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ROBERT STACK: Tonight, on the
season premiere of "Unsolved

Mysteries," we travel
to San Francisco

a stunning special report.

A generation ago,
the Zodiac killer

terrorized northern
California, striking at random,

taunting the police,
taking at least five lives.

But when the killing
abruptly stopped,

the memories faded, until this.

The dramatic arrest of
Theodore Kaczynski-- the

accused Unabomber--
changed everything.

Two investigators soon
challenged the authorities

with a remarkable theory.

They believe the Unabomber and
the Zodiac are the same man--

Theodore Kaczynski.

It may seem improbable, but
the similarities are chilling.

And even skeptics admit the
evidence is worth debating.

Join me for this compelling
investigation, as well

as these intriguing mysteries.

For 14-year-old Trish
Zemba, a fall from her horse

marked the onset of a rare,
often incurable nerve disease.

The grim prognosis left
her family with little

to do but pray for a miracle.

A heartless murder in Georgia
leads to a dramatic shootout

with police.

Now a killer is on the run.

And from the current
case file, two

young coeds, two
different universities,

two baffling disappearances.

Stay with us.

Perhaps you may be able
to help solve a mystery.

[music playing]

Here in the San
Francisco Bay Area,

the paths of two serial killers
once crossed and recrossed,

seemingly intertwined.

Yet the two haunted
different decades

and had markedly different
tastes in murder.

An unmatched pair?

Or merely different
faces of the same madman?

The Unabomber-- psychopathic
general in a one-man war

against society.

His targets--
anyone even loosely

connected to technology--

university students, airline
officials, computer salesmen.

[explosion]

A decade earlier, the Zodiac.

He was obsessive and particular.

Young couples, moonlit
nights, secluded roads.

Zodiac had five known victims,
though he claimed nearly 40.

He was never arrested,
never even identified.

The Unabomber burst
onto the scene in 1978.

During an 18-year
cross-country reign of terror,

he killed three and injured 23.

He taunted police with
letters, all mailed from

in and around the Bay Area.

Frustrated officials said
it was like chasing a ghost.

The Unabomber was seen but
once, a sighting that resulted

in this notorious portrait.

Then, April 1996,
a suspect unmasked.

FBI agents named
Theodore Kaczynski,

a 55-year-old
ex-mathematics professor,

as the elusive killer.

The fingerprints were hardly
dry on Kaczynski's booking sheet

when the case was spun
in an entirely new

direction by these two men--

Mike Rusconi and Doug Oswell.

Working independently at
opposite ends of the country,

and joining forces once
their story hit the papers,

Rusconi and Oswell
had each come up

with the same stunning theory.

DOUG OSWELL: I've concluded that
there's a very good likelihood

that the Unabomber
suspect, Ted Kaczynski,

and Zodiac are one in the same.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Was the resemblance

more than coincidence?

Journalists wrote
it off as unlikely.

To detectives, it was doubtful.

But nobody said
it was impossible.

At the age of 26,
Theodore John Kaczynski

was a rising star in the world
of higher mathematics, one

of the youngest instructors
ever hired by the University

of California Berkeley.

Kaczynski began teaching
there in September of 1967.

The Zodiac crawled out of
nowhere a little over a year

later.

It was a full moon,
December 20, 1968.

The Zodiac's first
victims were two

teenagers parked on a
lover's lane near the Bay

Area town of Vallejo.

[inaudible]

Are you gonna talk to him?

[inaudible]

[gunshot]

[scream]

[inaudible]

[gunshot]

[scream]

[gunshots]

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Both
victims died at the scene.

To researchers Mike
Rusconi and Doug Oswell,

Kaczynski's actions
shortly after the murders

were the first hint that he
could be the Zodiac Killer.

One month later
on January 20, 1969,

Kaczynski tendered his
resignation from Berkeley

without any apparent motive.

And this astounded the
people who worked with him.

It was just an
inexplicable thing to do.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Oswell and Rusconi

find an even stronger
link to Kaczynski

in the Zodiac's next murder,
some seven months later.

Once again, it was a full moon.

