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LAVONA ROWE-RICHMOND: 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): In New Hampshire,

freak accidents take the lives of a mother and her son

25 years apart.

Some believe that Rena and Danny Paquette

were in reality murdered because they had seen

the face of the same killer.

In Aurora, Illinois, LaVelda Richmond was injured in a car

crash on a lonely country road.

Simultaneously, her identical twin sister, LaVona,

claims that she saw the accident from her living

room 20 miles away.

Could this be a case of ESP between identical twins?

And FBI Director William sessions

will announce the latest edition of the FBI'S

10 Most Wanted List.

Perhaps you can help track down a serial child molester.

Also, we have a heartwarming update from our story

of a Tennessee adoption home which

abducted children and sold them to wealthy clients.

After our broadcast, one of those orphans

was reunited with her two brothers

after a 30-year separation.

You can share their joyous reunion tonight

on "Unsolved Mysteries."

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ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): 30 years ago,

Hooksett, New Hampshire was home to 2,500 people, many of them

farmers.

The surrounding woods concealed an abundant population

of deer that attracted hunters from all over New England.

But by the winter of 1964, a hunter of a different kind

had arrived in the area.

Two teenage girls had been found murdered after having

first been tortured.

The second victim was a 15-year-old high school

sophomore named Pamela Mason.

It was thought that her killer lived in the area,

and neighbor regarded neighbor with suspicion.

One area resident had good reason to be frightened.

47-year-old Rena Paquette told her friends and family

that she believed she knew who had

killed the two teenage girls.

At the time, nobody took her seriously.

February 3, 1964.

Rena's son, 13-year-old Danny Paquette,

had the day off from school.

Ma?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Danny and Rena were alone

at the family farm, but when the boy came down for breakfast

his mother was gone.

Uncle Charlie, this is Danny speaking.

Yeah, I can't find my mom.

Well, she said she was going to take me to the dentist today.

NADINE LARRABEE: When Danny got up that morning,

he couldn't find my mother.

All right.

Bye.

Dan couldn't understand where she was because her purse

and her winter coat were there.

And it was extremely bitterly cold

and it was highly unlikely that she went anywhere

without her coat or her purse.

She's not in there, Uncle Charlie.

Let's try the big barn.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Danny's uncle immediately came

over to help look for Rena.

Though the two searched for over an hour,

Rena was nowhere to be found.

Mom?

Rena!

Mom?

Rena?

Rena?

Rena?

Look, smoke!

Mom?

No.

Mom.

No, Mom.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Rena Paquette was dead.

Her charred body was found in the Paquette barn

one mile from the family home.

Police conclude that she had somehow set herself on fire

and then crawled into the barn to die.

However, no flammable substances or containers

were found near the area.

Though her death was ruled a suicide,

her other son, Victor, believes that she was murdered.

I don't really believe my mother committed suicide

because of the tremendous amount of fear and panic

in the community because of the two

earlier brutal murders that I think it was just

kind of like kept very low profile

not to create more public hysteria.

I feel at the time of my mother's death, the person that

was found to be the person responsible for killing

the young Pamela Mason girl was the same person that

was responsible for my mother's death.

In February of 1964, a local delivery man who was arrested,

convicted, and sentenced to life in prison

for the murder of Pamela Mason.

At long last, the nightmare seemed over.

But 20 years later, Rena's son, Danny,

was also found dead, gunned down in front of his house.

There are those who believe that Danny and his mother both

died for the same reason, they know too much.

Though Rena Paquette left behind five children,

her son, Danny, seemed the most affected by her death.

His brother, Victor, became his closest friend.

Mom being killed was very traumatic for Danny.

I think everybody's mom is a little security blanket

and from there you lose that, emotionally

it leads to a lot of problems.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Danny grew from a troubled adolescent

into a troubled adult. He married, became a father,

but then divorced in 1981.

In a bitter legal battle, Danny lost custody of his children.

I believe that Danny loved his children more than anything.

I'm sure that Danny was extremely

upset, angered at the thought of losing his children.

It would, of course, mean to him another loss.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): In the summer of 1983, frustrated

by not being allowed to see his children,

Danny went to his former wife's home.

Dee?

What are you doing?

- Dee, open the door. - What are you doing here?

Dee, I want to see the kids.

I haven't seen them in a month. Now open the door.

You're not going to see the kids.

You're not even supposed to be around here.

