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NARRATOR: Tonight on "Unsolved Mysteries."

ROBERT STACK: A bitterly cold night,

an icy road, a young woman is stranded

in subzero temperatures.

Several hours later, she is found,

literally frozen stiff with death just a heartbeat away.

In desperation, her friends and family

start a prayer chain, believing that only

a miracle can save her life.

In Florida, two young hoodlums embark

on a night of terror, a wild rampage that ends in murder.

Today, one of the men remains at large.

Have you seen Albert Leon Fletcher?

As a ramp supervisor at Northwest Airlines,

Su Taraskiewicz was a rarity in a world dominated by men.

For years, she reportedly endured

an angry onslaught of sexual harassment on the job.

However, Su refused to give into the alleged bigotry

right up until the day she was brutally murdered.

Did you know that Elvis Presley had a twin brother

who died at birth?

Some believe this little-known tragedy

he was both the inspiration for Elvis Presley's greatness

and the haunting secret behind his untimely death.

Join me for another intriguing edition

of "Unsolved Mysteries."

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Do you believe in miracles?

If you don't, maybe it's because you haven't yet

heard about Jean Hilliard, and the night she

collapsed in the snow and froze almost as solid as a block

of ice for more than six hours.

It was December 20, 1980.

Jean was 19 years old and driving to her home

outside a small town in northern Minnesota.

She chose a scenic route, a country

road she had driven routinely a hundred times before.

But tonight would be different.

[tires screeching]

Damn it.

JEAN HILLIARD (VOICEOVER): I tried to get it back

on the road, but it just kept sliding farther

and farther in the ditch.

I did think of possibly staying there for just a few seconds,

but I was afraid of maybe carbon monoxide poisoning, somebody

coming along, finding me alone, or that I

would just sit there all night before anybody came by.

I knew neighbors that lived on the road,

and I didn't think they were very

far away, so I decided to walk.

ROBERT STACK: It was a decision Jean would come to regret.

It was 25 degrees below 0, with a wind chill factor minus 70.

Even for Minnesota, it was extremely cold,

and Jean was hardly dressed for the outdoors.

She wore a thin sweater and parka,

jeans, and dressy cowboy boots.

She had no hat, not even a hood on her parka.

JEAN HILLIARD (VOICEOVER): I did feel the cold,

but I didn't feel it was too cold to be in.

And the cold didn't enter my mind

as being dangerous at all, because I was used to being

out in the cold all my life.

ROBERT STACK: Jean trudged along,

unaware that every second, the cold

was sapping precious heat from her body,

bringing her closer to a perilous state of hypothermia.

The cold was so debilitating it took Jean more than an hour

to walk a mile and a half.

Finally, Jean caught sight of her friend's house.

JEAN HILLIARD (VOICEOVER): I had walked and walked for so long,

and I finally saw my friends' house.

And at that point, I was just so relieved.

There it is. I'm almost there.

And that's the last thing I remember.

ROBERT STACK: The sun rose on a clear, bitterly cold day.

Jean's friend opened the door to a horrible sight.

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Jean was literally frozen stiff, her face

fixed in an icy white grimace.

At the small local hospital, the nursing staff was stunned.

They'd seen hundreds of frostbite cases,

but they'd never seen anything like this.

NURSE 1: Her hair.

Watch her fingers.

She was so cold, it was like reaching into a freezer,

like picking out a frozen stick of wood.

It was so cold, non-bendable.

Her face was absolutely white.

It was absolutely colorless, just this ashen death look.

She was severely frostbitten.

None of her limbs would bend or move.

And really, things looked very grim.

We did hook her up to the monitor,

and we got this agonal rhythm, like one beat.

It was just like one and nothing.

So then too, we knew that we had something.

But, you know, that's a death rhythm.

Any signs?

Shes got a respiration of three.

Heart rate 10.

Shes like ice. 10?

RYAN KELLY: When a person gets frostbite,

what we're basically talking about is freezing of the limbs.

That actually means ice crystals forming in the cells.

And in so doing, they destroy many of the cells of the body.

It's a lot like a burn with tissue destruction.

After the hands and feet maybe start the initial stages

of frostbite, you know, the core temperature of the body drops.

