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NARRATOR: 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: Eric Danowski
of Erie, Pennsylvania

was born with a
serious liver disease.

After two unsuccessful
transplants,

doctors doubted the boy would
live to see his first birthday.

Then Eric's plight
was publicized

and area churches were swamped
by hundreds of worshipers

praying for his recovery.

Today, Eric Danowski is a
happy, healthy 7-year-old,

a living testament, some would
say, to the mysterious power

of prayer.

When he was arrested at
the tender age of 21,

Lionel Luviano was
considered one of the most

powerful drug lords in Texas.

But while awaiting
trial, Luviano

was transported to a private
hospital for medical treatment.

Even though he was
under guard, Luviano

soon engineered a
bold escape, cleverly

disguised as his own sister.

In South Dakota a
night of partying

culminated in terror
for three young friends.

However, this was no routine
case of drinking and driving.

By the time help arrived,
two of the car's occupants

had inexplicably vanished.

Police scoured
the area for days,

yet found no trace of
the missing couple.

Incredibly, three months
later, their bodies

were discovered
floating in a ditch

just 75 feet from
the crash site.

Police now fear they were
victims of foul play,

but how and why remains
a troubling mystery.

Join me tonight for
this intriguing new case

and much more on
another fascinating

of "Unsolved Mysteries."

[theme music]

Over a century ago, the
poet Alfred Lord Tennyson

wrote "more things
are wrought by prayer

than this world dreams of."

But these days, at least
when things are going well,

it seems that many of us are
almost too busy for prayer.

It can be quite
different, however,

when a life hangs
in the balance.

You're about to meet two people,
a woman and a little boy,

who believe their lives
were changed by prayer.

Friday, December 1, 1991.

Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

During a follow-up exam,
42-year-old Kathleen Burghardt

is stunned when a sonogram
confirms a large lump

in her right breast.

Catherine's doctors
feared the worst, cancer.

She was directed to
come back on Monday

for a biopsy and
possible mastectomy.

I just went into
an absolute panic.

I had known two women that
were younger than I that

are dead from breast cancer.

So I had this anxiety
and this panic

about not having breast
surgery or even a biopsy.

I didn't even want a biopsy.

ROBERT STACK: Kathleen
had read about the power

of prayer and meditation and
done a little bit of both.

But over the weekend, she
intensified her efforts.

KATHLEEN BURGHARDT: I went home
and I literally told everybody

to leave me alone, that I
was going to concentrate

my whole weekend on healing,
and that I was going

to have that surgery on Monday.

I put into practice
everything that I've

been reading about fasting and
went on a fruit juice and fruit

fast and didn't eat any meat
or any other kind of meals

and listened to the tapes
and did a lot of praying,

got down on my knees and just
really asked God to heal me.

Take this away
from me, please.

I didn't hear audible
voices, but I just

heard a still, small
voice in my head,

just like you read
about in the books.

I felt the peace that
passes all understanding.

I felt very peaceful,
very calm, very serene.

The fear went away,
the anxiety went away.

I became very convinced
that I was healed

and that this was totally gone.

All right, let's
see what we got.

ROBERT STACK: On Monday,
Kathleen was X-rayed again just

prior to her biopsy.

I don't see any lumps.

There are no lumps
in the breast today.

Are you sure these
are her pictures?

Yes.

You didn't take any
other patients' pictures?

No.

Would you go get the doctor.

Have a seat, we're going
to talk to the doctor.

Doctor, this is what
I wanted to show you.

The pictures that we took today
and the pictures from Friday.

What happened here?

There are no
lumps in her breast.

ROBERT STACK: Kathleen's
doctor was dumbfounded.

He was cautious and wanted
to conduct a biopsy anyway.

But Kathleen was adamant,
she was going home.

While I was leaving the
hospital I was getting dressed

and I was telling all of
the nurses and everybody,

I'm out of here, I'm
gone, I'm healed.

I said, this is an early
Christmas present from God.

For many years,
doctors have called

these phenomena
spontaneous remissions

and explained it
away, oh, that's

just a spontaneous remission.

But what is that?

This is a healing.

And we have to, as healers,
find out how this happens,

what are the mechanisms
so that more people

can have this experience.

ROBERT STACK: Kathleen
has been healthy

for more than three years.

