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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): The tiny village of Medjugorje

in Yugoslavia is a mecca for countless thousands

in search of physical and spiritual healing.

In 1986, Jill Jensen seemed hopelessly addicted to cocaine

and Rita Klaus was suffering from the debilitating

effects of multiple sclerosis.

Today, both of them believe that they were cured

by the miracle of Medjugorje.

1974, Bullhead City, Arizona.

Volunteer firefighters respond to a report of a small blaze

at an abandoned miner's shaft.

Inside, they are stunned to find the badly burned

bodies of two young boys.

The deaths are ruled accidental, but since then

at least three eyewitnesses have claimed

the fire was deliberately set and the boys were murdered.

In Missouri, the quiet tranquility of a small town

is shattered by a dramatic car chase

and the shocking abduction of a popular young woman.

For every mystery, there is someone

somewhere who knows the truth.

Perhaps it's you.

[theme music]

1986, Chicago, Illinois.

Former model Jill Jensen is so strung out on cocaine

she has gouged open sores over her entire body.

500 miles away, Rita Klaus, a mother of three,

attempts to overcome the painful debilitating

effects of multiple sclerosis.

Rita Klaus and Jill Jensen, two women

who have nothing in common, except a small village in

Yugoslavia known as Medjugorje.

Before civil war began to tear Yugoslavia apart,

the Church of Medjugorje had drawn

more than 15 million pilgrims, many of them American.

They came to meet six young people who

call themselves visionaries.

The six claim that in 1981, they spoke to the Virgin Mary

on this hill outside the village.

The following description by one of the visionaries

has been translated verbatim.

MAN (VOICEOVER): First the light appears.

Then after the light, our lady comes.

She's dressed in gray with a veil.

She has black hair and is supported on a cloud.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Four of the young visionaries still

claim to communicate with the virgin

at exactly 6:40 PM each day.

Medjugorje has become a virtual mecca for Catholic pilgrims.

To accommodate the crowds, makeshift confessionals

are set up both inside and outside the church.

10 years after the original epiphany,

hundreds claim they had been healed

spontaneously at Medjugorje.

This man, Joe Romano, swears that he was cured

of abdominal cancer after he and his wife made

three visits to Medjugorje.

Kevin Gible was seven years old when his parents took him

on a pilgrimage to Yugoslavia.

Since birth, Kevin had been plagued

with digestive abnormalities, profoundly weak muscles, and

an inadequate immune system.

Today at age nine, his symptoms have virtually disappeared.

Char Vance's right leg was shattered in a farm accident.

She says her doctors told her it was the worst break they had

ever seen, but she claims her leg healed

miraculously at Medjugorje.

To most of us, it seems far-fetched to think that

physical healing can occur simply

because one travels to the scene of a religious vision.

Yet for those who watched a loved one suffer pain which

modern medicine cannot alleviate,

the hope of a miracle flickers persistently,

if dimly, at the back of the logical mind.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Jill Jensen

grew up in an upper middle class neighborhood outside Chicago.

As a teenager, she began to experiment with drugs.

Before long, she was addicted to cocaine.

I don't think that many days ever went

by without me using cocaine.

I'd carry it in my purse, I'd conceal it in my jackets,

I'd hide it in my car.

I would never go anywhere without it.

And I was unable to do anything without using the drug.

Eventually, it got to the point where I had to have it to wake

up, I had to have it to go to sleep,

I had to have it just to function on a daily basis.

Just to get going, I had a smoke some.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): By the time Jill was 26,

she had a $500 a day habit.

She had tried one drug rehab center

after another to no avail.

Jill now smoked cocaine in freebase form

because constant had burned a hole

through the lining of her nose.

JILL JENSEN: It got to the point where I began to hallucinate.

I would start to see bugs all over me,

or what I believed to be bugs.

I would feel things all over me and think that I

had to get them off of me.

No matter what I did, I just had to get these bugs off me.

So I would rip my skin open and rip out my hair.

And for years, I had these sores all over me.

She was scrawny, she was anorexic,

she had circles under her eyes.

She looked far beyond her years.

At one time, Jill was beautiful and all heads

would turn when they saw her.

