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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): When a spectacular solar eclipse

plunged much of Mexico into darkness, no one imagined

that the event would spawn an astounding wave of UFO

sightings, sightings experienced by thousands of eyewitnesses

all across Mexico and captured on dozens of home videos.

On June 7th, 1992, 36-year-old Sammy Wheeler was found shot

to death in his car, and the small town

of Stratton, Virginia was overrun with rumors.

Incredibly, Sammy's twin brother,

Sammy's old girlfriend, and her ex-husband were taking turns

accusing each other of the murder, but still

the question remains--

who killed Sammy Wheeler?

And perhaps someone watching can provide a happy ending

to the poignant story of Gordon Page Jr. Only

after years of misdiagnosis did Gordie's

parents learn that their son was suffering from autism.

Then, in 1991, Gordie vanished from the group home

in which he had been placed.

Join me.

Perhaps you may be able to help solve a mystery.

[theme music]

Usually when we hear that a person in some remote community

has had a UFO sighting, we respond with a smile

and a shake of the head.

When three or four credible people

report seeing a mysterious craft,

we may pay just slightly more attention.

But when thousands of people claim

to have seen the same strange object and hundreds provide

videotape evidence, we may begin to think that maybe,

just maybe, there is more than a grain of truth to the reports.

Which brings us to the fantastic saga of the Mexico UFOs.

July 11th, 1991, the last total eclipse

of the sun in this century, perhaps

the most spectacular celestial of the past 200 years.

For the residents of Mexico City,

the eclipse prompted a festive celebration.

Thousands took to the streets, as one of the world's largest

cities was plunged into total darkness in the middle

of broad daylight.

No one imagined the entire country was about to be swept

up in a wave of UFO hysteria.

That afternoon, a television executive

named Guillermo Arreguin was videotaping

the eclipse when he noticed an unusual object overhead.

It was presented on the news.

It was said that a very strange object was over Mexico City,

but nobody said was it was.

When I saw it, I said, oh my god.

This is a UFO, a real UFO.

I mean, you can look at it.

You can look at the video and be absolutely convinced of what

you're looking at.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Jaime Maussan

is one of Mexico's most respected television

journalists.

For the past nine years, he has produced, directed,

and hosted Mexico's edition of "60

Minutes," or "Sesenta Minutos."

Eight days after the eclipse, Jaime

presented the Arreguin footage as part

of a special UFO broadcast.

The network was inundated with phone calls.

We asked the people in Mexico to bring all their videos

to us, because we like to see if in the clips

they had recorded the same stuff.

The telephone lines blew up.

I mean, 40,000 calls at the same time.

Then the system was completely shut out.

We received more than 15 videos, and we now know for sure

that at least in seven of them we

can see exactly the same ship that was

recorded by Guillermo Arreguin.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): One of the many videos

was sent by Erick Aguilar, a 19-year-old student

at National University of Mexico.

He was setting up to film the eclipse

from a rooftop when his girlfriend spotted

something unusual in the sky.

INTERPRETER: We all turned to look,

and my girlfriend commented that it was a UFO.

We thought it was a joke.

So no one really believed her when she said she saw a UFO.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): But within moments,

they all decided that the object was not a joke at all.

INTERPRETER: At first, all we saw was a white dot in the sky.

That's all we could see in the beginning.

Later, we saw that this dot was shining brightly.

It must have been a very bright star.

And we didn't realize it at first.

We didn't realize it until we saw the videotape later.

We saw that this dot, it wasn't a dot anymore.

It was a larger object, and it was giving off light.

It was shining.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): At virtually the same time,

60 miles from Mexico City, a businessman named Louis Lara

photographed a similar object.

INTERPRETER: As I raised the camera,

you could see something in the clouds.

And it was a metal object.

And it looked like it who's made of two plates.

You can distinguish a dome, and it turned on its own axis.

It was silver-plated, a color like aluminum.

You could see clearly it's not a star.

It's a UFO, because it had a shadow underneath.

If it were a star or a planet, you would see clearly that it

would be completely luminous.

But this one had a little shadow underneath.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Yet another video

was shot by the Breton family in Puebla, a city

80 miles east of Mexico City.

Magnifying the Breton video revealed

an odd wave-like disturbance behind the pulsating

disk, perhaps some kind of energy trail.

Jaime Maussan enhanced the Arreguin footage

and compared it to the Breton tape.

The objects, though photographed nearly 100 miles apart,

were remarkably similar in every aspect.

The video from Puebla was absolutely

identical to the one we had seen with Arreguin in Mexico.

