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ANNOUNCER: This program is about unsolved mysteries.

Whenever possible, the actual family members

and police officials have participated

in recreating the events.

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

ROBERT STACK: In the early 1930s,

two amateur prospectors in Wyoming

chanced upon a baffling curiosity--

the mummified remains of a tiny ancient human being.

X-rays revealed what appeared to be a fully developed

skeleton just 17 inches tall, about the height

of a coffee table.

Could the artifact be evidence that a mythological race

of supernatural beings, known as the little people,

actually existed?

In Mississippi, the tragic death of 18-year-old Andre Jones,

the son of civil rights activists,

is surrounded by a storm of controversy.

In 1992, Jones was arrested at a routine sobriety checkpoint.

But less than 36 hours later, he was dead.

Authorities say he hung himself with a shoelace

in the shower stall of his jail cell.

Andre's parents say he was murdered.

October 2, 1961.

An 11-year-old, Alan [inaudible],

told his parents that someone had left a baby in their car,

and they thought he was joking.

Today, that baby is a grown woman

searching for her birth mother.

Also tonight, remarkable update.

A landlord watching "Unsolved Mysteries"

is shocked to discover that one of his former tenants

is wanted for murder.

Join me.

Perhaps you too may be able to help solve a mystery.

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The American West-- a magical land

with a rich and colorful past.

For many, the frontier conjures up images of outlaws, cowboys,

and buried treasure.

But for Native Americans, this is ancient ground,

steeped in a history which defies

conventional beliefs and logic.

For generations, medicine men of the Crow, Shoshone, and Arapaho

tribes have told stories of a mythic race

of supernatural beings able to perform feats

of amazing physical strength.

Incredibly, according to legend, these people

stood less than 2 feet high.

For more than a century, the story of the little people

was just the kind of tall tale that the pioneers scoffed at.

But all of that would change in 1932, when two men

went prospecting in Wyoming.

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Hey.

EUGENE S. BASHOR: Cecil Mayne and Frank Carr

were two amateur gold prospectors.

And they were in the Pedro Mountains, which is right along

the shore of Pathfinder Reservoir,

about the center of the state.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): At the back of the cave,

Cecil Mayne and Frank Carr made an extraordinary discovery.

What's that?

What?

Right here.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Perched on a rocky ledge

was a small figure just 6 inches high, mummified

in a sitting position.

PROSPECTOR: Some ancient burial cave or something.

EUGENE S. BASHOR: We'd never seen anything like that

before, and would have no idea what

it was, except that they knew it was probably worth taking out.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Several days later, Cecil Mayne

returned to the cave alone.

Paying no heed to the notion that the cave was

a sacred Indian burial site, Mayne

snatched the mysterious mummy.

It has been an object of great controversy

and mystery ever since.

Over the years, the mummy has come

into the possession of a number of different people.

Unsubstantiated rumor has it that each of the owners

died under unusual circumstances.

As far as anyone knows, the most recent owner

disappeared without a trace nearly 20 years ago,

along with the mummy.

Those who believe in the legend of the little people

claim a curse is responsible.

Others maintain it's all just a coincidence.

The discovery of the mummy in 1932

made headlines throughout Wyoming,

and prompted speculation that it had been placed in the cave

by one of the Native American tribes.

EARL MURRAY: Many Native American spiritual people

have told me that they have certain ways they

bury and intern their dead.

And this-- this mummy is in a different position

than anything they've ever seen.

So they don't know exactly--

from their own viewpoints, they don't know what it is.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): However, Cecil Mayne did not

really care what the mummy was.

He was looking to sell it.

And eventually, he found a willing buyer.

HOMER SHERRILL: Chance of a lifetime.

Here it is, the chance of a lifetime.

The 6-inch mummy man.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): In 1934, an insurance salesman

named Homer Sherrill bought the mummy for $25

and took it on the road.

--Wyoming.

2 bits.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): One of the first people to hand

over the price of admission was a curious 10-year-old boy

named Eugene Bashor.

You won't believe in mummies?

Of course, you'll see it.

You will have a great mummy tour.

EUGENE S. BASHOR: My dad didn't want me to see it.

What I remember most about that was what a hard time

I had talking him into giving me $0.25 so I could see the mummy.

And when I went in, you went in one door,

and then walked past a table where the mummy was sitting.

There was a guard there.

And then out another door.

And they moved you right by.

You didn't get to look at it very long.

It was about 6 and 1/2 inches high seated.

And standing, it would have been about 17 inches high.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The mummy

had brown skin and a flattened skull,

with wisps of gray hair protruding

from the back of the head.