The heart, the lungs, the internal organs of the abdomen,

the brain, when those start to cool,

that's referred to as hypothermia.

And as they start to cool, it becomes more and more difficult

for them to perform their functions,

until finally they stop.

There's nothing happening with the eyes at all.

At that point, the patient would more than likely die.

ROBERT STACK: The hospital staff pulled out all its resources,

but Rosie Ericksen, the hospital office worker

worried it wouldn't be enough.

Rosie knew what Jean needed--

a miracle.

I called the pastor of our church,

and I stated simply that Jean Hilliard from the Lengby area

was brought into the hospital in a frozen condition,

very critical, and that she needed prayer.

Hello, Patty. PATTY (ON PHONE): Yes.

This is Pastor Erickson.

PATTY (ON PHONE): Hi, pastor.

ROBERT STACK: With the blessing of the family,

the word went out.

The prayer chain started about 9:00 that morning.

Within 10 minutes, more than 30 people were praying for Jean.

But would it work?

Could anything save Jeans life?

Yeah.

Hey, I have a prayer request that we

need to pass on right away.

I believe it probably was like 10 minutes to 10:00

when one of the nurses came by and yelled in, Rosie, we

think Jean is going to make it.

And I looked up at the clock--

and this still sends chills up my arms and my spine

to remember that I looked and thought,

yes, people are praying now, and God is answering prayer.

ROBERT STACK: It was more than anyone ever expected.

Less than two hours after the prayer chain began,

Jean had suddenly gone into violent spasms.

Though the danger was far from over,

it was a good sign, a sign of returning life.

Even so, Jean's family was told to expect the worst.

The doctors and nurses worried that even

if Jeanne regained consciousness,

she might be seriously brain damaged.

NURSE 2: It's like this all over.

ROBERT STACK: Moreover, the frostbite

was so severe that amputating Jean's legs seemed inevitable.

And some SSD cream.

Yes, doctor.

She just didn't look real.

It was like, this can't be.

And I remember mom and I didn't even say a word to each other.

There was nothing we could say that would describe it.

We just were, I guess, shocked.

Jean.

Jean.

Jeanie.

Jeanie, I'm sorry.

I've got to ask you a couple questions.

JEAN HILLIARD (VOICEOVER): I woke

up in the hospital about noon.

Very good.

Very good.

JEAN HILLIARD (VOICEOVER): Things were kind of hazy.

How many fingers am I holding up?

JEAN HILLIARD (VOICEOVER): And people

were asking me questions as to who I am, and things like that.

And I couldn't figure out why they

were talking to me that way, or why

they were treating me that way.

And it was, of course I knew these people.

Of course I knew who I was.

I mean, what's the big deal?

DAD: Hi, honey.

Dad.

When Jeanie first came to and we

knew that she was going to live, it was an extreme relief.

But what was more miraculous to me was her legs recovering.

Every time we lifted the sheet, we could

see the white just moving down.

The black was disappearing little by little.

And to me, I just--

I still think that was just unbelievable.

It was just the fact that she was

alive was when everyone said that she

wasn't going to make it.

And it wasn't so much that they didn't have faith

or they didn't believe, but it was just the severity

of what had happened.

ROBERT STACK: Jean spent 49 days in the hospital.

In defiance of everything her doctors knew about frostbite,

she recovered completely.

It was enough that she survived.

That was a wonderful enough thing.

But to have this added gain of not losing any fingers or toes,

and in fact, just having what I guess would be minor scares,

this is remarkable.

ROBERT STACK: 15 years later, Jean still lives in Minnesota,

and is a mother of three children.

She credits her miraculous escape from death not only

to the doctors and nurses who treated her,

but also to the chain of friends and neighbors

who prayed for her.

JEAN HILLIARD (VOICEOVER): I just

think without all those people that I might not have survived.

There are other people across the nation that same night

that were found in the same condition I was in,

and they died.

I really believe that it was the hand of God,

that it was His way of responding to everybody

that was responding to me.

No one was going to give up on me,

and I guess maybe He responded to that, too.

