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ANNOUNCER: This program is about unsolved mysteries.

Whenever possible, the actual family members

and police officials have participated

in recreating the events.

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

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Tonight, the story

of auto racing legend and self-made millionaire Mickey

Thompson.

He and his wife were gunned down in what police

believe was a contract killing.

50 years ago, the mysterious George J. Stein

opened 10 savings accounts across the Midwest

then disappeared.

His unknown heirs stand to inherit a fortune.

Michael Wayde Mohon, a convicted armed robbery,

is a modern-day Houdini, escaping from custody

on three different occasions.

Recently, 12 residents near Pike's Peak, Colorado,

claimed to have seen evidence of a bizarre creature,

half-man, half-ape.

Could the legend of Bigfoot be more than a myth?

Cheerleader Joyce McLain was brutally

murdered eight years ago.

Friends and neighbors in her main hometown

are desperate to find the killer.

Tonight, five stories, each a unique and compelling mystery.

Perhaps someone watching can help solve them.

Perhaps that someone is you.

[theme music]

[engine revving]

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Mickey Thompson was a legend

in the world of auto racing.

Cars were Mickey's life, and they propelled him

to success beyond his dreams.

[cheering]

Among his many innovations were the slingshot dragsters.

And in 1960, his homebuilt challenger

was the first car to break the 400 miles per hour mark.

Mickey was also a pioneer in promoting off-road racing.

DANNY THOMPSON: Yeah, I think a good description of my dad

was he was flat-out all the time,

and he was pedal to the floor.

And he did, that's the way he spent his life.

He loved to go fast, and he loved racing.

And I think the businesses were a way

to help him continue to race.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Mickey's obsession

with speed drove him far, sometimes too far.

In the mid '70s, a speedboat accident paralyzed him

from the waist down.

Doctors felt he would never walk again.

Mickey proved them wrong.

With death constantly at his shoulder,

he looked to the support of his wife, Trudy.

COLLENE CAMPBELL: Mickey's and Trudy's daily routine

was just about twice as frantic as anybody else.

They did not work an eight-hour day.

They worked at least a 16-hour day.

Uh, I know that it's only five hours before the race starts.

COLLENE CAMPBELL: They had a goal,

and they were trying to achieve it.

And they liked working, and they enjoyed it.

And that was their whole life.

It was a fun thing to work hard, and they really worked hard.

[interposing voices]

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): During the '80s,

Mickey developed an extremely profitable

stadium racing venture.

His business style was similar to his hard-driving racing

tactics.

Mickey told family members that he had received death threats.

COLLENE CAMPBELL: Mickey talked to me

and said that he was tremendously concerned.

He said he was afraid that an individual

was going to hurt his baby, meaning his wife, Trudy.

And I responded, Mick, you don't really think so, do you?

And he says, I'm telling you, he's absolutely,

absolutely capable of it.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Mickey and Trudy

lived in Bradbury, California, an affluent rural community

located near Los Angeles.

At 6:00 AM on March 16, 1988, the pastoral quiet of Bradbury

was broken by the sound of gunfire.

[gunshots]

[siren]

The shots came from Mickey Thompson's home.

At the bottom of the driveway, sheriffs

found Trudy lying dead.

POLICE OFFICER: 57, 10-33, requesting back-up.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): A few yards away near the garage,

Mickey Thompson was also found dead.

The precision and cold-blooded nature of this double

homicide convinced investigators that

this was no amateur killing.

For this reason, Mickey Thompson's friends and family

have put up $260,000 in reward money.

They hope this huge sum would inspire

someone to come forward with the identity of the killers.

So far, no one has provided any information.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): During their crime scene

investigation, sheriffs found few clues.

When you rolled up here, was all the jewelry and the body

the way you found it here?

POLICE OFFICER: Yeah, everything was all the same.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): They did

discover that Trudy Thompson was wearing

over $70,000 worth of jewelry.

