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[music playing]

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.

Tonight's cases
feature ordinary people

thrust into a vortex of mystery,
heartbreak, and intrigue.

Each one is searching
for that vital clue--

to end a story that
so far has no ending.

Perhaps you can help.

Join me.

You may be able to
help solve a mystery.

Tonight a special report on one
of the most fascinating stories

of this century, the
case of Rudolf Hess,

Adolph Hitler's
second in command.

Hess shocked the world in
1941 by flying to Britain

on a secret peace mission.

This special segment takes
us to Scotland and Germany,

where experts claim
that it was not

Hess who made that
momentous flight,

but a double impersonating him.

Also two other intriguing
mysteries, needing but one

final clue to solve them.

Someone watching tonight
may know the truth.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): 1933--

Adolf Hitler seizes
total power in Germany.

By his side, Deputy
Reich's Fuhrer Rudolf

Hess, his closest confidante.

Hess would come to a figure
in one of the most remarkable

mysteries of World War II.

[speaking german]

Rudolf Hess is in
Britain in a Messerschmitt

he flew from the Bavaria
straight to Scotland,

landing by parachute
near Glasgow.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): 1941.

The world is astounded to
learn that Rudolf Hess has been

captured in Scotland,
while attempting

to deliver a peace
proposal to secret contacts

in the British government.

Defendant Rudolf Hess, on
the counts of the indictment

on which you have
been convicted,

the tribunal sentences you
to imprisonment for life.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
1946, Nuremberg.

Rudolf Hess is sentenced
to life in West

Berlin's Spandau prison.

1987.

Rudolf Hess is found dead
in Spandau's prison garden.

Though the cause of death is
officially declared a suicide,

his family and experts are
convinced that he was murdered.

I have no sympathy for
the Nazi past or any crimes

that Hess may have committed.

But he was a human being.

And he deserves the dignity
at least to find out--

if he was murdered, who did it?

The story of Rudolf
Hess is a mystery

that spans almost 50 years.

Not only do some experts believe
he was murdered in prison,

but startling evidence suggests
that the man of Spandau

was not the real Rudolf Hess.

What ties these
events together is

a global conspiracy that began
at the start of World War II.

It may still be going on today.

Rudolf Hess was incarcerated
in Berlins' Spandau prison

from 1947 until his death.

He was aloof, keeping his
distance from fellow prisoners

and his warders.

The x-rays are fine, doctor.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
In September 1973,

a British surgeon
named Hugh Thomas

made a detailed physical
examination of Hess.

Thomas had earlier studied
Hess' medical records

and expected to find
scars from bullet wounds

Hess had received in
the First World War.

There were no scars,
no bullet wounds,

nor was there any
evidence of an operation.

They're not things
that you can miss.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): At
West Germany's Berlin Document

Center, Thomas uncovered
the original World War I

military records of Rudolf Hess.

For the first time, I became
very, very seriously concerned

about the identity of
the man in Spandau.

The record showed
that he had sustained

a flu shot through the lung
in the First World War.

So I'm left with a
situation whereby a man has

total evidence in surgical
terms of no wounding and total

evidence in documentary
terms of such wounding.

It can't be the same man.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): If the man

Dr. Thomas examined at
Spandau is not Rudolf Hess,

then who was he?

The answer may lie
in a series of events

that took place in May of 1941.

[speaking german]

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
On May 10th of that year,

Rudolf Hess told his wife that
he planned to fly to Berlin

for an important
meeting and that he

would be home in three days.

They would not see one
another again for 28 years.

The facts are
that at 1745 hours,

the real Rudolf Hess
took off from Augsberg

in Bavaria, southern
part of Germany,

flying north in a
Messerschmitt 110B.

We know the aircraft
had the serial number

1545 and the letters
was NJ C11 on the side.

He was tracked by German radar
and defense controllers right

across Germany and
across occupied Europe.

And just after half
past seven that evening

was lost to German radar going
north over the North Sea.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Four
and 1/2 hours after Rudolf Hess

left Germany, a
lone Messerschmitt

was picked up on British radar
heading towards Scotland.

At approximately 11:00
PM, a Scottish farmer

caught sight of an aircraft
descending rapidly.

[engine roar]

[explosion]

[inaudible] now hands up!