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ROBERT STACK: Next, a dead woman's diary

reveals a shocking campaign of sexual harassment and

a possible key to her murder.

And later, Elvis Presley was one.

So were thousands of less notable people.

A fascinating look at the phenomenon of twinless twins.

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April, 1989, Logan Airport Boston.

In the airline industry, 24-year-old Su Taraskiewicz

was something of a trailblazer.

She had recently become only the second woman hired

by Northwest Airlines as a ground services employee

on the ramp at Logan.

Hook up the brown powered with the AC on the aircraft.

ROBERT STACK: It was just the kind of challenge

Su Taraskiewicz thrived on.

Su loved being on the ramp.

She liked doing the job.

Sometimes, she'd come home and say,

I lifted a million bags today, and they were 200 pounds each.

She'd make a joke out of it, but she never

came complaining about the job.

She loved it.

EMPLOYEE: Trying to set a world record tonight?

SU TARASKIEWICZ: Somebody's got to do your work.

EMPLOYEE: Hey, we've got plenty of time on this.

SU TARASKIEWICZ: Yeah.

You don't have to do the paperwork.

ROBERT STACK: At Northwest, Su worked her way

up from cleaning the interiors of jets to landing the new job.

Three years later in 1992, she was

promoted to ramp supervisor, the first woman ever

to hold that position.

Oh, let me.

Let me.

All right.

Take off, boys.

[sirens]

I'm here 6:30 like every morning, you know?

I come around here to push this car out of the way.

I see that, and I know it's not oil.

I call you guys.

ROBERT STACK: On the morning of September 14, 1992,

Su Taraskiewicz's car was discovered at an auto body shop

not far from the airport. - Jeez.

See if you can pop that trunk latch, will you?

ROBERT STACK: In the trunk was Su's body.

She had been bludgeoned and then stabbed multiple times.

Even though Su had been neither robbed nor sexually molested,

her family assumed she had been targeted at random.

OFFICER: Driver's licence, credit cards,

everything's still here.

ROBERT STACK: But who?

Who could have wanted Su Taraskiewicz dead?

For more than a year, Su's family grieved and pondered

that disturbing question.

Then at Christmas time 1993, Marlene Taraskiewicz finally

ventured into her daughter's room for the first time

since the murder.

I tried many times to go in Su's room.

You know, you just, you've got to do this.

It's a year.

You know you should.

Let me get something that was special to her,

and we'll just put it out.

And I started going into her closet,

and I saw a briefcase there.

ROBERT STACK: Inside the briefcase was a diary,

and its contents were shocking.

In wrenching detail, Su had documented accounts

of sexual harassment she had endured

at Northwest, ugly incidents Su had

never mentioned to her family.

The journal included quotes of graffiti, insulting, demeaning,

and lurid, that had been etched in the men's rooms

at the airport and even in the cargo holds of jets.

MARLENE TARASKIEWICZ: What I read,

the filth that somebody would write about my Susan.

And I thought, is this why she was murdered?

And we thought, this is it.

We have solved Susan's murder.

ROBERT STACK: In numerous passages,

Su describe what appeared to be blatant acts of hostility.

Typical was a following entry.

SU TARASKIEWICZ (VOICEOVER): April 12, 1989.

Bobby came into the break room.

Hey, that's my radio.

What?

That's my radio.

- I'll buy you a new one. - What'd you do that for?

The Bruins lost.

SU TARASKIEWICZ (VOICEOVER): He left the room,

and one of my coworkers picked up the radio

and plugged it in to see if it still worked.

[music playing]

Hey, thanks.

SU TARASKIEWICZ (VOICEOVER): Bobby came back into the room.

[music playing]

ROBERT STACK: Su's boyfriend at the time,

also worked at the airport, spoke to Bobby

and demanded that he replace the radio.

Su confronted Bobby later that day.

Did you get my radio yet?

It's in the mail.

Come on, Bobby.

That was the radio that my mother got me for Christmas.

What are you going to do, send your little punk

boyfriend over here again?

Is he going to beat me up?

He's lucky I didn't kill him.

ROBERT STACK: Su filed numerous formal complaints

with the management of Northwest Airlines and her union,

but little was done to curb the harassment.