Although the mummy was seen by hundreds of people

over the next 10 years, no serious scientific analysis

was undertaken until 1950.

Mr. Goodman?

Ivan Goodman.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): By then, the mummy

had fallen into the hands of a used car

dealer named Ivan Goodman.

Well, what do you have to show me?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Goodman

took the relic to Dr. Paul Martin

at the Chicago Museum of Natural History for an analysis.

DR. GEORGE W. GILL: Some serious efforts

were made in the early 1950s to get

this little mummy documented.

And it was done rather well, I think, for the times.

There were photographs taken, good photographs

that we can still look at.

There were x-rays taken.

Really a surprising amount of very effective documentation

was made.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The x-rays revealed that the object

had a complete skeletal structure,

as well as a full set of teeth.

Initially, it did appear to be the mummified remains

of a fully developed human being which

happened to be 17 inches tall.

But after reviewing all of the material,

Dr. Martin reached an altogether different conclusion.

In his opinion, the mummy was not a mature adult,

but an infant who had suffered from a medical abnormality

known as anencephaly.

This is a condition in which infants

are born without a brain and lack a complete skull.

As a result, they may often take on the physical appearance

of an adult.

However, Eugene Bashor claims that other experts believe

the malformed skull could have been the result

of a severe blow to the head.

EUGENE S. BASHOR: Some of the people

I've interviewed that were experts, doctors, radiologists

said there were pieces of skull in the scalp that's hanging

down, like it was beat down.

And it's the result of trauma, injury.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Eugene Bashor further states

that the scientists he spoke with

believe the mummy had other adult characteristics.

EUGENE S. BASHOR: It also has a full set of teeth,

quite prominent teeth.

And infants would show two sets of undeveloped teeth

still up in the jaws.

These have descended, and there's

no other teeth above them, like a baby or a young person

would have.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Dr. George Gill still disagrees.

Yeah, all the physicians and physical anthropologists that I

know of who have ever looked at it that I've been able

to verify, to actually talk to them,

have said that it's some type of infant,

and-- and it looks to them to be an anencephalic human infant.

Oh, I certainly am going to do everything I can to prove that.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): In October of 1950,

Ivan Goodman loaned the find to Dr. Leonard Wadler,

curator of a New York museum.

--sound of that.

I'm gonna trust him with you, Doc.

You take good care of him.

Oh, don't worry.

He's in good hands.

You take care, sir.

I shall.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Goodman

felt there was a fortune to be made if Wadler could prove

that the mummy was a North American

relative of the pygmies, a race of people in Africa and Asia

who stand 4 to 5 feet in height.

Unfortunately, Ivan Goodman died of a sudden stroke

before the theory was proven, and Wadler kept the mummy.

What was the mysterious artifact uncovered

in the remote mountains of Wyoming more than 60 years ago?

Was it proof of the existence of a mythological race known

as the little people, or was it the tragedy

of an anencephalic infant born in primitive times?

So much more could be done today in the way of analysis

on this small mummy.

DNA analysis could be done.

We have methods now that could allow dating to be done

without being that destructing.

So it's really important that the scientific community

take another look at it.

The controversy exists.

It continues.

It could be settled if we had the mummy.

At this point in time, we don't know, and that's the mystery.

Dr. Leonard Wadler was last known to be living in Florida.

However, no one has seen the doctor or the mummy since 1975.

While the scientific community would

like to find the mummy for analysis,

Native Americans hope the relic will be recovered

for its spiritual value.

In their view, a sacred burial site was disturbed.

And ultimately, they would like to return

the artifact to an appropriate resting place.

Next, a series of mysterious hanging

deaths in jails across Mississippi

sparks a federal investigation.

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Tonight, there's a scandal brewing in Mississippi,

a scandal which has prompted Attorney General

Janet Reno to order an investigation

by the Justice Department.

Over the past five years, no fewer than 48 inmates

in Mississippi jails, half of them black, half of them

white, have died under mysterious circumstances.

Every single death was a hanging.

Every single death was ruled a suicide.

This is a story of one Mississippi hanging.

In the summer of 1992, Andre Jones

was 18 years old, about to start his freshman year of college.

His mother, Esther, was president of the Jackson,

Mississippi branch of the NAACP; his stepfather,

Charles X. Quinn, a Nation of Islam minister.

1: 00 AM, Saturday, August 22, Brandon, Mississippi.

Andre Jones and his girlfriend, Tanisha Love,

were stopped at a routine sobriety checkpoint.

Andre was driving a friend's pickup truck.

May I see your driver's license please, sir?

I don't have it.