You're German?

[speaking german] I am
Hauptmann Alfred Horn.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): The pilot

gave his name as Alfred Horn.

He asked for a
meeting with the Duke

of Hamilton, a member of
the British parliament

who lived in the area.

Hands on the table.

[speaking german]

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Surprisingly,

the man calling himself Alfred
Horn carried no identification.

But he was wearing the uniform
of a Luftwaffe officer.

The next morning, a meeting
was arranged with the Duke

of Hamilton, who was at the
time serving as an officer

in the Royal Air Force.

As you were, gentlemen.

So you're Captain Horn?

I believe you want to see me.

Sir, I am not Captain Horn.

I am Deputy Reich
Fuhrer Rudolf Hess.

I don't recognize you, sir.

I'm here on a mission of
humanity from the Fuhrer.

The Fuhrer fears that--

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Hamilton

ultimately was convinced that
the prisoner was Rudolf Hess.

But Winston Churchill
remained suspicious.

He sent Ivone
Kirkpatrick, a diplomat

who knew Hess personally
to meet with the prisoner.

Kirkpatrick thought the
man was indeed Rudolf Hess.

Hugh Thomas disagrees.

The mistakes made by
the man when he arrived

were incredible.

He claimed that he
was born in 1899.

And when he first
landed said 1897.

When in actual fact, the
real Hess' age, as you know,

was 1894.

So there's a discrepancy there.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
It is thought

that Hitler and other members
of the Nazi elite used

doubles for security reasons.

Thomas believes that a double
was recruited to impersonate

Hess on the flight to Scotland.

Photographs taken
upon Hess' departure

support this theory,
as they appear

to show a different
plane from the one

that crash landed in Scotland.

The plane that took off in
Germany was marked NJ C11.

Now the reason we
know that is that it

was photographed taking off.

And also, Helmut Carden, one
of the airport assistants

there at the time
logged it in his book,

whereby he denoted NJ C11
was the plane that took off.

The plane that
landed in Scotland

was marked on the side of
the fuselage VJ or NJ OQ--

a totally different plane.

The first people to
get to the wreckage

find an aircraft that
was almost intact.

The machine guns in the nose
were still packed with grease.

They'd never been used.

This was obviously
an aircraft that

was so new it hadn't yet been
devoted to operational work.

British researchers
know that that aircraft

was based at a fighter airfield
in northern Denmark called

Aalborg.

It was tracked in
from that direction,

and there really seems
no reason to doubt

that it came from Denmark
rather than Germany.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): There
is more evidence that a double

had replaced the real Hess.

Hess was a skilled pilot.

Yet the man who flew to
Scotland made a number

of elementary mistakes.

The man who approached
Britain and flew over Scotland

was an amateur in every
sense of the word.

He did everything wrong.

He approached the British
coast at the ideal height

to be intercepted by
radar instead of under it.

Then he power dived,
using far too much fuel.

And then he flew it only 50 feet
across the Scottish borders.

That meant that
people on the ground

could observe the aircraft and
track it every step of the way.

But the pilot was too low to
even pick up his landmarks.

So whoever he was, he
was an amateur pilot.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): If
the man who landed in Scotland

was a double, how and why was
this deception engineered?

The answer may lie with the
only man in the Third Reich

more feared than Adolf Hitler,
a master of the dreaded SS,

Heinrich Himmler.

In a moment, we will
examine a theory

that Himmler may have been at
the center of a conspiracy that

reached from
Hitler's inner circle

to England's House
of Parliament.

Rudolf Hess had been
Hitler's closest confidant.

But at the beginning
of World War II,

his influence began to wane.

Part of the reason can
be traced to SS Reich's

Fuhrer Heinrich Himmler.

Hess had come to power purely
by being one of the first

of Hitler's loyal supporters.

In such a position, he was
obviously a threat to Himmler,

who aspired to gain control
of all of the Reich,

and from that point
of view, he was hated.

So in essence, he was
part of a power struggle.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
In early 1941,

Hitler's inner circle,
including Himmler,

were planning for the
invasion of the Soviet Union.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Hess
argued that peace with England

must be secured
before this attack,

and secretly
attempted to contact

members of British parliament.

Himmler may have
sense an opportunity

to eliminate his rival.