In time, the abuse escalated to torrents of anonymous graffiti,

all of it targeted Su T.

It wasn't apparently just one or two

pieces of graffiti that made their way

up and then were washed away.

It was repeated cases of graffiti of varying kinds.

In some cases, amounting to death threats

against other workers who were supporting Su.

[phone ringing]

Su also talks in her diary about getting anonymous phone

calls all hours of the night.

She records some of the times the phone calls happened.

Who's there?

MAN (ON PHONE): Get off our backs, Su T, baby.

Who is this?

She also had instances where her car was vandalized,

and her boyfriend's car was vandalized.

Friends who were supporting her had their cars vandalized.

ROBERT STACK: Curiously, Su's diary covered only her first 8

and 1/2 months in her new job.

But apparently, the discrimination continued.

Tanks a lot, honey.

ROBERT STACK: Despite the abuse, Su's ambition didn't flag.

In February, 1992, she was promoted to ramp supervisor

and put in charge of the employees she

once worked with on the tarmac.

OK, well I'll take care of the missing baggage.

But I need you to take your crew and get the next two flights.

ROBERT STACK: Initially, Su had been

passed over for the promotion.

When a man in her union had illegally bid for the job,

Su filed a grievance and won, becoming the first female

to hold the position.

But the victory was not without its detractors.

A lot of them felt that they didn't

want any females being their boss,

that that should be the man's job.

It didn't stop her from coming to work.

It didn't stop her from standing up to things

that she thought was wrong.

Some men resent a woman, I think,

in a position of authority, while there's others that

like it, and that deal with it.

But at Northwest, there was definitely the element

that had a problem with it.

I think she was very conscientious about her job.

She always tried to make it a better place to work.

She really believed that she could

make a difference there for minorities

and women that worked there.

That's some good OT, huh?

Cha-ching.

So do you have to spend some of your hard-earned money?

Yeah, right.

Like between this and my supervising shifts, when?

ROBERT STACK: A few months after Su's promotion,

the graffiti became more sinister.

I'm thinking of maybe taking a break.

ROBERT STACK: It may have been the beginning of the end.

I am so sick of this.

Su, you're going to have to call somebody.

Yeah, who. Who haven't I talked to yet?

I don't know.

Su and I had a meeting at Northwest that did not go well.

During the meeting, she started to cry.

And she was crying so hard she really

couldn't control herself.

She cried into the ladies room.

She was sobbing.

Su, are you out there?

Oh, damn.

I can't believe I did that.

I can't believe I started to cry.

I broke our rule, Deb.

DEBORAH MAZEIKUS (VOICEOVER): I was

concerned about the ongoing emotional toll

that it was taking on her.

She told me that she was afraid.

She did not say that she was afraid for her life.

But now that I look back, I take it that possibly she meant

she was afraid for her life.

Hey, Dennis.

I'm going to go on a sandwich run to the roast beef place.

I'll go. I need a little overtime.

No. No, these guys are working hard.

I want to treat them. So how many--

ROBERT STACK: September 12, 1992.

During a graveyard shift, Su volunteered

to go to a restaurant to pick up sandwiches for her crew.

Su Taraskiewicz never returned.

No one reported her missing for a day and a half.

MARLENE TARASKIEWICZ (VOICEOVER): When we first

found out that Su was murdered, the very first question

we asked was, did Su ever do this before?

Did she ever leave work and not come back?

And we were told never.

Why did nobody report her missing?

Is there a cover-up of some sort?

I'm not sure.

ROBERT STACK: Authorities now believe that Su's death may

have been connected to a federal investigation of Northwest that

took place in the summer of 1992.

Evidently, some baggage handlers at the Boston facility

had been operating a stolen credit card ring.

When shipments of new credit cards

were transported on Northwest jets, a group of workers

were stealing them, using them, and selling them.

The scam netted over $7 million.

10 Northwest employees were eventually indicted

and given various sentences.

To Marlene Traskiewicz, some of the names were very familiar.

MARLENE TARASKIEWICZ: They were names

of people that were in Su's diary that had sexually

harassed her from day one.

I believe that Susan was set up by her coworkers.