Dee, I'm telling you if I have to come

through this plate glass door, I want to see my kids!

I'm gonna call the cops.

Now get out of here.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): After this frightening outburst,

Danny's former wife called police.

They took him into custody.

I'm going to take you back to February 3, 1964.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Danny was ordered

to undergo psychiatric examination at Concord

State Mental Hospital.

It was during this time that the tragedy from his past

began to catch up with his present.

Under hypnosis, Danny began to recall details of the morning

that his mother was killed.

I remember I--

I woke up because I heard--

I heard voices.

It's my mom's voice and--

[voices echoing]

--there's a man's voice.

[voices echoing]

He was a delivery man and he was yelling at my mom.

And I remember I went back to my room.

I was scared.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Danny became convinced that he

had seen his mother's murderer.

He told friends that he was certain

that the killer was the same delivery man in prison

for the murder of Pamela Mason.

However, there has never been any evidence

to support this belief.

How's things going in here, anyway?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): During this troubled time,

Danny's brother would visit every day,

and when Danny was released after five months

he found that Victor had paid all of his bills.

--mailed out.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): After Danny went home,

he tried to pick up the pieces of his life.

He and Victor would spend many afternoons to motorcycling

through the countryside.

We spent time together and we started to enjoy life.

It was a real turning point for him.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Saturday morning,

November 9, 1985.

Danny was repairing a bulldozer while two of his friends

worked on a car in the garage.

At 11:00 AM, Danny's friends heard a loud pop.

[popping sound]

I ran up towards where Danny was working.

It appeared to me that he'd been electrocuted.

We noticed air escaping from a hole in the middle of his chest

and I thought that it was a welding probe that he

fell on when he hit the ground.

At the time, we didn't know it was a bullet wound.

[inaudible] let's look around.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Danny Paquette

had been shot through the heart with a single bullet.

He died instantly.

After police arrived, they discovered

footprints behind Danny's house where

the bullet may have come from.

The distance between the individual footprints

raised the possibility that someone had

been running from the scene.

A search of the area revealed about

50 to 80 yards away footprints heading toward the woods.

Whether it was coincidental or in fact someone's

footprint that was fleeing the scene

is speculative at this time.

Telephone service had been interrupted at about

the time Danny was shot.

The lineman had discovered a projectile

in the telephone cable.

We did recover a bullet from it that was

in line with Danny's position.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Investigators determined

that the bullet in the telephone line

was the same one that had killed Danny.

The day of Danny's death was also the beginning of hunting

season, and police began to theorize that he

had been shot accidentally.

In order to test this theory, they tried to pinpoint

the location of the gunman.

We were able to ascertain that there were hunters

in a gravel pit approximately a mile away that were sighting

their weapons in at the time.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): If Danny was shot accidentally,

the fatal bullet may have come from this gravel pit.

For this to happen, the bullet had to travel nearly a mile,

climb 1,000 feet, pass through Danny,

and lodge in the telephone wire.

[gunshot]

In the summer of 1990, ballistics expert R.J. Breglio

was brought in from New York City in order

to determine if such a shot could have occurred.

After examining the locations, Breglio

concluded that such a shot would have been impossible.

I would rule out the possibility that there

was an accident, that the gun was fired from a mile or more

away.

Rather, it was a shot fired in the vicinity deliberately.

It would have to traverse through woods,

would have to travel around vehicles,

get through a 24-inch opening on a bulldozer,

and hit somebody directly through

the heart before being projected upwards

into the telephone cable.

I think that's very hard to believe that that could happen.

I'm not any expert, but I just don't buy that.

If anybody thinks that I'm going to lay down or go away

on this one, they're wrong.

We as a family are, I think, pretty well determined

that the system is going to have to work,

the system is going to have to get out there and do its job.

[gunshot]

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Was Danny Paquette

the victim of a freak hunting accident,

or was he deliberately murdered?

If you knew anything about me--

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Did someone

want him silence about what he claimed

to have witnessed the morning of his mother's death?

You've been telling everybody in town

that I did something that I did not do.

I've got Danny upstairs.

I don't care about Danny.

Let's go outside.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Or did someone just want Danny dead?

No one knows.

In 1949, the Tennessee Children's

Home Society in Memphis was considered a model orphanage.

Director Georgia Tanh was credited with placing 5,000

orphans with new families and won national praise

for her efforts.

But Georgia Tan's orphanage had a darker side.