She and her husband were carrying $4,000 in cash.

Robbery seemed an unlikely motive.

MICHAEL GRIGGS: It doesn't make any sense to us

that a person would had passed up

such obvious pieces of jewelry.

It wasn't like a ring or a bracelet

that was hidden by gloves or a long blouse or something.

It was quite obvious.

And it just doesn't make sense to us why somebody

wouldn't have taken it.

This just wasn't a random crime.

It was well-planned.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The only

other unusual clue that was found at the crime

scene was a stun gun.

MICHAEL GRIGGS: We found a plastic stun gun.

And we cannot say that this ever belonged to the two victims.

We've talked to all their friends,

and they say they never owned one.

And we just don't believe it was theirs.

We don't really know why the suspects

would bring it to the location.

It would only be speculation on why.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): That morning,

the gunshots that killed Mickey and Trudy

were heard by a witness.

He believes he saw the killers escape.

Well, my wife and I were asleep in bed.

It was about 6:00 o'clock in the morning.

[gunshot]

When we heard the shots, we literally

jumped straight out of the bed.

And I ran over to the window to see where

the shots were coming from.

My wife got on the phone and dialed 911

and told the police that there were shots coming

from the Thompson residence.

There was probably about 15 seconds of silence.

And at that time, we heard Mickey

screaming, please don't hurt my wife, please

don't hurt my wife.

The next thing we heard is another series

of shots and silence again.

After the second series of shots,

I saw two black men on 10-speed bikes pedaling as fast as they

could to get out of here.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Several neighborhood residents

spotted the men riding down a nearby road.

Others recall seeing the men in the weeks

previous to the killings.

These witnesses provided investigators with descriptions

of the suspects, two black males dressed in jogging suits

between 20 and 30 years of age, approximately six feet tall,

weighing 185 to 200 pounds.

Based on her intimate knowledge of Mickey

and Trudy's daily routine, Mickey's sister Collene

has developed her own theory as to how they

were ambushed and murdered.

COLLENE CAMPBELL: You could almost set a clock

by Mickey and Trudy's behavior.

They would leave around 6 o'clock every morning.

It would be easy for somebody to know

what their daily routine was.

And I'm sure the people that killed Mickey knew exactly what

time they left because they left about daylight every morning.

[engine starting]

My belief is that when Trudy got in the van and backed it out,

the people that murdered them were waiting in the bush.

And Mickey just didn't have a chance.

He walked right in to where they were.

[gunshot]

It's been stated that Mickey was yelling,

just don't hurt my wife, don't hurt my wife.

And I'm sure he told her to get out of there,

to run after he was hit.

And she didn't make it.

[gunshot]

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Investigators

found it odd that the killers would ride

to the crime scene on bicycles.

The gunmen also failed to use silencers on their weapons.

Detective Griggs believes one explanation might

be that the killers planned to abduct Mickey and Trudy

before killing them, intending to make their escape

in the Thompson's van.

Possibly they planned because of the stun gun

and no silencers to maybe bring them back in the house

or take them somewhere away from the location, where they

could do it and the lack of silencers

wouldn't make any difference.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Almost a year has passed

since the double homicide.

Mickey's son and sister want to know

not only who killed Mickey and Trudy

but who may have ordered it done.

DANNY THOMPSON (VOICEOVER): I want

to see this person or persons brought to justice

in the very, very worst way.

And I'm going to do anything I can with whatever it takes.

COLLENE CAMPBELL (VOICEOVER): There

is something inside of you that says yes, I

do want those people punished.

It was just a very cowardly thing to do.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): After 13 years

of investigation, police arrested

Thompson's former business partner, Michael Goodwin.

We do believe that Mr. Goodwin orchestrated the murders.

We believe he planned the murders.

And we believe that his motive was

based on a personal vendetta, along with financial gain.

There is simply no evidence, nor has

there ever been that implicates Mike Goodwin in the murders.

