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ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The saga

of Noah's ark, one of "The Bible's"

most enduring stories is now the focus of a tantalizing debate.

Was there truly a great flood, which

Noah following the instructions of God, managed to survive?

In recent years two research expeditions

have combed the mountains of Ararat in Turkey.

The incredible, both believe they

may have found the remnants of Noah's ark,

in two separate locations.

In Austin, Texas, three men noticed a strange car

cruising their neighborhood.

Moments later, they heard the desperate screams of a woman.

And they were caught up in the search for a brutal kidnapper.

Join me for another addition of "Unsolved Mysteries".

[theme music]

Noah's ark, one of the most famous and evocative

of all bible stories.

As recorded in "Genesis", the first book of The Bible,

God looked down upon the earth he had created

and saw it had become evil and wicked.

He came to a righteous man named Noah

and ordered him to build an ark.

And God said to Noah, make rooms in the ark

and cover it inside and outside with pitch.

You shall make it with lower, second, and third decks.

And of every living thing, of all flesh,

you shall bring two of every sort

into the ark to keep them alive with you.

And so it came to pass, God brought forth a great flood.

[thunderstorm]

For 40 days and 40 nights, rain

descended from the heavens.

All living things were destroyed, save

for the occupants of the ark.

[ocean waves crashing]

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): When the waters receded,

God said to Noah, bring out with you every living thing

of all flesh that is with you so that they

may abound on the Earth and be fruitful and multiply.

So ends the story of Noah's ark.

But for centuries, people have wondered,

was a story based on fact?

Or was it a legend handed down from generation

to generation as a symbolic morality play

in a hostile and corrupt world?

Contrary to popular belief, The Bible

was not the original telling the story

of Noah and the great flood.

In ancient Babylonia and Sumerian,

the same story was recorded thousands of years

before "The Bible" was written.

Even here in North America the early Spanish explorers were

starting to discover the Hopi Indians

told a tale that was remarkably similar to the story

of Noah's ark.

In fact, no fewer than 200 variations of the legend

could be found in cultures throughout the world.

Leading many to believe that there

was indeed a cataclysmic flood thousands of years ago.

In recent times, some researchers

have seized upon this speculation

and gone in search of definitive proof,

the remains of Noah's ark.

According to Middle Eastern versions of the story,

the ark was built near the ancient city of Shuruppak,

in what is now Iraq.

In the book of "Genesis" chapter 8,

The Bible says the ark came to rest

on the mountains of Ararat, which

are in present day Turkey.

More than 500 miles from Shuruppak.

It is a desolate, sparsely populated region.

Rising above the headwaters of the Tigris River.

In recent years, several separate research expeditions

have explored the mountains of Ararat.

Incredibly, two separate teams both believe

they may have found the ark, in two different locations, 17

miles apart.

One of the sites lies on the Northeast side of Mount Ararat

under a permanent 23 square mile glacier.

In 1969, a Turkish businessman named George Hagopian,

went public with a remarkable story.

He claimed that as a young boy in 1906,

he had actually seen Noah's ark wedged

in a glacier from which the ice had temporarily receded.

Hagobian described the vessel to archaeological illustrator

Elfred Lee.

ELFRED LEE: He said it looked like a long box.

It's rectangular and the corners were

kind of rounded a little bit.

The sides sloped in, slightly.

The roof, he said, was basically flat

with just a slight pitch to it.

And there was a stair kind of a apparatus at one end.

His uncle hoisted him up onto this ladder

and he walked on up onto the roof.

And there all the way down the middle of the roof

he saw these holes.

And he stuck his head in and it was dark,

he shouted and his voice echoed and re-echoed inside.

It was hollow.

George Hagopian went back a couple of years later,

saw the same thing.

But ice and snow were beginning to cover it up again.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): 17 years later, Elfred Lee

was introduced to a man named Ed Davis,

who in 1943 was stationed in Iran with the US Army.

He too, claimed he had seen the ark.

When Ed Davis started talking, the hair on the back of my head

just stood up.

Because I could like hear an echo of George Hagopian

from years before.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Ed Davis' sighting

occurred in roughly the same area as George Hogopian's.

However, when Davis saw what he thought was the ark,

it had broken in two.

We waited a while and the fog kind of lifted

and it shown through kind of a funnel.