Once again, Zodiac
targeted two lovers

parked on a secluded
road near Vallejo.

[screams]

[gunshots]

This time the Zodiac
left an eyewitness, one

of the intended victims, Mike
Mageau, survived the shooting

and watched the
killer drive away.

DOUG OSWELL: Mike Mageau
claimed that the man who shot

him drove a light tan Chevy.

Ted Kaczynski's brother, in a
"Washington Post" interview,

claimed that Ted owned a 1967
Chevy Malibu, tan in color,

at the time of the killings.

It's an interesting
comparison.

I mean, certainly Ted
Kaczynski, the suspect,

was at Berkeley roughly
at the same time

that the Zodiac
killings occurred.

We know both enjoyed
taunting the police.

However, there's many more
differences than similarities.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
After the murders,

Zodiac bombarded local
newspapers with letters.

As the Unabomber
would a decade later,

Zodiac loaded the envelopes
with far more postage

than necessary.

He teased that
his identity would

be revealed if authorities
could only decipher

a three-part coded message.

Each section of the
cryptogram consisted

of letters and astrological
symbols arranged according

to an unknown formula.

Robert Graysmith of the
"San Francisco Chronicle"

saw the cryptograms firsthand.

The genius of Zodiac's
cryptograms-- first of all,

he laid them out like works of
art, very perfectly arranged.

He would use 16 different
symbols for the letter E,

for instance.

And he would not repeat them.

He'd go completely through
the 16 before he'd begin,

which made them very, very
difficult. He kept them short--

360 symbols in the
longest one he had.

That made it difficult to break.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
To Oswell and Rusconi,

the cryptograms forge yet
another link between the Zodiac

and Ted Kaczynski.

Cryptograms are the
toys of mathematicians.

Kaczynski was a highly
regarded mathematician.

He wasn't just a garden
variety mathematician.

He was touted as one of the top
mathematicians in the country.

Ted Kaczynski was interested
in very abstract mathematics.

There's not a lot
of evidence that he

was interested in
astrology, or the Radeons,

or local geography,
or the full moon.

Ted Kaczynski is
a man of numbers,

but not the kind of numbers
that Zodiac was interested in.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
When the Zodiac's message

was finally deciphered,
it proved to be a vile ode

to the joys of murder.

For the researchers,
there was one more

connection to Ted Kaczynski.

The message was solved
all except for the last 18

characters.

Now coincidentally
enough, there happens

to be 18 letters in the
name Theodore J. Kaczynski.

So this possibly
could be his signature

at the end of the letter.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
It was in these letters

that Zodiac introduced
his now infamous symbol.

Within a few weeks, it
would be seen again.

Did you pack any more
stuff in the basket?

Yeah.

We've got apples, bananas--

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
September 29,

1969, just north of Berkeley.

The Zodiac stalked
another couple.

Don't worry about
it, all right?

[inaudible]

Don't move.

Don't make any noise, OK?

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): The intruder

wore an executioner's hood.

Emblazoned on his robe,
the sign of the Zodiac.

- Tie her up.
- What?

Yeah.
Tie her up.

Here, take my car keys, man.

I don't--

Once again, it was a
young man who would survive.

I don't want your cash.

I'm an escaped convict
from Deer Lodge, Montana.

And I don't have much time.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Deer Lodge, Montana.

The Zodiac's mention
of such an obscure town

defied explanation,
until the capture

of Ted Kaczynski at his
cabin, just an hour's drive

from Deer Lodge, Montana.

Kaczynski had owned
the cabin for 25 years.

After his arrest,
FBI agents catalogued

Kaczynski's every possession,
buttons to bomb parts.

I would certainly
have expected

to have found in the
investigation at suspect

Ted Kaczynski's cabin something
there that belonged to Zodiac.

Now suspect Ted Kaczynski
kept everything--

the hood, the sunglasses,
bomb-making paraphernalia.

He had a fetish for keeping
these what we call "souvenirs."

Why wasn't there one shred
of evidence in that cabin

linking him to the Zodiac?

You guys, come here.

Come here.

Look at this.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
As for the Zodiac

himself, teenage
party-goers in San Francisco

were the next to catch a
glimpse of the furtive killer.