The key innuendo or motive has always

been the alleged civil dispute between Mike

Goodwin and Mickey Thompson.

Mike negotiated a settlement with Mickey Thompson.

There are third-party witnesses that confirm that.

There was no motive to kill Mickey Thompson.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Sheriff's investigators claim

that an eyewitness recently came forward and identified Michael

Goodwin as a man seen sitting in a station wagon

in the Thompson's neighborhood, spying on them

with binoculars several days before the murders.

We've taken his exact description

of where he says he saw the vehicle and Mr. Goodwin.

And we basically reenacted it, and it's almost hilarious.

You would not be able to see Mickey and Trudy

Thompson's home from there.

The charges against Mike Goodwin are entirely meritless.

There's no evidence, and that's just not my viewpoint.

No charges were filed for 13 years in this case,

and there's a reason for that.

The district attorney didn't file

charges because there was no evidence

against Michael Goodwin.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): When we return,

the case of Michael Wayde Mohon, a man that prisons cannot hold.

After three successful escapes, he is still on the run.

He's a very definite threat to anybody,

you know, any citizen anywhere.

[theme music]

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): New Year's Eve, 1983,

Fountain Valley, California.

[tires screeching]

[sirens]

After being called to the scene of a reported burglary,

police became involved in a high-speed chase

with the suspects.

The chase ended in the parking lot of a condominium complex.

Officer Kevin Arnold took off after one of the two suspects.

KEVIN ARNOLD: I've been involved in other vehicle pursuits

and other perp pursuits.

And I've arrested burglary suspects

before where you just, everything is

supposed to go a certain way.

We chase him and tell him to get down on the ground.

He gets on the ground, and we handcuff him.

And that's the end of the problem.

This one, all of a sudden he wasn't obeying my commands.

[grunting]

We're struggling over the gun, and I realize

that he's trying to kill me.

[gunshot]

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): In order to avoid being shot,

Arnold tried to empty his revolver into the air.

I know there's one left.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Five out of six shots were fired.

Arnold then reached for his second service revolver.

He fired five shots at his adversary.

The man survived.

His name was Michael Wayde Mohon.

When they checked their records, police

discovered that Mohon had five pages of previous convictions.

He was known as a master of disguises

and often used them to escape capture.

POLICE OFFICER: Just turn your head to the right.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): After his arrest in Orange County

on New Year's Eve, 1983, Mohon remained

in police custody for a year while he awaited trial.

He underwent physical therapy at a local hospital outside

of jail for the six bullet wounds

sustained during his struggle with Officer Arnold.

RICHARD OLSON: Well, one day when he was going to therapy,

there was a nurse that was talking to someone else.

And she made a mistake by saying out loud

that he was going to be coming again on a certain day.

And of course, Mohon is a type of person that would

file that away for future use.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): On January 17, 1985,

the date the nurse had mentioned,

Mohon arrived at the hospital.

RICHARD OLSON: As they got to the back door

of the therapy building, Michael started to walk in.

And as he walked in, he stumbled and fell forward.

MICHAEL MOHON: Don't move or I'll shoot.

Now handcuff yourself.

RICHARD OLSON: When he came up, he had a gun.

And of course, he got the drop on Deputy [inaudible].

MICHAEL MOHON: Let's go, man, get them on.

Up against the wall.

RICHARD OLSON: Once he had the deputy handcuff himself,

he took a second set of cuffs, moved him down the hall,

and used that set of cuffs to cuff him to a fire pipe.

MICHAEL MOHON: Feel this?

POLICE OFFICER: Yeah, I feel it.

RICHARD OLSON: As Mohon was leaving the building,

he told the deputy to stay there and not to make any noise

and that it was his lucky day.

And at that point, he backed out of the door,

ran to a waiting pick-up truck, where

his wife Sharon was waiting in the parking lot,

jumped in the truck.

And they drove away [inaudible] the escape.