That for whatever reason, they were free that Susan was

going to squeal on something.

As far as the airport's concerned, a lot of people

there knew her.

A lot of people knew what was going on around her.

We've talked to a lot of them.

They've given us information.

But I think we all believe that somebody there has more.

ROBERT STACK: Northwest Airlines declined our request to be

interviewed for this story.

The authorities are currently investigating

more than one suspect, but lacked

the evidence to file charges.

In the meantime, the Taraskiewicz family continues

to seek justice in Su's memory.

Each year on the anniversary of her death,

they hold a candlelight vigil at the site

where her body was found.

PRIEST: Of the son, and of the Holy Spirit.

MARLENE TARASKIEWICZ: I feel that whoever murdered Susan

or whoever knows about her murder,

how much longer can you go carrying this guilt?

You're going to have to find peace with yourself.

And I'm asking after three years, bring peace to yourself.

Bring peace to us.

Take this murderer of the street.

Su's family recently settled a sexual discrimination lawsuit

against Northwest Airlines.

Though the terms are undisclosed,

it is known to be one of the largest

discrimination settlements ever granted in Massachusetts.

[music playing]

Next, a young father is murdered in cold blood

as he arrives at work.

[music playing]

[interposing voices]

ROBERT STACK: They had it all--

a loving marriage, a beautiful daughter,

dreams of a full, rich life, dreams

that would vanish in an instant when Matt Flores, age 26,

was gunned down in cold blood.

One minute, your life was great, and we had everything.

And the next minute, I was shattered.

A part of me died that day that I'll never get back.

And I'll never be the same person again.

I don't look at things the same way.

And I lost everything that day.

ROBERT STACK: But Matt and Denise

married in 1990, their friends call

it the wedding of the century.

Matt was a Second Lieutenant in the Army

who later served with distinction

in Operation Desert Storm.

Once Matt came home to Fort Stewart in Georgia,

he and Denise started a family.

In July of 1993, Danielle was born.

Eight months later, Matt began a promising career as an engineer

at Applied Materials Incorporated,

a computer company based in California's Silicon Valley.

It was our new start in life as a family,

us making decisions instead of the military.

This was his dream come true.

He finished with the military.

He'd done everything right.

And now he had landed the job of his dreams.

ROBERT STACK: March 24, 1994, Matt's ninth day

at his new job.

That morning, he was driving a white Chevy Corsica which

a company had rented for him.

At around 8:12 AM, Matt arrived at work.

He parked in an unassigned space in the middle of the lot.

Nearby, another employee sat listening to a talk

show on her car radio.

HOST (ON RADIO): Are you there, sir?

CHRIS (ON RADIO): Yes, I am.

HOST (ON RADIO): Who am I speaking with?

CHRIS (ON RADIO): This is Chris from Silicon Valley.

[gunshot]

HOST (ON RADIO): Chris, Chris, we're taking a poll

this morning, and we're going to be

giving away tickets if you can answer this question correctly.

How many members--

Are you OK?

Oh, god.

Oh, oh my god.

GEORGE TEAL: The female witness realized that he'd been shot,

and then ran to another person for help,

and then also ran to a shuttle bus

to try and get somebody to call 911 and ask for more help.

He's been shot. Call security.

GEORGE TEAL: Approximately four or five

uniformed officers responded immediately,

including a field supervisor.

Paramedics and fire also responded immediately,

but they were not able to revive him,

and he was pronounced dead at the scene.

ROBERT STACK: Matt Flores had been

shot at once in the back of the head at point blank range.

Matt probably never saw his killer.

And incredibly, no one else did either,

even though there were more than 20 people

in the parking lot at the time.

They said that he was assassinated, basically.

Couldn't believe what I was hearing.

I kept thinking, this is not happening.

This is not happening.

He was never involved in anything

in terms of drugs, gambling, fooling

around, any of the things that you would think

would lead to being murdered, nothing.

We couldn't find anybody that didn't like Matt.

Not only did they not not like him, everybody we met,

he was somebody you'd be proud to have as a son or a brother.

He had no dark or secret side to him.

This does not make sense.

ROBERT STACK: The investigation was

hampered by a terrible piece of bad luck.