[speaking german]

Himmler had a
double ready at hand.

And he used this double in
conjunction with [inaudible]

to actually supplant
Hess, get rid of Hess,

kill off Hess, and put
the double into England

to contain, to carry
over, peace proposals

to the English hierarchy.

[speaking german]

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
According to this theory,

if the double's initial peace
overtures had been successful,

Himmler would have stepped
in, finished the negotiations,

and claimed the credit.

Hugh Thomas believes that Adolf
Hitler was unaware that Himmler

was secretly in contact with
a clique of highly placed

Nazi sympathizers in Britain.

According to Thomas, some
were members of Parliament.

And they plotted
to depose Churchill

and make their own separate
peace with Germany.

During the war, both Franklin
Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin

were suspicious of the
official British account

of the Hess affair.

Stalin was convinced that
the British were plotting

a separate peace with Germany.

Dr. Thomas believes
that he was correct.

The Hess affair is the
key to the understanding

of the whole plot that
was hatched by 30 or so

of the top ranking British
hierarchical figures

in the country, designed to
unite Nazi Germany and Britain

against Soviet Russia
and stop the war,

so that expansion into Russia
by Germany could exist.

There's no question that had the
Hess affair gone to fruition,

had Himmler's plan
gone right, the result

would have been a
Nazi Anglo bloc which

would have ruled the world.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
But the plan didn't work.

Churchill refused
to meet with Hess,

and his peace
overture was rejected.

Despondent, Hess attempted
suicide a few days later.

Intelligence officers and
psychiatrists continually

interrogated the prisoner.

He claimed amnesia and refused
to answer the questions.

In 1945, Hess was
brought home to Germany

for the beginning of
the Nuremberg trial.

During this trial, Hess
was forced to meet with two

of his former secretaries.

Officials hoped
this confrontation

could jog his memory.

HUGH THOMAS (VOICEOVER):
The prisoner's

most significant
lack of recognition

is that of his secretaries.

And these women were greatly
disturbed and greatly upset

and kept on at the old man
to try and recognize them.

One of them showed him
a picture of his son,

who he didn't recognize.

Yet he'd carried a
picture of that son

with him, supposedly, on
his flight to England.

So the man was behaving
in a very bizarre fashion.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The
two secretaries left, upset.

But still certain that the man
they had met was Rudolf Hess.

Hess was sentenced
to life imprisonment

in the converted
fortress in West

Berlin known as Spandau prison.

Hess' new home was to
be jointly administered

by the United States, Britain,
France, and the Soviet Union.

One by one, Spandau's
six other Nazi prisoners

had died or been released.

But Rudolf Hess had his freedom
blocked by a Soviet veto.

In 1966 he was Spandau's
only prisoner, at a cost

of over $1 million per year.

[door closes]

[clock winding]

COL. EUGENE BIRD:
Rudolf Hess loved

to walk in the garden, this long
trail about 267 paces around.

To me, he lived in
a world by himself.

For the first two years
in my talking with Hess,

I never got beyond food,
health and weather.

And everything was bad.

Took me two years
to even talk to him

about anything political.

He lived in this eggshell.

Time seemed to have
stood still for him

since 1941, since his flight.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
By the late 1960s,

Hess' health had
greatly deteriorated.

Even so, he refused all
visits with his family.

WOLF-RUDIGER HESS: The reason
why he didn't accept visits

beforehand was simply
that the surrounding

and the circumstances under
which these visits take place

in Spandau were so bad that
he said it's better not

to see each other and to write.

And after having
paid these visits,

after 1969, I can only
completely agree with him.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
December 1969.

When Hess' health
became critical,

he finally agreed to
meet with his family.

It had been 28 years since
Frau Hess had seen her husband.

Her son Wolf had last seen his
father at the age of three.

During this reunion,
the family was not

allowed to touch one another,
or to discuss anything

pertaining to Hess' past.

[speaking german]

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Despite the fact that she felt

his voice was lower in pitch,
Frau Hess still felt the man

at Spandau was her husband.

It's been very difficult
for me in prison.

It's depressing here.

It's cold, damp.

I didn't want you to be upset.

The atmosphere is bad.

I didn't--

WOLF-RUDIGER HESS: I was
expecting a very difficult

situation with all the
warders and the director

sitting around.