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ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): 1:30 AM, Jackson, Mississippi,

20 miles from Brandon.

Andre's parents were awakened when the phone rang.

Hello?

TANISHA LOVE (ON PHONE): Hello, Mr. Quinn?

This is Tanisha.

I'm sorry to call you, but Andre's been arrested.

Arrested? Andre's been arrested.

Arrested?

For what?

For what?

Yeah, mom.

It's me.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): 2:00 AM.

Andre called his parents from the Brandon police station.

I don't know what the charges are.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): He said he did not know

what he had been charged with.

4: 00 AM.

Andre telephoned again, this time to say he

had been transferred to the Simpson County

Jail 40 miles south of Jackson.

According to his parents, he still did not know what

the charges against him were.

ESTHER JONES QUINN: We were told that-- that they could not

tell us anything at that time.

And Simpson County just refused to-- to even talk to us.

And they told us that we could not come to that jail.

Have you heard anything?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The Quinns

say that they spoke with Andre at least

five different times on Saturday.

How can they keep me in here an extra day and they

haven't even charged me?

ESTHER JONES QUINN: He was very much

concerned about his charges.

And we could not tell him anything.

He was very much concerned about getting out

immediately and-- and so that he could attend

school the very next day.

About midnight that night, a--

I heard a knock on the door.

It was a Jackson police officer.

--Jackson Police Department.

OK.

I have a message here for Mrs. Esther Jones Quinn.

I'm her husband.

I could take it.

Sir, I really need to deliver this to her in person.

Charles, what is it?

This officer has a message for you.

OFFICER: Esther Jones Quinn?

Yes?

He gave me a piece of paper which I only had a phone number

for the Simpson County Jail.

I'm really not sure, ma'am.

ESTHER JONES QUINN (VOICEOVER): There was not a note.

There was not a message.

It was only a number.

Yes, hello?

Yes, my name is Esther Jones Quinn.

Yes.

I was informed that Andre had committed suicide,

that I was casually informed that he had committed suicide,

as if they could have been talking to someone that

didn't even know who he was.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): According to Andre's parents,

he had never shown suicidal tendencies.

He had never even suffered from depression.

Andre had no previous arrest record.

So when Esther and Charles Quinn started to look into his death,

they naturally began with the circumstances of his arrest.

Andre and Tanisha had stopped by the Quinns' house in Jackson

around 11:45 Friday night.

They left and drove east toward Brandon, where Tanisha lived.

Near the Brandon city limits, they came upon the checkpoint.

According to the Quinns' lawyers,

the police say that Andre Jones stopped

just short of the checkpoint.

Hey.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): They say Andre tossed an object out

of the window of the truck.

Sir, did you just throw something out of this vehicle?

No, officer.

Let me see your driver's license.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Police identified the object

as a .38 caliber handgun.

Is that an open beer can?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Inside the truck,

they say there was an open can of beer.

And finally, the truck, which Andre

had borrowed and driven for more than a week,

turned out to be stolen.

Put your hands on the roof.

Spread your legs.

CHARLES X. QUINN: I'm not sure if he knew

or not if the truck was stolen.

It would appear to me that if he knew the truck was stolen,

he would be skeptical in driving it so openly.

I didn't know nothing about the truck.

But I know there wasn't no beer in the truck

and he did not throw a gun out of the truck,

because there was no gun in the truck.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Tanisha Love's version

of the events is very different from the reported

police version.

Can I see your license please, sir?

I don't have it.

You don't have a license with you?

No, I forgot it at home.

- What's your name? - Andre Jones.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Tanisha claims

that as soon as the officers heard Andre's name,

their attitude immediately changed.

Thank you, sir.

TANISHA LOVE: After they asked him his name,

they all went to a little--

I said, like, a little huddle, you

know, like a football huddle.

And they was-- I don't know what they was talking about,

'cause they was talking low.

And after that, that's when they came to the truck

and asked Andre again did he have his license.

And he said no, sir, I don't have my license.

Step away.

Hands on the roof of the vehicle.

TANISHA LOVE: And the asked him to step out of the truck.

And that's when they handcuffed him.

They shackled his feet and they had him

handcuffed at the same time.

I didn't understand what was going on.

Mr. Jones, you have the right to remain silent.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): State public safety

commissioner Jim Ingram believes Andre Jones was not shackled.

In fact, Ingram disagrees with Tanisha's entire account.

There was no confrontation whatsoever

with the young Andre Jones.

In fact, the officers were very amazed how cooperative he was.

This is two for one.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): According to Commissioner

Ingram, Andre was so cooperative with the Brandon Police

Department that he admitted being in a gang,

and even showed the police gang hand signals,

which they photographed.

