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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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