And they knew that,
under the circumstances,

the possibility to really learn
to know him would be limited.

Mother misses you so much.

It can't be helped, my son.

I have the impression
that my father was

keeping some secret which he was
not able to relieve to anybody.

This is the reason why he
was kept so long in prison

and finally was
murdered in prison.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
August 17th, 1987.

At approximately 2:30
in the afternoon,

93 year old Rudolph Hess
went out for his daily walk

in his beloved prison garden.

Soviet authorities had
indicated to Hess' son

that General Secretary Gorbachev
was on the verge of allowing

his father's release.

Hess was accompanied
by an American guard,

and as he continued his stroll,
the guard became distracted.

Several minutes later, the
guard looked for his prisoner.

He soon found him.

Rudolf Hess was lying on
the floor of a garden shed,

electrical cord wrapped
around his neck.

The official inquiry that Rudolf
Hess had committed suicide.

But almost immediately,
charges surfaced

that Hess had been murdered.

OK, who was on duty?

I was, sir.

Now what happened?

Now there are so many things
against him committing suicide.

He could hardly open his
hands because of arthritis

that he was suffering under.

And he couldn't raise his
arms above shoulder level.

Now the final report
came out and said

that he'd hung himself,
from that little lean-to

in the garden that
he was sitting

under, where he was found dead.

Well, to do that, he's going
to have to raise those hands,

isn't he, above his head to
put that cord around something

to hang himself.

He wasn't capable of doing that.

I think he was murdered.

I don't know who did it.

But that's my true conviction.

There is every evidence
that he was murdered.

But further than that,
disturbingly, the cable

that was actually
used to murder him

was the first thing
to be destroyed

on the specific orders of the
British military governor.

And the British
military governor also

ordered the shed burnt down.

As well as that, they refused
all measures of identification

of the prisoner.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Hess' family

insisted on conducting their
own autopsy and secured

the services of a
Dr. Spann, a noted

German forensic pathologist.

His report showed
bruises inconsistent

with the official
verdict of suicide.

The deep bruising on
the neck, and especially--

The final autopsy by Dr.
Spann shows quite clearly

that the man was strangled.

And the degree of deep
bruising and fracturing

of the bones in the neck
also indicates that he

was strangled very forcibly.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Dr. Thomas

is convinced that the
prisoner at Spandau

was murdered before his release
to keep him from revealing

the treasonous conduct of
his secret British contacts

during the war.

If the prisoner had
ever revealed his part

in these negotiations, it
would have led to the discovery

of the whole plot.

It would have led to the
exposure of 30 extremely

powerful personages whose
relatives, even if they don't

still exist themselves,
are still in control,

in hierarchical control
of much of British finance

and government.

And that would be
totally and utterly

unacceptable to any
British government.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): If
the Prisoner Spandau was Rudolf

Hess, as his family and
the authorities claim,

then why were there no scars
on his chest from his World

War I bullet wounds?

Why did his plane
take off from Germany

with one set of serial
numbers, and land

in Scotland with another?

But if the Prisoner Spandau
was an impostor, why did

he remain silent for 46 years?

The remains of Prisoner
Number 7 rest in

this small Bavarian cemetery.

But who really lies in
this grave, Rudolf Hess

or an impostor, a
willing participant

in a global conspiracy
of vast proportions?

The only man who could
answer these questions

was silenced before
he could speak.

The inscription on his
grave reads simply,

it was worth the risk.

History may never know what
truly lies behind those words.

One final footnote
to the story--

the official British
file on the Hess affair

was scheduled to be
made public in 1971.

But that year, only
selected portions

were released,
the rest remaining

classified at the order
of the British government.

It was further stipulated that
this sensitive material remain

locked up until the year 2016.

Next the story of a
woman who walked away

from a terrible car
crash in rural Montana

and has not been seen since.

Her family believes she may
be suffering from amnesia.

April 20th, 1989.

A lonely country road
near Circle, Montana.

At approximately
8:15 in the evening,

Peggy Bueller was driving
towards nearby Great Falls

to visit her sister.

Peggy's mother and
father were with her.

Behind her was another
car, driven by Carol Heitz,

an off duty police dispatcher.

Carol could see
Peggy's car clearly.

