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ANNOUNCER: Tonight on
"Unsolved Mysteries."

ROBERT STACK: It rained down
from the heavens like a plague,

tiny toxic blobs
of goo that brought

an outbreak of
flu-like illnesses

to Oakville, Washington.

And left behind a
perplexing mystery

that may never be solved.

Twenty years ago, a
young doctor ventured

into the Chinese
wilderness seeking

knowledge about the ancient
and mysterious art of Qi Gong.

Today, AIDS patients
Selim Babac believes

the teachings of
Master Hong Liu have

given him a new lease on life.

He's known as a
ruthless operator

with a hair trigger temper.

He's a reputed godfather of
New England's Irish mafia.

And now he's a fugitive.

Have you seen James
Whitey Bulger?

In California, a house
is torched to cover up

the murder of a young
woman and the abduction

of her infant son.

Now the boy's father,
rap music artist Lathan

"Young Lay" Williams
needs your help

to solve this disturbing case.

Join me for this
intriguing edition

of "Unsolved "Mysteries."

[theme music]

It came from the
sky to wreak havoc

on the earth, strange,
blob-like droplets

that look something like this.

It sounds like a bad
science fiction movie.

But for a small town in
the Pacific Northwest,

there was nothing entertaining
or fictional about the scourge

that befell them in 1994.

Six times it rained
down from above,

leaving dozens of
local residents

ill and several pets
and small animals dead.

It all happened at Oakville,
Washington, population 665.

Here in Oakville, clouds
fill the sky daily, bringing

rain some 275 days a year.

So when it began pouring on
the morning of August 7, 1994,

no one was
particularly concerned.

Until they realized it
wasn't raining rain,

it was raining tiny
blobs of gelatinous goo.

It came down in torrents,
blanketing 20 square miles,

and brought with it
something of a plaque.

I got sick.

My wife got sick, my daughter.

Everybody that
lived here got sick.

Everybody in the whole town
came down with like a flu,

only it was a really hard flu.

It didn't last like seven days,
it lasted like seven weeks

to two or three months.

ROBERT STACK: A local
policeman was among the first

to report the perplexing
precipitation.

Officer David
Lacey was on patrol

with a civilian friend at 3:00
AM when the downpour began.

What's on the window, there?

ROBERT STACK: I don't know.

It's sort of building up.

Is that inside the car?

We turned our
windshield wipers on

and it just started
smearing to the point

where we could almost not see.

And we both looked at each
other and we said, you know,

gees, this isn't right.

I mean, we're out in the
middle of nowhere, basically.

And where did this come from?

ROBERT STACK: Officer Lacey
pulled into a gas station

to de-goo his windshield.

As an added precaution, he
put on a pair of latex gloves.

That's really weird.

The substance, it
was very mushy.

It was almost like if you
had Jell-O in your hand.

And you could pretty much
squish it through your fingers.

We knew it wasn't
something that we

would normally
see, because we had

never experienced it before.

So we did have some
bells go off in our heads

that basically said that this
isn't right, this isn't normal.

ROBERT STACK: Local
resident Dotty

Hearn was equally baffled.

By the time she stepped
outside that morning

the storm had ended, but
the blobs were everywhere.

It looked like hail
laying on top of the wood

box and everywhere else.

So I just went over
and I touched it.

And it wasn't hail.

It was a gelatinous
like material.

Hi.

I have an appointment
to see the doctor.

ROBERT STACK: By
mid-afternoon, Officer Lacey

had inexplicably taken ill.

Just have a seat, the
doctor will be right with you.

Thank you.

I was to the point where
I could hardly breathe.

I started to put together that
possibly whatever the substance

was, it made me
violently sick, you know,

and ill, like I never
had been before.

To the point where it
just totally shut me down.

ROBERT STACK: Across
town, Dotty Hearn

wasn't fairing much better.

I started feeling dizzy.

Everything started
moving around and around.

And it got worse.