And she did modeling for a while, but all that left her.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): In 1988, Jill's Aunt DeeDee made

a pilgrimage to Medjugorje.

When she returned to the States, she

tried to convince Jill to make another pilgrimage with her.

A year later, Jill agreed, even though she

dreaded a 14-hour plane trip without access

to her precious cocaine.

I didn't know how I was going to handle the withdrawals.

I'd been through them before--

horrible headache, sleeplessness,

sometimes terrible nightmares.

When I am able to sleep, cold sweats, hot flashes--

horrible things, especially being sick.

I didn't know how it was going to make it,

but I was willing to try.

Something came over me that gave me the willingness to try.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): When Jill arrived in Medjugorje,

she met with an American priest in one

of the makeshift confessionals.

I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to do here.

You say, forgive me, Father, for I have sinned.

My last confession--

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Although nominally raised

a Catholic, Jill never had more than a

passing interest in religion.

My last confession was when I was eight years old.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): For nearly an hour,

lines backed up while Jill made her confession.

Next thing I know, I couldn't go anywhere without the drugs,

I couldn't do anything without drugs.

And right around then, that's when the bugs started.

I'm really afraid of bugs and I'll

do anything to get them off me.

It was evident to him that I was all torn up.

And I had told him what had happened

and how I had arrived at having all these things,

these sores, these open wounds.

And when I was through with my confession,

he blessed my sores with holy water.

[speaking latin]

By that evening, all my sores were

completely closing and healing.

It was amazing.

I didn't feel it happening, but every time I'd

look down, I would notice that they were less and less open,

the sores.

And for years, they'd never, ever gone away.

How are you feeling today?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Within a few days,

Jill's sores had almost disappeared.

I can't believe how much energy I've had all day.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): She had yet to experience any

of the symptoms of withdrawal.

Her aunt had managed to arrange a meeting with one

of the Medjugorje visionaries, who

Jill says blessed her with a prayer to the Virgin Mary.

[non-english speech]

And she put her hands on both of our heads

and I felt this tremendous almost like electricity going

through me and this warmth.

I had such a tremendous sense of well-being.

It was unreal.

For the first time in my life, I felt

like I had been freed, that I really

was going to be able to have a life,

that it was given back to me.

It was a gift.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Three years

after her trip to Medjugorje, Jill is still drug-free.

She speaks to school drug prevention programs

and works as a cosmetologist.

To this day, Jill claims that she has never suffered

a single symptom of withdrawal.

I think it's very rare for someone who is as severe

and as late stage as Jill to just be able to quit.

Certainly, very unlikely that she could

quit without experiencing some pretty

severe withdrawal, both physical and psychological.

I can't tell you exactly what it was that changed me

completely, but I know that each and every bit of what I went

through had part to do with it because I just don't have

an explanation for why I was able to get

a second chance at life.

It must be pointed out that thousands of people, none

of whom have ever heard of Medjugorje,

kick drug habits each year.

Yet Jill Jensen is convinced that her pilgrimage

was pivotal to her recovery.

Rita Klaus, suffering from an incurable disease,

also believes that the Virgin of Medjugorje

interceded to heal her, even though Rita

never left her own home.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Rita Klaus had

always devoted herself to God.

At the age of 15, she had entered

a convent in Omaha, Nebraska.

Five years later, she was diagnosed

with multiple sclerosis, a degenerative incurable disease.

As her symptoms worsened, Rita felt she had no choice

but to withdraw from the Order.

I was just heartbroken.

This was my life.

I had spent 13 years of my 28 years there.

I loved it terribly.

And I knew I wouldn't see it again.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Rita moved to Pennsylvania, where

she taught special education.

She soon met Ron Klaus, an elementary school teacher.

Three years later, they were married.

Rita's symptoms had disappeared and she came to believe

she had been misdiagnosed.

Within five years, Ron and Rita had three daughters.

After the birth of the youngest, Heidi,

Rita began to experience symptoms of multiple sclerosis

once again.

She tried to ignore them, until one

day the muscles in her right arm weakened uncontrollably.

[baby crying]

Thankfully, Heidi was all right she had a bruise--

I think she had a bruise on her shoulder and one

on her back side a little bit.

But other than that, outside being shaken up,

she was all right.

