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ANNOUNCER: This program is
about unsolved mysteries.

Whenever possible, the
actual family members

and police officials
have participated

in recreating the events.

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

ROBERT STACK: In 1977,
a trip to Lake Champlain

began as an ordinary summer
vacation for Sandra Mansi.

It turned out to be
anything but ordinary when

Sandra took this
remarkable photograph

along the shore of the lake.

Some experts believe the
picture may be evidence

that Scotland's famous Loch Ness
Monster has an American cousin.

Meet Pierre, a man
without a past.

In May of 1992, he
wandered, confused,

disoriented, and penniless
into a homeless shelter

in San Diego.

He hopes that someone watching
tonight can tell him who he is

and where he came from.

Todd Kelley and
Christie Mutzfeld

were high school
sweethearts until Christie

went away to college and
began dating another man.

A few months later,
Todd Kelley was

found murdered,
apparently the victim

of a lethal lover's triangle.

Also tonight, a woman has
been reunited with her family

after she watched her own
story on "Unsolved Mysteries."

Join me.

Perhaps you may be able
to help solve a mystery.

[theme music]

Hamilton, Indiana is a small
lakeside resort town with just

684 permanent residents.

In the summer, the
population swells

into the thousands
thanks to vacationers

looking for a tranquil escape.

But on August 9, 1989, the
peace and serenity of Hamilton

was shattered forever.

[distant screaming]

ROBERT STACK: At 7:00
AM, Christie Mutzfeld

arrived at the home
of her boyfriend,

19-year-old Todd Kelley.

Moments later, she
fled in terror.

CHRISTIE MUTZFELD: I saw
him lying on the floor,

and I screamed his name.

I could see just by looking
at him that something

was very wrong-- wasn't right.

ROBERT STACK: Todd
Kelley was dead--

stabbed seven times in the
chest, back, and wrist.

His death hit horrifyingly close
to home for Christie Mutzfeld.

Just hours earlier,
the two lovers

had been together in the same
house where Todd was killed.

The authorities immediately
questioned Christie Mutzfeld.

And the story which
unfolded would

eventually place
her at the center

of an ongoing controversy.

By the end of the interrogation,
a primary suspect emerged--

another man, whom
Christie had been dating.

A man who represented
the third side

of a lethal lover's triangle,
built on the affections

of Christie Mutzfeld.

Christie met Todd Kelley
during their junior year

at high school.

For Todd especially, it
was love at first sight.

CHRISTIE MUTZFELD: Todd was a
very kind person, very sweet.

He didn't hold any
grudges against anyone.

Todd really just cared about
everybody for who they were.

After graduation, he
asked me to marry him.

And I guess I said no.

I said I really wasn't ready.

I thought there was
other things I really

wanted to do right now, and
that's pretty much where

we broke it off, right there.

ROBERT STACK: The
next fall, Christie

enrolled at a small college
just seven miles from Hamilton.

She soon began dating
Mahfuz Huq, a student whose

parents had emigrated
from Bangladesh

when he was just an infant.

CHRISTIE MUTZFELD: He was
very outgoing, very energetic.

He was interested
in what I had to say

and I'm he was interested
in what I thought

and what I believed in.

ROBERT STACK: Despite
outward appearances,

Mahfuz Huq was not
what he seemed to be.

Shortly after he met Christie,
Mahfuz and one of his friends

were arrested for three
separate robberies.

In one of them, Mahfuz stole
$100,000 worth of jewelry

from his own aunt.

CHRISTIE MUTZFELD: He told me
that it was all his friend.

His friend was a pro at it.

He'd been wanted
in other states.

And he pretty much laid
it all off on his friend.

After he was arrested and he
had to go on house arrest,

I guess it'd be called,
he became very possessive.

He said that if he ever
saw me with anybody else

that he would probably
kill him and then kill me.

ROBERT STACK: A few months
later, Christie rekindled

her romance with Todd Kelley.

But Mahfuz Huq,
who lived nearby,

remained very much
in the picture.

Two weeks before the murder,
Mahfuz walked the 10 miles

from his house to Christie's
only to discover that she

was out with Todd Kelley.

Who's that?