--kill two of yours.

JIM INGRAM: And he posed for photographs

with different sign signals indicating how gangs

makes statements about signs.

It was a very cooperative attitude on both sides.

The-- the officers have indicated they really were

impressed with this young man.

My child was very independent and a very intelligent

young man, with his own aspirations.

And he had no need or-- or no desire to become

involved within a gang.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Despite repeated requests,

copies of the alleged photos of Andre illustrating gang signals

have not been made available to "Unsolved Mysteries"

or to Andre's family.

Andre was charged on four counts--

driving a truck whose vehicle identification number had been

altered; carrying a concealed weapon; possession

of stolen license plate tags; and driving

with an open container of alcohol.

Commissioner Ingram remains adamant that the arrest

was non-confrontational.

Charles Quinn, however, says that an inmate in Brandon

claims that police used racial epithets to intimidate Andre.

CHARLES X. QUINN: One of the inmates who were transferred

with Andre said that the officer said,

do you know what happened to niggas for stealing

a white man's truck?

And of course, other statements were said to put fear in Andre.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): At approximately 4:00 AM

on Saturday, Andre was transferred

from Brandon to the Simpson County Jail 35 miles away.

The Simpson County facility had a reputation

as a dangerous jail.

This is a rough diagram of the cell into which

Andre Jones was transferred.

12 other inmates were being held in the narrow L-shaped space.

A dimly lit corridor next to the cell

led to a toilet and the shower stall

where Andre's body was found.

JIM INGRAM: One of the inmates came forward

and said, hey, this guy sure been in the shower

for a long time.

One of the men walked back and said

they found a young man hanging by a shoelace,

and the shower still running.

And that's when they called for the guards.

And immediately they unlocked the cell and took him down.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Authorities state

that Andre Jones had hung himself with his own shoelace.

They say Andre tied the shoelace to an iron grate

above the showerhead.

When Charles Quinn was allowed to visit the cell,

he estimated the grate was approximately

8 feet above the floor.

CHARLES X. QUINN: He would need someone

to have held him up to do that.

And he would have needed some type of a stool to stand on.

That's incorrect.

The point of attachment of the--

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Dr. Steven Hayne,

the state-approved pathologist who performed the autopsy,

said investigators had demonstrated

that it was possible for Andre to have hung himself unaided.

That position was easily reached

by a member of the Sheriff's office,

who was acting as the decedent.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Andre's parents

also feel it is impossible that their son's

body could have been supported simply by a lace

from his running shoes.

But Dr. Hayne says the laces were tested

by the manufacturer, and their tensile strength

was found sufficient.

Less than a week after Andre's death,

his parents hired an independent pathologist, Dr. James Bryant,

to examine the remains and review the case.

DR. JAMES BRYANT: I think it's highly

probable that he was strangled.

Someone did this to him.

In the usual case of a suicide by--

by hanging, the ligature mark is along the side of the neck,

and doesn't go all the way around-- it's in this fashion--

whereas in the case of Andre Jones,

the-- the ligature marking went along the side of the neck

and all the way into the back, and criss-crossed

in this fashion.

This suggests to me that--

that there was-- that someone had come from behind

and wrapped the ligature around his neck.

And then furthermore, there's-- there's no knot mark.

The knot imprint area would be in the hairline.

And the hairline would act as a buffer,

no longer allowing for that imprint

to be present on the upper back surface of the neck.

No, Andre Jones's hair was cut short.

And the criss-cross marking was not in the hairline.

And there were no knot marks anywhere else.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Dr. Hayne's autopsy report

listed no evidence of bruising on Andre's neck

or anywhere else on his body.

Dr. Bryant's observations were different.

DR. JAMES BRYANT: He had some bruising under one of his eyes.

And also, he had some bruising on the shoulder

of the same side.

The bruising could have been right at the time that he died,

or it could have been sometime during the day.

But-- but-- but apparently, he was--

he suffered some kind of blunt trauma

sometime during-- during the time he was in the jail.

We were informed by one of the inmates

that Andre was taken off that cell block

and out of that jail.

And when he was brought back in, he

was brought back in in a wheelchair,

and that he was laid on the shower floor,

and the hanging scene was staged.

My findings, based upon the evidence both at the scene,

as well as from the post-mortem examination,

has been reviewed by many other authorities,

including the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology,

the Department of Justice, the US Attorney's Office,

as well as the Federal Bureau of Investigation,

and by the Attorney General's Office of the State

of Mississippi, and they're in concurrence

with the findings that I made.