CINDY LU PRESTO: When I was growing up,

I was told that I was adopted from Memphis, Tennessee.

After my adopted mother passed away,

I found correspondence on the Tennessee Children's Home

and that's when I started my search.

Two and a half years later, I found my name;

two hours later, I found my mother.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Cindy Lu Presto

discovered that her mother had never placed her for adoption.

CINDY LU PRESTO: I was playing on the playground

and Georgia Tanh drove up in her proverbial black limousine.

OK, George.

Let's go home now.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Georgia Tanh

had simply abducted Cindy.

Good morning, children.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): A few days later, Judge Camille

Kelley ordered that custody of Cindy

be given to the Tennessee Children's Home Society.

Ms. Tanh.

Thank you, Judge Kelley.

I'm confident that Camille Kelley

was involved with Georgia Tanh in this operation.

Georgia Tanh could not have carried it on without her

and Camille Kelley could not have

lived in the style she lived unless she had outside income.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): In 1950, Robert Taylor

investigated Georgia Tanh and the Tennessee

Children's Home Society.

He discovered that Tanh was using the orphanage as a cover

for a black market baby ring and that she was making

a fortune in the process.

On September 12, 1950, Robert Taylor presented his report

to the governor of Tennessee.

Three days later, Georgia Tanh died of cancer.

Two months later, Judge Camille Kelley resigned.

The Tennessee Children's Home Society was shut down.

I get very angry when I think of Georgia Tan and Camille

Kelley because of what they've done to me

and thousands of other people.

It makes me very angry because my mother missed my growing up

and those years can never be replaced.

We've been robbed.

Tonight we are pleased to announce that because

of our broadcast, another orphan from the Tennessee

Children's Home Society has been reunited with her family.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Lynne Heinz

was five years old when she was adopted

by a wealthy California couple.

I was adopted into a very, very fine family,

but there wasn't a lot of love in the family.

And even though you try to make the adopted child

part of the family, you're always still

just a little bit different.

And so it meant a great deal to me to find that I

really had a true family.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Lynn was born Martha Jean Gookin

and was placed in Georgia Tanh's orphanage in 1949.

She never saw or heard from her natural family again.

Then just three weeks after our broadcast,

Lynn learned that her father and two brothers, Paul and Randall,

were still living in Tennessee.

One of the things that I had been fearful of

is that the family did not want me to find them.

When I did finally get hold of Randall,

Randall said, if you don't come here,

we're coming there like tomorrow.

It wasn't soon enough.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The next day,

Lynn flew from her home in Denver, Colorado

and saw her brothers for the first time

in more than 40 years.

It took me that long to find you guys.

She walked off the plane and I knew

who she was just like that.

She's the spitting image of her mother,

the very spitting image.

We had this void that had never been filled, but it was.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): That afternoon,

Randall and Paul took Lynn to meet their 86-year-old father,

Rufus Gookin.

I had pictures of myself when I was adopted

that the adopted parents had taken

and they had pictures of Randall and I and Mother

before I had been adopted.

So we naturally had to compare all our pictures

and all that type of thing.

And I guess we decided that we really

were brothers and sisters.

it was very exciting, very thrilling.

As we grew older, why we just always had the thought there,

the love there, but she wasn't there.

Do you me to take it with me when I leave?

PAUL MCKELL: It's just like yesterday, you know somebody

to love and be loved by.

I would have to say that this is like Christmas, New Year's,

everything rolled up into one.

When I found my family, I felt like I was queen

for a day and [inaudible].

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): There are

over 15 million sets of identical twins

living in the world today.

Throughout history, they have fascinated

and delighted us all.

Their mirror images are a perfect example

of nature's whimsy.

The physical similarities of identical twins

can easily be explained by genetics,

but in the three stories you're about to see

these eerie likenesses go beyond the realm of science

and defy explanation.

Mark Newman and Jerry Levy are identical twin brothers

who were separated at birth.

For 32 years, neither one knew the other existed.

When they met for the first time three years ago,

they were amazed to discover their uncanny resemblance

was more than skin deep.

Too much.

The first time we met, we went into the bathroom

and looked in the mirror.

To me, it was a little spooky.

Now I was seeing four of my faces

instead of just the one when I normally look in the mirror.

I graduated in '72.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Incredibly, Mark

and Jerry's separate lives and personal habits

were nearly identical.

Both are volunteer firemen and have

worked in the lawn care industry,

both are confirmed bachelors.