ROBERT STACK: On August 7, the
day before the murder, Todd

was at the home of
a friend, Mike Kuhn,

when Mahfuz appeared
unexpectedly.

What can I do for you?

I want to talk to you
about Christie a little bit.

What would you like to know?

MIKE KUHN: Mahfuz
asked Todd if he

was going to quit seeing her.

At that time, Todd
had told him no.

She told me she's
in love with me.

Their voices were never
raised or nothing like that.

They shook hands.

And really, it seemed
like it was pretty

much all over and done with.

ROBERT STACK: 36 hours
later, Todd Kelley was dead

and his house was
swarming with police.

Authorities were
able to determine

that Todd had died around
3:15 AM that same morning.

Mike McClelland of
the Steuben County,

Indiana, sheriff's
department took

charge of the investigation.

He immediately
noticed that the crime

scene had been tampered with.

It was obvious that the
body had been cleaned up

and then moved into
the living room

from another part of the house.

Upon further
checking of the house,

we noticed that
there were no sheets

on the bed in the bedroom.

We also discovered
a spot where there

was blood on the floor in the
bedroom by the bathroom door.

It was very hard to find
this at first, because it

had been wiped clean.

We believe that the sheets
were used to move the body

and to clean up the crime scene.

ROBERT STACK:
Oddly, the bedsheets

have never been found.

In the yard, police came
across several cigarette butts.

They matched the brand
smoked by Mahfuz Huq.

Authorities also
discovered that Todd's car

had been wiped clean
of fingerprints,

and the keys were missing.

They theorize the killer
had planned to remove

the body from the scene.

L.M. MCCLELLAND: We discovered
that the headlights of the car

didn't work.

I believe that the
suspect was going

to try and use that vehicle
to transport the body.

I think his efforts were foiled
by the fact that he didn't know

that the car wasn't working.

ROBERT STACK: Police were
convinced that the person who

held the key to
the investigation

was Mahfuz Huq, who
had now disappeared.

They began to
track his movements

around the time of the murder.

Between 11:00 PM and 1:00 AM
on the night of the murder,

two eyewitnesses
claimed to have seen

Mahfuz walking barefoot in
the direction of Todd's house.

At virtually that same moment,
Christie Mutzfeld and Todd

Kelley were in bed at his house.

CHRISTIE MUTZFELD: When we were
in bed, I heard noises outside.

[rustling]

Who's that?

What?

I heard a noise.

CHRISTIE MUTZFELD:
I really thought

that something was outside.

And Todd said it was
probably just a dog,

because he had a
dog tied up out back

and he said it was
nothing to worry about.

It was getting kind
of late and I told him

I had to go home because I
hadn't really been home-home

for quite a while,
and I knew my father

would be upset, so I left.

And he said he was going
to stay up all night

and he wanted to get
something to drink.

ROBERT STACK: Christie
says that, at 2:30 AM,

she drove Todd into town.

She believes Mahfuz Huq entered
the house while they were gone.

We drove back to his house
and I said goodbye in the car.

He gave me a kiss.

Don't forget to come back.

I won't.

I'll leave the door open.

OK.

Hey, don't forget.

ROBERT STACK: Christie
says she dropped Todd

off at approximately 3:00 AM.

The coroner determined that Todd
was murdered within 15 minutes.

[yelling]

At 4:30 AM, Mahfuz Huq called
Christie from his parents'

house 10 miles away.

Hey.

Morning.

What time is it?

ROBERT STACK: Two
hours later, Mahfuz

showed up in her bedroom.

According to Christie,
she broke off

their relationship for good.

I've been thinking
that maybe--

maybe it would just
be better if we

didn't see each other anymore.

Great.

Fuz.

I hope you're happy.

CHRISTIE MUTZFELD:
It kind of scared

me, the tone of voice he had.

I said, excuse me?

He says, I hope you
have a happy life.

And then he walked out.

At first glance, the
case seemed open and shut.

Mahfuz Huq, in an apparent
fit of jealous rage,

had murdered Todd Kelley.

The authorities
dismissed Christie

Mutzfeld as a possible suspect.

But then this seemingly simple
case took a surprising turn.

Todd Kelley's
family is convinced

that there are inconsistencies
in Christie's story.