It was for the first time in history.

Never before you had a tape of two

UFOs in two different places at exactly the same moment.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The videos caused

a sensation throughout Mexico.

But the UFO craze was just beginning.

Two months later, an engineer named

Vicente Sanchez took his video camera to a military air show

in Mexico City.

INTERPRETER: I was following one of the planes,

and I saw a shiny dot in the camera.

I didn't know what it was, but it seemed to be moving.

It was undulating.

So I let the planes go off, and I focused more

on this shiny dot in the sky.

What I saw was a bright, round object,

about 10 meters in diameter.

It was made of silver.

It was shining very brightly and reflected the sunlight a lot.

It didn't fly like a plane.

It was undulating.

The object appeared, undulated, and moved around very quickly.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): A year later,

a similar object was videotaped at the same air show.

This time, the disk descended rapidly

and mysteriously disappeared.

By the time the 1933 air show rolled around,

people anticipated another sighting.

Sure enough, just as a squadron of helicopters flew by,

the familiar metallic disk appear.

INTERPRETER: It was traveling against the wind.

So much so that had it been a balloon,

considering the force of the helicopter blades,

it would have crashed.

But no, it kept on its path very,

very straight and steady till it got lost in the sky.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Optical enhancement

of this video seems to reveal that the object crossed

in close proximity to the helicopters.

Curiously, the military has consistently

declined to address the matter.

The military hasn't made any comment on that sighting

or any sighting.

And there are many more where we can

relate the military or military planes to videos.

However, we haven't had any kind of answer from them.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Since the eclipse in July of 1991,

there have been thousands of sightings throughout Mexico.

There is no clear pattern, although the great majority

have occurred in and around Mexico City.

The witnesses range from pilots to doctors

to bus drivers and even school children.

These drawings were made by a class

a fifth graders who allegedly saw UFOs in March of 1993.

The pictures are strikingly similar in detail--

three shining lights with the brightest light in the center.

INTERPRETER: The objects were silver with red.

One of them was coming down.

And the other one that you could see in the sky was silver.

INTERPRETER: When they were a little lower

you could see the shape of the objects.

They were like saucers with a dome.

Everything silver.

And though it was harder to see, there

seemed to be a kind of reddish magnetic field all around it.

We haven't found a single reason why these little kids

made this story up.

There were so many.

And when you talk to them, you can feel their honesty,

that they trust me. They're just little kids.

They don't care about the UFO conspiracy.

They don't care about if they are real or not.

They saw what they saw.

People really like UFOs.

People really believe in UFOs, and we are now

convinced that we are living an incredible experience,

as a country, as a society.

Because it's everywhere.

It's not just one people.

It's many people with their eyes in the sky

and a camera in their hands.

Now is the video era.

And the video is going to solve the UFO mystery.

Are the Mexico UFOs real?

It is difficult to deny the startling images captured

on videotape, though a determined skeptic

would no doubt find some basis to discount the entire episode.

But for those who have actually witnessed

the mysterious objects in the skies over Mexico,

seeing is believing.

Next, a bizarre murder mystery in which

three people, including the victim's twin brother,

accuse each other of pulling the trigger.

[music playing]

On June 7th, 1992, the George Washington National Forest in

Virginia was visited by murder.

That morning, the body of 36-year-old Sammy Wheeler

was found in the back seat of his sport vehicle.

Sammy had been shot six times in the head and upper torso.

Both the local sheriff's department and the FBI

investigated.

They quickly determined that the killer

had gone to great lengths to clean the crime scene.

All shell casings and fingerprints had been removed,

and an amateurish attempt had been

made to destroy the evidence.

There was an apparent effort to try and ignite the vehicle.

There was some paper and tissue stuffed in the gas cap.

The gas cap had been opened and apparently a cigarette

laid there lit, in an effort to try-- there was

some burning around there, but it didn't

ignite and didn't take effect.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): When investigators discovered

that Sammy's wallet was missing, the case

took on all the earmarks of a random act of violence.

But before long, it would be revealed

that at least three people in Sammy Wheeler's life

might have wanted him dead--

Sammy's twin brother, Danny, Sammy's girlfriend,

Pat Snead, and Pat's estranged husband, Bob Bean.

What had begun as a routine investigation

quickly became a classic drama of love, lies, and murder.

In the months following Sammy Wheeler's death,

Danny Wheeler, Pat Snead, and Bob Bean

took turns accusing each other of the crime.