They always drink the same brand of beer

and they even carry their keys in the same distinctive manner.

MARK S. NEWMAN: We were instantly

comfortable with each other.

The only way I can explain it was

it was almost like a brother who moved away for 32 years

and then came back and what have you

been doing for the last 32 years?

And as it turned out, we were doing the same exact things.

And still after 32 years of separation,

it was like there wasn't any separation.

Our lives were basically parallel.

That's too much coincidence.

Too much.

These identical twins were apart

are remarkably alike on almost everything we look at.

OK.

Mark and Jerry, let's have you stand

up against the wall over here.

THOMAS J. BOUCHARD: Mark and Jerry are

alike in a wide array of ways.

They have a lot of gestures and postures that are the same.

They tend to hold their beer can in the same way,

they tend to laugh in the same way.

There's kind of a cycle and a pattern to their laughter.

And I've watched them sit in chairs

and just watched the way they cross their legs,

things of that sort.

There's a whole pattern to their behavior

that's very much alike.

You Now, that raises the question,

how is that two individuals reared apart in entirely

different environments come 40 years later when they're

reunited to be so similar?

We really as scientists simply do not know.

In some cases, the unique bond between identical twins

is even more mystifying.

Some identical twins claim to have paranormal experiences,

such as telepathic communication or ESP

and even a bizarre phenomenon known as shared pain.

Scientists can neither dismiss nor explain

these strange occurrences.

There's a saying among twins that's very, very common--

it's us against the world.

So when we go back to back, we can see 360 degrees,

we're not blindsided, we see things that other people don't,

and we protect each other.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Identical twins Lewis

and Donald Keith have lived in separate cities for most

of their lives but believe they are connected by a sixth sense.

They even claim to have experienced shared pain.

The first incident occurred three years ago

while Lewis was working out at a health club in Chicago.

I took a swim, I did a few bicycle exercises.

And I tried this exercise which had been told to me

was good for getting rid of those--

I guess they're colloquially called Love handles--

that everybody would like to get rid of.

Anyway, I tried the exercises.

It was going along very well.

It's not difficult, it's not painful,

it doesn't take a great intellectual talent.

But I hurt myself.

It was probably the most intense pain

that I ever felt in my life.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): At that exact moment,

Donald was over 500 miles away at his office just

outside of Washington, D.C.

DONALD KEITH: I had some papers to Xerox at the office,

and as I was walking down the corridor

there was this pain in my right groin area.

This pain was unlike any that I had ever experienced in my life

and then it was gone.

And I wondered, what was the pain and what caused it?

Later that day, I called Lewis and his secretary

said that he had injured himself and he was home.

And then my curiosity got the best of me and--

Curiosity or sixth sense?

I don't know.

I really don't know whether it was curiosity or sixth sense.

But I wanted to know where you hurt yourself.

And then I found out that he had injured

himself in the same place that I felt this pain.

And then I asked him about the time.

And when the time clicked, I remember

distinctly the hair on the back of my neck standing up.

It was electric.

I could just feel every hair sticking straight out.

The experience of sharing pain proved again

that we were identical twins, again

that we were very close, again that psychologically

and psychically we were able to communicate with us.

It didn't surprise us, it just confirmed what we already knew.

We feel pain for each other.

Whenever anything happens to one,

the other one can experience it like if they're going

through the same thing herself.

For example, I fell down stairs at school.

They came in to tell my sister they

were taking me to the hospital and she was unconscious.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): LaVona and LaVelda Richmond

were born in 1933 and have lived together ever since,

even after they married they're identical twins

husbands, Alwin and Arthur.

We are what they call identical mirror image twins.

Our medical history has been pretty much

the same throughout our life.

In fact, when one gets ill anymore,

they check the other one to make sure she's going to be OK.

We've had tonsils taken out together.

We've had breast biopsies at the same time.

And we had major surgery together.

Our eye correction is the same except for opposite eyes.

My left eye is my week eye and--

My right eye is my weak eye.

And our cavities have appeared on opposite sides.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): LaVona and LaVelda

have taken part in many scientific studies

of twin behavior.

In one study, they were rated highest

among the 300 sets of twins tested

for extrasensory perception.

We feel among every set of twins one is the sender

and one is the receiver.

I happen to be the receiver.

And I am the sender.

And whenever LaVelda has been in an occasion

where she has felt pain or has been in trouble,

I have sensed it.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The most

startling example of this unique psychic bond occurred in 1952.