MICHAEL MOHON: I've got to get into my clothes.

Your clothes are in that bag on the floor.

RICHARD OLSON: During the course of the follow-up investigation,

it was our conclusion that it was Sharon Mohon that

had been driving the truck.

We also felt that she was the one that planted the gun.

And when we took her into custody a couple of days later,

we arrested her for aiding and abetting,

and she eventually pled guilty.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Sharon Shaw Mohon

was sentenced to three years in jail

for her involvement in the escape.

She has since been paroled, and authorities believe

she has rejoined her husband.

One week after his daring escape,

Mohon surfaced in Mesa, Arizona, and again

became involved in a high-speed chase with police.

[siren]

At speeds that sometimes exceeded 100 miles per hour,

Mohon led police on a two-hour chase.

[multiple sirens]

A number of units were in pursuit

and still Mohon kept ahead of them.

A helicopter joined in the hunt.

Police believe that Mohon deliberately

prolonged the dangerous chase, hoping the helicopter

would run out of fuel.

He didn't count on a second chopper

taking over from the first.

The chase covered so many miles that eight different police

departments were involved.

[police radio]

Finally, a barricade was set up, and the chase came to an end.

[tires screeching]

POLICE OFFICER: Hands where I can see them.

Slide over to your right.

Keep coming, keep coming.

Keep your hands right where I can see them.

Get down.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Once again, Mohon was under arrest.

As he was taken into custody, police

were surprised how friendly he seemed,

unusual behavior for a man who was facing a serious charge.

During his interrogation, Mohon maintained a false identity

but made little effort to hide the fact that he was lying.

DONALD RYAN: First of all, I don't really even know you.

What's your name?

Claude Banks Tillman.

DONALD RYAN: Claude, is Banks a family name?

That's a money name.

DONALD RYAN: That's a good name.

As we end the interview here, it got to the point where

we kind of realized between the two of us

that he wasn't who he really said he was.

And he had kind of a smirky attitude with him

that my name is Claude Tillman until you find out differently.

We just got a bulletin from the intelligence unit.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The following morning,

as Detective Ryan was leafing through some newly

arrived wanted posters, he came across one

identifying Michael Mohon.

He realized that this was the face of the man

they knew as Claude Tillman.

DONALD RYAN: Excuse me, Bob.

Sure.

Did you put these in here today?

Yeah.

DONALD RYAN: This is the guy, that, uh, this is Tillman,

the guy I talked about. POLICE OFFICER: No.

DONALD RYAN: Yeah.

I'll call Orange County.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): At that moment,

unbeknownst to the authorities, their quarry

was shackled to seven other convicts, two of them women,

on his way to the Tempe courthouse.

HARVEY WOODS: After Mohon's preliminary hearing,

I drove the inmates over to the Tempe Justice Court.

I had one inmate that had to go in there

for a preliminary hearing.

I parked in front of the court, secured the van,

took the prisoner inside.

I was inside approximately 10 minutes.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): During those 10 minutes,

Mohon and an accomplice kicked out

a window in the front of the van and escaped

by running toward the crowded campus

of Arizona State University.

HARVEY WOODS: Well, apparently our investigators

in talking to the people in the van that had stayed,

the two young ladies related that Mohon and his accomplice

had planned on jumping me, taking my gun,

and killing me, thereby giving them a gun and ammunition

to effect their escape.

But the young ladies had been given

a release that they were due to be released that evening.

And they pleaded with Mohon to attempt

to kick out the Lexan glass as opposed to kill me.

And fortunately, he tried that and it did work for him.

Yeah, Les, come on, let's go.

[tires screeching]

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Mohon and his accomplice

Jeffrey Leslie stole a truck from an auto mechanic

and drove away to freedom.

[cheering]

Update, Mobile, Alabama, within minutes after the story

first aired, the local FBI office received a call

from a viewer who reported that she recognized

Michael and Sharon Mohon.