Then she saw a car
approaching in the wrong lane.

Bueller's car narrowly
missed a head on collision.

Carol pulled over to
the side of the road.

It was too late.

Peggy's father took the
from his shaken daughter

and headed back down the road.

Carol had emerged from
the wreckage dazed,

but not seriously injured.

Then a woman emerged
out of the darkness.

It was the driver of the
car that had hit her.

CAROL HEITZ (VOICEOVER):
She just stared,

never said anything, nothing.

Just stared at me.
I will never forget her.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Then the Buellers arrived.

Peggy's father went
to assist the victims,

and she began to go for help.

But before Peggy drove off, she,
too, saw the mysterious woman.

PEGGY BUELLER (VOICEOVER): As I
looked out across the accident,

I noticed someone on the
other side of the fence

standing there,
like a spectator,

not like that it
had happened to her.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The
woman vanished into the night.

But within half an
hour, police had

traced the car to its owner,
38 year old Patricia Meehan.

They immediately began
to search for her.

We didn't know
what was out there.

We didn't know whether we were
looking for a hurt person,

a sick person or a fugitive.

So four officers and
myself proceeded in.

And we proceeded
in behind the dog.

And approximately 3/4 of a mile
from the scene we picked up

some tennis shoe
tracks, about a size

six that appeared
to be fairly narrow,

belonging either to a young
boy or probably a woman.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): At 3 AM,

Patricia's tracks disappeared,
and the search was suspended

until the following morning.

For five days, this
intensive search continued

on land and from the air.

All that was ever found were
Patricia's original tracks.

Two theories were
developed to explain

how she eluded her trackers.

The first is that she
may have stowed away

on a hay truck that was
parked about a half a mile

from the accident.

The other theory is
that Patricia simply

hitched a ride out of the area.

DON LA PLANTE: She was a
very caring individual,

never wanted to hurt anyone.

And here she had a very
traumatic accident,

where she may have
thought instantly that she

hurt or killed another person.

And her mind blocked that out.

She had walked away from
the scene of that accident

and has not been found since.

Since her disappearance,
Patricia Meehan

has been spotted throughout
the United States,

but has made no attempt to
contact her family and friends.

At first it was thought that
her flight was an attempt

to evade prosecution for leaving
the scene of an accident,

but eyewitness reports of
Patricia's increasingly strange

behavior had given
police and psychiatrists

good reason to believe
that she is no fugitive.

Patricia Meehan may be suffering
from a rare and dangerous form

of amnesia.

Born in Pennsylvania,
Patricia moved

to Oklahoma to attend
college in preparation

for a career in daycare.

She worked in that
field until 1985.

And then due to her
love of animals,

moved to Montana
to work on a ranch.

Before her disappearance,
family and friends

noticed that Patricia had
become depressed, withdrawn.

She was, I guess,
taking her own life,

what had she accomplished.

I think she missed
having children,

because I think now she found
out she really does love them.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
After Patricia disappeared,

her family found a roll
of undeveloped film

still in her camera.

In this haunting self-portrait,
she looks out at a world

that she may have
decided to abandon.

It appears that Pat
was experiencing a very

difficult time in her life.

And was involved in a rather
dramatic accident, which may

have involved a head injury.

The combination of these
factors may have caused amnesia.

She does not know who she is,
has lost memories of the past,

and is out searching for
herself throughout the country.

Since her accident, Patricia has
been spotted at least 100 times

between Montana and Seattle,
mainly at truckstops.

But Patricia has managed to
hitchhike out of the area

before authorities
and her family

are able to intercept her.

I don't know how she's eating.

I don't know where
she's sleeping.

From the sightings, quite a few
of them, she was seen crying.

And that really hurts
when I hear this.

Any mother would be
afraid for her child,

I don't care what age she is.

And it seems like she needs
help more than ever now.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): One
of the confirmed sightings

of Patricia occurred in May
of 1989 in Bozeman, Montana.

Ironically, this was only
a few miles from her home.

Good morning.

One today?

Can I get in and
out of here fast?

Patty came in the
door and wanted to be

sat quickly and served quickly.

She asked me if she would
be able to be out of there

in rather of a hurry.

And I said, well, we do
breakfast in 10 minutes.