It was October 11,
1969, roughly two

weeks after his
last assault. It was

a Zodiac's fifth known murder--

an unarmed cab driver.

However, a police
dispatcher garbled

the eyewitness description.

Hey, buddy!

See anything suspicious around
here in the last few minutes?

As a result, police
did not arrest

the man they encountered
less than a block

from the murder scene.

You just missed him.

He was going east on Washington.

Thanks a lot.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The
man walked off into the night.

Soon after, he sent a
letter to a local newspaper.

Inside was a bloodstained
slice of the cab driver's shirt

and a mocking letter describing
the encounter with police.

It was signed, The Zodiac.

Authorities released this
sketch of the suspect.

Researchers Oswell
and Rusconi maintain

that without glasses,
the face is familiar--

a young Ted Kaczynski.

They both had a strong
lower jaw with a cleft--

small cleft in the chin.

Both had a reddish
tint to their hair.

And they both were about 5' 9".

Also, the age given
for the Zodiac killer

was between 25 years of
age and 30 years of age.

Theodore Kaczynski at that
time was around 29 years old.

After the cab driver murders,
Zodiac announced a new MO.

Instead of guns and knives,
he would now kill with bombs.

He threatened to target a
school bus filled with children,

and enclosed diagrams of
complex triggering devices.

Despite his threats, Zodiac
did not bomb a single target.

Indeed, he was never heard
from again after his letter

of April, 1978.

But one month later, the
Unabomber attacks are underway.

Had the Zodiac
reinvented himself

as an anti-technology warrior?

I think it would be quite
unusual to change your MO like

that, to go from
different kinds of weapons

to suddenly bomb-making.

I think there are a lot of
interesting connections.

But I do not believe
they're the same.

Zodiac is a confrontational
killer, hands-on.

He enjoys looking
at his victims.

He enjoys stabbing, shooting.

So there's a marked
difference there.

Serial bombers like
suspect Ted Kaczynski

tend to be nerdy, cerebral,
they enjoy killing from afar.

DOUG OSWELL: It's been
thought that Kaczynski was

a mathematical nerd
growing up, that he

spent all his time with his
nose in a book, in a classroom.

That's not true.

He spent a great deal
of time in the woods

learning survival skills with
his brother and his father.

That's been brought
out by the FBI

and by interviews with
his brother since.

So we know that Kaczynski
was familiar with weapons.

He knew how to use them, and
he was comfortable with them.

I don't believe a
confrontational serial killer

such as Zodiac later on
would become a serial bomber.

When he mellowed out, when
he became better educated,

settling back, now I'm
going to play a new game

with law enforcement.

We rarely see that.

Ted Kaczynski was 36
when the first Unabomber

explosion occurred.

The FBI was a little puzzled
as to why somebody that age

would want to begin on a
career of serial murder.

Usually it's much
younger people who do.

Perhaps they didn't dream that
he had had an earlier, more

violent period of murder,
and had mellowed out

over the years, as
serial killers are said

to do if they're not caught.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Rusconi and Oswell's theory

prompted police to review
their Zodiac case files,

sifting for evidence
against Theodore Kaczynski.

Mr. Ted Kaczynski is
not a viable suspect

at this point as the Zodiac.

We have not made any conclusion
as to who the Zodiac was or is.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Off the record,

detectives specify one suspect
among the more than 2,000

questioned in the case that
they believe was the Zodiac.

However, there was
never enough evidence

to make their suspicions
stand up in court.

Zodiac has been silent
now for almost 20 years.

Is he still with us?

Perhaps facts will emerge at
the trial of Theodore Kaczynski,

expose him as a Zodiac killer.

Or perhaps the truth
about the Zodiac

will remain forever
just out of reach.

[music playing]

Next, two young coeds from
opposite sides of the country

mysteriously vanish.

And later, do you
believe in miracles?

If you don't, Trish
Zemba's recovery

from a painful nerve disease
might just convince you.

[music playing]

Tim Harrow's a
veteran journalist

with a long list of credits.

But one particular story
had haunted him for years--

his own, as told to him by his
adoptive mother, Helen Harrell.