While they do not
believe Christie

was an active participant
in the murder,

they do question whether she
has been completely honest.

Christie's story is not
the way that it happened.

According to all the
evidence that we have dug up

and the evidence
that the police have,

there is no way that
she was not there.

She had to be there
during the murder.

When Todd and Christie
returned home,

they probably
started making love,

and Mahfuz waited in the bushes.

When he saw what was
happening, that's

when his jealousy
took over and he

could no longer control himself
and decided to finish the act.

Who was that?

VERNON KELLEY: When Christie
said she heard the noise,

it was Mahfuz
coming in the door.

[shouting]

Don't kill me

VERNON KELLEY: I do
believe, at that point,

Mahfuz convinced her to help
him cover up the murder.

Christie.

We do believe, also, at
that point, that Christie

did help move the body.

There was no drag marks
on the carpet whatsoever.

Mahfuz was not a large man.

Todd was a good-sized fellow.

It would have took
a lot of strength

to pick him up bodily and
carry him out to the other room

by himself.

I don't know why
they want to blame me.

I mean, I know Todd and I had
our hardships and I hurt him

and he hurt me, and I
know that upset them,

but I don't know why
they're blaming me.

The possibility
of an accomplice

is pure speculation
at this point in time.

There's no hard evidence.

And by the evidence
given at the scene,

it appears that he acted alone.

Todd died approximately
at 3:15 in the morning.

It amazes me how a man
alone could clean up

that entire room, clean up
the entire mess he had made,

move the body, entirely
clean the body,

and also walk all
the way back home

in the amount of time
that they had reported

receiving another phone call.

He had to have some help.

L.M. MCCLELLAND: It's
our belief that there's

a good possibility he could
have made it to Hamilton

and back walking.

There's also the possibility, if
it took him longer than what he

thought at the crime scene,
that he could have called

someone to come and get him.

ROBERT STACK: The
Kelley family believes

that Christie is the person
who gave Mahfuz a ride home.

In addition, they
questioned her statement

about what happened when
she returned to Todd's house

at 7:00 in the morning.

She claimed she did not
immediately notice Todd's body

even though it was lying
right by the front door,

a point which even Sheriff
McClellan concedes is unlikely.

L.M. MCCLELLAND: We're
not accusing Christie.

The only problem is
we feel that there

are some inconsistencies in the
things that she has told us.

We've asked Christie for
a polygraph examination

and she has refused to do that.

All we want from her is the
truth and the whole truth.

And we do not believe we're
getting that from her.

We do feel that possibly
she could help the case out

by stepping forward and
telling the whole story

the way it should be told.

Todd's family, they've just--

they've been very hard
on me from the beginning.

They harassed me.

They accused me-- unjustfully
accused me of everything.

They wouldn't even let
me go to his funeral.

They've just been accusing.

And I realize they're hurting,
and I don't think that they

realize that I'm hurting, too,
and that everything that they

say and every time they
accuse me of something,

it just hurts more.

I don't know why they're
doing what they're doing.

ROBERT STACK: Next,
the incredible tale

of a primitive sea
creature, America's own Loch

Ness Monster said to live in
the depths of Lake Champlain.

Centuries ago, along the shores
of what is now Lake Champlain

in upstate New York and
Vermont, the Iroquois

paid homage to the spirit
of a great horned serpent

said to rule the murky
depths of the lake.

The fabled sea monster, which
captivated the Iroquois,

still fascinates people today.

In fact, in the past 25 years,
no less than 100 eyewitnesses

claimed to have seen the
Lake Champlain sea monster,

known affectionately as Champ.

Yeah, I grew up
around here, you know.

ROBERT STACK: Sandra Mansi,
a successful antiques dealer,

grew up near Lake Champlain.

When she was a child,
her grandfather

teased her with fearsome tales
of the legendary creature.

SANDRA MANSI: Grandfather
told us all about Champ.

And when we would go
fishing, he would say to us,

if you don't sit down
and behave in the boat,

I'm going to throw you over
and Champ's going to eat you.

Of course, we didn't
believe a word of it.

It wasn't anything that
we really believed in.

It was just a threat
of grandfather's.