And it showed they ark, in the end.

You could see in the end of it.

And we saw both parts.

You stand there with your mouth wide open.

ELFRED LEE (VOICEOVER): Ed Davis described three decks inside

and large cages on the bottom deck.

Smaller cages on the second deck.

And on the roof a venting system with many holes on it.

And, so that you could see how the light and ventilation could

go clear to the bottom deck.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): In this illustration

Elfred Lee has reconciled the two accounts.

The intact art depicts George Hagopian's sighting in 1906.

Below are the two pieces as described by Ed Davis.

However, Hagopian and Davis are unable to pinpoint

the exact locations of the sightings

but their stories helped spark the interest of Don Schockey

an amateur archeologist.

I can't think of anything more exciting

that I could be doing in my lifetime

than having a small part in seeing

this, whatever it is, verified.

And we have good reason to believe

it's, there's something there.

And we got, we've got to prove it.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): In 1989, Don Schockey launched

an expedition to Mount Ararat.

The mountain is on the easternmost edge of Turkey

bordered by Iran and the Georgia Democratic Republic,

formerly a part of the Soviet Union.

Schockey chose his destination based

upon classified US satellite photographs, which have

been analyzed by an expert.

For three days, Don Schockey and his guides

made their way up the south side of the mountain.

Our whole goal was to get to the spot,

over the top, down the glaciers to this particular location

and verify what the satellite information had told us.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): However, the Turkish government

restricts access to the north side of Mount Ararat,

foreigners are forbidden.

One of the Turkish guides, Amet, continued on with camera

in hand.

Amet crested Mount Ararat and started down the north slope.

At this point, at an elevation of nearly 16,000 feet,

he spotted something half buried in the snow.

From a distance of 300 yards, he took this photograph,

which seems to show the end of a rectangular object

with a peaked roof.

DON SCHOCKEY: He came back and I said, is anything showing?

He said, a coop, a coop.

And I said, what are you talking about, Amet?

A coop, a coop.

Like a chicken coop.

Oh.

It kind of had a pointed top and he said that you could see

the outline of it in the side.

He said, in all of my years you've

never seen anything like it.

He said, there's some artifact there.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Don Schockey

believed that Amet might have discovered

the remains of Noah's ark.

Schockey returned to the United States

where he took the photograph to forensic anthropologist, Dr.

Jim Ebert.

DR. JIM EBERT: It certainly does not look natural.

It looks very strikingly man-made to me.

Of course there are no scale cues in here

so we can't really tell how big it is.

What I see when I look at this, is something that stands out

from the rest of the terrain.

And that is a, what looks like a solid structure.

You'll never know until you get up there

and can see it and stand next to it.

But it's, the rectilinear outline

suggests to me that this isn't a normal part of a glacier.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): In 1990, Schockey

returned to Mount Ararat and undertook

an extensive aerial search.

Unfortunately, the site photographed by Amet

had been completely covered with snow.

Schockey was forced to abandon his effort

but remains convinced that he has

probably found the resting place of Noah's ark.

Others disagree.

We've been told for years that Noah's ark is on top of Mount

Ararat because that's what "The Bible" says

and that's not what "The Bible" says.

"The Bible" says the ark came to rest

on, upon the mountains of Ararat,

that word is in the plural.

And if we--

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): David Fasold is a former Merchant

Marine Officer and merchant salvage expert,

who believes that the ark is buried

beneath this unusual mound.

A full 17 miles south of Mount Ararat.

Fasold's team has made several expeditions to the area.

They have combed the site with a metal detector

and discovered traces of iron beneath the mountain,

which do not appear to be natural deposits.

(METAL DETECTOR BEEPING)

DAVID FASOLD: Every 20 to 30 inches approximately,

we have the remains of an iron fitting

or an iron pin of sorts that are still there

in the soil and discernible.

Well, this is one of 5400 iron fittings that we've located.

Of course, we haven't pulled them all out of the boat.

It's been cut in half by a diamond saw,

scanned by electron microscopes at Los

Alamos National Laboratory.

And this particular iron fitting is

94.84% man-made wrought iron.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Looking at the mound

from above, the iron deposits form

a distinct pattern of intersecting

lines, which Fasold believes is a framework of the ark.

From end to end, the lines measure

515 feet, or 300 cubits.