She continues to
meditate and pray and go

in for regular breast exams.

But was she actually helped
by the power of prayer?

Some are skeptical.

There's no question that
the mind exerts an influence

over what happens in the body.

The issue at hand is whether
prayer or any other kind

of mental exercise can
predictably influence

what happens to a person.

And with respect to
prayer, there simply

is no evidence that it does.

ROBERT STACK: Dr. Larry
Dossey, former chief

of staff at Medical
City Hospital in Dallas,

Texas, takes issue
with Dr. Barrett.

One of the best kept
secrets in modern medicine

is the scientific data
surrounding prayer.

Currently, there
are over 130 studies

showing that if you bring
prayer into the laboratory,

the hospital, or
the clinic and you

do what we call a controlled
double blind study,

the prayer works.

The most significant study
in the century, I think,

was done by Dr. Randolph
Byrd at the University

of California Medical
School in San Francisco.

It took place in the coronary
care unit, almost 400 people

were involved, they
either had a heart

attack or severe chest pain.

Everybody gets treated
with state of the art

coronary care techniques.

The difference was that half
the people get prayed for.

This was a double blind
study, nobody knew who was

and wasn't being prayed for.

The results showed that
the prayed for patients

did significantly better.

They needed fewer drugs,
there were fewer deaths

and they prayed for group, and
nobody in the prayed for group

wound up on a
mechanical ventilator.

12 of the people
not being prayed for

had to have this done.

ROBERT STACK: Many in
the medical community

find Dr. Byrd's
study unconvincing.

And even his proponents admit
that when it comes to prayer,

you cannot adequately monitor
a human control group.

But sometimes, as in our next
story, the life of a child

can make scientific studies
seem completely irrelevant.

On March 2, 1988, at Children's
Hospital in Pittsburgh,

Pennsylvania, world-renowned
organ transplant specialist Dr.

Thomas Starzl worried
over one of his patients,

an 11-month-old baby boy,
Eric Danowski, who had just

undergone a liver transplant.

By the time he had his first
transplant in February of 1988

he was already quite ill.

His outlook became progressively
worse because the first liver

was rejected, necessitating
a second one which was down

about eight or nine days later.

The second one, I was
like, how much more can

his little body take, you know?

He was so frail.

He had bones sticking
out of his back,

he was so skinny and
had been bedridden

for so long that we weren't--

you know, you had
your doubts, you know?

I mean I kept my faith,
kept positive attitude.

But in the back of your mind
there's always that doubt.

Is he really going to be able
to pull through all this,

you know?

ROBERT STACK: Three weeks
after Eric's second transplant

his parents were
put on alert again.

Dr. Starzl was not optimistic.

Dr. Starzl, how Eric?

I'm afraid not good.

Eric has developed
viral pneumonia.

And I give him about
a 50-50 chance.

50-50?

What can you do for him?

There's really
nothing more we can do.

I think you should prepare
yourself for the worst

in the next 48 hours.

48?

I'm sorry.

DEBBIE DANOWSKI: And
down inside I guess I

wouldn't accept that, you know?

But hearing is from
such a powerful doctor

who has been through
so much and has seen

so much that it was a very
scary thought coming, you know,

a statement coming from him.

I didn't want to hear that
my son wasn't going to live.

There's nothing more
the doctors could do

and there was
nothing we could do.

And the only thing
that we had left

was to hope that the Lord
would answer our prayers.

He said that the next
48 hours are very crucial.

ROBERT STACK: That same night,
Debbie spoke with Jack Grazier,

a newspaper reporter who
had written several articles

about Eric's medical odyssey.

Jack told Debbie he would
write another piece asking

his readers to pray for the boy.

The article appeared in
the Erie, Pennsylvania,

Daily Times a few days later.

Immediately, churches all
over central Pennsylvania

were inundated with
worshipers praying

for little Eric Danowski.

DEBBIE DANOWSKI: I felt
that heaven was bombarded

that night with prayers.

And I really,
really felt strongly

in the power of prayer.

We both went
down to the chapel

and we were like, God, whatever
you have in store for us,

just give us the
strength to deal with it.

Whether you want Eric
or whether you're

going to keep them with us.

We want him with us but
just give us some strength

and we'll deal with what
we have to deal with.