Yeah, there was really no indication--

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): In March of 1993,

a coalition of civil rights groups

conducted hearings in Jackson, Mississippi.

Both eyes was black.

The right side of his eyelid--

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Those testifying

included the families of both black and white jail inmates

who had died under questionable circumstances.

And I have to sit and hold my four-year-old daughter--

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): After two days of testimony,

the US Commission on Civil Rights

recommended that the Justice Department

open an investigation.

They don't have to go through that.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Five months

later, Dr. Emily Ward, a specialist

in forensic pathology, was named Mississippi

state medical examiner.

Dr. Ward went over the autopsy report of Andre Jones,

as well as the autopsies of several other men

who have died by hanging in Mississippi jails.

DR. EMILY WARD: I think that it's extremely

unlikely that any of these deaths

are anything other than suicide.

All of the deaths have been investigated

by not just one agency, but one or two, or sometimes three.

And I think that although sometimes there

may be questions that need to be answered related to the death,

I don't think that in any way affects

whether or not the death is suicide or homicide.

I would never believe that Andre committed suicide.

I know my son was murdered And the fact

that his life was taken so cruelly

and so abruptly makes me even more

determined to see that he is vindicated.

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ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): When we return,

a man wanted for the murder of his girlfriend

is captured thanks to an alert viewer.

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In July of 1986, 22-year-old Paula Pasciak

and her boyfriend, Jerry Gervasoni,

arrived in Kissimmee, Florida from New Jersey

to visit Paula's mother.

Honey, I'm so glad that you're here.

Do you remember Jerry, don't you?

Yes, I do.

They stayed there about one week.

No, I don't.

Come on, let's get the bags.

Paula was as happy as a lark.

The two of 'em were.

I mean, they were very--

together, they were-- they were just happy go lucky.

So do you guys have any plans for tomorrow, or what?

Uh, well--

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Paul and Jerry

had arrived on a Wednesday.

--see my relatives down in Miami.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): On Sunday night,

they said their goodbyes.

They told Barbara they would be leaving

early the next day to visit another part of Florida.

Uh, we're getting kind of tired.

BARBARA PASCIAK: I got up the next morning.

OK, sweetie.

Good night.

Good night.

And I thought I heard them up.

And I didn't know whether they were or not,

so I didn't bother to say goodbye.

Maybe if I had, you know, things would have been different.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): In the days that followed,

an odd smell would intermittently

waft through Barbara's home.

She searched everywhere looking for a source,

finally checking her own bedroom.

[gasps]

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Hidden under the bed,

wrapped in a bamboo curtain, was her daughter's body.

Paula Pasciak had been strangled to death

and left under the bed for nearly a week.

The prime suspect was Jerry Gervasoni,

but he dropped from sight.

He successfully eluded authorities

for more than seven years, until the night of our broadcast.

Update. British Columbia, Canada.

On October 21, 1993, Jerry Gervasoni

was arrested in the small community of Salt Springs

Island, where he had been living under the assumed name

Gordon MacIntyre.

When our program aired in Canada,

Gervasoni's former landlord recognized him and immediately

called authorities.

I come home and sit down to dinner at about 9:30, quarter

to 10:00.

And I flipped on the TV, and there

was this black-and-white photo of Gordon MacIntyre, my tenant.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Once in custody,

the suspect vehemently insisted that he

truly was Gordon MacIntyre.

But fingerprints soon confirmed that he

was in fact Gerald Gervasoni.

At the local airport, Gervasoni tried

to avoid photographers as he was hustled

on to a waiting airplane.

He was then flown to a deportation

hearing in Victoria, Canada.

Gervasoni will be held there pending extradition to Florida,

where he will face charges in the murder of Paula Pasciak.

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[theme music]

Alex, don't play with the tree.

Come on.

On the evening of October 2, 1961,

Mr. And Mrs. Earl Betcher and their youngest son,

Alan, were leaving Baptist Hospital

in Jacksonville, Florida.

Mom, I'm going to the car.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The Betchers

had been visiting one of their other sons,

and could never have imagined the surprise that awaited them.

EARL BETCHER: Yeah, but I think he'll get better if they do.

Mom, mom, there's a baby in the back of our car.

Alan, come on.

Alan, that's not very funny.

No, mom, I'm-- I'm serious.

There's a baby in the car.

Come look.

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[cries]

Oh my god.

Sh, sh, sh.

Aw.

Did you-- did you see anybody around?

No.

OK, OK, let's-- let's take her into the hospital.

Come on

EARL BETCHER: Is she gonna be all right?

DOCTOR: I believe so. I don't--

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The Betchers had found

a healthy baby girl, no more than 72 hours old,

and weighing 8 and 1/2 pounds.