In this bizarre and convoluted case,

the principals agree on only one thing--

it all started when Sammy Wheeler began dating Pat Snead.

In the fall of 1991, Pat moved into a rental unit owned

by Sammy's twin brother, Danny.

The property had been divided into separate apartments.

Pat and her two sons lived in one apartment with Sammy.

Danny lived in one of the others.

The arrangement suited everyone, except Pat's

estranged husband, Bob Bean.

The situation was not really what was in the best

interests of my children.

I had approached Pat and asked her to please stop this living

arrangement here, OK.

We won't get into responses, but anyway, I

felt that I was forced into going to court

to at least provide some kind-- or try

to provide some kind of moral environment for my children.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): In February, a court order

was issued that prohibited Sammy from being with Pat

in the presence of the boys.

To comply, Sammy moved into his twin brother's apartment.

Bob Bean remained suspicious.

He hired a private investigator to ensure that the court

order was being obeyed.

Bob's private investigator came in

and testified that Sammy had violated the court's order.

Sammy never found out whether or not the judge believed that.

I know for sure Sam did not violate that court order.

But just to be safe, he stayed away from the house then.

He was living in a truck, without even

a bathroom or a shower, just to appease Bob Bean.

So where are you gonna stay tonight?

Probably stay in the car.

I hate it when you sleep in the car.

Honey, I can't give them any more ammunition

than they've already got.

I never harbored any ill will at all towards him.

People around here have a hard time understanding

how a man can accept that his wife

is leaving him for another man.

Well, to be honest with you, I knew what I had,

and I was thankful to pass it on, OK.

But after getting to know Sam, I kind of felt sorry for him,

and I wanted to sit down and prepare

him for what he was getting.

Bob hated Sam.

Sam knew it.

And I knew it.

Bob says otherwise because I believe

Bob is a pathological liar.

Sam expressed to me that he felt

that my ex-husband Bob was capable

of pretty much anything.

He did not trust him.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): On June 3rd, four days before he

was murdered, Sammy left Danny's apartment at 5:30 AM

and chanced upon an unexpected visitor, Bob Bean's teenage son

from a previous marriage.

Come here.

What are you doing?

Just taking a few pictures.

Yeah, I see that.

You tell your dad I'm staying in the apartment, OK?

With Danny.

I'm not in the house. I'm not with Pat.

I'm not with the kids.

I'm with my brother in the apartment,

just like I'm supposed to be. - OK.

I'm just taking some pictures.

OK, well, cut it out, huh?

No more pictures, got it?

No more pictures.

All right.

I thought that was very, very strange for somebody

to be taking my twin brother's photograph at 5:30

in the morning.

I didn't like it at all.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): That Saturday, at around 9:15 PM,

Sammy set off for Elkhorn Lake, approximately 40 miles

from his house.

He planned to spend the night in his truck

and begin fishing early the next day.

12 hours later, Sammy Wheeler was dead.

I believe Bob Bean had a motive to kill my brother.

Pat's divorce from Bob was going to be final on Tuesday.

They were going to be married on Thursday.

Sammy was killed on Sunday.

Just by coincidence, just by coincidence.

Sure, it was.

Sure, it was a coincidence.

Sure, it was.

And I'm Michael Jordan too.

I used to play for the Chicago Bulls.

Go talk to the people who know me, OK?

And ask them if I was really upset if Pat was leaving.

OK.

The answer to that is, no.

So there's no motive.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): On the face of it,

Bob Bean was a perfect suspect.

But he also had what appeared to be the perfect alibi.

When Sammy was murdered, Bean was on maneuvers with his Army

National Guard unit.

The night that he was killed, I was

on duty until 11:00 that night.

Now, the death certificate indicates the time of death

at 1:00.

The camp that I was at is about 150 miles away.

There was no way that I could physically get from the camp

to the murder scene in that amount of time to kill Sam.

It's just physically impossible.

One of our men from our department at the time

was in the same unit and remembers seeing Bob there.

So things checked out pretty good for him.

I feel like that Bob Bean knew just as soon as Sam Wheeler was

found dead he knew they were going to come

knocking on his door, so he knew that he

better have his story right.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Danny Wheeler

believes that Bob Bean later gave

the photographs that his teenage son

took to a professional hit man.

You'd have to pay for the hit man,

and the FBI investigated my finances,

and I don't have quite what it takes to pay a professional.

There was nothing at all to support the theory

of Bob hiring someone.

That just didn't go anywhere with the investigation.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): In the end,

Bob Bean was cleared as a suspect,

but the question remained--

who murdered Sammy Wheeler?