ROBERT STACK: Within a few
days it seemed that a miracle

was taking place.

Eric experienced a sudden
and unexpected turn around.

Less than a week later, it
was Eric's first birthday.

His family and medical
team gathered to celebrate.

Hi, Dr. Starzl.

Well, I've got some pretty
good news for you folks

on his birthday.

What?

Looks like Eric
has beaten the virus.

Really?

Are you serious, doctor?

Mm-hmm.

That's great.

DEBBIE DANOWSKI:
I feel in my heart

that Eric's recovery was
definitely a miracle.

He was just such a
very sick little boy.

I've had some of the best
doctors in the world state

that medically there
was nothing more

that they could do for him.

It was the first
day that I think

I felt like a really
sense of relief

that he was going to make it.

Did prayer give
Eric a booster?

I don't know.

When I was young,
I would probably

have scoffed at the idea.

But I've seen things
and uncovered things

over the last
nearly 40 years that

make me unwilling to
be nihilistic about any

possibility.

And I think that
includes prayer.

ROBERT STACK: Eventually,
Eric underwent

a third liver transplant,
this one a resounding success.

Today Eric is eight years
old and going strong,

more than able to keep
up with his big brother.

Thankfully, Eric was far too
young to remember his ordeal.

His parents have told
him about it, though,

and he thinks he understands.

When I found out
how sick I was I

realized that I was very
sick and a lot of people

were praying for me.

I want to make one
thing perfectly clear,

if you've got appendicitis, you
ought to have an appendectomy.

We're not advising
people to give

up drugs and surgical procedures
and just wing it with prayer.

On the other hand,
you should feel free

while you're doing
that, while you're

having surgery for
your appendicitis,

to get prayed for, too.

Because there are
studies which show,

literally, that prayer
increases the healing

rate of surgical wounds.

So we ought to do what works.

I think this just falls in
the category of common sense.

ROBERT STACK: Did
prayer help Kathleen

Burghardt and Eric Danowski?

Each of us must
decide for ourselves.

While prayer can never
take the place of medicine,

it seems to offer
a powerful assist.

Next, authorities need
your help to capture

a fugitive drug lord
who escaped from custody

dressed as a woman.

[theme music]

August 4, 1994.

21-year-old Lionel
Luviano was arrested

in Houston, Texas,
the culmination

of a six month sting operation.

Despite his youth,
Luviano was a key figure

in an international drug
ring that reportedly moved

nearly a quarter of a
million dollars in the heroin

every month.

Since the tender age of
17, Luviano had enjoyed

a Playboy's lavish lifestyle.

Cars, motorcycles,
expensive clothes,

and plenty of girlfriends.

The one thing he
had never planned on

was serious jail time.

But with his arrest
for heroin trafficking,

Luviano faced the
very real possibility

of spending the best years
of his life behind bars.

Lionel Luviano, however,
had no intention of trusting

his fate to the legal system.

Shortly before his arrest he
had wrecked his motorcycle

and sustained serious injuries.

While Luviano awaited
trial, authorities

have no choice but
to let him continue

his medical treatments outside
of jail in a private facility.

Luviano was transferred to a
guarded room in Houston's LBJ

Hospital, where he would be
shackled to his bed 24 hours

a day.

Luviano shared room 3B3
with a total stranger

named Vasquez Martinez,
the recent victim

of an armed robbery.

A week past uneventfully.

Then on October 4, visitors
arrived unannounced.

Three individuals,
two women and a man,

walked into LBJ
Hospital, did not

have to go through
any security measures

as this is not an institution,
walked up to the third floor,

Lionel Luviano's room.

We're here to see our friend
Vasquez Martinez, please.

Yes, sir.

ROBERT MASAITIS:
They indicated they

were going to visit the
individual across the bed

from Lionel Luviano.

Vazquez.

ROBERT MASAITIS: The
guard was in a position

to see them walk over to
the other individuals bed

so he felt comfortable in
the fact, as would anybody,

that they were just visiting the
individual across the bed who

was not a prisoner and he
was able to have visitors

at any time of the day.

ROBERT STACK: On that day,
behind the door of room 3B3,

an incredible escape
began to unfold.

Vazquez, we got some
business to take care of.

Shh.

ROBERT STACK: In reality,
the three visitors

were one of Luviano's sisters
and two other family members.