LaVelda was riding in a car with a young man

who had asked her to join him in town for a cup of coffee.

Where are you going?

The coffee shop isn't this way. - Relax.

Don't worry about it.

We're going to go somewhere nice and quiet

where you and I can talk.

When this gentlemen turned the opposite direction

of what he was supposed to turn, I knew something was wrong.

I got very, very uneasy and I moved

over as close to the passenger side of the door as I could.

And the more he drove, the more agitated he got

and the more frightened I got.

And I thought I was in trouble.

Then when the car skidded, the only thing I could think of

was oh my god, what are they going to tell my sister?

And evidently, that's when I got the strong message was when

she started thinking of me and how

I was going to react if something had happened to her.

I was sitting in the living room studying and all of a sudden,

it's just like if I went into a trance.

I could see what was happening, but I could not

stop the vision from happening.

LaVona, what's wrong?

Dad, call the police.

The police, what for?

Sis has been in an accident.

LAVONA ROWE-RICHMOND: And I told Father to call the police

and I could not convince him that Sis was in trouble.

She's hurt, Dad. She's been in an accident.

How do you know?

I can see it.

She's on a country road.

He told me I was a jealous because I couldn't be

worth her, that this was the first time we had been

separated for any event and I better

get used to it because there would

be other times that I would be separated from her also.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The car

stopped just inches before plummeting

into a water-filled ravine.

Are you OK?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): LaVelda

hit her head on the dashboard but was not seriously hurt.

I did not see her hit her head on the dash at the time.

What I did see was a farmer coming with a tractor,

pulling the out of a ditch.

And I turned to Dad ans said, it's all right, Dad.

The danger is passed.

She's going to be OK.

See, Dad?

I told you.

Are you OK?

LAVONA ROWE-RICHMOND: I was not surprised

when LaVelda came in the house showing a little bit of wear

for her adventure because I could sense what was happening

and I knew what was happening.

I was surprised at Dad's reaction.

Listen.

Now, don't say a word.

LaVona, you said you saw this thing happen, right?

We're going to get in the car right now

and you're going to take us to where this thing happened.

LAVONA ROWE-RICHMOND: And I said to Pa, I'm not going to do it,

Dad. I've never been there.

He said, you saw it you, can show me where it is.

Just keep going this way.

All right.

LAVELDA ROWE-RICHMOND: Dad asked LaVona which way to go

and she directed him.

I sat in the back seat and I kept very quiet all the way.

LAVONA ROWE-RICHMOND: And as we were driving,

I'd tell Dad, turn here, Dad.

He said, have you ever been here before?

I said, no. How do you know?

I said, I feel it.

Turn here.

LAVELDA ROWE-RICHMOND: And she directed Dad

to the actual road.

And when she got there, you could

see the tire tracks where we went off

and where we were pulled back onto the road.

Is this Is this the place, Honey?

Yeah.

It happened right here.

LAVONA ROWE-RICHMOND: After we reached the crash site,

he said, you were right.

I never actually believed it could happen before.

He said, I know you told me it has happened in the past,

but he said, this is it first time I actually saw it.

I will never doubt you again.

If you tell me one of you is in danger,

he said, I will believe you.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Three intriguing stories,

three sets of identical twins.

Are they born with a paranormal ability

to silently communicate?

If you are an identical twin, perhaps you already know.

The rest of us can only wonder.

When we return, a poignant story of a Tennessee family's

search for their missing sister.

Our next story is about a family in the best sense

of the word, a family that has survived hard times

and endured to see better times.

But for the Hinkle family of Tennessee,

there is a sadness that the passing of 65 years

has not managed to erode.

It began when two infant girls were torn from their home.

Tonight with your help, those painful memories

may finally be put to rest and you may be

able to help reunite a family.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Greeneville,

Tennessee, a small rural community 60

miles northeast of Knoxville.

It was the summer of 1924 and though the Great Depression was

five years away, it had arrived earlier

for tobacco farmers who had carved out a marginal living

in the countryside.

Times were tough that summer, and tenant

farmer Rufus Hinkle was forced to make an agonizing decision.

Shortly after giving birth to twin girls,

Rufus' wife of 22 years had died.

With nine other mouths to feed, Rufus felt

incapable of making ends meet.

Where are you going with the twins?

Well, they're a little bit sick, son,

so I'm going to take them to the hospital for a couple of weeks.