Despite the presence of several security cameras trained

on the parking lot, the killing itself

took place in a blind spot just out of view.

However, one of the cameras did give the police

their most significant lead.

They have asked us not to broadcast the tape.

What you are about to see is a precise recreation

of what the tape reveals.

GEORGE TEAL: About 20 minutes before the shooting,

there was a two-door sport model Ford Explorer that

came into the parking lot and parked in one of the parking

stalls facing directly into the video camera lens.

A few seconds later, a two-door white

Ford Probe came in the same lane that Matt would take later.

The Explorer backed up, followed the white Probe.

The Ford Probe could look something

like Matt's rental, which was a white Chevy Corsica.

About four minutes before the shooting,

we see that same Explorer exiting the parking lot.

And then about three minutes before the shooting,

we see the vehicle come back into the parking lot

and go in the direction of where the shooting occurred.

At 8:12 AM, two minutes before the shooting, two cars

enter the lot.

One is driven by the female eyewitness, the other

by Matt Flores.

At 8:14, the murder takes place just out of camera range.

Approximately 20 seconds later, the Ford Explorer

is seen leaving the parking lot for the last time.

By all accounts, the Explorer is a suspicious vehicle.

I think if somebody were to watch the videotape,

and see the activities of the vehicle that morning,

and to see it leave right after Matt was shot,

they certainly could say that the vehicle

was stalking Matt that morning.

ROBERT STACK: Because the Explorer initially followed

a car that looked like Matt's, Sergeant Teal

believes the murder may have been

a case of mistaken identity.

Perhaps somebody went to that parking lot

that morning to do harm to somebody else,

and they got the wrong person.

You want to look at the flowers?

There's a door.

There's a door.

Whoever did this to him, I want them

to know what they've taken not only from Matt,

but what they've taken from myself,

and Danielle, and his family.

I don't think she remembers him any more.

She was too little. [cheering]

I plan on showing her all the videos

that we have so she knows what kind of a daddy that she had.

But at the same time, she won't know what it feels

like for daddy to hug her.

Hi.

Are you waving?

A $100,000 reward is being offered by Applied Materials

Incorporated for information leading

to the arrest and prosecution of Matt Flores' killer.

Today, the authorities' most substantial

clue is the Ford Explorer which was

videotaped in the parking lot.

The vehicle is a two-door sport model manufactured

between 1991 and 1994.

It has a distinctive black trim on his lower panels.

When we return, in Florida, an accused killer is on the run,

and authorities need your help to track him down.

[music playing]

January 11, 1995, at Pasco County Courthouse in Dade City,

Florida, a murder suspect, Albert Leon Fletcher.

What are you looking at?

He's running!

[gunshot]

[car screeching]

ROBERT STACK: In police lingo, Albert

Leon Fletcher was in the wind.

Fletcher is a felon with a violent criminal history

dating back to age 15.

He is currently accused of armed robbery, aggravated assault

and battery, and murder.

Amazingly, all the charges stem from a single 24-hour period.

It began on April Fool's Day 1993.

That night, Fletcher and his cousin Douglas Porter

allegedly broke into a home in Dade City, Florida.

They stole several guns, including a sawed-off shotgun.

The rampage was on.

[music playing]

April 2, 10:00 PM, Lakeland, Florida, two couples

pulled up in front of a grocery store.

Fletcher and Porter pulled up right behind them.

[interposing voices]

Won't you come over here?

Oh, yeah.

Come on.

Come on. Come on.

We want to play with you. Come on.

I love you.

Hey.

Hey, what's your problem?

Hey.

And they start yelling at me.

You know, hey, you better get your you-know-what back

in the car.

At that time, you know, something come over me.

I was just enraged, and I took off after him.

[car screeching]

[yelling]

Get him, Doug!

Come on!

DAVID: They poked the barrel right in my eye.

The only thing I could think of was

to get the gun out of my face.

I pushed forward.

I thought they were out to really

hurt somebody that night.

They were on a mission to kill somebody,

mess with somebody all night long, you know,

and they didn't have any remorse whatsoever

for what they were doing.