What's going on?

Shut up.

Never mind.

ROBERT STACK: Vasquez
Martinez would soon

realize were the three
strangers had in mind.

Believing they were
armed, Martinez could only

look on in stunned disbelief.

Meanwhile, Lionel is in the
midst of a total makeover.

A shave.

Here's your clothes.

ROBERT STACK: A simple, full
cut, two peace crepe suit.

Then a wig, a dash of makeup,
and the transformation

was complete.

I think-- I look OK?

Yeah.

You look great.
Come on.

Yeah.

[non-english speech]

ROBERT STACK: Lionel Luviano
was about to make his escape,

masquerading as his own sister.

The guard outside
of the hospital room

was not surprised when he
saw two women and a man

leave the room,
that's what he had

observed walk into the room.

ROBERT STACK: Luviano's
sister stayed behind.

With a concealed gun she kept
the bewildered Vasquez Martinez

from sounding the alarm.

She would later slip
away during the commotion

following the discovery
of Luviano's escape.

The clever charade had
gone exactly as planned.

Eventually, Luviano's
accomplices will be captured.

But to this day, the
cross-dressing drug lord

remains on the lam.

Lionel Luviano was looking
at approximately 20 years

in prison.

Being that it being
a federal prison,

he would approximately
do 19 of those years.

There's very little good
time given in such like this.

So I'm sure that this played
quite heavily on his mind,

his desire to escape.

Lionel Luviano led a very
extravagant lifestyle when he

was free in the Houston area.

There's no doubt in my mind
that he is attempting to still

live that type of a lifestyle.

He's 21 years old and had all
the luxuries of an extremely

extravagant individual.

[theme music]

ROBERT STACK: Lake Andes, South
Dakota, December 12, 1992.

At 6:00 in the
morning a car stopped

at a remote intersection
at the edge of the Yankton

Sioux Indian reservation.

It was cold.

The road was icy.

All three of the car's
occupants had been drinking.

[interposing voices]

[screaming]

The car jumped the
highway and came

to rest on a frozen over ditch.

The driver of the car was
20-year-old Arnold Archambeau.

One of the passengers
was his girlfriend,

Ruby Bruguier, age 19.

The other passenger was Ruby's
cousin, 17-year-old Tracy Dion.

Hello?

Anybody down there?

ROBERT STACK: By the
time help arrived,

Tracy was the only
person still in the car.

Are you OK?

ROBERT STACK: For some
unexplained reason,

a reason Tracy still
cannot understand,

Arnold and Ruby
had apparently just

walked away and abandoned her.

I was really scared because,
gee, Ruby's my cousin,

you know?

How can she leave me, you know?

If she got out, how come she
didn't want to help me out?

Or why didn't Arnold try to
help me get out, too, you know?

ROBERT STACK: Why did
Arnold and Ruby leave

their best friend trapped
in an overturned car

in the bitter cold?

For three months
there were no signs

whatsoever of the young couple.

They had quite literally
vanished into thin air.

Then came the
morning of March 10,

1993, and a tragic discovery.

The body of Ruby Bruguier was
found floating in the ditch.

The next day, Arnold's
body turned up

just a few yards away.

What could have
happened to Arnold

Archambeau and Ruby Bruguier?

The area surrounding the
ditch had been repeatedly

searched in the weeks
after the accident.

Yet The bodies were found just
75 feet from the crash site.

In this incredible
and bizarre case,

every answer seems to give rise
to another disturbing question.

And one question in
particular haunts

every aspect of
the investigation,

were Arnold Archambeau
and Ruby Bruguier

the victims of foul play?

Arnold and Ruby were
both Yankton Sioux.

They grew up together
on the reservation,

began dating in high school,
and soon fell in love.

Arnold was a very
nice young man.

He's never been in any
serious trouble of any kind.

I pushed him and pushed him and
I got him graduated and he was

crowned king in his
senior year, you know,

when he was at the
prom and all this.

He was really popular.

Ruby is a real gentle person.

She's always laughing, you know?

She jokes around.

She never said any
harsh words to us.

You know, of she'd
done anything wrong

she always told us that
she did do something wrong.

ROBERT STACK: In 1991, Arnold
and Ruby became parents when

their daughter Erica was born.

From the start,
it was a struggle.