And so I just really
kind of dismissed

it for years and
years as just one

of grandfather's big stories.

ROBERT STACK: In
July of 1977, Sandra

took this remarkable
photograph, which

fueled worldwide speculation
and, not surprisingly,

controversy.

Sandra will never forget
the day she saw Champ.

That summer, Sandra, her two
children, and her fiance,

Tony, were on vacation
near Lake Champlain.

OK.

Just be careful.

SANDRA MANSI: We stopped
at this one place

and we went down over a bank.

The children were down
further on the beach

having a great time and Tony
decided to go back to the car

and get the camera
because we hadn't taken

any pictures of the children.

They had their shoes
off and they're

wading down on the shore.

I wanna find a
really big skipper.

SANDRA MANSI: And I'm
sitting there by myself.

And I'm looking out at the lake,
and the lake started churning.

My first thought was scuba
divers, but then it's too much.

There would be too big of
a group of scuba divers.

But then fish-- there's
some very large sturgeon

and big walleyes in
Champlain, so I thought,

well, it's a very, very
large school of fish.

Then the head and the neck
came up out of the water,

and then the back, and I watched
it turn its head and neck

and look around.

And when it first came
up, its mouth was open

and I could see water
coming out of the mouth,

but I don't remember any eyes
or any details like that.

Just the head and the
neck and the back.

And it's really, really serene.

And I'm feeling like
I shouldn't be there.

This is something I
should not be witnessing

because, to me, this
thing should have been

extinct 30 million years ago.

And even then I'm
not frightened.

I'm in total awe and very calm.

And then Tony came
back, and he saw it.

Get out of the water.

Get out of the water right now!
Come on!

Get out of there!

SANDRA MANSI: And
he got all panicky,

screaming and hollering.

Get up here!

[inaudible] Come on.

Get up there.

Sandra, did you see that thing?

SANDRA MANSI: And screamed
at me to get back there.

So he helped me up the bank.

And when he did, he handed me
the camera and I turned around

and it's still there.

I picked up the camera
and took one shot.

ROBERT STACK: When Sandra
had the film developed,

she was certain she had
taken a picture of Champ.

She was equally certain
that no one would believe

that the photo was real.

She threw away the negatives
and, fearing public ridicule,

kept the picture hidden
for the next two years.

I hope you don't think I'm
crazy with all this stuff

I've been telling you about.

No, not at all.

ROBERT STACK: Finally,
in the autumn of 1979,

Sandra had the snapshot blown
up into an 8 by 10 inch print.

At the urging of friends,
she contacted Joe Zarzynski,

who's spent more than a decade
researching a book on the Lake

Champlain sea creature.

Yeah, well, here.

Here's the photograph.

Thanks.

I've been looking
forward to seeing this.

This is a great picture.

JOE ZARZYNSKi: When
I opened it up,

I thought it was
too good to be true.

After putting in so many years
of researching fieldwork,

and then finally there
was this color photograph

that clearly depicted a head and
neck sticking out of the water.

It was almost as if all my
Christmases came to me at once.

Can you point out
on the map where

you think the sighting was?

Well, yeah.

Mark the chart?

I know it was at the
north end of the lake.

ROBERT STACK:
Unfortunately, Sandra

was unable to pinpoint
the exact part of the lake

where she had taken
the photograph.

Joe sent the print to
the University of Arizona

to be analyzed.

We digitized it and
ran all sorts of computer

enhancement techniques.

We were looking for pulleys
or ropes or anything

like that, superimpositions.

But we found no
evidence of hoaxing.

And we concluded that that
object, whatever it is,

was there in the lake at
that estimated distance.

It wasn't any sort
of superimposition.

ROBERT STACK: When the
photograph was released,

it caused a media sensation.

The "New York Times" and "Life"
magazine carried the story.

Many were reminded of another,
far more well-known creature--

the legendary Loch Ness
Monster of Scotland.

Some speculated that, if
such creatures did exist,

perhaps they were
prehistoric animals which

had somehow managed to survive.

The object in the
Mansi photograph

resembled a plesiosaur,
which is an aquatic reptile

from the Cretaceous, about
60, 70 million years ago.

Long neck and flippers.

It resembles that.