Local papers dubbed the foundling Baby Girl X.

She lived in foster homes for five and a half months

before she was adopted by Mary Lou and William

Christie of Tallahassee.

The Christies named their new daughter Terris--

Terri for short.

Terry grew up happily, doted upon

by her parents and her older brother and sister.

Terri always knew she was adopted,

but not until she was a teenager did she begin

to ask the difficult questions.

Who was their birth mother?

Why had she given her up?

I kind of rebelled and wanted to know, you know?

That's when we went to the library and looked it up.

And then I got excited.

I was proud, you know?

And when she pressured me about her parents,

I had the big--

the big problem about whether to tell her the truth as I knew it

or whether to say I didn't know anything.

And I really wrestled with it.

And then I came out with that I'd be safe to be truthful.

Do you think that's it?

I think you're right, look.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): At the local library,

Terry and Mary Lou tracked down all the newspaper articles

about Baby Girl X. Terri was surprised to learn

that she had been left in the backseat of a car.

Nevertheless, she trusts that her birth mother had

her best interests at heart.

TERRIS CHRISTIE DERBY (VOICEOVER):

She might have been a 15, 16-year-old little scared

girl that had a baby and ran away from home.

MARY LOU CHRISTIE: Look, look. There's the picture.

TERRIS CHRISTIE DERBY (VOICEOVER):

I believe she had a heart.

She put me somewhere safe, where I was

gonna be well taken care of.

And I appreciate that.

She was probably watching them when the little boy

came and found me in the car.

She was probably standing there, watching it.

Did you-- did you see anybody around?

No.

TERRIS CHRISTIE DERBY: It bothers

me not knowing exactly what day I was born, the time, you know?

Where I was born.

I don't even know if I was born in a hospital, by a midwife,

in a car.

You know, I have no idea.

I just-- I would like to find that out.

Well, I'll have to go--

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Today, Terri

is 32 years old, the mother of a young son and daughter.

She wants her children to have a heritage, to know their roots.

They're all down in there.

I would like to find a beginning.

I just want to meet her and see how she is.

I don't know, I'm getting older.

And I look at my kids and see how they're growing.

And I look in the mirror every day and I wonder.

Thanks to our broadcast, Terri Christie Derby

now knows the answers to all of her questions.

Sadly, Terri's birth mother, Edith Campbell,

died on August 17, 1993, just a few months

before our segment aired.

But out of this sadness a happy ending did emerge.

Terri was delighted to learn that she had

a sister and three brothers.

They were delighted as well.

None of them had ever known that Terri existed.

On July 8, 1994, Terri went to a hotel in Miami, Florida

to meet three of her siblings, Philip, Paul, and Cecelia, face

to face for the first time.

PHILLIP CAMPBELL: Hey.

Hi.

Hi, Terri.

Hey, Terri.

How are you?

It was the neatest experience of my life.

I walked in and there was--

Greetings. Paul.

TERRIS CHRISTIE DERBY: --everybody I wanted to see.

Hey, Paul.

Next to me giving birth to my own kids,

this is the best thing that's ever happened to me.

Best thing.

My-- my experience is that there's more than just

a biological thing in a family.

There's also a-- a karmic--

a sense of underlying destiny that lies

underneath the whole thing.

And this, you know-- you meet somebody--

I meet Terri and it's like, she is my sister.

I knew it right away, you know?

There's no doubt.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): At the reunion,

Terri and her adoptive mother finally

saw a picture of Terri's biological mother,

Edith Campbell.

According to a family member, Edith had given Terri up only

because of extreme financial desperation.

Knowing what a--

what a loving person she was, she

cared about nothing but her children her whole life.

And I can only imagine the anguish that--

that she went through when she decided to do this.

Hey.

Hi, I'm [inaudible].

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Husband.

Nice to meet you.

Hi.

TERRIS CHRISTIE DERBY: They make me feel wanted.

They make me feel like I'm not an outcast.

Like, I kind of felt like I was, you know, in the past.

But I-- I can feel their vibes, love, whatever, you know?

It's kind of cool.

Come on, let's go.

Let's go over here.

Come on.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The next day,

Terri met her other brother, Chris,

who had been called out of town on business

on the day of the reunion.

That's right.

Snuggle up, brothers and sister.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): At last,

the family circle is complete.

[theme music]

In the fall of 1993, the entire country

was touched when 12-year-old Polly Klaas was

abducted from her home in northern California

and savagely murdered.

Thousands of copies of this composite sketch

were distributed by police.

In the end, its stunning accuracy

helped confirm the identity of the prime suspect,

Richard Allen Davis.