Arnold and Ruby were still
kids themselves and hardly

ready to settle down.

On Saturday, December 11,
1992, Ruby, Arnold, and Tracy

embarked on an all
night party spree.

At around 6:00 the
next morning, they

ended up back at Tracy's house
where they had left the baby.

Tracy's father was
waiting for them.

Hey, Charlie.

Arnold.

Just came to get Erica.

Hi, kids.

Hi.

You kids been drinking
pretty heard tonight, huh?

Just a little.

Why don't you
guys leave her here

and come back later this
afternoon pick her up, then?

All right.

Tracy?

Um, I think I'm going
to go with these guys

for a while longer, dad.

OK.

You guys drive careful now, OK?

Bye.

See ya.

We left from there
and that's when

we came up to that stop sign.

That's all I
remember is just him,

you know, us looking and,
you know, saying there

ain't no cars and him spinning
out from the stop sign.

And it was just the
snap of a finger.

Next thing I know we
end up in a ditch.

[screaming]

Somebody help us.

Help.

Arnold, help.

We were upside down in
the ditch and just Ruby

and I was in the car, you
know, Arnold wasn't in the car.

I don't know where he was.

Ruby was crying.

She was saying, oh
my god, oh my god.

She just kept hitting the car.

The next thing I know, the
door was opened a little ways

and she had enough room
where she slid out.

And then so I was
going to reach over

and then it was just like
that, the door went shut.

Somebody, Ruby,
please help me.

Ruby.

TRACY DION: I know if that
was me and I had gotten out,

I wouldn't have left without
trying to get Ruby out,

you know?

Why she left, I don't know.

Why Arnold left, I don't know.

If they left together,
I don't know.

I don't know why.

ROBERT STACK: By
daybreak, the police were

already searching the area.

Even though the spot where
the car had come to rest

was frozen solid,
the authorities

feared that Arnold
and Ruby had wandered

off and fallen through the
ice in some other location.

BILL YOUNGSTROM: We walked
around the ice part.

We had one officer walk on the
opposite side of the railroad

tracks thinking maybe they
wandered off toward the lake

area, which was also frozen.

I've been to a
number of accidents

where there hasn't
been somebody around,

the driver hasn't been
there, no passengers there.

And a lot of times
it's because they've

been partying, out drinking,
I mean, we do have a DWI law.

That was initially
my first thought.

Maybe Arnold was out
drinking and didn't

want to get arrested.

So we figured he'd
show up in a few days.

I know he wouldn't
hide, you know,

he would of came home to us
or called us and told us,

I'm over here.

Don't worry about me.

But we never heard
anything from him.

And I thought,
well, gee, you know,

it's not like her to
leave her baby this long

so maybe there is
something wrong somewhere

or maybe she's hurt or she
can't get to us, you know?

ROBERT STACK: The
police never found

any evidence that
Arnold and Ruby

had fallen through the ice.

Over the next three
months, deputy Youngstrom

turned the search into
a personal crusade.

He worked tirelessly
investigating

every possible lead.

Day after day he came up
empty, until the spring thaw.

In early March, a
passing motorist

saw a body in the ditch just
75 feet from the accident site.

It was Ruby Bruguier.

I was very shocked
the morning that I

received the radio transmission
that they had found a body.

Of course, it wasn't broadcasted
any names across but I knew

immediately who they had found.

It was either going to be Ruby
Bruguier or Arnold Archambeau.

Her glasses were missing,
both shoes were missing,

her clothes were
intact, it appeared

to be the same
clothes that she had

on the night of the accident.

But the body was
very decomposed,

it was hard to recognize.

And, in fact, we had to get
down to look at a tattoo

to get a positive
identification on the body.

At that time, our
department decided

that we would start pumping
the ditch out and about noon

the next day we found
the body of Arnold

submerged in the water
about 15 feet away

from where we found Ruby.

Arnold's body was
very well kept.

His skin color was fine, he
was not frozen to the ground,

the clothes were not
frozen to the ground.

There is a question mark as
far as in our investigation

if he was wearing the
same clothes that he

was the night of the accident.

ROBERT STACK: Deputy Youngstrom
was completely baffled.

How could two bodies
found in the same location

be in such different
states of decomposition?

And how could they end up
in an area that had already

been so thoroughly searched?