[baby crying]

In 1946, Helen was working
as a nurse at a hospital

in St. Louis, Missouri.

She told Tim that she had found
him abandoned in a trash can.

She took him home and
raised him as her own.

Tim was still a boy when
Helen told him that story.

Because of it, Tim
harbored a lifelong grudge

against his birth mother,
a woman he thought

had thrown him away.

By 1976, Tim was on
staff of the "Los

Angeles Herald Examiner" when
he got a call out of the blue.

City desk.
-

WOMAN (ON PHONE): May
I speak to Tim Harrell?

Speaking.
Who's calling?

WOMAN (ON PHONE):
This is your mother.

Excuse me?

What are you talking about?

My mother is at home.

WOMAN (ON PHONE):
This is your mother.

Your real mother.

All of a sudden, all the
hatred had just exploded.

I said, how could you?

How could you throw me away
like I was a piece of garbage?

How could you do that?

And she said, well,
you don't understand.

I said, I don't
want to understand.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
After Helen died,

Tim began to reconsider.

In 1990, on a trip back to St.
Louis with his second wife,

Tim tried to locate
his birth mother

through adoption records.

Thanks to a helpful lawyer, Tim
learned that everything Helen

had told him had been a lie.

His birth mother was
Helen's own niece.

And she had given Tim up
because he needed medical care,

care that Helen could provide.

TIM HARRELL: It went through
me like a jolt of electricity.

The only thought
in my mind was, I

really wanted to find her now.

And I really wanted
to say, look.

I didn't know.

And I am so sorry.

I am so sorry for what I said
to you and how I acted to you.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Tim Harrell

called on all his
skills as a reporter

to track his birth mother.

But it was not until the
night of our broadcast

that he got the help he needed.

Here's Keely Shaye
Smith with the tales

of a reunion long overdue.

Bob, one of the people
watching our broadcast

that night was a
private investigator

from Scottsdale, Arizona.

Alice Simon volunteered
her expertise

and resources for Tim's search.

Within one week, she telephoned
him with extraordinary news.

She called, and she said,
I just talked to your mother.

And you have a wonderful
family, and three sisters,

and a brother, and scads
of cousins and nephews

and nieces and everything.

And I just broke down and cried.

KEELY SHAYE SMITH: Tim's
birth mother, Muriel Gartner,

lives in Campbell, California.

This past June, Muriel
gathered her entire family

to welcome Tim and his
son, Adam, home at last.

[interposing voices]

Hi, Tim.

I'm about to cry.

[inaudible]

[inaudible]

MURIEL GARTNER: It feels right.

It feels that finally
everything has come full circle.

This is your grandson.

MURIEL GARTNER: Hi.

Hi, Grandma.

Oh, [inaudible].

Oh.

There's always been the hole--

an empty hole.

Though I've have a
lot of other kids

and a wonderful
life, great kids,

but it feels like this hole's
beginning to fill in now.

This is your brother, Joe.

Joe, how are you?

[inaudible]

Hey, how's it going?

Hi.

[inaudible]

It's just the most
amazing feeling in the world

to know that I've
got this family,

and that I'm going to be
a part of this family,

and that they're going
to be a part of my life.

I mean, I just can't tell
you what the feeling is like.

[inaudible]

I was bald then too?

He's just one of us.

And it felt that way
from the very beginning

when he called me.

He said, hello, Mom.

And I said, hello, son.

And that was it.

When we went to hang
up, he said, can I

call you again tomorrow, Mom?

I've been wanting to call
my mom for a long time.

And I cried and he cried.

[music playing]

ROBERT STACK: At
this time every year,

a familiar ritual plays
out all across America.

Kids head off to college.

The last thing any
parent imagines

is that their child
will go to school

and vanish without a trace.

But recently, the
unimaginable was exactly what

happened to 18-year-old
April Gregory

and 19-year-old Kristin Smart.

April and Kristin never met.

Indeed, they were enrolled
at different universities

on opposite sides
of the country.

Yet within the same
five-hour period,

they were both suddenly gone.

No warning.

No explanation.