The length of the arc as recorded as in "The Bible".

The width averages 85 feet, or 50 cubits,

which also corresponds to the biblical dimension.

Given the shape of the thing and the size of the thing

and where they found it.

I mean, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck

until somebody finds something else.

What else could it possibly be but Noah's ark?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Are the metal fittings remnants

of Noah's ark?

Some have suggested that David Fasold

has, in reality, found the remains

of an ancient Mongol Fort.

Others say it is merely a geological formation.

However, the Turkish government has

declared the mound as the official site

where Noah's ark came to rest.

The man who was in charge, Professor Salih

Bayraktutan, who is also a geologist,

he says it's Noah's ark 200%.

It is not a geological anomaly, it's a man-made structure.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Has one

of mankind's great mysteries finally

been solved in this remote mountain range?

It seems obvious that Don Schockey

and David Fasold are both investigating

something very unique.

But only years of further exploration

and detailed analysis will reveal

exactly what they have found.

It is tantalizing to think that Noah's ark may actually exist.

However unlikely it may seem, such a discovery

would not be unprecedented.

In fact it was less than 100 years ago that archaeologists

uncovered the ruins of the ancient city of Troy, which had

always been considered a myth.

Finding Noah's ark would no doubt prove more elusive,

perhaps is a story best left as a metaphor.

A cautionary tale for a world that has grown

ever more complex and chaotic.

Next, a young woman is found murdered in Louisiana.

Perhaps you can help identify her killer.

[theme music]

Everything all right out there, Tracy?

They just seated 20 more.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): In November of 1988,

26-year-old Tracy Wofford-Bunn began working as a waitress

in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

I think they keep coming back.

Same people.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): She arrived from Milwaukee,

Wisconsin three months earlier.

Looking for a new start in a new city.

SOLOMON BUNN: Tracy was a beautiful person.

Outgoing, fun to be with.

She would do things very spur of the moment.

She could say, well tomorrow I'm going to Minnesota.

Tomorrow she'd go to Minnesota.

With no care whatsoever, wondering about what might

happen, what would happen.

No care.

She knew where she was going.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Tracy and Solomon

Bunn had married in 1986.

2 1/2 years later, the marriage was on the skids and Tracy

turned to her younger sister Danielle,

who lived in Baton Rouge.

She had spoken many times about leaving

Milwaukee to sort of spread her wings and try something new.

And so she just came to visit me and we had a really good time.

And I introduced her to quite a few different type people.

And so she stayed with me, I think a couple of weeks.

And then she went back home and stayed about a week and a half

and came back down with all of, the rest of her stuff.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Tracy settled in quickly.

She landed a job and even found a new boyfriend.

It seemed like life was starting all over again.

Then six months later, on the morning of April 1st 1989,

it all came crashing down.

Outside of an apartment complex, a passer

by noticed a young woman apparently asleep

in the front seat of a car.

It quickly became obvious that the young woman was not asleep.

Tracy Wofford-Bunn had been murdered.

About what time was it when you first saw the car?

It was about 8 o'clock when I first saw the car.

And when I came out, it was about 8:30,

to really see what was, was lady asleep or what in the car.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Tracy had been

raped and strangled to death.

, Oddly investigators found no sign of a struggle.

In fact there were a number of things about the crime scene,

which did not seem quite right.

Clothes all ruffled up and her shoes are missing.

Would you mind taking me a few shots of that?

DETECTIVE WHEELER: Upon examining the body,

we could see that the clothes were

all jumbled up in a fashion that I have seen before.

And it's usually when a person has had their clothing put back

on them and they're either in an unconscious state

or they're deceased.

We also found that the stick shift

was broken off in the car.

Was lying on the floorboard.

I still believe the vehicle could have been driven

but it would have taken somebody with a little expertise

at doing it to drive it with a stick

shift broken off like that.

The motive's the main thing that has me puzzled is,

because there was no robbery.

Jewelry was still on the victim, purse

was there, identification.

This was just a total loss of life, for no reason.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): With no physical evidence to go on,

Detective Wheeler turned to the people who knew Tracy best.

He started with her new boyfriend.

--That we were together and we just

rode around for a little while.

DETECTIVE WHEELER : You were in Tracy's vehicle?