The bodies were
immediately autopsied,

but the results only served
to deepen the mystery.

There was no way of
determining the time of death

and there seemed to be
no evidence of foul play.

The coroner concluded
that Arnold and Ruby

had both died of exposure.

Death by exposure
is kind of to me

it's just like
they froze to death

and I cannot actually buy that.

They may have froze to
death, but they didn't

freeze to death at that ditch.

That's impossible that
they could have been

there the entire three months.

I myself personally walked
that ditch several times

during that period.

I've gotten written affidavits
from people that's also

walked it, people that had
nothing to do with the case.

They couldn't have been there.

They couldn't have been missed.

ROBERT STACK: Police
were further baffled

by the discovery of two
items that seemed to support

the theory that Arnold
and Ruby had not died

in the ditch on December 12.

Bill, you want
to come over here?

I got some thing here.

We found a tuft of
hair alongside the road.

This hair was later determined
by the forensic laboratory

to belong to Ruby Bruguier.

That hair couldn't have
stayed there for three months.

In my opinion, it was when
whoever brought the bodies back

to the ditch, that's
when that piece of hair

fell off of Ruby prior to being
placed back in the ditch area.

At the time we pulled
Arnold's body from the ditch

I found a set of
keys in his pocket.

The keys were a car or
vehicle key and what

appeared to be two house keys.

I still have these keys in my
possession and to this day,

I have not found the vehicle nor
the house that these keys fit.

Hi Arnold, what are you doing?

Nothing, just driving around.

ROBERT STACK: Soon, another
startling revelation.

A witness claimed to have seen
Arnold accompanied by three

other people on New Year's
Eve, almost three weeks

after he was reported missing.

All right.
We'll tell you when.

OK, then.

All right, later.

Later.

In my mind, it is a
very credible sighting.

She talked to Arnold,
knows Arnold personally,

and wasn't a doubt in
her mind that it was

Arnold that she was talking to.

Do you think you
were mistaken when you

seen Arnold on New Year's Eve?

No.

ROBERT STACK: Authorities
brought the witness

in for a polygraph exam.

She passed.

Later, the couple she
identified as being

in the backseat of the car
also underwent a polygraph.

They denied being there but
they did failed a polygraph.

And we questioned those two
people thoroughly afterwards

and they held to their story
that they were not there

that night, they never
seen Arnold or Ruby

during those three
months and said that they

were at home that evening.

ROBERT STACK: How did the bodies
of Arnold Archambeau and Ruby

Bruguier end up
in the very ditch

where they crashed their
car three months earlier?

A bizarre coincidence?

An oversight by the police?

Or perhaps something
far more insidious.

Didn't die there.

They had to die someplace else.

Someone had to come and
put them back in there

again to make it look like
that that's where they died.

I believe that someone
done that, you know,

someone killed Arnold.

I really do believe that.

But how, I don't know.

Ruby and Arnold
had a daughter.

She's going to grow up
without a mother and father.

They were taken from her.

When she asks me
the question, what

happened to my mom and dad?

I don't want to
say, I don't know.

I want to be able to
tell her what happened.

Mama.

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ROBERT STACK: Time has not
dimmed image, Al Henderson

and Jean Moore
during happier days,

before Jean's unexplained
disappearance, before Al fell

under a cloud of suspicion.

During a courtship that
spanned some 20 years, Al built

a multimillion dollar
real estate empire,

Jean rose through
the corporate ranks

to become a regional
bank escrow officer.

In December of 1991, Al proposed
marriage and Jean accepted.

She was very happy and we were
making plans for the wedding.

She was just real, real happy
once she had decided that it

would be OK to marry me, then
she got more excited about it

with each passing day.

ROBERT STACK: However,
Jean's engagement

did little to alter
her children's

opinions of Al Henderson.

The longer I knew him,
the less genuine he seemed.

I know he said that he
loved her many times,

but he also had a
habit of putting her

down in front of other people.

And to me, that just
didn't sound like love.

When your mother asks you to
be nice to somebody who they

like, you go along with it even
though you've tried to talk--

like I did--

I tried to talk my mom out
of being around the guy.

ROBERT STACK: Jean Moore
followed her heart.

A few months after the
proposal she and Al

set off from their
home in Apple Valley,

California to
vacation in Laughlin,

Nevada, a scaled down
version of Las Vegas.