ROBERT STACK: 11:00 PM, 16-year-old Jason

Hartman worked nights at a pizza parlor.

That night, he couldn't start his car.

Hey, what do you want?

- Open the door. - No.

Open the door now.

No.

Open the damn door.

Open up!

Hurry up!

What's the matter?

Luke, you got to call the police.

This guy out there just tried to steal my car.

Come on.

Let's get out of here.

ROBERT STACK: Fletcher gave up on the car

and took off with Porter.

For the second time that night, they

left behind a victim who knew he had just gotten very lucky.

Two hours later, a lonely stretch

of highway outside town.

Now, man. Get him.

Let's get him.

Come on.

[honking]

Whoa, man.

[car screeching]

[gunshot]

Give me your money.

Come on.

Give me the wallet.

Give me your wallet.

[gunshot]

Come on, Lee.

Let's go!

Come on!

What was that all about?

Let's get out of here, man.

- What's going on? - It just went off.

I don't know.

Get out of here right now.

ROBERT STACK: Police identified the murdered man

as 32-year-old Nelson Medina.

He left behind a wife and two young children.

While police were at the scene of Medina's death,

another officer spotted Fletcher and Porter across town.

[music playing]

Driver, step out of the vehicle, please.

I need to see some identification.

You, too. - What's the problem?

I just need to see some ID.

I knew at the scene of the murder,

based on the expended rifle casing and the wound of Medina,

that I was looking at someone with a rifle and a shotgun.

ROBERT STACK: Fletcher and Porter

were charged with first-degree murder

and scheduled to be tried separately.

Douglas Porter was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

But Albert Leon Fletcher escaped before he

could be brought to trial.

He hasn't been seen since.

I worked homicide for nine years.

During that time, I've met two people

that I consider to be sociopaths,

a person without a conscience.

Lee Fletcher is one.

Through our investigation, we have been told that he has made

statements to relatives that he will not be taken alive,

and he is extremely dangerous and possibly armed.

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ROBERT STACK: Next, many researchers

believe twins are linked by a mysterious psychic bond.

But what happens to that bond if one twin dies?

Consider the intriguing case of Elvis Presley

and his deceased twin brother.

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Elvis Presley, the King of rock and roll.

Everyone knows the life story of this shy

teenager turned superstar.

But what if Elvis had a twin?

Imagine two Elvises performing on stage at the same time.

It's not that far-fetched.

Few people know that Elvis Presley was haunted

his entire life by the specter of his dead twin brother,

Jessie Garon.

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Elvis was born in this shotgun shack

and east Tupelo, Mississippi.

Records show that his twin brother's

birth preceded his own by more than half an hour.

Tragically, by the time Elvis was born,

Jessie Garon Presley had already been declared dead.

Jessie was buried in an unmarked grave in this nearby cemetery.

Today, many believe his death had

profound emotional consequences for Elvis,

serving as a driving force behind both

his creative genius and his self-destructive tendencies.

When Elvis was a child--

five, six years old--

he used to tell me that he used to hear

a voice inside of his head.

And it used to confuse them, and it

use to scare him a little bit.

And he was afraid to mention it to anyone.

He thought perhaps it was his brother Jessie communicating

to him, telling him what to do.

Music was Elvis' way of communicating with Jessie.

The two had been bonded before they were born intrauterinely

with the rhythm and the voice of the Fundamentalist Assembly

of God Church, a very important cornerstone

for understanding Elvis.

[music playing] Dr. Peter Whitmore's devoted years

to studying the psychology of twins, specifically those who

have been separated by death, whether in the womb or later

as children and adults.

The surviving twin is often referred to as a twinless twin.

Many twinless twins, including Elvis, tend to become,

shall we say, superstitious.

Elvis would look to his twin for signs of guidance,

for signs of strength.

Elvis also felt that Jesse was his compass,

was a sign of direction.

That Elvis should, in fact, do great things.

That had the two of them been united,

they would have been able to do great things.

That they were separated, Elvis alone had to be

the creator, the perfectionist.

ROBERT STACK: When Elvis died, there

was almost nothing known about the psychology

of twinless twins.

In fact, there are at least half a million

twin twins in the world today.