Yes, yeah, we rode around.

DETECTIVE WHEELER: Well, when I spoke with the boyfriend,

he advised me that about 4:30, March 31, 1989,

he dropped Tracy off at work.

And he kept her vehicle.

He and his cousin were riding around in the car

and he was supposed to pick Tracy up that night

at 12 midnight, when she got off work.

Oh, man.

DETECTIVE WHEELER: Unfortunately, he

said the shift lever broke off in the vehicle

at Texas and East Polk.

Then he parked the vehicle and went

to the cousin's house, which is about a half mile away.

Let's go ahead and leave it here.

We'll come back and get it tomorrow.

Let's walk on back to your house.

Tracy's gonna be mad at me.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Around midnight,

Tracy called her boyfriend and learned

that he had damaged the car.

I'm out of here, Timothy.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER) : She left

work and walked to his cousin's house, about a mile away.

How you doing, Erik?

Hi, Tracy.

What happened to the car?

It's, it's broke, it's broke.

How'd it break?

I was just, Erik and I would just riding, right Erik?

And the whole shift just snapped off.

A stick shift doesn't just snap off.

Well, you're shift just snap-- you

know all the problems you've had getting it into third gear.

The shift, this time just snapped off.

I don't have any problems.

You're the one causing the problems.

OK, OK Tra--

Give me the keys.

For what?

So I can go get the car and take care of it.

Say what?

Give me the keys.

Tracy!

Tracy!

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER) : Tracy walked

the half mile to her car.

Police estimate that she arrived around 12:30 AM.

DETECTIVE WHEELER (VOICEOVER): We know she got to the vehicle

because it was locked up by her boyfriend, when

he left it there.

And when we found the vehicle, that next morning

the keys were in the vehicle.

But that is the last place that we could positively

say she was alive in.

When she arrived at the car.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): An hour

and a half later, Tracy's car was driven

to the apartment complex where she would be found

murdered the next morning.

DETECTIVE WHEELER (VOICEOVER): I was advised by the apartment

manager that there was possibly a witness who saw the vehicle

when it came into the parking lot around 1:30 AM

and saw somebody walk away from it

and didn't pay any much attention to it.

I feel like Tracy Bunn was probably

killed between the hours of 12:30 and 1:30 in the morning.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Authorities

are particularly disturbed by several unsettling details

surrounding the murder.

Not only had Tracy been raped and strangled

but there were second degree burns on her thighs

and on the back of her hands.

MEDICAL EXAMINER: About nine o'clock.

DETECTIVE WHEELER: We haven't been able to determine what

caused those burns and we've thought

about every type of heating apparatus

or device you could think of.

We just can't find anything that would

make that particular burn.

We also don't understand the method of leaving

the body the way it was.

It was like they wanted this person to be found

and they wanted everybody to see.

I don't know whether these guys were involved in drugs or not.

But when you have a case involving people in narcotics,

if you don't deal with them in a fashion

that they want you to they make an example out of you.

I know someone personally, that was

very heavily involved in drugs.

And he was, I guess he was trying to make

some sort of drug transaction.

And he was told that that person was the person

who had murdered my sister.

Dead by the river.

Man, I think one of those guys killed her, man.

Hey, man let's get out of here.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Authorities

did investigate a known drug dealer but found

no evidence linking him to the crime.

It's my feeling that her boyfriend

knew something because he had her car that night

while she was at work.

He didn't come and pick her up from work

at the agreed upon time.

Apparently, when she went by his cousin's house

to pick up the car, he told her that it was broken

and that you go on ahead.

And it doesn't sound like a likely story for the person who

was supposed to be involved with my sister

to just sort of throw her to the wolves at 12

or 1 o'clock at night.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Tracy's boyfriend

and his cousin were each given two polygraph examinations.

They both passed the test and are not considered suspects.

Always had problems with the stick shift.

And the transmission getting into third.

DETECTIVE WHEELER: I've worked a number of homicides

and this one, I feel has just a few pieces of the puzzle

that haven't fell in place yet.

And I know it's a solvable case.

And it's frustrating for me as well

for for Tracy's family to not know who these killers are.

Because they're walking around scot-free today and Tracy's

gone.

It's, even now it's hard to believe,

even though I've seen her body.

I've seen her, I've buried her.