April Gregory took her
schoolwork very seriously.

She wrapped up freshman year at
Syracuse University in New York

and turned right around and
enrolled in summer session.

At 11:45 on May 24, 1996,
April's brother, Lamar,

dropped her off at
her dorm, Sadler Hall.

I helped April with her bags
to the front of dormitory.

And that was the last I saw her.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
The mystery begins.

April walks up these
steps, enters these doors

under the watchful eyes
of dorm officials, ascends

to her seventh floor room.

These are the meager facts.

Later, police
examine April's room.

She is not completely unpacked.

Was she interrupted?

In the closet, a clue.

April is employed at
a local restaurant.

And her work uniform is missing.

This is a path April
takes to her job.

Did she even get this far?

All we know is that April
never arrived at work.

But rarely did she miss work.

Very rarely.

I just knew something bad
had happened to my baby.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Whatever happened happened

between midnight and 5:00 AM.

During that same time, 3,000
miles away, another young woman

mysteriously disappeared.

Kristin Smart, 19
years old, a freshmen

at Cal Poly State University
in San Luis Obispo, California.

About the time April Gregory
should have been heading

to work in New York,
Kristin was walking

along this road in California.

She was returning to
her dorm after a party.

She was not alone.

Paul Flores, 19 years old,
also a freshman at Cal Poly.

He had offered to walk Kristin
back to campus after the party.

An eyewitness saw Paul
and Kristin at this corner

roughly 200 yards from
their dormitories.

Paul told police that
Kristin headed to her dorm.

And he continued across
the street alone to his.

Kristin phoned home
every Sunday religiously.

And when that Sunday passed,
and she hadn't phoned,

I knew something was wrong.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Authorities agreed.

100 sheriff's deputies
and 300 volunteers

searched the campus for
any trace of Kristin Smart.

Results-- negative.

Search dogs specially
trained to recognize

the odor of a dead
human body were

taken through campus dorms.

Experts say the only
possible false positive

is a scent of menstrual blood.

Those dogs hit on this
room, room 128 at the Cal Poly

campus, and specifically
came into this room

and hit on this mattress and
the corner of this mattress.

This room was occupied
by, coincidentally,

the male subject
that was last seen

with Kristin Smart on the day
she became a missing person.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The
male subject was Paul Flores.

Authorities began to question
Flores' statement that he

and Kristin had gone
their separate ways

once they arrived at the dorms.

Headed toward the dorms.

When they got to
approximately here,

he says he continued into his
dorm, which is up the hill.

And she left and went up between
the two dorms to her dorm.

However, we believe that
based on what we've learned

from the search dogs,
she actually continued

into his dorm with him.

At this time, no
criminal charges

have been filed in the case.

Kristin Smart is still
considered a missing person.

We never give up hope
that Kristin will be found.

But as any parent can imagine,
the longer that it goes on,

the dimmer the light.

And you can only hope.

In Syracuse, New York,
similar emotions gripped

the family of April Gregory.

There's a neighbor girl--

Mikeisha's friend-- she
resemble April a lot.

And I'd be in the
kitchen sometimes,

and she'd walk
through the house,

and my heart just
fluttered cause

I'd be hoping it's my April.

And I'd be so disappointed
when it's not.

Everything brings
April to my mind.

Sometime now I don't cry
as much as I used to.

But the pain is still there.

I really, really
miss our daughter.

[music playing]

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Coming up,

authorities need your help to
track down a convicted killer.

But first, in a remarkable
story of faith and resilience,

a young girl overcomes a
painful nerve disorder.

[music playing]

It was a normal Christmas
Eve, Western style.

In Phoenix, Arizona the sky was
blue, temperature a balmy 75.

14-year-old Trish Zemba saddled
up her ex-racehorse Sly,

and headed out for a ride.

[horse neighing]

When I fell, it
hurt very much.

But I was in shock.

I had so much adrenaline
rushing through my system

that what had just
happened did not

register with me at the moment.

I helped her into the house.

She was limping a little bit.

And I took her in
and took everything

off to look for broken bones.