The tipster that called in indicated

that she had seen Mohon and his wife in Mobile,

and that they were using an assumed name

of Steve and Mary Bostwick.

At first, I didn't think it was him.

And then I noticed her immediately.

There was no doubt.

Then when they shot back on his photographs,

I knew beyond a doubt.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The caller told authorities

that Mohon and his wife were living

in a trailer located behind a house just outside of Mobile.

The FBI staked out the trailer.

On April the 19th, two individuals, a man and a woman

who fit the description of Michael Mohon and Sharon Mohon,

departed that area and then proceeded to the community

of Prichard, Alabama.

And they went to an auto parts store.

And after Mr. Mohon came out of the auto parts store,

he was arrested along with his wife, Sharon Mohon.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): On July 7,

Michael Wayde Mohon was returned to Orange County, California,

and is currently in custody awaiting trial.

Sharon Mohon was returned to a northern California

correctional facility for violating her parole.

Coming up next, in the mountains of Colorado,

12 reliable witnesses claimed to have seen evidence

of a mysterious creature the Indians called Sasquatch,

and which the world knows as Bigfoot.

[theme music]

Pike's Peak, Colorado, 100,000 acres of dense wilderness

surround this majestic mountain.

Mall For centuries, this forest has

been a sanctuary for bobcat, black bear, and mountain lion.

But recently, there have been reports of a different kind

of animal roaming the woods.

It basically looked like a big man or big shape

coming toward us.

And we turned around and started running.

It had long hair hanging off its arms and its legs.

It had a small torso but long legs and a long arm.

Whatever these creatures are, I believe

they're more human than ape.

I believe that possibly there may be a group of anywhere

between seven and possibly 10, a small band of these creatures

living here in the Pikes Peak region.

For hundreds of years, strange ape-like

creatures have been seen across the western United States.

The Indians call them Sasquatch.

Today, they are known by the name Bigfoot.

Until recently, many shared the prevailing belief

that these sightings are either hoaxes or the misidentification

of common animals.

But today in Colorado, new physical evidence

seems to substantiate the numerous eyewitness reports,

suggesting that perhaps, just perhaps

there really is a Bigfoot.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): On the morning of March 27, 1987,

local resident Dan Masias' son discovered

a set of mysterious tracks on the newly fallen snow.

Hey, Dad, look at this.

DAN MASIAS: What do you got?

There are some weird tracks.

DAN MASIAS: Tracks?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Though Dan has spent much of his life

in the outdoors, he didn't recognize the tracks.

DAN MASIAS: Look, they're going down this way.

Upon examination of the footprints,

I determined that it was something

very strange and related to the past footprints

we had seen around our home.

The next night, on a hunch, my son and I

stayed up late downstairs.

We watched television.

And every 15 or 20 minutes, I kept going to my window.

At quarter of 12, I went to my window.

A few seconds later, I could see two large creatures

running down the road.

One of them was a small one, which was about 5 foot 6,

5 foot 7.

And the other creature was about 6 foot, maybe 6 foot 2.

And other than the hair, which appeared

to be covering their body, they looked just like human beings.

Put your hand down there so we can take a photograph.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The next day, Dan

took pictures of the tracks.

These are the actual photographs.

The large set is almost a foot long,

and the smaller set is eight inches in length.

With these toes, the way they--

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Animal physiologist Vaughan Langman

believes that this plaster replica fits the foot

that made the Colorado tracks.

Thing that might be North American.

There's no way for us to identify a foot like this.

The print itself does not fall into any

of the normal grizzly bear, North American species

classifications.

The foot, the way it has now been presented

is a primate foot.

If there is an unknown bipedal hominid-like creature living

in the Pike's Peak region, it would be

the discovery of the century.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Dan Masias'

nocturnal sighting was featured in a number of local papers.

He was contacted by 12 other witnesses who

had had a similar encounter.