It was there, April 9, 1992,
that Al reported Jean missing.

No one has seen or
heard from her since.

Today, most of those
acquainted with this case

are convinced that Jean
Moore met with foul play.

Since Jean vanished,
her children's

simmering disapproval
of Al Henderson

has turned to
outright suspicion,

pitting them against the man
their mother planned to marry.

What follows is Al Henderson's
account of Jean's last day.

It was Thursday, April 9, 1982.

According to Al, Jean
wanted a final chance

at her lucky slot machine before
checking out of their hotel.

Al told us that
he dropped her off

at a side entrance
of a nearby casino

and went to find
a parking place.

When I did not
find one, then I

returned to the valet parking.

Can my wife pick
up the car later?

Thank you.

AL HENDERSON: Got the ticket,
went inside the casino

where Jean was waiting for me.

Here's the claim
check for the car.

AL HENDERSON: Our plan was that
we would meet back at our hotel

room at a quarter of 12.

ROBERT STACK: Al claims
he left Jean in the casino

at around 9:30 AM.

Once outside, he planned
to flag down a taxi

and return to their hotel.

There was no cab there.

So after waiting a couple
of minutes and the cab

didn't come, I thought,
well it would be nice,

I could go play the slots
with her a little bit.

ROBERT STACK: But Al
found Jean's favorite slot

machine already in use.

AL HENDERSON: I felt, well,
because someone was there

playing it she may
have decided to go

shopping or some other thing.

From a quarter of 10 to
10:15 I played the machine

that she liked, hoping
that she would come back

and I would be able to
get up and just say,

here's your machine.

Have fun.

ROBERT STACK: 12:15 PM.

Can you take these
bags to security?

We're checking out.

ROBERT STACK: Still believing
that nothing was wrong,

Al returned to the
hotel and checked out.

He then took a cab back to
the casino to find Jean.

When I saw that the car was
right where it had been left

and spoke to the
valet and nobody

had brought a
ticket for the car,

then I began to become alarmed.

ROBERT STACK: Al says he
thoroughly searched the lobby,

the shops, and the gaming area.

Jean Moore was
nowhere to be found.

Over the next few days
Al questioned dozens

of people and distributed
thousands of these flyers

in the Laughlin area.

Despite the offer
of a $25,000 reward,

not one helpful
call was received.

After a certain
amount of time I

had to figure that something
terrible has happened.

ROBERT STACK: Jean's children
reached the same conclusion,

but they are convinced
that Al Henderson

knows more about Jean's
fate than he has admitted.

The more we find out about
what supposedly happened,

as compared to what
can be verified,

the less I'm inclined
to believe that he's

telling the full truth.

In my opinion, Al
has not said everything

that had happened then.

The reason I say that is
because, number one, the story

has changed a couple of times.

ROBERT STACK: In his
original statement to police,

Al Henderson insisted
repeatedly that he dropped Jean

off in front of
the casino and gave

her the valet ticket there.

But Al told us that he left
Jean at a side entrance

and gave her the ticket
inside the casino.

I'll meet you back at the
hotel about quarter to 12.

Did she leave
anything in the room?

ROBERT STACK: Other details
made Jean's children uneasy.

For starters, Jean had
left most of her jewelry

in the hotel room.

And her engagement ring--

It seemed very odd to me that
she had left her engagement

ring that she was so proud of.

I thought it was very strange.

She was not one to go
out without her purse

or without her jewelry.

Within a couple of
days or within a day,

I knew that he was involved.

In my heart, I know
he was involved.

When I got off the plane, when I
flew in to Bull Head, which was

across the river, the
first place I went to

was the police station.

I asked then if there
was anything on my mother

and I let them know my
feelings on what had happened.

ROBERT STACK: Al
had given police

precise details about his
last morning with Jean.

Authorities turned
up an impartial

that could validate his account,
a network of surveillance

cameras monitoring
virtually every square inch

of the casino 24 hours a day.

Al Henderson says he
pulled into the valet area

at around 9:15 AM.

Surveillance tapes confirm
the arrival of Al's Cadillac

that morning.

Cameras in the
lobby also recorded

Al's entry into the casino.

Beyond this point, Al and
the surveillance footage

seem to disagree.