But that's a long
time to have survived.

ROBERT STACK: Another theory
maintains that Champ might

be a zeuglodon, a
snake-like whale

extinct for 20 million years.

Or perhaps Champ
was simply a lake

sturgeon which have been known
to reach 7 feet in length.

No matter the
explanation, the fact

remains that, following
the publication

of the Mansi photograph,
dozens of eyewitness sightings

were reported.

Near dusk on July 7, 1988,
Walter Tappan, his wife Sandi,

and daughter Heidi went
out on Lake Champlain

with a camcorder.

The previous day,
Walter and Heidi

believed they had seen Champ.

The Tappans were probably
10 to 12 miles from the area

where Sandra Mansi had taken
her photograph 11 years earlier.

WALTER TAPPAN: It was a
quiet night, just as still

as glass, like the
first night had been.

And I was full of
anticipation and excitement,

but also not necessarily
expecting anything.

And for about 10
minutes we saw nothing.

And then Sandi, curiously
enough, Sandi says--

Walt. Walt, I think I see one.

Get the camera, honey!

Get the camera.

WALTER TAPPAN: I was manning
the camera all the time.

And when you look through the
viewfinder, you can't see much.

And so we had quite a time
there, where my daughter

and my wife were saying, there!

There!
Look!

Look!

And I'd say, where?

I can't see anything.

WALTER: Where?

ROBERT STACK: Walter
and his family

believe that they saw not just
one creature, but several.

What he photographed is
visible in the center

portion of the screen.

WALTER TAPPAN: We
saw, frequently,

a series of small humps coming
up, breaking the surface,

gliding along, and
then subsiding again.

But we watched these
creatures for 45 minutes.

And at one particular
moment, Heidi, I think,

spotted one not far from
the boat-- at the most

50 or 60 feet from the boat.

And then began the
footage for about 20

or 30 seconds of seeing
these humps glide along.

First two, then
three, then four,

and then suddenly
five all in a row,

stretching out about 20 feet.

SANDI: Oh, my god.

At one time, I saw I would
say five in the community.

But throughout the night--

it went on for about an hour--

I had probably I would say seven
different sightings of them.

Oh, my gosh, Heidi,
do you see another one?

SANDI TAPPAN: And then I
became very worried about it

because my husband
had seen it the night

before and now we see it again.

I thought, maybe this is
some sort of nesting site.

But I didn't know what it was.

And I kept trying to
make sense out of it.

It's bigger.
It's even bigger.

There are more humps.

SANDI TAPPAN: We have
a sun deck on the back,

so I decided to climb up
and stand on the sun deck,

and I just scanned
the water like that,

back and forth, scanning.

And lo and behold, I saw one
of those Bramah bull humps

coming along the water.

And then all of the sudden,
the neck and the head came up

and it looked right at me.

I will never forget it.

And so, as I said, it
just happened like that.

All of the sudden,
there's this lead hump,

like the Brahma bull
hump, all of a sudden,

just like this, just so
gracefully, just like that.

Looked out.

Looked at me.

And I was screaming
with excitement,

which I wish I wasn't
doing because it

went down more rapidly.

Came back, and then
very gracefully,

very slowly went back down
into the water just like that.

And this was the movement.

It was up and down.

There was no time for me to
get the camera and refocus.

I'd give anything now
to have that on footage

because what Sandi saw was, of
course, an astounding thing.

This creature looking
at us and lifting

its head out of the water.

And what it did was to confirm
absolutely for all of us

that what we had seen was Champ.

ROBERT STACK: Scientific
opinion is varied,

but at least one expert
believes that what

Walter Tappan
photographed was nothing

more than a school of fish.

Perhaps he is right.

But who can explain
the Mansi photograph

or the hundreds of
eyewitness accounts

recorded through the centuries?

SANDRA MANSI: Do I
believe Champ exists?

You'll never convince
me of anything else.

You can call it Champ.

You can call it a monster.

You can call it a zeuglodon.

You can call it a plesiosaur.

Or you can call it
anything you want.

I'm telling you,
in that lake, there

is something extraordinary.

I think there's a
good chance that there's

something in Lake
Champlain that still

remains unknown to zoology.

Something large.