One summer afternoon in 1978, Jeramy Swisher and five

companions came face-to-face with an extraordinary creature

while hiking near the Pike's Peak area.

JERAMY SWISHER: We came around the base of this big rock.

And we saw this, it looked like an individual.

And it turned around and it was coming toward us.

It started to chase us.

It looked like a fairly good sized man.

It was around 6 foot tall.

That's the shape of it.

The arms might have been a little bit longer than normal.

The run was more or less like that of an athlete,

a man of some sort.

It was right across the road from us,

and that scared us enough to take

off the rest of the way home.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): For years, eyewitnesses

have claimed to have seen a creature

like Bigfoot, particularly in the Pacific Northwest.

The recent sightings in Colorado have all

occurred in the newly populated area close to the boundaries

of the Pike National Forest.

Some of these witnesses prefer to remain anonymous.

ANONYMOUS WITNESS: I'm positive that I

saw some type of creature.

It was the strangest thing I've ever seen in my life.

It wasn't a bear.

It wasn't like anything I've ever seen before.

I had a fear in me.

I got out of the truck, and it passed me.

And I got behind it but at a clear enough distance

because I wasn't about to go tackle it or anything.

But it was, it seemed to have the figure of a human being

except it had hair everywhere on its body.

I didn't see the face at all.

But it had hair covering its body.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): In early August, 1988,

a cabin was broken into by a large animal.

When the owner rushed to the back porch,

the intruder had vanished but the cabin door had

sustained considerable damage.

The next morning, two boys found that whatever had broken in

had left tufts of hair snagged in the screen door.

We sent this hair to a diagnostic laboratory

at the University of California at San Francisco.

This laboratory is one of the world's leading centers

for analysis of this type.

I've tested these hairs for all the major groups of mammals

that have large specimens, like deer, bear, and so forth,

and it only reacts with the primates.

And of the primates, it only reacts with hominids.

And there are only five hominids, human, chimpanzee,

gorilla, orangutan, and gibbon.

And I have eliminated all of those

except human and chimpanzee.

So it's some large animal, closely related

to human and chimpanzee, or one of those.

And it's hard to see how that could have escaped detection

over thousands of years.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Biological artist Carol

[inaudible] was able to create a composite

from four eyewitnesses.

It showed a huge hairy humanoid creature that closely resembled

other descriptions of Bigfoot.

Is it possible that this legendary creature might exist?

For centuries, people have reported

encounters with Bigfoot.

It could be that these reports are hoaxes or the products

of overeager imaginations.

But there is a remote chance that a handful

of these creatures do exist, hidden away

in the vast unexplored wilderness of Colorado

and the Pacific Northwest.

Until hard physical evidence appears,

skeptics will continue to doubt the validity

of these sightings, but skeptics have occasionally been wrong.

[theme music]

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): On November 12, 1936,

in a bank located in Ripon, Wisconsin,

a man named George J. Stein opened

up a savings account for $120.

Stein left no social security numbers

on file and no home address.

Between 1936 and 1952, George J. Stein

opened dozens of bank accounts, primarily in savings and loans

throughout the Midwest.

But Stein never returned to reclaim his fortune.

Today, it totals in excess of $130,000.

Why would a man deposit thousands of dollars

and never come back?

There are many similar unclaimed bank

accounts around the country.

But few are as large and as mysterious as those

opened by one George J. Stein.

Two investigators had developed theories as to who Stein was.

One believes he was a traveling salesman, the other,

a notorious bank robber.

If someone can unravel this mystery

and prove that they are related to George J. Stein,

they would inherit over $130,000.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Stein's deposits were

scattered across the Midwest.

There were three accounts in the states of Minnesota and Indiana

and at least one in each of the states of Iowa and Illinois

and five in Wisconsin.

There is also a possibility of a Stein account in Texas.

Investigator Tom Becker became interested in one small deposit

made in Indianapolis.

TOM BECKER: But finally in desperation,

I thought, well, let's check this little diddly $185

account.