I've heard all this different information,

all the details and everything.

And still, it's really difficult to believe.

Because I really don't know what happened

and I think if I knew what happened

I'd be able to believe that it's happened

and sort of leave it behind me.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): When we

return the touching story of a mans search for his sister.

A search, which has spanned half a century.

1941 Ottumwa, Iowa.

A family is about to be torn apart.

Three brothers and a sister have been

left in the care of their aunt, who fearing

for the children's well-being has contacted

the child welfare department.

[knock on door]

Walter, Donald, Richard, Dolores, I need to take

you to your new home now.

Come out please.

You kids get on out here, we're gonna

take you to a decent home.

Come on out.

Walter, you're a big boy now you go on out to that car.

Hurry up, go on.

DONALD STRADT: At that time there was four of us

and another one on the way.

And I was just, probably about 5 1/2 years old.

I didn't know anything about adoptions or stuff like that.

And I thought we was just going to this home

and later on, we was going to go back to mama's, see.

Now you just hush up and sit still.

Sit still.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Donald Stradt's mother

could do little to prevent the state from taking her children.

She was pregnant with her fifth child and unable to work.

A few months earlier, Donald's father

had suffered a nervous breakdown and had been institutionalized.

The children who ranged in age from two to 9 years old,

were usually left to their own devices , until

the authorities stepped in.

Two of the brothers were sent to Iowa state youth facilities.

Donald and his sister Dolores were taken to a Lutheran

children's home where they were placed

in the care of the head nurse .

You need to take a little rest.

Dolores, here's your bottle.

Mhm-hmm.

Let me try.

DONALD STRADT (VOICEOVER): Even though I wasn't the oldest boy,

I was the babysitter.

And I played with my sister and I enjoyed that.

I'd push around a little tricycle.

And brush her hair and take care of her.

I always liked to help her, this is my sister.

Donald, here's some bananas.

You feed it to your sister.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Within days, Donald

realized that he and his sister would not

be going back to their mother.

Donald cooperated with the nurse,

but was always alert for a chance to take his sister

and escape.

DONALD STRADT (VOICEOVER): This nurse basically,

she was busy in the kitchen.

She had her back turned to us and I guess you 'bout to say

she was intent on her job.

And so I just took my sister out the door, right quite.

This was our chance to go home.

And I sneaked her out the door and down the steps

and out to this old Model-A Ford.

And I opened it up and helped her in on to the floor.

And I helped her up on the seat and I told her,

now you sit right there. 'Cause we're going home to see mama.

I didn't know anything about cars really

but I knew if you pushed that button down on the floor

that car would go.

I had to look out the window and hang on the steering wheel

and then I'd get down and push that button.

That car would go ahead a little bit.

And then I'd get up and take another look

and I was trying to get this car down there on that main road.

I didn't know which way I was going when I got there

but I knew that road, I came in on it

and I need to leave by it.

What do you think you're doing?

Let go of me.

I wanna see my mama.

You get out of that car right now.

Don't you know you could kill somebody?

DONALD STRADT (VOICEOVER): The car

door was just kind of jerked open

and she reached in and grabbed me up by the collar

and went to thrashing on me.

And I couldn't tell you today whether she whipped me

with her hand or whether she had a board

or whether she had a strap or anything.

But I didn't, I knew she was whipping me

but I didn't feel no pain and I was fighting her because I

was wanting to go home.

Donald, there's some cookies for you in the kitchen,

if you'd like them.

Thank you.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Two weeks later, unbeknownst

to Donald, Dolores was adopted.

Come on baby.

We're going to get you a new home.

These people come and took Dolores away.

I didn't know what the deal was but I thought,

well they're gonna bring her back here.

Because me and her was family and that's all I had.

I kept asking this woman, where's my sister?

And--

Where's my sister?

DONALD STRADT: --I want my sister.

And she'd tell me, well you just don't need to know.

And that, it ain't none of your business.

And stuff like that.

And of course I got unruly and ornery because I

was wanting my sister.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The separation was short lived.

Dolores's adoptive parents sent for Donald

as soon as they realized that she was

more than they could handle.

Like the nurses at the home, they turned to Donald for help.

DONALD STRADT: Dolores wasn't adjusting

to these folks or bond with these folks, at first.