You'll be out very quickly.

And then I made a
comment to her that she

must have to be back to
work at nine o'clock,

since it was almost nine.

It was about 8:30, 20 til.

She said, no, I'm
just going shopping.

I couldn't understand
what it was

so important for her to be
there right at nine o'clock

to go shopping.

You know, when she was
in such a huge hurry.

How are you this morning?

Could you tell me what the--

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Waitress

Brenda Clements also
noticed that Patricia

was acting strangely.

What stood out in my mind
is that she seemed really

disoriented, really spacey.

And just looking off in space.

And I heard her like
talking to herself,

but I really didn't
hear what she

was saying because I had other
people and other customers

to take care of.

She sat at that table for an
hour and half or more, easily.

She was just looking
out the window,

looking at people walking by.

And that's when I walked up to
her and asked her, are you OK?

Is everything OK?

Are you OK?

Are you sure?

BRENDA CLEMENTS: And
I was just wondering

if there's anything I could do,
because she was just like lost.

I felt like she didn't know
where she was or who she was.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
From all the evidence,

Patricia's condition
has not improving.

If she is not treated
soon, the damage

could be irreparable,
for when and if

Patricia's memories
return, the shock

could threaten her sanity.

More than anything else in the
world, I want her back with us.

And we would then know
that she'd be safe.

Not knowing who is she
going to get a ride from.

And that's my biggest
worry, I think.

It just preys on your
mind, day in and day out.

And you pray to God
and hope that she

is with some good people.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): In
a moment, a story of a woman

found murdered after
she was seen with a man

at a local supermarket.

Was he a friend or
an unknown killer?

Arlington, Virginia,
May 11th, 1988, 3 AM.

Police arrived at
a local school yard

where the body of a young
woman has been found.

She has been raped and shot
once at point blank range.

Homicide Detective
Bob Carrig and Gay

Mercer set about examining
the physical evidence.

DET BOB CARRIG: I think when
you arrive at a crime scene at 3

o'clock in the
morning, and you find

a young woman shot to death--

she was sexually assaulted
and then murdered--

I think you start out with a
sick feeling in your stomach,

kind of a disgust
for crime in general.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
The condition

of Veronica's clothing
indicates that the rape was

not a random act of violence.

DET GAY MERCER: In
most rape cases,

there are some signs
of force, maybe

there are tears in the
clothing, which there

were not any on the scene.

It may have been more
like a date rape, someone

that she knew.

And it went too far.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Later that day,

the victim was identified
as Veronica Jefferson,

a 24 year old
government accountant

recently moved to
the Washington,

DC area from Oklahoma.

Veronica had recently
become a CPA.

And at the time of her death,
she was working as a finance

officer for the CIA.

Nothing in her
background suggested

any motive for her murder.

The day after the murder,
Veronica's red Camaro,

with its distinctive personal
plates reading MS VLJ

was discovered parked
at a supermarket

just two blocks
from her apartment.

The vehicle was unlocked,
the keys missing.

The vehicle was examined
for fingerprints

using a portable argon laser.

The car appeared to
have been wiped clean.

The interior of the
vehicle was also examined.

Yeah, it looks like we
have a receipt inside,

time and date stamped.

This receipt
showed that Veronica

had left the market at 9:30 PM.

Purse on a left rear seat.

Surprisingly, Veronica's
cash and credit cards

were found intact.

A box cutter.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): This
box cutter and the location

of the car focused the
investigation on workers

at the supermarket.

Detectives Carrig and
Mercer began to question

the store's 186 employees.

We're going to do interviews
and you agreed to cooperate.

I'll take you two.
Why don't you come with me?

How about this gentleman?

One good suspect
admitted that he

had seen her the day that she
was killed in the supermarket.

And he was able to
describe her all

the way down to her red shoes.

Did you ever talk to her?

Yeah, I talked
to her a few times.

I sort of had a thing
for her, but she

wasn't interested in me.

DETECTIVE (VOICEOVER): When we
were able to narrow the field

down from 186 down
to six, it was my job

to get a sample of their blood
to either eliminate them and go

on then to other
investigative leads,

or possibly to find
the individual that

committed this crime.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): These tests

were important, as body fluid
found at the crime scene

showed a rare blood type common
to only 4% of the population.