Here, hold your sister while I get in the truck.

Now, be careful.

Be careful with her now.

Now, while I'm gone, son, Lloyd is in charge.

You pay attention to what Lloyd says, you hear me?

You be a good boy.

He was a man who loved his family

and he hated to part with any of us, especially the twins.

But sometimes you've got to sacrifice and just do

the best you can do.

Bye, Mary.

Bye, Martha.

Bye, Papa.

Bye, son.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): On that hot July afternoon

in 1924, Rufus Hinkle took his two baby girls

on a one-way trip to the orphanage.

He hoped to reclaim Mary and Martha

once his fortunes improved.

I'm sure that after he left the twins at the orphanage

that he worried about them and thought about them a lot.

And one of his sons, Lloyd, remembers

going to the orphanage with Rufus to see about the twins

and see if they could take them back.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Sadly, it was too late.

The twins had already been given away.

We did try to place them together,

but that was just not possible.

They'll be well taken care of, you say?

You don't have to worry about that.

They're with fine families.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Well, it must be the Lord's will.

I'm very sorry, Mr. Hinkle.

Thank you, ma'am.

Come on, son.

We're going home.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Rufus Hinkle never

saw his two daughters again.

He passed away in 1950.

Later on, I heard that they would not tell us where they

were at until my father died.

So shortly after he died, we started looking for the twins

and we found Mary.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):

NADINE LARRABEE: In 1955, Rufus' son, Shorty,

contacted the orphanage.

Though unable to locate Martha, they were able to trace Mary.

In September of that year, Shorty and his wife

drove into Bluefield, West Virginia to meet

the sister he never knew.

ALBERT "SHORTY" HINKLE: As we drove by, my wife said to me,

she said, right there she sits.

And I know that's her, she looks just like your brother.

And sure it was Mary.

We knew at first look that it was.

And it was a very happy time, very.

Mary, it's great to see you.

It was like finding a part of you

that had always been missing.

And it was just like putting something together,

and when you put two and two together, you've got a whole.

And it was just great.

Oh, it feels great to know that we can all be together

at times and be a family, that they are part of me

and that I'm part of their blood, they're part of mine.

Why don't you come on over here and have a seat

and let me take your picture.

OK.

Sit down.

Smile.

Great.

Shorty, it's amazing how much she looks like Dalton.

I can't believe it. - She does.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): That afternoon, Mary learned

that she had a twin sister.

Mary, I've got some news for you.

You have a twin sister named Martha.

Really?

Really.

I just can't explain how I did feel not knowing that I had

a twin sister, a part of me.

Where is she?

Well, we don't know that exactly.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Shorty told Mary that the orphanage

had lost track of Martha.

She had never been officially adopted,

but had instead been sent to a temporary home.

We can't seem to find her.

I've often wondered it's been good

or Martha's life has been bad.

You wonder about them things.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): 30 years

later, Rufus' granddaughter, Jackie, took on a family quest.

Well, I started my search for Martha

at Holston Home for Children in Greeneville,

where she was placed along with Mary in 1924.

And they showed me what records they could that were available.

Record here.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): In 1986, Jackie uncovered

the original orphanage records.

Greeneville, Tennessee.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): She learned

that in November of 1924, Martha had been given temporarily

to a Charles and Lyda Meek i Johnson City, a small town

30 miles away from Greeneville.

Isn't she adorable?

Oh, she is.

JACKIE REYNOLDS: So then I centered

my search in Johnson City.

And I went through old record books and census records

and city directories and things of that sort,

went down Sydney Street, where she was supposed to live.

And I've never found any trace of the Meeks whatsoever,

so I really don't know what happened to them from there.

Congratulations.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Not much is known about the Meeks,

other than the fact that Charles was

a 34-year-old farmer and a member of the Holiness Church.

In April of 1990, three generations of Hinkles

got together for a family reunion.

There was only one person missing.

Today the family refuses to give up the search for Martha.

They are certain that she is alive somewhere.

They want her to become part of a family that has never stopped

caring about one another.

Our family has been very close--

very close-- but we're not a complete family without finding

the other sister.

We found Mary, this was a part of it,

but there's still a part of us missing yet.

Oh, it would just be the happiest day

of my life to get to be reunited with my twin sister, Martha.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): There are no known pictures

of Martha, but there is a chance that Mary

and Martha are identical twins.

These photographs of Mary may help identify her lost sister.