And just cried and wanted her brother and stuff.

Because we'd been together and these people were

strangers to her.

(DOLORES CRYING)

She just cried and wouldn't eat or whatever.

And that's the reason they come and got me.

So I could be a quieting factor, you might say.

It's all right, baby.

It's all right.

Ready?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Under Donald's influence,

Dolores began to adjust.

Donald even stayed on for a few days

but was expected to remain well in the background.

ADOPTIVE MOM: OK, your turn.

(DOLORES LAUGHS)

I like--

DONALD STRADT (VOICEOVER): These people got Dolores where she'd

eat for him and play with them.

And they treated her quite well.

And I don't know, a day or two, whatever, this nurse come back.

And she said--

Donny, you want to go downtown with me?

DONALD STRADT (VOICEOVER): I remember looking up

and this woman was feeding my little sister

and I thought, well, everything's all right.

And yeah, I'd like to go downtown.

I'm five 1/2 years old.

I love to ride in automobiles.

Of course, I didn't realize this automobile wasn't

ever going to bring me back.

And we got in the car and we drove off

and I haven't seen my sister since.

I think of Dolores almost every day.

She's still my sister.

Don't matter what time has done.

Want to try and to catch up with 50 years of time, somehow.

I'd like to her neck and tell her I missed her.

Yeah.

Donald Stradt and his two brothers

as well as another sister born after the family was

split apart, were all reunited in 1965.

Their father remained institutionalized

for the rest of his life and their mother

was granted a divorce.

Velma Stradt remarried and had five more children.

So now there are nine siblings all looking

for their lost sister, Dolores.

Update.

Just minutes after we first broadcast this story,

a woman named Penelope Sue Lewis of Bolivar, Missouri,

called our telecenter and identified herself as Donald

Stradt's long lost sister.

Donald was overjoyed to discover that Penelope

lived just 50 miles from his home in Stoutland, Missouri.

Three days later, at a park near Penelope's home,

Donald, Penelope, and their extended families

gathered for a heartwarming and long overdue reunion.

All right.

God, it's been so many years.

DONALD STRADT: I love her, I always have loved her.

And sometimes when I get alone and just think about it

I'd just sit down and cry.

And I don't mind crying this time because I'm already there.

Yeah, already there.

I got another surprise for you.

Yeah?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Soon after Donald arrived,

Penelope shared a poignant moment

with her natural mother Velma, whom she had

not seen in more than 50 years.

I never thought I'd see this day.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The reunion

was a culmination of an emotional roller

coaster ride which had begun 72 hours

earlier when Penelope sat down to watch "Unsolved Mysteries".

I try not to miss any because I like to watch

it for the reunions and things.

And I thought, I've always thought, well,

maybe someday it'll be my turn.

And all of a sudden, it dawned on me, well, I, that's me.

That's my family.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): For Penelope, the gathering

was also the chance to meet all the family

members she never knew she had.

One full sister, two half sisters,

three half brothers, and countless nephews,

nieces, and cousins.

DONALD STRADT: We'll just probably try

to get everybody acquainted with everybody

and just go from there.

- Family get togethers? - Yeah.

Yeah, that's right.

Yeah.

PENELOPE SUE LEWIS: I felt so helpless.

I felt like I didn't belong.

And now I'm at peace.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Next, a woman is brutally abducted

from a car wash in Texas.

Most of us never imagine that we will become

part of an unsolved mystery.

That we will suddenly hear a scream in the night

and find ourselves involved in a criminal investigation.

Yet, that is exactly what happened

to three young men in Austin, Texas on December 29, 1991.

All because they happened to cross paths with a kidnapper.

At 8:55 PM, Steve Marks was on his way

to meet his two brothers-in-law at a friend's

house on Powell Street.

Less than a block from the house,

he pulled behind a tan colored car.

STEPHEN MARKS: That evening in question, I was driving down

Powell Street and I noticed a car in front

of me driving very slowly.

I followed it down the street and I pulled

in front of my friend's house.

The car in the meantime, had pulled up

into the parking garage ahead of my friend's house.

And my brother-in-laws arrived about a minute later.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Mike and Bill Goins

had encountered the same car two blocks from the house,

going the wrong way on a one way street.

And when they stopped and we stopped,

they looked at us like, what do we do next?