The suspect could definitively
be identified by cross-checking

this blood type
with a DNA sample,

also taken from the body fluid.

However in this instance,
there were no match ups.

All six suspects were cleared.

Four days after
Veronica's murder,

dramatic new evidence surfaced
when an off duty police officer

claimed he had seen
Veronica the night

she was killed in the
company of a man who

was at the wheel of her car.

That evening I was
on my way to work.

It was approximately a
quarter of 10 in the evening.

While I was waiting
to make a left,

there was a car approaching me
from the opposite direction.

It had its bright lights on me.

That's what first drew
my attention to the car.

As this car turned the
corner, he ran over the curb.

And I don't mean just bumped it,
but really ran over the curb.

As the car turned, I noticed
the license plate on the car.

They were personalized
tags, and they read MS VLJ.

I figured the car belonged to
the girl in the passenger seat.

The driver was
apparently very involved

in conversation
as he was driving

slow and weaving up the road.

It did not seem like there
was any trouble in the car.

It seemed like they were
engaged in a very in depth

conversation.

The woman got out of the car.

She bent down, and they had
words for 15, 20 seconds.

She wasn't in any distress.

She wasn't frantic.

They just seemed to be friends,
and he was saying good-bye.

I got tired of watching and went
around the car and on my way.

The more and more I thought
about it, the more I

wished that I could have pulled
this person over at this time

and in some way maybe
that would have prevented

the death of Miss Jefferson.

After Doug Taylor's account
on what he saw and who was

driving, we felt that it had to
have been someone that Veronica

was familiar with-- a
friend, an old friend,

someone she really felt
comfortable with, in order

to let them drive her car.

From Veronica's
roommates and family,

we were able to get a list of
male friends and acquaintances

of Veronica's.

All her male friends that
we know of to this point

have been interviewed,
blood has been taken,

and all have been
eliminated as suspects.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
After Veronica's friends

were cleared, the investigation
reached a complete standstill.

But in May of 1989, a year after
the murder, two eyewitnesses

came forward.

They remembered seeing
Veronica in the supermarket,

less than two hours
before she was killed.

On the night in
question, my wife and I

both went to the supermarket
to pick up a few items.

On arriving at the deli counter,
I noticed this very attractive,

I would say beautiful girl.
- Hello.

GROCERY STORE EMPLOYEE: Hi.
Hi.

May I help you?
- Yes.

JOHN FLANAGAN (VOICEOVER): A
man approached her and started

a conversation with her.

Salad, right?

No.

Now come on.

I know it's gotta be salad
with you looking that good.

JOHN FLANAGAN: I had
the distinct impression

that he was trying
to pick her up,

because I generally
had the feeling that he

did not know her or had not
been in any previous company

of hers.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
A few minutes

later, Mrs. Flanagan saw
Veronica outside the market

talking with the same man.

BETTY FLANAGAN: I couldn't
hear what they were saying,

but I could watch
the body language.

And I had the feeling
that something was wrong.

She continually looked
around the parking lot.

She looked as if
she was searching

for someone who knew
her, or someone to get

her out of this situation.

But she did smile at him.

She did laugh.

And I had an uneasy
feeling about it.

But it wasn't that
dramatic enough

that would have made me push
ahead to say, do you need help?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
According to the Flanagans

testimony, Veronica was
approached by a stranger

who later may have killed her.

But Doug saw her with what
appeared to be a friend

at the wheel of her car.

Did she meet two
different men that night?

And how did they
escape detection?

There's a possibility
that the suspect

was once involved with Veronica,
and no one else knew that.

He feels that his
identity will never

be known because of that fact.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): The man

described by the Flanagans was a
black male approximately 6 feet

3 inches in height and
weighed about 170 pounds.

He was described as a clean
cut, bodybuilder type.

We continue to investigate
unsolved homicides

until the end.

They may not be solved, but
they're never forgotten.

I think it's important that
the killer understand that we

will not stop looking for him.

And it's important
for him to know that,

so he doesn't think that because
a year has passed that he's

gotten away with this crime.

Because he has not.

We are still looking,
and we will find him.

For every mystery,
there is someone,

somewhere, who knows the truth.

Perhaps that
someone is watching.

Perhaps it's you.