Davis is now in jail, charged with the kidnap

and murder of Polly Klaas.

Law enforcement's secret weapon in the Klaas case

was this woman, suspect graphic artist Jeanne Boylan.

These days, the FBI and numerous local jurisdictions

compete for her time.

Jeanne Boylan has come a long way from her first job

in law enforcement.

In the mid-1970s, Jeanne worked at the Sheriff's Department

in Multnomah County, Oregon.

The job gave her a close-up look at how

suspects' sketches were made.

In many cases, Jeanne didn't like what she saw.

MAN: Yeah, it was more like that.

MAN: More like that? MAN: Yeah.

MAN: Maybe like that?

No, more like that one.

JEANNE BOYLAN: I would hear the way that investigators would

question witnesses or victims.

And I could-- I could hear that they weren't

allowing them to answer.

They would cut the answers off.

It was kind of just the facts.

And I-- that--

that seemed to me to be wrong.

And then I would see the drawings that would be produced

either through an identikit or through an artist,

and I knew that they weren't right.

There was something in terms of-- something in terms

of the heart, really, that was sort

of missing in those pictures.

Would you put any other shape around the eyes?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Jeanne was convinced

that she could do better.

And in 1980, she got her chance.

A supervisor gave Jeanne one of his most difficult cases,

an unsolved rape that had languished for months

with virtually no leads.

I can't remember any more.

It's OK.

I was trying a lot of different interview techniques.

And-- and I found that if I used sort of a diversionary system

of interviewing, where we would kind of circumvent

the-- the events of the crime and the scenario of the crime,

and talk about other topics, and I could relax them,

then periodically this information would surface.

You know, I just remembered something.

He had a scar, and it started on his forehead,

and it led back into his hair.

JEANNE BOYLAN: It's like the tip-of-the-tongue syndrome,

where you have somebody's name that's right

there and you're trying to remember it.

You can't bring it up.

And maybe two or three hours later, you stop trying,

and it just pops into your mind.

I just remembered something else too.

Um, he had a wide face.

JEANNE BOYLAN (VOICEOVER): I knew that the drawing that

had been done on that case prior to the one

that I was doing was-- was wrong.

So what we came up with was so radically

different, that that was sort of fresh hope for that case.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Jeanne was right.

As a direct result of her composite,

the suspect was arrested and later convicted.

More cases followed, and Jeanne's reputation grew.

I've seen a lot of the work Jeanne Boylan has done,

and very impressed.

It's the best artist's conceptions I've ever seen.

And if there-- we ever have a chance of catching the person

we're looking for through an artist's conception,

I think Jeanne Boylan is gonna give us that chance.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Most recently, the FBI

turned to Jeanne Boylan in the troubling case

of 16-year-old Jonathan Francia of Albuquerque, New Mexico.

On January 12, 1994, Jonathan was

in his car behind this restaurant in Albuquerque

when two strangers abducted him.

Five days later, a body believed to be Jonathan's was found,

charred almost beyond recognition

in the trunk of his burned-out car.

One of the killers, known only as Jason, is still at large.

[knocking]

Investigators asked Jeanne to meet with a key witness, Scott

Johnston.

Hi. Yeah, I'm Jeanne Boylan.

- Come in. - Yeah, nice to meet you.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): He had innocently spent several hours

with the killers at his home in a Winslow,

Arizona trailer park.

This is a simple process.

I don't want you to worry about it.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Jeanne instinctively began

to assess Scott's potential as an eyewitness.

JEANNE BOYLAN: Scott is--

he's a very interesting man.

Visual things are very important to him.

You can tell in the way that he dresses and he combs his hair.

And, you know, he takes-- he takes some care in the way

that he looks, which was the first cue to me

that I would be able to work in a visual context with him.

So one thing that I did was I got out

some Play-Doh, something to anchor him in the present,

and gave it to him for him to actually work on

or to-- to play with and sort of feel,

to keep him in the moment.

[inaudible] more in the longer.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): As Scott told his story,

Jeanne began to sketch the fugitive killer named Jason.

Scott had met Jason on January 13, 1994.

That day, a friend of Scott's named

Trena Richardson was staying at the trailer,

along with her three children.

They were awaiting the arrival of Trena's husband,

Paul, who was going to Alabama.

He pulled in at around 6:00 AM, accompanied by a stranger.

Scott, what's happening?

Not much.

This is Jason.

Hi.

How's it going?

Come in.

My first impression of Jason was, oh boy,

this guy dresses like a cowboy.

You know, the long, slender--

kind of attracted-- the girls would be attracted to him.