And we looked at them like, OK, you fools, get out of the way.

And that gave us an opportunity to see them

but unfortunately, there was no reason

for us to try to memorize their faces or anything.

And it was just two people passing in the night.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): At 9 PM, Mike and Bill Goin's

rendezvoused with Steve Marks.

The house where they met was just 200 feet from a 24-hour

do it yourself car wash.

I don't know.

We were thinking of going out we to eat.

STEPHEN MARKS: Well, we could go over

to my house for some spaghetti.

(WOMAN SCREAMING)

STEPHEN MARKS: When we are on the porch, all we could see

was the side of the car wash and the vacuum

canisters where cars are vacuumed outside of the stalls.

So when we heard the scream and the car door or trunk slam,

all we saw was the car pull out.

(SCREECHING BRAKES)

As we saw the car pull out the wrong way on Fifth Street

I realized that that was the same car

that I had pulled behind on Powell Street

and that had made the U-turn in the parking garage.

And the car that later, Mike and Bill had said

had confronted him going the wrong way on Powell Street,

pulling out on to Sixth Street.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): A few seconds

later, Steve Marks and Bill Goins arrived at the car wash.

Unlike most nights, it was eerily deserted.

STEPHEN MARKS: We walked up to the car,

we saw a purse, the keys and then Bill suggested I go back

to the house and call the police because we

figured something was wrong.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The owner of the abandoned car

was identified as 28-year-old Colleen

Reed, a Certified Public Accountant, who had

lived in Austin for four years.

Police traced Colleen's movements

in the day of the crime.

She arrived at the car wash around 9:10 PM.

Earlier that day, she had gone to church with her boyfriend.

Then, she spent several hours doing community volunteer work.

That evening, Colleen went to the market

and then withdrew cash from her bank machine,

before ending up at the car wash.

Police believe that Colleen was kidnapped by the two

men in the tan colored vehicle.

No!

No, no, no!

(SQUEALING TIRES)

SGT. MARTIN: We have a situation where after they have abducted

Colleen Reed, they went the wrong way

on Fifth Street and almost collided head

on with two vehicles.

We have not heard from the drivers or the people that have

occupied those two vehicles.

So hopefully this show will maybe bring these two

people forward that may have some information

that will help us.

I've almost convinced myself that we

will someday see her again.

That she's being held somewhere.

And I know that that's what we want to believe

and the reality is, that's probably not true.

But there is a possibility.

I think about when do I just say OK, it's over,

something happened, something horrible.

I don't know if I'll ever be able to do that.

I've gone on with my life in a lot of ways.

I'm, I work and take care of my children

and do the things I need to do.

But there's an empty place that I've had a hard time filling.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Update.

A suspect is in custody.

Just last week a man named Alva Hank Worley

was arrested in Belton, Texas.

He admitted involvement in the kidnapping

but denied knowing Colleen Reed's current whereabouts.

However, Worley insisted that she was still alive last time

he saw her.

Police are now looking for this man, Kenneth Allen McDuff.

He is 46 years old, 6 feet 3 inches

tall and weighs 245 pounds.

McDuff was last seen in Waco, Texas.

Diabolical mind.

The very phrase evokes a chilling mystique.

On Sunday, "Unsolved Mysteries" will present

a special report: an exploration of the mysteries

of the psychopath.

What forces would transform this impoverished young boy

into a ruthless dictator?

Saddam Hussein's bloody and brutal rise to power

was ignited by a single disturbing trait;

A cunning mind unchecked by remorse or conscience.

G. Daniel Walker has been convicted

of crimes ranging from fraud to armed robbery to murder.

In a remarkable interview, Walker

provides a revealing glimpse into a diabolical mind.

--Physical violence because fear

lives with you 24 hours a day.

Fear never goes away.

If you kill somebody, that's over.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): When her husband and children fell

victim to a series of mysterious illnesses

Marie Hilley was a devoted and caring wife and mother.

In time, her son began to suspect the worst.

His mother was poisoning her own family.

MICHAEL HILLEY: The world as I knew it at that point

just fell apart.

Everything that my mother had taught me, right from wrong,

I had to go back and re-exam.

Join me, Sunday night at 8:00 for this very special and very

different edition of "Unsolved Mysteries",

Case Studies of the Diabolical Mind.