As far as alibis go, the only one

who really doesn't have an alibi, according

to what she's told me, is Pat.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Bob Bean first began to suspect Pat

a week after the murder, when their sons, ages 3 and 4,

began talking about the crime scene in surprising detail.

Daddy, some bad guy shot Sam.

Yes, I know that.

Some very bad guy shot Sam.

He was in the Trooper.

That's right.

He was found in his car.

We went to the mountain.

You did?

When did you go to the mountains?

When Sam got shot.

At first, I didn't think much of it.

But later on, they started getting

a little bit more specific and offering

a little bit more details.

And all of a sudden, when they would come visit,

I noticed that they were exhibiting

some definite behavior which was suggestive

that they were scared.

They were frightened.

Now let me just make sure that the camera's working all right.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Bob Bean

was so convinced that he even videotaped his sons

and then presented the tape to the police.

Who was there when Sam died?

Mommy.

Mommy was there?

Yeah.

I believe Bob is a very, very sick man.

The fact that he would put his kids in the position

that he has, gets little two and three-year-old children

at that time, through what he put them through proves that he

has no scruples, no morals.

He cares about no one, not at all,

not even his own flesh and blood, little infant children.

He is a sick, sick man.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): In the end,

the police dismissed the boys' testimony as unreliable.

Investigators also believed that Pat had an airtight alibi.

I'll see you later.

I'm gonna be in the living room if you need anything.

So give me a call.

The night that Sam was killed, I was at home

alone with my two children.

I had absolutely no motive to kill Sam Wheeler.

Sam was-- Sam and my children were my life.

And I planned for them to be for a long time.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Pat Snead

was eliminated as a suspect.

Perhaps not surprisingly, Bob Bean soon

raised yet another possibility.

There's only two things that can

come between brothers, twin brothers, that I'm aware of.

It's money and a woman.

That's all I gotta say.

You know, I don't offer anything.

I'll let somebody else make the accusations.

Immediately after Sam was killed,

the only person that I had in mind who I thought

did it was my ex-husband.

I have since then had time, lots of time,

as you know, to think about things that have happened,

and to wonder if somebody else could have had

a reason for wanting Sam dead.

Sam's brother, Danny, may have wanted him out of the way.

The reason for that, I have been told,

is that Danny was in love with me.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Pat says that shortly after Sammy's

death, Danny made a surprising confession

to one of her girlfriends.

She just said dad Danny Wheeler told her

that he was in love with me, that he had been in love

with me for a long time, that he thought

about me every night, that he wanted to hold me in his arms

every night.

There's not an ounce of truth in those allegations.

If she married my brother, she was gonna be like a sister

to me, and my family doesn't go in for incest.

She never once physically attracted me, even before Sam

got involved with her.

I didn't think she was a good-looking woman.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): On the morning when Sammy's body was

discovered, his father and Sergeant Hyte

broke the news to Danny and Pat.

He's dead, son.

Oh no!

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Pat believes

Danny's hysterical reaction was a clever ploy to hide the fact

that he was the killer.

Why don't you go get Bob Bean?

He's down the road. Why don't you go get him?

You know it's him! - We're not sure.

Why don't you go get him?

Dad, I told you long ago it was Bob Bean!

He doesn't know.

He doesn't know.

We don't know anything right now.

I'm going to Bob bean. Get out of my way!

- Danny! - What?

This is not gonna help--

I think most of his behavior when he first found out that

Sam was dead was a show, was to make everybody else basically,

more than likely the law enforcement people more than

anybody else, think that he was feeling

some way that he wasn't.

I think he was putting on a show for them.

Why is she lying, it makes me wonder?

What is she hiding, it makes me wonder?

God knows what that did to me when my brother died.

And why she would say things like that

makes me wonder about her.

Maybe Bob Bean didn't kill my brother.

Maybe it was Pat that killed my brother.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): As for Danny,

the police confirmed that he also has an alibi.

On the night of Sammy's murder, Danny was seen bar hopping

until the early morning hours.

Pat Snead, Bob Bean, and Danny Wheeler

would not be considered any more suspects in this case

than anyone else at the present time.

They provided alibis.

We've corroborated them.

They've taken a polygraph.

They've shown no deception.

They are no more of a suspect in our eyes

than anyone else at the present time.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Who killed Sammy Wheeler?

Despite all of the accusations and denials,

the FBI has concluded that Sammy was

a victim of random violence.

The local authorities, however, believe that Sammy Wheeler

may have known his killer.