And she was scraped on the
one side, somewhat scraped,

and it was red like
road rash, and some

bruising where you could tell
there was going to be bruising.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The
injuries appeared superficial.

Trish improved overnight.

And the incident had little
impact on the family's

Christmas day plans.

I got up, got myself dressed,
came out, and basically spent

all Christmas day on the couch.

I was sore.

I still hobbled around some.

But I was able to get around.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): The accident

seemed like a thing of
the past, until Trish

was bathing some 10 days later.

TRISH ZEMBA: I remember
I went to get up.

And when I was standing up,
I started feeling dizzy.

I heard a thump.

And I called out to her.

And she didn't answer me.

[knock on door]

Trish?

Trish!

Trisha!

Honey, [inaudible].

Trish!

Joel!

I was panicked when I
saw Trisha passed out.

I didn't know what had happened.

I couldn't get a response
out of her at first.

I just didn't know
what was going on.

From there on, her
condition seemed to get worse.

Pain increased, her
mobility started to be less.

She had more trouble
getting around and sitting.

So that's when we started taking
her to a round of doctors.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
The bathtub fall

had triggered an
avalanche of pain doctors

could neither
diagnose nor relieve.

TRISH ZEMBA: Ow!
Ouch!

Ow!

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
After five weeks of unrelenting

agony, Trish was hospitalized.

Can you tell me
where it hurts?

No.

Does it hurt in your back?

Does it hurt in your legs?

JOEL ZEMBA: She was
in a lot of pain,

so they started
administering morphine.

And they just kept
giving it to her

and giving it to
her in large doses.

And it wouldn't affect the pain.

Does not help the pain at all.

And finally they had given her
so much they couldn't give her

any more without killing her.

It was horrible seeing
Trisha in this pain

and not being able to
do anything for her.

And it was very, very scary.

And so we would pray.

Dear Jesus, we would
just ask, Father,

that you would
reach down and lay

your hands on Trisha, Father.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Trish was wracked

by pain every waking hour.

Her left leg ultimately turned
purple and then back to normal,

grew hot and feverish,
then icy cold.

The diagnosis could hardly
have been more frightening.

Trish had a rare,
often incurable

nerve disease called reflex
sympathetic dystrophy, or RSD.

Dear Heavenly Father,
we know that you--

MARILYN WELLS, DO: This was by
far the worst I had ever seen.

And I was feeling
pretty hopeless

about her chances of getting any
kind of a good recovery here.

And I remember her mother
being so strong in their faith,

saying, we're going
to see a miracle here

before this is over.

And I kept thinking,
no, I don't think so.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
This videotape

of Trish was made
at the hospital

where she was treated for RSD.

Doctors believe the disease
is produced by malfunctioning

nerve circuits.

The nerves endlessly
amplify and reamplify

pain sensations, making
even a minor injury

unremitting torture.

She was literally writhing
in pain, unable to have anybody

touch or move her leg, her hip.

If you even breathed on it or
put a blanket over the skin,

she would just jump.

We continually gave
her medication to try

and basically numb her legs.

The idea being that if we
break the cycle, kill the pain,

stop the cycle of pain
from renegotiating itself,

that the condition
itself would disappear.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Doctors injected

the most potent painkilling
drugs available directly

into Trisha's spinal column.

But Trish hardly noticed.

The RSD continued to worsen.

And Trisha's muscles began
to weaken from disuse.

JOEL ZEMBA: They started telling
us that they were going to have

to institutionalize her, that
most patients with RSD this bad

either die from it, or
they commit suicide,

or they literally go
crazy because they cannot

live with this type of pain.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Even in the face

of such bleak predictions,
Trisha's parents

say they never lost faith.

Countless times, each and every
day, they'd turn to prayer.

Grant her some peace,
take away this pain

so she can rest, Father.

We would pray.

And again, that sense
that things would be

all right would come over us.

And though Trisha
would still be moaning,

and our circumstances
didn't change,

it was like things
were all right.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Trisha's doctors

were less optimistic.

They propose an operation
usually reserved

for terminal cancer patients--

implanting a morphine
pump into Trisha's body.