But I was not all right.

I was so shaken inside and so afraid, just terribly afraid.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): This time, Rita's symptoms

did not subside.

By the end of 1984, her vision was chronically blurred,

her bladder did not function properly,

and she had lost virtually all feeling

in her feet and lower legs.

Rita was restricted to a wheelchair,

and sometimes on good days, crutches.

RITA KLAUS: Life was a challenge at this point.

It was impossible to get upstairs, do the things

that people take for granted.

And I was a strong, independent person.

I didn't want to admit that I needed help.

I didn't want anyone helping me.

I wanted to be the one who helped.

It was hard to see her going downhill, slowly at first

and then at times it seemed as though it was quicker.

And then there were times where I seemed to even off and some

of the functions of her body that she

had lost would come back again.

And it was always false hope, because within time,

that was gone again.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): In 1986,

Rita heard about Medjugorje and began to study the phenomenon.

Rita started praying to the Virgin Mary

and fasted two days every week as the young visionaries

said they had been told to do.

Often, I would look at the books about Medjugorje

and I would think, I would love to be there.

And then I would look at myself and say,

but physically, there's no way I could go;

financially, there's no way I could go.

And so I didn't go.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Rita's prayers were

always on behalf of others.

Then one night, she claims she heard a voice.

ETHEREAL VOICE: Why don't you ask?

Why don't you ask?

Dear Mary, my mother, queen of peace, whom I know

is appearing to the children at Medjugorje,

please ask your son to heal me any way I need to be healed.

As soon as I finished the prayer,

I felt this feeling through my body like electricity.

But it was especially intense on the right side of my body,

where I had deformities in the right leg

and I dropped ankles and so on.

And I thought, this isn't happening to me.

I fell asleep.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The next morning,

Rita had no memory of the voice or the prayer.

At the time, she was taking a class at the local college

and Ron helped her rid of her specially-rigged automobile,

as he always did.

Midway through the class, I felt this rush of heat

through my body.

And by the end of class, I could feel--

I could feel there were wrinkles inside my shoes.

I could move my toes.

I had not been able to have my toes for years.

I was dumbfounded.

I remembered nothing from the night before,

but I knew something was happening.

I could feel that my legs seemed to be strong,

I could lift them by myself so I got myself out of the car

with no problem.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Rita rushed home to tell her family.

Ron, girls?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): She had not walked on her own

without help for more than four years.

As I stood there looking at the steps,

I had a flashback and in that flashback

I heard the voice from the night before,

the prayer that was given me to say,

and I knew I was completely healed.

I ran all the way up the steps.

I remember I was screaming at the top of the steps.

And then I ran down the steps, out the front door.

I was screaming at the sky, oh, thank you, god, oh, thank you,

blessed mother.

Look, I can walk.

You're really thinking that you're not seeing

what you're actually seeing.

You want to be happy, but you're almost afraid to be happy

because every doctor that you've ever seen

has said it would never happen.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Six months went by.

Rita's symptoms did not return.

After 15 agonizing years, she was at last

able to function normally.

Rita and Ron believe that she was

healed by a miracle of faith.

For this to clear instantly--

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Dr. Richard

Cazdorf is an expert in so-called spontaneous healings.

--the realm of medical practice.

This certainly could be called a miraculous event,

if you want to use that term, because we

just don't see 20 years of disability clear instantly.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): It has now been six years since Rita

threw away her crutches.

She has never felt another symptom of multiple sclerosis.

Is Rita Klaus' cure a miracle that can be described

with a virgin at Medjugorje?

The Catholic Church is publicly skeptical

but continues to investigate.

On the other hand, "Webster's Dictionary"

defines a miracle not only in standard religious terms,

but also simply as a wonderful thing.

By this definition, Jill Jensen, drug-free, and Rita

Klaus ice skating, are miracles even

non-believers can celebrate.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Bullhead City,

Arizona is a small, quiet community

nestled along the banks of the Colorado River.

Sue Johnson moved there from California in 1973.

She and her husband felt it was an ideal place

to raise their children, eight-year-old

Angel and seven-year-old Scott.

Can I go out and play?

Did you do your chores?

Yes, ma'am.