Maybe we'll come up with something.

Also this was the only one that I could find where he gave

an address other than general delivery or YMCA

or on the account it might say address unknown.

He gave an address of 505 Washington

Street, Indianapolis.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): This address turned out

to be Inland Jobber's, a company that made men's hats,

gloves, and other accessories.

Earlier, Tom had found a physical description

of the elusive Stein, and he was able to match

it with descriptions of a traveling

salesman named Ralph Barnett.

Hi Ralph.

Hi Jeff.

Barnett's sales territories overlapped the towns

from which many of Stein's deposits were made.

We are running short.

How much do you want for them?

$40.

Good.

TOM BECKER: So as he acquired more money

than he needed for living expenses,

my theory is he would mail it to one of these savings and loans.

In checking the records, I can't find

any case where he dealt with two savings and loans

at the same time.

And I think this had to do with the $5,000 insured limit.

He didn't want too much in any one savings and loan.

My own theory on this is that Barnett, or whoever George J.

Stein was, like I say, he eventually met

an unfortunate end, maybe a heart attack, maybe

he was murdered, who knows.

And as he disappeared very suddenly,

he never made a withdrawal on any of these accounts.

So obviously, when he stopped, it was a sudden end

because nobody deposits money without the intention

of ever withdrawing it.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Genealogist Frances

Scoll has a different theory.

When she combed through all of Stein's deposit records,

she discovered a return address written on one

of his deposit envelopes.

The name was Ed Fay.

And one day while checking through some newspapers

from 1903, she discovered just who Ed Fay may have been.

FRANCIS SCOLL: A man named Ed Fay had robbed

a post office with his gang.

And it was a post office up in Superior, Wisconsin.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): In October of 1903, in Superior,

Ed Fay masterminded a daring post

office robbery, absconding with over $15,000

in stamps and cash.

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We're in.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Ed Fay was

clever but not clever enough.

Shortly after the post office robbery, he was arrested.

FRANCIS SCOLL: He had a reputation for being very, very

slick and well-educated and could

get away with almost anything.

And he boasted that there was no jail that could hold him.

[lock jangling]

We're out.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): No jail did hold him.

With an accomplice, Fay engineered his escape.

He then vanished.

To this day, nobody knows where he went.

FRANCIS SCOLL: Well, that was in 1904, and he was 28 or 29.

In the 1939s and '40s, he would have been

about in his 60s, early 60s.

My theory is that he may have decided he needed the money.

He couldn't spend it as it was.

And he may have been known as Eddie Fay in that area

where he mailed it from.

And the only way to do was to change his identity

so that no one would ask where Ed Fay got all that money

and then become somebody else and also have his bank accounts

all in somebody else's names.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Was George J. Stein

the notorious gentleman robber Ed Fay?

Or was he a mild-mannered haberdashery

salesman named Ralph Barnett?

Regardless of his identity, any legitimate heirs

could collect over $130,000.

But they would first have to prove they were related

to Stein and provide a signature matching Stein's handwriting

that was written during the period of time

when Stein made his many deposits.

So far there have been five applicants

but no successful claims.

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Eight years ago, the mill town of East Millinocket, Maine,

was safe and secure, the last place you'd expect

a brutal murder to occur.

Children played outside with no fear.

It was a peaceful, small town and a close-knit community

of 2,600 souls.

That sense of security was shattered

on August the 8th, 1980.

On that day, Joyce McLain, a spirited and promising

16-year-old, was brutally murdered

in the woods behind the high school soccer field.

Her murder has not been solved, and the town

will never be the same again.

It's just something in a little town like this

that you don't forget.

It's there all the time.

I mean, here we are eight years later,

and people in the community, there's not

a day that goes by that her name isn't mentioned,

mainly because she was such a bright, beautiful young girl,

so talented.

She made such a mark on this town.