When we return, a mother, and father

hope you can help solve the mysterious disappearance

of their son, Gordon Page Jr.

[theme music]

This is Gordon Page Jr. at 18 months of age.

He was born autistic, and the results were tragic.

Not because of the autism, but because Gordie

was never correctly diagnosed.

His father, Gordon Page Sr, remembers.

I guess maybe when he was really young,

we thought something was wrong, but we didn't know what.

He didn't walk like other kids and run like other kids.

And as he got older, he'd just sit there and look around

and didn't even move.

They always told us that he was a big boy.

He'd just be clumsy maybe, but then he'd outgrow it.

He didn't really seem unusual to us,

because it was our first child, and we just--

we just raised him like a normal child, and he was slow.

That's what we felt. He was just slow.

Now, Gordon, I'm putting five pieces of fruit on the table.

You see that?

One, two, three, four, five.

How many pieces of fruit are on the table, Gordon?

Five.

That's very good.

Now I'm going to take the two apples away.

Now, look down here.

How many pieces of fruit are left on the table, Gordon?

22.

Now, Gordon, come on.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): To his parents, Gordie was a paradox.

At times, he seemed unable to grasp simple addition

and subtraction.

Yet Gordie had a phenomenal memory, especially

when it came to baseball.

Wes Gibson, batting average 193, home runs 1.

The baseball cards, I would say he probably

had 25,000 or 30,000 baseball cards.

And he knew the names of every player, all

the statistics of the cards.

And he would just sit there and memorize them.

Don Money, batting average 223, home runs seven.

I don't think that Gordie realized that he was slow.

In grade school, he had a lot of friends.

And then as he got older in junior high,

his peers started advancing, getting ahead of him.

And when he needed tutorial help and he

had to go into a special ed room, it bothered him.

And he had a hard time in 11th and 12th grade,

because all his peers were dating, driving cars, going out

and doing things, and he was much just a loner,

actually, because he couldn't keep up with everybody

who was passing him by.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Gordie worked hard to keep up.

In June of 1981, he graduated from high school.

His parents hoped he would be able to hold down a job,

and eventually helped him apply for one

at a local grocery store.

Then they held their breath and waited.

He said, "dad, I got the job."

He said, "you know, it's minimum wage." $3.25 or $0.15,

whatever it was.

But he said, "I start Monday.

Isn't that great?"

And it made me feel so happy.

And I dropped him off at work in the morning,

and I would hide where he couldn't see me.

And it made me feel proud as a father to see him working

and to see him happy.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Soon, however, the store manager

reported that Gordie, although a conscientious worker,

had trouble communicating with customers.

His dad tried to coach Gordie at home using a video camera.

You're carrying the groceries to my car now,

and I say "thank you."

What do you say?

"Good."

No, you say "you're welcome."

OK, let's do it again.

Thank you.

What do you say?

If nobody says anything, then just smile at them.

Let's see that nice Gordon Page smile.

Come on, it's worth a million dollars.

Let's see it. Come on, let's see it.

Oh yeah.

If you smile at people like that, they'll just love it.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Gordie's

winning smile was not enough.

Things didn't work out at the grocery store,

and he was let go.

Eventually, both Linda and Gordon Page, worried sick

about their son's future, met with social workers

and asked for their evaluation of Gordie's case.

Well, we're going to recommend that Gordon

move to a group home.

I've taken care of Gordie his whole life.

This is his home.

I don't think so.

You folks won't be around forever.

At this point, when you die, Gordon will be a lost soul.

Finally, we agreed to try it, and we

went to visit a group home.

And the lady said, well, he can't stay here until he goes

to see if he needs to be stabilized

on medication in the hospital.

So we did this.

We finally agreed.

And the doctor there put him on Ritalin and Valium,

and Gordon wasn't Gordon after that.

No, stop it!

Go away!

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The combination

of Ritalin, a stimulant, and Valium,

a tranquilizer, plunged Gordie into another world

of physical and psychological torment.

[moaning]

Gordon, what is it?

Son, what?

I feel like cats are scratching inside my brain!

You feel helpless.

There isn't anything you can do.

And all I do is call the doctor and tell him what was going on.

And he said, don't worry about it.

That's just typical for his illness,

and it takes time for the medication to work.

And I said, what is his illness?

And he said, well, whatever it is, there are signs of this

and signs of that.

But nobody would specifically come out and say

this is what's wrong with him.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): For nearly five months,

Gordie and his parents struggled with the medication.

Where are we going?

Just for a ride.

Wanna sit in the back?