- Did you take out the trash? - Yes, ma'am.

They loved it.

Scott was a natural born fisherman.

He loved to fish and go out in the desert and catch lizards,

catch a snake, whatever.

He was just a desert rat.

He just fell in love with it.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): 50 yards

from the Johnsons' new homes stood and abandoned

shack, a powder magazine once used by copper miners

to store supplies.

Scott and his friends soon adopted the rundown

shed as their headquarters.

They just played there, played cops

and robbers and Indians and cowboys

and whatever else little boys do.

I never felt any apprehension towards that building at all.

And it was within sight of the house,

it wasn't anything to worry about it.

It was a typical thing that children would pick to use

for a fort or a clubhouse.

At At 3:45 PM on April 3rd, 1974,

the Bullhead City Volunteer Fire Department responded to a call.

The shack was on fire.

18 years later, former Fire Chief Larry Adams

vividly remembers the details.

What I could see through the smoke

and the steam is what appeared to be upholstery on the floor.

When I got the pike pole, I stooped down

to look under the smoke to hook this material

and drag it out to extinguish it.

Oh my God.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Inside the shack

lay the badly burned bodies of Scott Johnson

and one of his friends.

Seven weeks later, the official coroner's report was released.

It stated that Scott Johnson and his friend

had died accidentally.

Investigators concluded that the boys had probably been playing

with matches and gasoline.

I was shocked.

I was very shocked.

My child was certainly smarter than to just lay

in the back of a building and wait to be asphyxiated by smoke

or burned by fire.

It's kind of an obvious thing.

I always know it was a murder, always.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Sue Johnson

was not alone in her opinion.

From the onset, Larry Adams also believed

that Scott and his friend were victims of foul play.

In particular, he noticed that the door of the shack and not

been locked or obstructed in any way.

LARRY ADAMS: All anybody had to do to escape that building

was push on the door.

In this case, in a building six by six in a panic situation,

they would hit that door and escape the building

had they been able to.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): A few feet from the door, Adams found

a two-by-12-inch wooden plank.

Curiously, the board had a circle burned into one side.

And

LARRY ADAMS: It indicated to me that somebody had prevented

their escape through that door.

They may have initially tried to hold the door, but it's metal.

It got hot, they can't hold the door any longer,

they need something to insulate them from the heat.

They picked up the two-by-12, one on each end or more,

and held the two-by- 12 against the door with one person

on each end of it.

ANNOUNCER: Despite Larry Adams' findings,

the police closed their criminal investigation.

As the weeks went by, Sue Johnson

was haunted by the burned-out shack

when her son died, where she believed

her son had been murdered.

For four long years, she struggled in vain

to have the case reopened.

Then in 1978, a convicted felon came forward

with shocking new information.

Dale Gordon Meador was incarcerated

in a county jail in New Mexico.

At the time of the fire, he'd lived in Bullhead City.

Anytime you talk to a prisoner that

wants to give you information, you know he's

trying to get himself a deal.

The man just did not seem like he was really

telling us all the truth.

There was knowledge there.

We parked about, say, 50, 75 yards away

from the powder magazine and seen these two guys--

ROBERT L. MELTON: Meador advised us

that he saw two men holding these two young kids

and pushing them into the magazine.

One of the kids looked like he was heavily drugged

and the other one was fighting.

Then he saw one of the men with a gas can.

Did you actually see him take the gas can into the shack?

I didn't see him throwing the gas into the shack.

After about five or 10 minutes, I noticed both of them

stand up right next to the house and I whining coming

from one of the two kids.

What do you want?

They said that they was afraid the kids was going to tell

on them for smoking pot.

Then I saw flames and smoke coming out of the magazine

and I said, hey, man, I just want to know what's going on.

One of them told him in street terms to get lost

and that we just burned up two kids.

Have you seen either one of these men since that night?

That was the last time I saw either of them until--

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Meador told investigators

that he encountered one of the men

while serving time at a prison in Nevada two years

after the fire.

Sheriff's deputies questioned the man Meador identified

as the killer of Scott Johnson and his friend,

but no charges were ever filed.

It was just an open close case,

and that's not really what happened.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Tena Rhee Moe and John

Kalous reported the fire the day Scott Johnson and his friend

died.