He had the velvet hat, the long hair, and the jacket,

and the-- and the jeans, and kind

of, like, worn-out tennies.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Scott noticed

something else about Jason--

something he would not truly understand until much later.

I looked down and I noticed his hand.

It was kind of, like, red, kind of clay type.

I thought it was just, you know, dirt.

But apparently it was blood.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Soon after he arrived,

Jason took a shower--

the only time Scott saw him without a hat.

Ashtray?

Tell me a little bit about how you would

put the placement of the hair?

I'd place the hair kind of, like, long

in back and over the ears--

I had no idea that anything was, you know, wrong, like any crime

has been committed.

Um, I was just going along, just like my everyday,

you know, normal routine, and they were too.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Scott told Jeanne that he and Trena

went out to run errands around 9:00 AM,

leaving Paul and Jason at the trailer.

SCOTT JOHNSTON (VOICEOVER): We came back, pulled up,

and that's when they were washing the car.

So as we pulled up, they saw us.

And they shut the trunk.

And they acted like they didn't want us to see what was in it.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): At the time,

Scott had no idea that the body of Jonathan Francia

was in the trunk.

Scott, you've got a gas can?

No, but I can go borrow one.

OK.

SCOTT JOHNSTON (VOICEOVER): So I went next door,

got the gas can, and came back.

And that's when Trena, Paul, and Jason were outside, talking.

We've got to take care of [inaudible].

Why?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): An hour

later, Trena and Paul said they were leaving to escort

Jason to the main highway.

SCOTT JOHNSTON: That was the last time I saw Jason.

I thought that he went back to wherever he was-- you know,

maybe to Dallas or maybe to somewhere

else, where he has-- you know, where he told me he was from.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Four days later, local police

followed an eyewitness report to a remote corner of the desert

some 30 miles from Scott's trailer.

There, they found the burned-out automobile

and the charred remains believed to be Jonathan Francia.

He said he was from Dallas.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Paul Richardson who was arrested

just over two weeks later.

Under questioning by the FBI, Paul

admitted that he and Jason had abducted and then

murdered Jonathan Francia. - --kid in a--

a car behind a restaurant.

We took it.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Two days after his confession,

Paul Richardson committed suicide by hanging

himself in his jail cell.

Finding the remaining killer is now up to Jeanne Boylan.

Would you create a division between the brows?

Would you have it connected?

I have it kind of--

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Authorities

are counting on Jeanne's unique interviewing skills

and artistic talent to help them flush out

the mysterious drifter Jason.

--down to the surface?

[inaudible] a little bit.

When I first seen the composite, it

looked pretty much like the same person

I've seen in the-- in the trailer.

Pretty, pretty close.

I was amazed at how well it, you know, turned out.

I never thought I could remember that much.

That's him.

OK.

OK, is there anything else you'd add to it?

I believe that Ms. Boylan has a magician's touch

in dealing with witnesses who--

and has a way of just extracting a-- a photo from their mind,

if you will.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): These are Jeanne's sketches of Jason,

based on Scott Johnston's description.

BETTY FRANCIA: When I first saw the composite drawing,

I felt a lot of anger, because all this time there's

not really been a picture.

And now there's a face, and there's a real

person up there who killed my son and who

might kill somebody else's.

LARRY FRANCIA: It would settle our hearts a little,

give us a little ease in our heart, [inaudible] to the fact

that we can't bring our son back,

but it'll put him where he belongs.

And that's what we need.

That's what we need.

I think, you know, if there's some way

that this contribution can help bring some peace to them,

then I would--

I would be delighted.

You know, you just want to do whatever you can do,

and this is all I can do.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): In all,

Jeanne drew three portraits of the man known as Jason.

Authorities believe he has relatives in Pinetop

or Payson, Arizona and Dallas, Texas.

Jason is described as 5'10, mid 20's, medium build.

He smokes, chews tobacco, and wears Western-style clothes,

including a horsehair belt.

The man calling himself Jason has

also used other first names.

He supposedly frequents Las Vegas and homeless shelters

in Laughlin, Nevada.

Jason should be regarded as extremely dangerous.

[theme music]

On our next "Unsolved Mysteries," in Chicago,

a mysterious young woman has charmed eligible bachelors,

bewitched cab drivers, and haunted taverns

and dance halls for decades.

But there is something very different

about this pale, alluring beauty.

Can you guess what it is?

Also, one of our most poignant updates.

Years ago, two strangers rescued a young mother

from a fiery car crash.

Your calls led to their heartwarming reunion.

Join me next time for another hour

of fascinating and intriguing mysteries.

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