In the van?

You love the van.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Finally, the Pages

has consulted another doctor, who told them

that the combination of Ritalin and Valium

was making Gordon virtually catatonic.

In September of 1989, Gordie's family moved to Florida.

Gordie stayed in Michigan.

The preceding spring, he had been

accepted at a highly regarded group home in Grand Rapids.

For several months, all went well.

Then a near tragedy.

On November 29th, 1989, a workman left his truck

running in the driveway.

Gordie, heavily medicated, couldn't resist the temptation.

Whoa!

Oh my god.

What are you doing?

Look at my car!

We interviewed the lady who was the victim in the accident.

She gave us a description which fit Gordon.

Our officers then received another call, a call from one

of our elementary schools, that a person fitting Gordon Page's

description was at this elementary school,

wanting to teach a class.

So we responded there, and at that time

picked up Mr. Gordon Page.

Do you remember driving that truck over there?

Yeah.

Oh, so you do realize you were involved in a car accident.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Later, Gordie would tell his parents

that all he had wanted to do was visit his younger brother away

at college in Texas.

Gordon Page.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Gordie was subsequently

placed in a county hospital.

He was a evaluated by psychiatric social worker Bill

Arnold.

DRIVER: 16785 what?

BILL ARNOLD: He was brought in with a label of schizophrenia.

DRIVER: What are you laughing about?

People that are schizophrenic will, with medication,

over a couple of week period, usually they'll

start to clear up in their thinking,

and their behavior will come in line,

and they start getting back more to normal.

With Gordon, that didn't work.

The more medication he got, the more, at times,

he became almost mute, and just withdrew, didn't do anything.

Tell me about the voices that you told the doctor about,

Gordon.

I'm going home for Christmas, right?

Yeah, I'm sure that we'll be able to get you

out of here by Christmas time.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): After several months

of intensive therapy with Gordie,

Bill Arnold arrived at a surprising conclusion.

He decided Gordie was not schizophrenia

after all, but rather a high functioning autistic.

Tell me about your baseball card collection, Gordon.

Woody Fry, 1966, Pirate Rookie of the Year.

Pirate.

Is he your favorite player?

Woody Fry.

OK, do you have other?

Dalton Jones.

Dalton Jones, 1961, batting average 322.

Once we got him off all those medications

and we started treating him as possibly an autistic

and working on training and just giving him some respect,

he was a totally different individual,

just a totally different individual than that withdrawn,

acting out individual that we saw on medication.

And we need you to sign this.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The Pages

were counterfeited that Gordie had at last

been correctly diagnosed.

Soon, they found a group home in Grand Rapids

which specialized in autism.

But this says I can't visit Gordon.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): There was only one drawback.

For two months, no visitors were allowed while Gordie

adapted to his new environment.

Mr. Page, I understand how you want the very best

for your son, and so do we.

We just want to give him his best shot at integrating

with the program here.

He's waiting for you.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): On May 22nd, 1991,

Gordon Page Sr. was set to return to Florida.

That afternoon, he shared an emotional goodbye

with his oldest son.

Hello, Gordon.

How you doing, son?

We kind of stood there and talked,

and we hugged, and talked a little bit more.

And then we walked over to the van, and I said,

everything's gonna work out.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Gordie seemed desperate

for his father to stay.

Against his better judgment, Gordon Page

did not open the door.

It was a decision he would come to regret.

It's very painful.

Now, in retrospect, I wish I had allowed him

just to get in and crawl back and just driven

right to Florida and come home.

But you don't think of those things,

and we didn't know what we were going

to be facing in the future.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The future came all too quickly.

Four days after his father had left, Gordie disappeared.

An orderly made the discovery during the regular midnight bed

check.

Around an hour later, a local fireman

reported that he had seen someone who matched

Gordie's description hitchhiking in the direction of Interstate

96.

An intense police search of the area turned up no leads.

MR. PAGE (VOICEOVER): I'm angry.

I feel bad for Gordon.

I feel bad as a parent that I wasn't able to find help

earlier, that it had to be when he was 27, 28 years of age

that we finally found out what was wrong.

We just want our son back.

We wanna be reunited as a family,

and we love Gordon very much.

MRS. PAGE (VOICEOVER): We'll never stop looking for Gordie

because we love him, and we've always been a close family.

He would know that we want him back.

And no, we will never stop looking for him.

MR. PAGE: We love you, Gordie.

What's your name?

Hi, my name's Gordon Page.

What's yours?

Hi, my name is Gordon Page.

What's your name?

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