They, too, are convinced that the boys were murdered.

At the time, Tina and John were teenagers.

Their eyewitness account seemed to corroborate Dale Meador's

chilling version of events.

There was two man.

One was standing on the side of the hill

facing the door of the shack and the other one--

well, he didn't like the idea that we were there

and he took off and went running.

The other man was standing there and he looked over at John

and I. He just stayed there.

That was what was so eerie, that he just stared at us like,

well, what are you going to do?

And that's when I said to Tena,

I think we should go call the fire department on this.

I think them guys set this place on fire.

That's when we left.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): John and Tena told investigators

about the two men they had seen; however, they

believe their statements were ignored

due to their own previous scrapes with the law.

It didn't seem like it took it seriously at all.

It seemed like they didn't believe my story

from my past reputation.

It seemed to me like they just disregarded it

and I never heard nothing no more about it.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): With the passage of time,

the tragedy slowly faded from public memory.

A number of the original investigators

retired or moved away.

But Sue Johnson continued a relentless quest for the truth.

You wonder, was there someone who wanted this just tucked

away quickly and for good, or was it

just sloppy investigation or just circumstances?

I honestly feel that it was a combination of a lot of things.

I've talked with Sue on the phone and in person many times.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): In 1989, newly appointed Chief

of Detectives [inaudible]-- - She understands how I feel.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): --ordered the case reopened

as a murder investigation.

And I don't understand how she feels.

And I told her in the beginning when I started out

that there may not be an answer to this,

but we're going to keep looking.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Were Scott Johnson and his friend

is savagely murdered?

If so, why would someone kill two young boys

who were not yet 10 years old?

The answers to these haunting questions

may lie in a surprising discovery

Scott made near the shock three weeks before he died.

Look at what I found!

What is it?

It's a $100 bill.

I think that it's possible that there could have been

someone that used that area, possibly for a drug

transaction or something.

And maybe the people that they saw

doing this thought that the kids would run a block away

to the sheriff's substation and report them

and therefore, they felt like they had to do something

to stop it.

If we could establish a motive,

the reason that these boys were killed,

it certainly would help the case.

But the motive is strictly a matter

of speculation on anybody's part as far I know.

It's very hard to live every day of your life

and wonder why your son was murdered

and why no one's ever done anything about it

in all these many years.

I hope that whoever did it gets to pay

for what they did someday.

I don't care how long it takes.

I've been patient this long, I can wait

longer if that's what it takes.

Even in her victory to have the investigation reopened,

Sue Johnson has met with defeat.

Many of the case files and much of the physical evidence

has been misplaced or long since discarded.

Detectives have little to go on, save

the faint hope that a new eyewitness will come forward.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Next, a young woman

is apparently abducted and her family fears for her life.

Clinton, Missouri, population 9,000,

is an idyllic farming community in the heart of small town

America, the type of place where everyone knows each other

and feels insulated from big city crime.

But today a cloud of uncertainty hovers over Clinton.

A popular young woman has been abducted

and quite possibly murdered.

Angela Hammond was an active outgoing 20-year-old,

known to everyone as Angie.

Her family had lived in Clinton for three generations.

Her fiance, Rob Shafer, was a star athlete in high school

who looked forward to a career in the military.

In January of 1991, Rob gave Angie a diamond ring

and promised that he would always take care of her.

I had a Take time tonight.

I'm going to go see Kyla now, so I'll give you a call later.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): April 4th, 1991.

At around 10:00 PM, Angie dropped Rob off at his house

after a barbecue.

She promised that she would phone him a few hours later.

That was about ten o'clock.

I was going to meet her back up town

as soon as my mom got home.

I was watching my little brother at the time.

And she called later on that night.

[phone ringing]

Hello? ANGIE (ON PHONE): Hi, Rob.

It' Angie. - Hi.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): At 11:15, Angie called Rob

from a payphone in the center of town,

approximately seven blocks from his house.

I'm in the square.

While we were talking on the phone,

she mentioned to me about a truck

circling around the block, an older model

green Ford pickup truck.

--pickup truck that keeps circling around the block.

Do you Do you recognize the truck?

No.

He's probably not from around here.

