately

took the police to room 1019A.

ARMOND PASTORE: And here
is Lashbrook sitting

on the john in his skivvies.

Then the police
start to question him

and I heard him say, well,
all I heard was a crash.

I walked around the
room to look around.

Look at this in here.

ERIC OLSON: Nobody ever
jumps through a window.

They open the window and they
go out, not dash through a shade

and a sheer drape.

There's no sense to that.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): 22 years

would pass before
Frank Olson's family

hurt Armond Pastore's account.

All they were told in
1953 was that Frank

had suffered a nervous
breakdown and committed suicide.

Then in 1975, a
government commission

was formed to investigate past
abuses committed by the CIA.

Among other incidents,
the official report

made mention of a
scientist who had plunged

to his death from a
hotel room 10 days

after being dosed with LSD.

That scientist turned
out to be Frank Olson.

Over the next year and
a half, the Olson family

received a formal
apology from President

Gerald Ford and a check from
the government for $750,000.

They Olsons also met with
then CIA Chief William Colby.

As a result of the meeting
with William Colby at the CIA,

we were given what was
supposedly a complete set

of documents relating to the
events of the last nine days

of my father's life.

I should have the results
back on the toxicology tests--

NILS OLSON: We learned that he
had gone to a retreat in Deep

Creek Lake, in western
Maryland, with a group

of other scientists.

The principle of the meeting
was that they were going to be

discussing ongoing research.

But in fact, there
were agents in the CIA

who were meeting with them who
decided that they were going

to give them each a dose of
LSD without their knowledge

or consent and then see
what their reaction was.

Anyone for a drink?

The Olsons learned that the
LSD was slipped into an after

dinner liqueur by
either Sidney Gottlieb,

head of the CIA's
Technical Services staff,

or his deputy, Dr.
Robert Lashbrook.

Help yourself.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
The CIA reportedly feared

that the Soviet
Union might employ

LSD to produce anxiety or
terror in captured CIA agents.

Gottlieb believed
that his test would

help prepare American
operatives for that eventuality.

Thank you, Sidney.

Just what I needed.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The
laced drinks were served eight

of the 10 scientists present.

Some of them,
including Frank Olson,

were not told about the test.

--fish the first
day we were there.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Within an hour,

the LSD began to take effect.

Dude, the most
wonderful thing.

Gentlemen?

Gentlemen, are we all
feeling a bit strange?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
When Gottlieb informed

the drug-induced gathering
that their drinks

had been spiked with LSD,
Frank Olson became incensed.

What?

Wait a minute, you did what?

We're having an
experiment here.

You put a drug in our drinks.

Yes, yes.

We're in the middle
of an experiment.

NILS OLSON: We understood that
my father was quite agitated

and was having serious
confusion with separating

reality from fantasy.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Less than a week later, Frank

made his ill-fated
trip to New York,

supposedly suffering
from a nervous breakdown.

Well, Frank, how
are you feeling today?

I feel lousy, doctor.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Frank was taken

to see Dr. Harold Abramson,
an LSD expert who worked

extensively with the CIA.

It's been continuing
for about a week now.

Look at me, please.

You were saying that you
weren't resting very well.

Is that improving?

No, I'm not resting,
I haven't been

able to sleep for over a week.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Accompanying Frank

were Robert Lashbrook and
Frank's boss, Vincent Ruwett.

Frank, sit down.

I don't want to sit down.

I can't sit down.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Frank remained in New York

and over the next several
days made repeated

visits to the doctor's office.

Someone has been following me.

ERIC OLSON: From the
documents we have,

it's impossible
to deduce what was

accomplished in those meetings.

And you certainly don't see
any indication that a treatment

process was occurring.

You can suspect that some
kind of assessment process

was going on, the
purpose of which

was more to protect
the CIA's interests

than it was to help my father.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Apparently,

the pattern continued in
the immediate aftermath

of Frank's death.

For some unexplained
reason, Robert Lashbrook

never phoned for help.

However, he allegedly did
make a disturbing call

which was overheard
by the hotel operator.

[switchboard ringing]

ARMOND PASTORE: In those days,
all the calls were manual.

You called the operator and you
told her what number you want

and she would dial it for you.

Then she'd listen to see
that you got connected.

When the man in the
room called this number,

he said, well, he's gone.

And the man on the other end
said, well, that's too bad.

And they both hung up.

I mean, what's more
suspicious than that?

You don't have to be
a genius to figure out

that there's something amiss.

Who said, Hamlet said, there's
something rotten in Denmark?

I mean, I knew there
was something rotten

at the Pennsylvania
hotel that night.

I'd like to emphasize
at the beginning

that there are
many things that we

still don't know
about the events

surrounding my father's death.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
When the news first

broke about Frank's
suicide, Armand Pastore

contacted the Olson
family and told them

about the mysterious phone call.

The Olsons immediately
began to suspect that Frank

had not taken his own life.

I believe that what happened
was that my father was

considered a security risk,
that the CIA either formally

or informally decided that
it was in the country's

or in the agency's best
interests to have my father

either take his own life or
that he needed to be eliminated.

I'm going to do
everything that you

tell me to do, I promise you.

NILS OLSON: One of the
nights that my father was up

in New York, he was
having delusions

that he was hearing voices.