Something unknown.

And for that reason,
if for no other,

we should continue trying
to find out what it is.

ROBERT STACK: When we return,
the story of a young man

who claims that he has lost
almost all memory of his past.

Imagine waking up one day
with no sense of who you are,

where you are, or
where you came from.

That is exactly what happened
to a mysterious young man

named Pierre, who
seems to be suffering

from near-total amnesia.

His odyssey began when
he awoke in the middle

of nowhere,
surrounded by the fog

and mist of a forgotten past.

Those first few minutes,
you're literally nothing

and you feel so empty.

It's very lonely and
painful to be empty.

Sorry if the voice shakes and
I st-- stutter more than usual,

but it's not nice to
talk about these things.

ROBERT STACK: It was a
chilly, windswept morning

in May of 1992.

Pierre says he
inexplicably found himself

along a deserted
stretch of coastline

with a blue duffel
bag beside him.

Feeling weak, hungry,
and terribly confused,

Pierre recalls that
he made his way

to the road, Highway 1 leading
south from Big Sur, California.

PIERRE: So I st--
started walking.

And as I c-- came upon a--

well, you could call it a
village if you're polite,

but it's a very
small, small place.

It's called G-- Gorda.

I saw the sign.

ROBERT STACK: Pierre spotted
a telephone, his first chance

to obtain help.

Only then did it dawn on him
that he had no one to call.

PIERRE: Then I realized
I couldn't phone anybody,

and that's when I
realized that I didn't

know anybody, including me.

ROBERT STACK: Alone and
distraught, Pierre searched

through his belongings.

Tucked into one of his shirts
was a crumpled piece of paper--

a library card from the
Boston Public Library.

Handwritten on the back of the
card was a name, April, Pierre.

Pierre says now that it
was not his signature.

PIERRE: It struck me that, hey,
that's the name of whoever owns

that card, and that must be me.

It's in my belongings
with my socks.

It's with my shirts.

It's with my things.

ROBERT STACK: Pierre
claims he was plagued

by hazy memories of San
Diego, California, 400 miles

to the south.

With just $17 in his pocket,
he set out hitchhiking.

Three days later, Pierre
arrived in San Diego.

He wandered through the
streets of the city,

searching for a
recognizable landmark.

PIERRE: I was not so
much fr-- frightened

anymore as angry because
I was so sure everything

would come back.

But I saw downtown
and said nothing.

I looked at the building
and they meant nothing.

I was so sure this city
would bring everything back,

and it did not.

And I will walk the streets
of the city for a long time.

ROBERT STACK: Pierre
felt he was hovering

on the brink of madness.

Finally, a
sympathetic bus driver

gave him a free ride
to the St. Vincent

de Paul Homeless Shelter.

JULIE BECKER: We've had cases
of people pretending they didn't

know who they were,
but Pierre was

very unique in that
sometimes in the other cases,

the residents are
after something.

They want to kind
of use staff to get

some needs met of
theirs, and that

wasn't Pierre's case at all.

He didn't ask for anything.

He didn't even ask for help.

And hold your breath.

ROBERT STACK: In
the past six months,

Pierre has undergone
a battery of physical

and psychological examinations.

Doctors theorize
he may be suffering

from trauma-induced amnesia.

JULIE BECKER: The doctor here at
the facility did screen Pierre

and found no obvious
physical causes

or reasons for the amnesia.

And he did say that
the case was very

unique from his perspective
in that it's very rare to have

somebody lose their
long-term memory for as long

as Pierre has.

ROBERT STACK: While at
St. Vincent's, Pierre

began the painstaking search
for clues to his past.

Soon, fragments of his
former self began to emerge.

Pierre, apparently, has
considerable knowledge

of physics, advanced
math, and computers

and even claims he knows
how to fly an airplane.

Pierre also discovered
that he possesses

some artistic ability.

But other clues only served
to deepen the mystery.

In the blue duffel
bag was a neck brace.

Pierre believes that
he may have been

injured while playing hockey.

He also claims that he can
type 85 words a minute.

Pierre also found that
he has a talent for music

and learned how to play the
guitar in just a few hours.

Now, every morning, Pierre
travels to Balboa Park

in San Diego, where
he earns spending

money as a street entertainer.