Maybe he's just lost.

I guess so.

Anyway, do you still want to go to the lake this weekend?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Angie remained

unconcerned until the truck parked next to the phone booth.

Rob, he's pulling up next to the phones.

ROB (ON PHONE): What's the driver look like?

He's kind of dirty-looking.

He's got a mustache, beard, and glasses

and he's wearing overalls.

He's coming to the phones.

The track is a late model green pickup

truck with one of those decals that

cover the whole back window.

It looks like a lake scene with a fish

jumping out of the water.

What's he doing now, Angie?

ROB: He used the phone next to her, got back in his truck,

and looked at something with a flashlight.

She described the flashlight to me what

he was looking for something.

I had her turn around and ask him

if he needed to use the phone, maybe the other phone

was broke.

And he said, no, he was just going to try again in a minute.

Maybe I should come down there.

Oh, Rob.

No, I'm sure it's OK.

Then we just talked about other things.

We weren't too worried about it.

And that's when I heard a scream on the phone.

[scream]

I heard a scream and the only thing that went through my mind

is getting up there and finding out what the hell's going on.

I ran out of the house and just dropped the phone.

I didn't hang the phone back up and just headed up there.

I saw a pickup truck going past me and then me somebody

yelled out the window, Robbie.

That's how I knew it was them.

Robbie!

Angie!

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Rob pursued

the pickup straight through the downtown business district.

He had no idea than when he threw his car into reverse,

he had severely damaged the transmission.

When the pickup made a sharp right turn,

Rob's car finally gave out.

I chased him about 10 miles.

The transmission failed.

It started dying as I was making my turn to the right.

This guy turned off to the right.

All I saw was brake lights and dust.

Rob blamed himself for it because he always told her he'd

be there to take care of her.

And he tried, he did everything that could be done.

Nobody blames him, but I think he

thinks that people blame him.

The beginning is the hardest because you know

you were close enough to get them

but you just didn't get the job done.

And you still wake up at nights wondering where she's at,

wondering what happened, wondering

if anybody is still looking.

Rob!

You just wonder all the time.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): News of Angie's disappearance sent

shock waves through Clinton.

The police and hundreds of citizens

launched an extensive air and land search,

but there was no sign of Angela Hammond, her abductor,

or the pickup truck.

We had some assistance from the Missouri State Highway

Patrol that did a computer search

on all registered vehicles with make and the approximate year.

Through their helping, we had like 1,600 possibilities

that we had to look after, checking wherever these trucks

were at as far as color and if they

had any mural in the back window, with no success.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The police

based their investigation on Rob Shafer's testimony.

But no witnesses could be found to corroborate his statement,

Rob became a suspect himself.

I think it was natural that people wondered, did

the boyfriend do it type thing.

But my feeling, I've known this kid all his life

and I never doubted for a minute that he

had anything to do with it.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Within a week,

Rob Shafer was cleared of any involvement

in Angie's disappearance.

Two days later, the police connected the abduction

in Clinton to two other unsolved cases within a 100-mile radius.

The first occurred near Macks Creek, Missouri

on January 19th, 1991.

I'm ready to close up, but there's a man hanging around

outside for a while now and I'm really starting to get nervous.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): 42-year-old Trudy d'Arby

was working alone in a convenience store.

Around 10:00 PM, she called her son to report a suspicious man

lurking outside.

Less than 10 minutes later, Trudy's son

arrived at the store and found it completely deserted.

Two days later, the body of Trudy

d'Arby was found on a riverbank 10 miles from the store.

She had been shot twice in the head.

Then on February 28, 30-year-old Cheryl Ann Kenny

was reported missing in Nevada, Missouri,

70 miles from Mack's Creek.

She vanished shortly after closing up the convenience

store where she worked.

That night, Cheryl's car was found in the store parking lot.

She has not been seen since.

Less than one month later, Angela Hammond

would be abducted.

If Angela is found, it might provide

that link that they are related to, for example, Trudy d'Arby.

Or if Cheryl is found, it maybe that

would be a connection to Trudy d'Arby, how she was murdered.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Authorities

now fear that a serial killer may be on the loose in west

central Missouri.