The first was taken when she was eight years old,

the second when she was 17.

This is how Mary appears today.

She and Martha were born in the spring of 1924.

They were taken to the Holston orphanage

in Greeneville, Tennessee when they were four months old.

Shortly after our broadcast, one of our viewers,

Sandy Detain of San Bernardino, California,

contacted the Hinkle family with surprising news.

During a search for her mother's biological family,

Sandy accidentally discovered the location of Martha

Hinkle's adoptive family.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Martha lived with John and Lyda Meeks

for three years.

When the couple divorced, Martha was

taken in by the Dan Jackson family

of Johnson County, Georgia.

In 1940, she married James Thomas

and together they had four sons.

Sadly, Martha passed away just weeks before the Hinkle

family could contact her.

I'm glad that I found her.

We won't have to do no more searching.

But it's so sad that I couldn't meet her,

that I couldn't be with her just to talk to her just

for an hour or two and tell her that I loved her.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Although she never realized

her dream of meeting her twin sister,

Mary's 35-year search was not in vain.

On July 27, 1991, Martha's four sons

met Mary and a side of the family they had never known.

That day, in a bittersweet reunion,

two families came together as one.

Shorty.

We were part of the family before we ever walked

up and touched a one of them.

It was written all over their faces.

When we saw those smiles and tender

hearts, all the little big fears,

the apprehensions just left.

It was all over with and glad to be home with our family.

I'm proud that she left four sons, left part of her

here for me to get together and know her and her sons.

But part of me is that I've never found

and I never will find.

But she'll always be in my heart.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Next, a cunning

and disturbed child molester is added to the FBI'S

10 Most Wanted list.

40 Years ago, the Federal Bureau of Investigation

initiated its 10 Most Wanted list

to alert the public of the most dangerous criminals in America.

Now from Washington, D.C., a special appeal by FBI

Director William Sessions.

Since 1950, 125 fugitives on the FBI'S 10 Most Wanted

list have been captured, thanks to your help.

Tonight with this broadcast of "Unsolved Mysteries,"

we are announcing the most recent addition

to the Most Wanted list.

He is Kenneth Robert Stanton, who

is wanted on charges of child molestation, burglary,

unlawful flight to avoid prosecution,

and impersonating a police officer.

Please watch carefully.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): In 1964,

Kenneth Robert Stanton was convicted of child molestation.

He was committed to a state-level hospital

in Ionia, Michigan.

Stanton was diagnosed as a criminal sexual psychopath.

A few years later, Stanton was declared fit to reenter society

and set free.

In 1989, Kenneth Stanton was identified by a young girl

in Jackson, Mississippi.

The events she described matched the modus operandi

of numerous molestations attributed to Stanton.

LAVONA ROWE-RICHMOND: Kenneth Robert Stanton quite frequently

scouts an upper middle class white neighborhoods

and carefully selects a house where the victim is quite often

home alone, usually a young white female between the ages

of seven and 12.

And his job as a traveling salesman

permits him time to do this.

He is careful to approach the house

as not to disturb anybody.

He usually wears a conservative suit.

He's nice looking, he's well-dressed.

[knocking at door]

Quite often, Stanton comes to the front door of the house,

presents himself as a person of authority,

and quite often shows a badge as though he were a policeman

dressed in plain clothes.

Hi.

Is your mother home?

No.

Well, I'm officer Tom Coles.

I'm with the local police department.

We're helping out the county health service.

There's been a report of contaminated milk in the area

and I'd like to come in and check if I could.

I'm not supposed to let strangers in the house.

I'm not a stranger, I'm a policeman.

I've been up and down the neighborhood all day

checking your neighbors' ice box for the milk

and the expiration date.

LAVONA ROWE-RICHMOND: He often has a clipboard

and indicates to the child in the house

that he's taking a survey or that he's looking

for contaminated milk and that he is there to test

the milk in the refrigerator.

Do you know where your milk is coming from?

No.

Well, that's even more reason I should come in and check.

It'll only take a minute.

If a young person would resist entry,

Stanton quite often displays a bag of marijuana or a marijuana

cigarette, stating that he found this on the front porch

and he's entitled to search the house for evidence.

Well, how do I know that you're really a policeman?

Well, here's my badge.

LAVONA ROWE-RICHMOND: He has a high IQ

and he's very intelligent and he's

able to gain their confidence to get inside the house.

- Then I'll be gone. - OK.