The population of East Millinocket is only 2,600, yet

over 6,000 signatures were collected on this petition that

was sent to us, urgently requesting

that we tell Joyce's story.

The town's people feel that "Unsolved

Mysteries" is their last chance to find Joyce's killer.

They know that nothing can bring her back,

but they refuse to accept the intrusion of senseless violence

into their town and into their lives.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Joyce McLain

was the kind of teenager that would make any family

or any hometown proud.

She was born in East Millinocket in 1963.

And 19 months later, her little sister, Wendy, came along.

Joyce displayed extraordinary musical talent at an early age

and later on played in the school orchestra

and composed music of your own.

Joyce was an honors student, a cheerleader, and an officer

of the student body.

She was popular and well-loved.

PAM MCLAIN: Joyce's mind was filled

with thoughts of what kind of a future she was going to have.

She was heading into a new step in life.

She was getting her driver's license.

She was going to turn 17 years old.

She had a big party planned at the beach with a big band

and lots of friends and family was going to be there.

I believe that it was a growing up time.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): On Friday, August 8, 1980,

Joyce went jogging at 7:30 in the evening.

That Friday was the last time Joyce was seen alive.

BARRY SHUMAN: Joyce had a route that

took her out around the town and behind Schenck High School.

And the last time she was seen is turning the corner going

down to the softball field and the soccer field,

where she usually did a number of laps.

We have witnesses that say this happened

roughly between quarter of 8:00 and 8:00 o'clock

in the evening.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Two days

later, Peter Larlee one of the volunteers searching for Joyce,

found her body in the woods behind the high school.

PETER LARLEE (VOICEOVER): I saw Joyce, and she wasn't moving.

Her body looked like it had been beaten.

Joyce.

PETER LARLEE (VOICEOVER): I knew that she wasn't alive.

Joyce.

PETER LARLEE (VOICEOVER): I started screaming her name.

And after that, I turned and ran home and called the police.

Turned out to be a big part of my life

that, that's really hurt me.

I never expected what happened at all.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): No one knows

exactly what events led up to the death of Joyce McLain.

The last time she was seen, Joyce was

jogging towards a soccer field.

BARRY SHUMAN: That particular Friday night, there were groups

of kids out there partying.

There was also a softball tournament

in town, which brought another 300

to 500 people behind that field where

she would have been jogging.

And they were playing softball right

up until dusk that evening.

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ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The field was a popular hangout.

And one theory is that local boys were drinking there.

It is possible that when they saw Joyce approaching,

they began harassing her.

People close to the case feel that Joyce might have been led

into the woods against her will, and that some

of the boys in the group that tormented Joyce

tied her up intending to attack her sexually.

Instead, they murdered her.

A second theory is that Joyce's attackers

might have been day laborers at the local paper mill.

The mill had just taken on 300 workers

who were not local residents.

Eight years after Joyce was murdered,

her case remains unsolved.

Her death was a devastating blow to her family

and of the town of East Millinocket.

WENDY MCLAIN: Before she was murdered, all of us kids

would all go out walking around.

Like 6:00 clock, we were all out on the street.

And after she was murdered, it all changed.

The parents were real, where are you going, what time are you

going to be home.

And people never even locked the doors around here.

People started locking up their houses.

And I mean, everybody was just in a panic.

It was like, it's something you least expect around here.

Can you imagine living in a town

where people are aware that these killers have

never been found.

They may very well be still walking our streets.

The town is, it's been like a pressure cooker,

just ready to explode.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): On the eight-year anniversary

of Joyce's death, the town held a candlelight

memorial ceremony.

They want to keep Joyce's memory alive.

And they want to keep alive the hope that her murderer will

one day be found.

PAM MCLAIN: I believe that Joyce's murder is solvable.

And I believe out there someone has just

the tiniest bit of information.

They may not even know it.

They could come forward, and it could be solved.

For every mystery, there is someone

somewhere who knows the truth.

Perhaps that someone was watching.

Perhaps it's you.

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