Even though they hold out little hope that either Cheryl Ann

Kenny or Angela Hammond are still alive,

there have been unconfirmed sightings

of Angela in several states and most recently, Canada.

If anybody out there sees anything,

if they could put themselves in our place and know how we feel,

how heart-wrenching it is that she was taken,

even if the guy that took her sees this,

if he would just call and let them know what he did with her.

There's one final chilling detail in the abduction

of Angela Hammond.

After she screamed into the phone,

Rob Shafer heard another person speak,

most likely her abductor.

All he said was, I didn't need to use the phone anyway.

Before she disappeared, Angie describe the suspect

as a filthy, bearded man who wore glasses

and was dressed in overalls.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The suspect

was driving a late 1960s, early 1970s two-tone green Ford

pickup truck.

The back window was completely covered

by an opaque decal of a fish jumping out of water

which may look like this.

When we return, a bank fraud investigator disappears

in the Arizona desert.

May 5th, 1990, 7:00 AM.

In the middle of the desolate Arizona desert, 100 miles

southeast of Phoenix, a crime is committed far from the eyes

of potential witnesses.

Less than half an hour later, a deputy sheriff

finds the burning car.

Authorities believe the arsonist was covering

up a bigger crime, murder.

The car was burned to the ground

and the fact is that had there been any evidence

in the car such as blood, we weren't able to tell

because of the burning.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The car's owner

was 56-year-old Lee Young, a bank fraud investigator

from Scottsdale, Arizona.

He was nowhere to be found.

When they gave me the information the car was burned

and Lee wasn't there, then my wildest fears

just became a reality.

Because you live with that every day,

that something could happen, but you just don't

really believe it ever will.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Police feared the worst, that Lee

Young had been murdered.

The most obvious motive, robbery.

Young always wore a distinctive $25,000 Rolex watch

and carried large amounts of cash

so he could buy jewelry, which he sold in his spare time.

When Police searched the car, they

were surprised to find thousands of dollars' worth of jewelry

still in the trunk.

Young's family suspected a scenario far more sinister

than a simple robbery.

The only thing missing out of the trunk of that car

that I am aware of is the briefcase

that carried his files.

So that makes me believe that it wasn't robbery motive,

it was job-related, case-related of some sort.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Several months

before he disappeared, Lee Young had contacted

federal agents who dealt with drug smuggling.

Young suspected that his bank was being used

by a money laundering ring.

During the week before he disappeared,

Young tried to reach the agents a number

of times without success.

--from South America through New York.

He was involved in one particular case

investigating a major drug cartel in Colombia.

And he had been involved in this investigation within six months

prior to his disappearance and the case

was still ongoing, as a matter of fact,

at the time of his disappearance.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): On May 4th, 1990,

Lee Young left a restaurant in Scottsdale around 12:30 PM.

He was never seen again.

That afternoon, a single call came in over his car phone

and three calls went out, one to a phone booth

and the others to a woman who denied ever having talked

to Lee Young on the telephone.

I don't know for a fact that Lee made these calls.

In fact, it's possible that Lee was taken down prior to two

o'clock Friday afternoon and that the three

calls made after two o'clock were made by somebody else.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Lee Young' family

believes that he was kidnapped by someone

who wanted to destroy his bank fraud investigation records.

They think that person, not Lee Young, made the phone calls.

Everything points to the fact that Lee's not alive.

My heart still says he's out there somewhere,

but logic tells me he's not.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): What happened to Lee Young?

Was he killed in a robbery attempt,

or did he inadvertently become the victim

of one of his old bank fraud investigations?

Connie Young clings to the slim hope

that someone saw her husband's plum-colored 1985 Lincoln Town

Car between the time he left the restaurant on May

4th, 1990 and the time the car was

found in flames the next day.

She also hopes someone might have information

about his copper-faced Rolex watch,

which has diamonds encircling the face and studding the band.

On our next "Unsolved Mysteries," for years

legendary tales have circulated about the abominable snowman,

a frightening human-like creature

said to roam the high plateaus of the Himalayas.

But for the natives of this isolated land,

the snowman is all too real, a half man,

half ape known as yeti.

Is he a mythological monster or a distant relative of man?

Join us next time for another edition

of "Unsolved Mysteries."

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