PIERRE: Well, it gives me
an identity for one thing.

I'm a musician.

Now I am something.

I don't feel empty now because
I keep myself very, very busy.

Can you tell me something
about Curly and how you--

ROBERT STACK: Hoping to add
detail to Pierre's fragmented

memories, "Unsolved Mysteries"
arranged for him to consult

with a police sketch artist.

In the session, two
portraits were created.

Portraits of people
who may have been

significant in Pierre's past.

The first was a man
who Pierre believes

is his cousin, Luke,
nicknamed Curly.

According to Pierre,
Luke is an auto mechanic

who once fixed the tour
bus of a well-known group

of Louisiana musicians, the
Preservation Hall Jazz Band.

The second drawing
was a woman who Pierre

believes was once his employer.

Her name is Carol.

Pierre recalls that they worked
together in a business office.

But for every memory
which returns,

Pierre says there are
literally thousands which

remain buried and forgotten.

PIERRE: I just want to find out
what the past is if I c-- can.

If I try to remember
something too hard,

I get a beautiful headache
that I wouldn't want

to inflict on my worst enemy.

And most recently, like
those last few days,

if I try not to remember
something that's coming back,

I get the same thing.

Like some lumps of
things come back

that are not
especially pleasant.

And if I try to
block them out, I

get the same kind of headache.

It's a hazy, piercing pain
that engulfs the whole head.

It's not something nice.

It's s-- something
I can do without.

ROBERT STACK: Update.

On the night of our
broadcast, a viewer in Canada

called our telecenter to say
that the young man had once

worked for his wife and that his
name is, in fact, Pierre April.

Pierre soon learned
that he has two sisters

and that his parents
live in Machin, Canada,

where his father
practices medicine.

The next day, they spoke on
the phone for the first time

in more than five months.

It was a very
emotional moment.

And then I even had to tell
him that I couldn't even

trust him 100%, that I wanted
the package with family

pictures in it and with my birth
certificate in it and anything

else he could think of.

He said, OK, we'll
send that to you.

And then he said, do
you remember your mom?

And I said, no.

And she was listening
on the extension,

and she burst into tears.

ROBERT STACK: A few days
later, the packet arrived.

Pierre sat down with
his fiancee, whom

he met in San Diego,
and a friend to get

reacquainted with his past.

PIERRE: It is strange to be told
who you are and what you did.

I'm someone again.

And for quite a few months,
I was nobody and nothing.

ROBERT STACK: Next, the
heartwarming reunion

of a woman and her family.

On a previous broadcast,
we profiled the case

of a woman named Lorene Roberts,
who mysteriously vanished

in 1962 and had no idea that
she was one of the heirs

to a million dollar estate.

In a happy turn of
events, Lorene herself

was watching television on
the night of our broadcast

and saw her own story
on "Unsolved Mysteries."

I'll be with you
in just a minute, OK?

ROBERT STACK: In
1951, Lorene Roberts

was 16 years old and working
as a waitress in Austin, Texas,

when she fell in love.

Coffee, pie, how about
I take you for a whirl?

ROBERT STACK: Lorene
and the young serviceman

were married just 10
days after they met.

By 1956, the couple had
two sons and a daughter,

but the marriage
was on the rocks.

When her husband
filed for divorce,

Lorene was left to raise
the children on her own.

Will you be in
charge for Mommy?

Will you do that for me?

I gotta go now.
I gotta go.

Will you watch out
for them for me?

OK?

RUBY BOHLES: Lorene tried.

She worked and she tried
to handle her situations.

And she loved her
children very much.

But that was just something
she couldn't handle,

and she seen she
couldn't handle it.

And she tried to get help
from her husband, but no help.

ROBERT STACK:
Finally, Lorene felt

she had no choice but to give
her children up for adoption.

The decision left
Lorene shattered,

and her emotional state
grew increasingly fragile.

Finally, in 1957, the
stress became too great

and Lorene was admitted to
a state mental facility.

Take care now.

OK.

You, too.

ROBERT STACK: Two years
later, while on furlough

from the facility,
Lorene paid a short visit

to her sister, Ruby.

No one in the family ever
heard from her again.