And in the middle
of the night, he

woke up and went and threw
all his identification

out and his money.

All right.

Get rid of all of my money
and my identification.

OK.

You have to see that
as an obvious sign

of a suicidal tendency.

Well, to keep my father in a
10th floor room, which actually

was 13 storeys off the
ground, to me is the epitome

of irresponsibility.

In 1993, Frank's widow,
Alice, passed away.

Eric and Nils had their father's
body moved to rest beside her.

But before Frank
was reinterred, they

asked forensic scientist
Professor James

Starrs to perform an autopsy.

Quite frankly,
we had no idea what

the condition of the remains
would be after 41 years.

We were delighted
that the remains

were in perfect condition
for our analysis.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): As part

of his overall investigation,
Professor Starrs

and his colleagues
went to the old Hotel

Statler, which is now known
as the Hotel Pennsylvania.

The first thing that
Professor Starrs looked for

was evidence that
Frank had, indeed,

smashed through a window.

The medical
examiner in New York

who did an external
examination back in 1953

said there were
multiple lacerations

on the face and neck.

There were none.

I mean, zero.

Soon after that
finding was made public,

Lashbrook changes his story
which he's held to for 40 years

and suddenly now
starts saying that he

can't remember whether
the window, in fact,

was open or closed.

The window was
completely gone.

There was little glass
around it on the fringes

and the shade was stuck
out through the glass.

At some point, he
had to hit some glass.

I cannot believe that he
wouldn't have gotten cuts

in the lower extremities
of his body--

on the front of the legs.

We don't find any cuts.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Professor Starrs

did find that
Frank had sustained

extensive injuries to his
head, chest, and right leg.

When you have
fractures as massive

and in different locations as
these fractures clearly are,

they indicate a
tremendous amount

of force that caused those.

Well, clearly, he was
falling from the building.

If he struck his foot and that
caused the massive injuries,

the question for
us is, well, how

did he get the massive
injuries on his chest?

If he hit his chest, well, how
did he get the massive injuries

on his foot?

If it was a glancing blow
against an abutment on the way

down, the likelihood
of his having

the massive injuries from a
glancing blow is very remote.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
What happened to Frank Olson?

Professor Starr's analysis
is not yet complete,

but his preliminary findings
paint a disturbing scenario.

It's getting worse.

Clearly, in this case
there is foul play

on the part of the CIA in giving
him LSD in the first place

and making a guinea pig
out of the way they did.

But foul play of the
homicide type, that's

what we're in this business
to try to find out.

As I say, the evidence
is beginning to mount.

I looked at this
case for 14 months

and I found no evidence that
points directly to murder.

I don't rule it out, but I found
no evidence that would indicate

to me that that would happen.

And I have to tell you
it seems unlikely to me

that the CIA people in
the context the 1950s

would have killed a colleague.

I can see them doing something
like this against a Soviet

or an enemy, but
not a colleague.

I think the Olson
case must be resolved.

That family deserves
to know and I

think the American people
now deserve to know

the truth of what happened.

It's been a long time ago,
they don't have to hide behind

their classified
documents, behind all

of their stealth information,
and their sleazy little James

Bond stories.

Tell us what happened
to Frank Olson.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Congressman Traficant

is now calling for an
official investigation

into the death of Frank Olson.

Perhaps after more than
40 years of secrecy,

the true story behind
this Cold War mystery

will finally be told.

When we return, the
dramatic capture of a man

suspected of murder.

April 24th, 1994.

Along the Christina
River in Delaware,

authorities close in
on a dangerous fugitive

who has been wanted
on murder charges

for more than six years.

The suspect is
38-year-old Larry Donald

George, a former
Army enlisted man

and self-styled survivalist.

You know you're not
supposed to be here.

Where you been?

That's none of your business.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
On February 12th, 1988,

George confronted his estranged
wife, Geraldine, at her home

in Talladega, Alabama.

You're gonna listen to me.

You're gonna listen to me.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Geraldine

ran next door for help.

Larry George followed.

[gunshot]

Geraldine's neighbor,
Janice Morris,

was shot once in the chest.

Larry, please stop.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Next, Larry allegedly took aim

at Geraldine.
[gunshot]

- Janice?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Janice's boyfriend,

Ralph Swain, heard the
commotion and ran downstairs.

[gunshot]

Ralph Swain was shot in
the back of the head.

Janice Morris was pronounced
dead at the scene.

Ralph Swain was rushed
to a local hospital

where he died a
short time later.

Geraldine George
survived the shooting

but was left paralyzed
from the waist down.

For more than six years, she
lived with the bitter knowledge

that her husband
was still at large.

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
I 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 (VOICEOVER):
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 spear gun
and a sawed-off shotgun,

led investigators to
believe that George

had been prepared
to resist arrest

by whatever means necessary.

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'd have
discovered, he probably

would have had gunfire and
officers would have been hurt.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
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 Jones

and the families of Ralph
Swain and Janice Morris.

They're delighted
that this is kind

of 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 that brought a
lot of discomfort and a lot

sleepless nights to them.

So I know that they're
very happy that this

is short of being
drawn to a close.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Join me

next Sunday for another
fascinating edition

of "Unsolved Mysteries."

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