If it sufficiently
dulled her pain,

they could at least
attempt physical therapy

to slow the deterioration
of Trisha's leg muscles.

MARILYN WELLS, DO:
That was our next step.

That was really all we
had left to offer her.

And quite frankly,
what I foresaw

was a long, painful
route in rehab,

and with a very uncertain
outcome as to whether this

would ever resolve.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Surgery loomed.

Then early on the morning
of March 11, 1994,

the family's prayers
were answered.

Suddenly and dramatically.

I felt the pain in
my body move down.

As it was moving down
my ribs, I remember

feeling what my ribs felt like.

And I felt it keep on
moving down and moving down.

And then finally I felt it
move all the way down my leg.

And I felt it exit
through my toes.

I felt it leave my body.

And I heard very, very quietly,
almost to the point where

I couldn't hear it, get up.

And I remember thinking,
I can't get up.

I'm physically unable to get up.

And I heard again,
clearer, and a much more

authoritative-- get up.

And I remember grabbing on
to the side of the bed rail

and beginning to sit up.

And I was able to sit up like
I would have in the past.

I sat up, and I was sitting
on the edge of the bed.

And the second I set
my feet on the ground,

I didn't have any pain
anywhere in my whole body.

I stood up.

And I remember I was standing
there, like, well, what now?

And I started walking.

It was unbelievable to
walk into her hospital room

and see her standing there.

She hadn't stood 2 and
1/2 months on her own.

Tremendous relief
and gratitude to God.

He never let us down.

He didn't ever let us down.

As a medical physician, I
have to go by the medical data.

And the medical data has
no explanation for this.

On a purely personal
basis, and based

on my own religious beliefs,
I feel that, yes, she

did have a miraculous healing.

We work in the
world of science,

but that does not
mean it necessarily

has to be mutually exclusive
of the realm, if you will,

of the spirit or of religion.

And I think we work together
to create a successful end

when the ends are successful.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
That same morning, Trish

was released from the hospital.

Trisha's parents
made this video tape

soon after she arrived home.

I know it was a miracle.

The pain just left my
body in one fell swoop.

I felt like God was
standing there, right there,

just taking this pain
from me and saying,

you know, I love you so much,
I just want to set you free.

Spontaneous remission is
virtually without precedent

in acute cases of RSD.

Medical science still
cannot explain Trish

Zemba's stunning turnaround.

However, to Trish
and her family,

there's no mystery at all--

just further evidence of
the infinite power of faith.

When we return, an
abduction and murder

leads to a wild shootout
with the police.

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For most of us, 22 years
seems like a long time.

But when it comes
to tracking down

a ruthless killer who
has escaped punishment,

time doesn't matter.

22 years ago might just
as well be yesterday.

MAN: Take a right
at the next light.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
March 6, 1974.

Suwanee, Georgia.

30 miles Northeast of Atlanta.

I just got my check cashed.

I got $200 in my wallet.

Just reach in the back.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): James
Rouse, Jr., a teacher, husband,

and father of two young
children, abducted

at gunpoint by two fugitives--

William Jordan and
Anthony Prevatte.

Jordan and Prevatte were
wanted in North Carolina

for a series of burglaries.

Make another right up here.

Look, guys.

You've got my keys.

Turn around that way!

You've got my money.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
The ride ended

at the edge of a remote forest.

The kidnappers forced
Rouse to go barefoot

and marched him into the woods.

Don't even know who you are.

Keep walking and
you're gonna find out.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): When they

reached the shore of a
deserted lake, they stopped.

[gunshot]

James Rouse died instantly,
shot at point blank range

with a sawed-off shotgun.

The next day, Waynesborough,
North Carolina.

240 miles from Suwanee.

That's it over there.

421.

Police got an anonymous
tip that Jordan

and Prevatte were back in town,
hiding at the home of a friend.

You recognize that car?

Nah, it doesn't
look familiar to me.

We knew who we
were looking for.

We were looking for
two guys, last name

of Prevatte and Jordan.

They had a reputation
of being bad guys,

predominantly in the property
theft, housebreaking,

and those type of things.