In 1988, Lorene became
one of the heirs

to a million dollar estate
after the death of her mother.

An extensive search
was launched,

but there was no sign
of Lorene Roberts.

When we aired the
story, we never

imagined that Lorene
would call our telecenter

and solve her own mystery.

Lorene's family was
overjoyed to learn

that she was alive and well.

Her sister, Ruby, immediately
flew to Little Rock, Arkansas,

where Lorene had been
working as a housekeeper

for just room and board.

A few days later,
Ruby brought Lorene

back home to Austin, Texas,
for a poignant reunion

with the rest of her family.

VIRGINIA TURNER: It
was unbelievable.

I could hardly believe
it because, I guess,

for so long, we have
searched and searched for her

and we couldn't find a lead.

I was so enthused I just--

I cried.

I laughed.

I did everything.

Day

LORENE HOUTKIN: Yes, it's
[inaudible] nice to be back.

They're real nice.

They've always been.

They're original people that
are very darling people.

ROBERT STACK: After we
filmed this reunion,

Lorene remained in
Austin for three months.

She received her
$105,000 inheritance

and has since returned
to her home in Arkansas.

This is the wonderful person
we looked for for 30 years.

We're going to try to be happy
and just do all the things we

can to be together and love each
other and include her children

and her grandchildren,
which I think

will be real good for
Lorene and all of us.

From time to time, the
authorities contact us with

fast-breaking cases, hoping that
an urgent appeal to our viewers

may help solve them.

Our first special alert
tonight is a tragic story

of a woman who was kidnapped and
later murdered by her husband.

Joseph and Lois Krantz
of Kalamazoo, Michigan,

have been married for 14
years, none of them easy.

Joseph had been in
and out of prison

since the mid-1970s for offenses
ranging from burglary to fraud

to forgery.

On July 31, 1992, he
was released from jail

after serving 2 and 1/2
months for embezzlement

and parole violation.

At the time, his wife, Lois,
was pregnant with the couple's

third child, but she had
recently contacted legal aid

about seeking a divorce.

On August 5, less than a
week after his release,

Joseph Krantz showed up at Lois'
apartment, brandishing a gun.

A friend, Janise McCrea,
was with Lois that morning.

She went into the
bedrooms to get some stuff.

We went into the living room.

We?

Me and the kids.

While we were
sitting there, Lois

come running out of the bedroom
yelling, oh no, oh no, just

screaming.

ROBERT STACK: Krantz forced his
wife into a car and sped away.

That night, he called
his mother and told her

that he had killed Lois and
dumped her body near a lake

about 30 miles from Kalamazoo.

Three days later,
Lois Krantz's body

was found in the general area
her husband had described.

She had been shot
once in the head.

On August 12, 1992, Lois
Krantz was laid to rest.

Her two daughters are now
with relatives in a place

where they will be
safe from their father.

Joseph Krantz has not
been seen since he

kidnapped his wife and
authorities believe

he may now be in Florida.

In our second
special alert case,

another family has been
shattered by a kidnapping.

The victim is a
65-year-old woman

who suffers from severe asthma
and must have daily medication.

Martha Doe Roberts
and her husband,

Allen, lived in Eads, Tennessee,
25 miles from Memphis.

Allen last saw his wife
when he left for work

at 9:30 AM on August 7, 1992.

When he returned later in the
afternoon, his wife was gone.

That night, Allen Roberts
received a ransom call.

A muffled male voice
demanded $100,000

or threatened he would
split open Martha's head.

The kidnapper has made
no further contact.

If Doe is released unharmed,
I will meet any demand.

I will do whatever is necessary
to obtain her release.

ROBERT STACK: Next week on
"Unsolved Mysteries," Senator

Huey Long of
Louisiana, in his day

the most fascinating character
in American politics.

But in 1935, Long died
in a flurry of gunfire

in his own state capitol.

History records that his
assassin, Dr. Carl Weiss,

was killed almost instantly
by the senator's bodyguards.

Today, there is
mounting evidence

that Dr. Weiss may
have been innocent,

and that the truth may have
been shrouded by a cover-up.

Join me next time.

Perhaps you may be able
to help solve a mystery.

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