The tape shows two views of
the area where Al said he

gave the valet ticket to Jean.

Additional cameras should have
picked up glimpses of Jean

as she moved about the Casino.

I have reviewed four of
those tapes of the areas

that Mr. Henderson
said that they were in.

In the tapes that I have
reviewed, the surveillance

tapes that I have
reviewed, we do not see

Jeannie in any of those tapes.

I can't really
comment on that.

I can only tell
you what happened.

I accept no
responsibility for what

their tapes show or
don't show because I

am not an expert in that field.

I can just tell
you what happened.

ROBERT STACK: Al's
assertion that he played

Jean's lucky slot
machine should also have

been backed up by the cameras.

In examining the
tapes for the time frame

Al gave us, 9:45 to
approximately 10:15,

the machines that
he told security

was her favorite
machine, we do not

see Al playing those machines.

Well, the only
response to that

is that he was evidently
looking at the tape

of the wrong machine.

I have checked with the
surveillance personnel

for the hotel and
they have advised me

that this is the
group of machines

that Al Henderson told
the security personnel was

Jeannie's favorite machine
and asked if they would

make a copy of them for him.

He was instructed they could
not do that, that they would

turn them over to the police.

So these are the
surveillance tapes

for the machines
Al told security

was her favorite machine.

ROBERT STACK: Investigators
began to wonder if Jean

had been and Laughlin at all.

Eventually, they
found a waitress

who had served Al and
Jean on Monday, April 6,

the day they arrived.

Have you had any
luck in the casino yet?

Other than the coffee
shop, we have nobody seeing

Jeannie in the Laughlin area.

How would you like
your steak cooked?

ROBERT STACK: The
question remained, where

was Jean Moore
between the Monday

sighting and the Thursday
report that she was missing.

A few weeks later,
a witness came

forward with a possible answer.

A friend of Jean's has
made the stunning claim

that she saw the
couple 150 miles away

from Laughlin at a gas
station in their home

town of Apple Valley.

When?

April 8, 4:30 PM.

The day before Jean
was reported missing.

We have a witness
who remembered the time

because they were en
route to a school function

and that would've
been only at that time

and pinpointed
the time and date.

I've provided several people
with copies of my telephone log

from Call USA showing that
I made a call from Laughlin

to the Victorville
area at a little bit

after 3:00 on that day.

I had another call, I think
it was at 6:59 on that day.

So you got less than four hours
and it's physically impossible,

even if all you did
was drive from Laughlin

and turn around and
go back, you can't

do it in less than six hours.

ROBERT STACK: Phone
records verify

the calls were made from
Laughlin on Wednesday,

as Henderson says.

Furthermore, Al's
bookkeeper told

us that he called her from
Laughlin that same Wednesday

evening.

And so we discussed
various things.

And then he says,
well, just a minute.

Jeannie wants to say hi, too.

So Jeannie got on the phone and
she was just happier than happy

could be because she had
run into a stroke of luck

on one of the poker machines.

ROBERT STACK: Less than
24 hours later, Jean Moore

would be reported missing.

Since then, precious little
has surfaced to suggest

she will ever return.

The riddle of Jean
Moore's disappearance,

reportedly from a busy
casino in broad daylight,

has defied explanation.

Does Al Henderson know
more about Jean's fate

than he has acknowledged?

Or is he something
of a victim himself,

burdened with false
accusations during a time

of crushing personal loss?

Unequivocally I had nothing
to do with the disappearance

of Jean Moore.

I had offered the
$25,000 reward.

I think that my net worth has
gone down from around $2.5

million to $1 million.

If I could get her back I'd
get the whole $1 million.

I would do anything
to get her back.

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ROBERT STACK: For
generations, the Ouija board

has been a source of
entertainment and fascination

for people of all ages.

But is it more than just a game?

Next week, we'll bring
you the remarkable tale

of a restless spirit
named Patience Worth.

Some believe that
Patience used the Ouija

board as an instrument
to communicate

from the realm of the dead.

Also, we'll bring you
the intriguing case

of a young army enlisted man who
mysteriously vanished in 1993.

Did he simply tire of
military life and go AWOL?

Or was he involved
in secret operations

that could have
led to his death?

Join me next time, perhaps
you hold the crucial clue

that can help solve a mystery.

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