We didn't really suspect that
they were involved in anything

serious other than that.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): The officers

approached the house, fully
expecting to make an arrest.

But Jordan and Prevatte
were one step ahead.

Sheriff's office, 107
in pursuit of suspects

traveling east on Highway 117.

[police sirens]

[gunshot]

Suspects are firing upon us.

Requesting backup.

[gunshot]

Everything was
happening so fast.

But it seemed extreme that
these guys were using this much

excessive force to
get away from us

just because we
wanted to talk to them

about some house break-ins.

Get a shot!

Get a shot at him!

[police siren]

[gunshot]

Suspect has thrown out what
looks like to be a weapon

just past Olivette Church.

I'm gonna pull
alongside of him.

[screeching tires]

[sounds of breaking glass]

Freeze!

Get your hands up!

Let's go!

Get 'em up!

Get 'em up!

[inaudible] get out of the car!

Get out of the car!

Let me see your hands.
Come on.

Come on.
Give me your hands.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
24-year-old Anthony Prevatte

and 31-year-old William
Jordan were booked on charges

of breaking and entering,
larceny, and assaulting

officers with a firearm.

Police in North Carolina
still didn't know

that the two men were killers.

I got radio [inaudible].

I'll get it.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): 48 hours

later, the body of James Rouse,
Jr. was discovered in Jordan.

It was his stolen car
that Jordan and Prevatte

had crashed in Waynesborough.

It didn't take long to
piece together the rest.

A shotgun shell found at
the murder scene further

damned Jordan and Prevatte.

Ballistics tests revealed Rouse
had been killed with a blast

from the shotgun dumped
during the chase.

Finally, and most chilling of
all, police in North Carolina

found arrogant trophies of
murder inside the wrecked car--

photographs of
Jordan and Prevatte

leaning against Rouse's car, and
posing proudly with the shotgun

that killed him.

SHERIFF TOMMY ALLEN, JR:
They were both eventually

extradited back to Georgia.

They were both tried, both
found guilty of first degree

murder, both given death--

given the death sentence.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): However,

neither Jordan nor Prevatte
stayed long on death row.

On review by the
Georgia Supreme Court,

they felt there were prejudicial
comments made by the district

attorney in his closing
argument that lifted the burden

of the decision from the jury.

And it was reversed, and their
sentences commuted to life.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
In 1991, Prevatte

was paroled, but was
returned to prison after he

murdered his girlfriend.

Prevatte is currently on
death row in North Carolina.

The story of William Jordan,
however, has yet to end.

Jordan, you and
Greene take the truck

on back to the house, gas
it up, make yourself useful.

Yes, sir.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): After
10 years of good behavior,

Jordan had been assigned
to a minimum security

work farm in Odom, Georgia.

But his image as a model
prisoner proved false.

William Jordan
just kept driving.

A month later, police caught
the inmate who escaped with him,

but Jordan has eluded
capture ever since.

Jordan was possibly
seen in 1992 in Virginia.

He possibly works in
Virginia, West Virginia,

as a heavy equipment operator.

He also possibly has a
family in West Virginia.

He uses the name
William Bill Jordan

or William Junior Jordan.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
It's been more than 20 years

since Jordan and
Prevatte heartlessly

murdered James Rouse,
Jr. But the Rouse

family still feels the pain.

[gunshot]

The hardest part has
been not only the way

it happened, but
certainly the fact

that he has not been
with us and been

able to enjoy his own family.

We have lived through
years of anger

for what Jordan did to
my brother-in-law, Jim,

and what it has
done to the children

as well as to his wife.

ROBERT STACK: This is how
William Jordan looked in 1974,

the year he murdered
James Rouse.

This photograph, the last
known taken of Jordan,

shows how he looked in 1979.

Computer aging
shows how he might

look today at the age of 54.

William Jordan is 6
feet, 2 inches tall,

has brown graying hair,
and probably wears glasses.

Jordan has several
distinctive tattoos--

a skeleton on his
right forearm, a spider

on his right upper arm,
a cross with the name

Sybil on his left
forearm, and the name

Louise on his left leg.

Join me next time for
another intriguing addition

of "Unsolved Mysteries."

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