All right.

Once he's inside and he's determined

that the children or child is alone,

he blindfolds them frequently.

Quite often he uses eye drops and a thermometer, possibly

for a distraction.

It's at that time then that he continues on

and assaults the children.

[screaming]

LAVONA ROWE-RICHMOND: In the summer of 1989 in Jackson,

Mississippi, Stanton was in the house of a young white female

and attempted an assault when she

screamed and scared him away.

When he ran out of the house, a neighbor boy

saw him jump into a car and correctly wrote

down his license tag number.

Thereafter, police were able to use that license number

and identify that car as being registered Kenneth Robert

Stanton of Mobile, Alabama.

Christy, what I need you to do is

I need you to look at each and every picture

and think in your mind what this man looks like

and then look at each and every picture

and pick out the picture that looks like him.

OK?

LAVONA ROWE-RICHMOND: The young girl

who was assaulted on that day thereafter picked

out a photograph of Stanton from a spread

presented to her by the Jackson, Mississippi Police Department.

- That's the man. - That's the man?

That's him.

After the Jackson, Mississippi assault, Stanton apparently

traveled east through Alabama into Georgia

and committed several crimes before he was identified

at Houston County, Georgia.

There were identifications of Stanton at Jackson, Mississippi

and Columbus, Mississippi, as well as Tuscaloosa, Alabama;

Leesburg, Georgia; Douglasville, Georgia;

and Warner Robbins, Georgia.

Stanton is suspected of at least 11 child molestations

from Mississippi, Alabama, and into Georgia.

After reviewing a number of these cases

and looking at Stanton's history from the early 1960s,

we were able to conclude that he apparently was a lifelong child

molester and probably could be described

as a serial child molester.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Kenneth Robert Stanton

is 52 years old, approximately six feet

tall, and weighs 170 pounds.

He has blue eyes and brown thinning hair.

He usually wears glasses and occasionally

sports a mustache and beard.

Stanton travels frequently and works

as a heavy equipment salesman.

He is known to have relatives in Indiana.

In December of 1989, his car was found

abandoned in Perrysburg, Ohio.

Update, Kenneth Robert Stanton has been captured.

Within minutes of our broadcast, several viewers

called our telecenter to report that Stanton

was living in a trailer park in Lorraine, Ohio with his wife.

He had been married just a few weeks earlier.

Local police and FBI agents arrived at Stanton's trailer

only to learn that he himself has seen our broadcast

and fled.

Stanton's wife and neighbors were stuck.

I've talked to my son and I've had him

in front of the house staying in the yard

just in case he comes back.

I don't want someone of like that riding around the streets

at all.

Anyone that does anything like that should be put away.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Five days later, Stan

was identified in Rock Hill, South Carolina

after he allegedly attempted to molest a nine-year-old girl.

Based on seeing the segment on the program coupled

with the police report, we suspected

there was a strong possibility that Stanton was in Rock Hill

or somewhere in this area and we proceed on the assumption

that he was possibly staying at a local motel.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Two days later,

FBI agents spotted Stanton's car in the parking

lot of this motel.

JOHN PIERSON: After identifying the vehicle,

we established the surveillance of the motel with FBI agents

and York County Sheriff's Department detectives.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Incredibly, a check

with the motel office revealed that Stanton had

registered under his own name.

He had indicated to the clerk previously that he wanted

to stay an additional week, but he also wanted

to move to the main building.

The clerk at our direction called his room

and told him the new room was ready and he could move.

When Stanton emerged from his room, we arrested him.

We asked Stanton his name.

He said, you know who I am and he indicated

that he was not a threat to us, that he

was only a threat to himself.

He did indicate that the following day was his birthday.

Next week, "Unsolved Mysteries falls on Halloween.

In keeping with that tradition, four intriguing

mysteries of eerie people and events

which cannot be explained.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Scores of witnesses in South Carolina

say they have encountered the legendary ghost

called the Gray Man.

Some even claim that he has saved their homes buy warning

them of approaching hurricanes.

We'll also meet a woman named Katie, whose

apparent psychic powers have left

eyewitnesses baffled and skeptics crying fraud.

On Halloween just two years ago, 29-year-old David Stone

set forth on a spiritual odyssey in the bleak desert

in New Mexico.

He never returned.

Authorities are still perplexed by a trail of mystical clues

he left behind.

Join us on Halloween for a special edition

of "Unsolved Mysteries."

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