They are united by a common yet unexplained phenomenon,

the unshakable conviction that the spirit of the lost twin

lives on.

There's these little happenings where you're really

reminded that your twin is not totally gone, that there's

is little occurrences that happen where you just

sense his presence, not in a physical way,

but nonetheless there.

I do feel the presence of someone else in my life.

I've-- again, it's only been recently

that I've thought to put it in that framework of the twin.

I've thought of it more as a guardian

angel or a spiritual presence.

For some of us, it can be a very recent experience.

For myself--

ROBERT STACK: Dr. Raymond Brandt coined the term "twinless

twin," and is founder of the Twinless Twin support group,

which has members nationwide.

Separation and isolation--

twins are unique because there is

one thing that a twin, a multiple

has that single birth people do not,

and that's called uteral bonding.

Of course, today with ultrasound and studying twin behaviors

in utero we realize that they hug,

and what appears to be kissing, and even perhaps slugging

or pushing at each other.

We understand and accept today that utero bonding begins

at the moment of conception.

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ROBERT STACK: Consider the case of Dian Sites.

Born as an identical twin, Dian became

twinless when her sister Shannon died

just five hours after birth.

She may have died 22 years ago,

but I can feel her presence all the time.

Shannon is my guardian angel.

She watches over me.

You know, she kind of makes sure nothing really bad

happens to me or my family.

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ROBERT STACK: In 1994, Dian had perhaps

her most dramatic psychic experience with her last twin.

She believes her sister saved her life.

DIAN SITES: I was on my way to work.

It was about 9:00 in the morning.

And I was going down the off ramp,

and this feeling came over me.

I could feel Shannon's presence really strong next to me.

And then almost like her presence

came over me and had me pull over to the right,

and then stop.

And then not even five seconds later--

[car screeching]

Shannon was telling me to pull over before I got hit.

It wasn't as if she said, you know, hello, I'm here.

There's just the feeling, the security of her being around.

Because my twin died in the womb, I lived and she died,

there was a sense that I've carried

with me forever that somehow, I took too much, for example.

I must have eaten all the food, or you know,

I was the one who lived.

And I carried a deep sense of guilt about being here.

RAYMOND BRANDT: It's not until we--

ROBERT STACK: That is the downside, the guilt.

Many people believe it is guilt that drives

twinless twins to great heights or to the depths

of self-destruction.

Some say the root cause of Elvis Presley's personal torment

was his grieving and feelings of responsibility

for his twin brother's death.

Larry Geller recalls a conversation

which took place a year before Elvis passed away.

And I sat down with him.

He said, man, I had a dream the other night.

I can't get it out of my head.

I got to tell you.

There I was, with my twin brother Jessie.

He had the same hairstyle, the sideburns, the same eyes.

One spotlight on him, one spotlight on me.

But Larry, the strangest thing.

I started to feel guilty.

I felt like I did something wrong, and I don't know why.

It's the weirdest feeling.

And I said, well, maybe--

this is kind of simple--

you lived and he didn't.

Elvis never was able to resolve his psychological angst

over the death of Jessie.

It was something that was at the core of all of his behavior.

From my perspective, his substance abuse, his self-abuse

in general, his working himself to death

was the desire to reunite with Jessie.

I remember one time we were talking,

and he was telling me about his mother.

He used to question her about his twin brother Jessie Garon.

And she said to him, Elvis, God took your twin brother

back home to heaven.

And someday, we'll all be together again.

And Elvis said to me, Lawrence, I believe that.

We're all going home someday.

I'm going to be with my twin brother again.

ROBERT STACK: For now, medical science

has no valid explanation for the apparent psychic experiences

of twinless twins.

And though some might see twinless twins as leading

troubled lives, the twins themselves believe

that they have been gifted.

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ROBERT STACK: Next time on "Unsolved

Mysteries," he is one of the most

notorious murderers in history.

He claimed 49 lives over a two-year period,

but he was never brought to justice.

In a special report, we'll bring you an exclusive interview

with a man who believes his own brother was the infamous Green

River Killer.

Join me again next Friday for another intriguing edition

of "Unsolved Mysteries."

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