As it did, I became
increasingly nauseated.

Mom!

Donnie, come quick!

ROBERT STACK: An hour later,
Dotty's daughter and son

found her sprawled on
the bathroom floor.

- Have you been throwing up?
- Yes.

Donnie, she's sick.

ROBERT STACK: Can
you hear me, Mom?

She was cold, drenched
with perspiration, pale.

My mom had been vomiting.

She had extreme vertigo.

She complained that she had
difficulty with her vision.

Her vision was blurring.

ROBERT STACK: Dotty would
spend the next three

days in the hospital.

The diagnosis, a severe
inner ear infection.

For some reason as we
were going out the door,

I remembered the substance.

And I wondered if
perhaps it might

have had some sort
of an effect on her,

if it might have made her sick.

So I opted at that
moment to take

a sample of this gelatinous
material to the hospital.

ROBERT STACK: A lab technician
found the first startling clue.

The substance contained
human white blood cells.

But exactly what it was and
why it fell from the sky

could not be determined.

The goo was promptly forwarded
to the Washington State

Department of Health
for further analysis.

It was very uniform.

There was no structure
that we could see

visibly or with a microscope.

I set it up on various
microbiological media

and attempted to
isolate bacteria.

ROBERT STACK: Mike McDowell
discovered that the sample was

literally teeming
with two species

of bacteria, one of
which makes its home

in the human digestive system.

The initial speculation
was that it might have been

human waste from an airliner.

And that would make sense.

You would expect
to find something

like a human white blood
cell in human waste.

However, the FAA ruled that out.

Because under the regulations,
human waste is dyed blue.

The substance was not blue.

It was crystal clear in color.

ROBERT STACK: All told, the
blobs rained down upon Oakville

six times over a
three week period.

Dozens of people took ill.

Several dogs and cats reportedly
died after coming in contact

with the toxic droplets.

Included in the death
toll was Sunny Barclift's

eight week old kitten.

But the nature of the
substance and any connection

it may have had with the
outbreak remained a mystery.

Here we have a
sample number 12876.

OK.

ROBERT STACK: Nearly a year
after Dotty Hearn's illness,

she took a sample
of the material

she has stored in her freezer
to a private research lab.

I saw what I think was
a eukaryotic call, which

is basically a cell that
has a definable nucleus

and is found present
in most animals.

ROBERT STACK: Translation,
that goo was alive.

But how in the world
did living matter

make its way into the clouds?

The explanations
are as mind boggling

as the substance itself.

Perhaps inevitably,
the finger of suspicion

was soon pointed
directly at the military.

Someone theorized that since
the Navy had been conducting

live bombing runs at
sea, they might have

blown up a school of jellyfish.

And of course, this
jellyfish would

have been thrown up into the
air and floated 50 miles inland.

And over a period of three
weeks falling six times

in the month of August, 1994.

I find that somewhat
preposterous.

Now if that were
jellyfish floating around

up there for that
long they would

have smelled to high heaven.

ROBERT STACK: The
Air Force confirms

that practice bombing
runs are being

conducted over the
Pacific in August of 1994.

However, they deny any knowledge
of the unknown substances

or any involvement in
creating or dispersing it.

The locals don't buy it.

We had a significant
amount of military aircraft

flying over the home
prior to this happening.

Everyday almost, slow flying
bombers, helicopters, all black

in color.

And we kind of thought maybe
it might have come from them.

They let off things in
the air all the time here.

Testing, you know,
there is testing

done all over the place.

There's a lot of places
you can't go into.

Maybe we were a biological
experiment of some kind.

A small one maybe just to
get people a little bit

sick to find out,
say if an enemy

did come over here with a
biological bomb or something

and dropped it.

Maybe just a test run to see how
it would-- what would happen.

ROBERT STACK:
Translation, germ warfare.

However, that seems
unlikely, given

the severe international
restrictions

regarding experiments
with biological weapons

in populated areas.

At present, it's impossible to
say what the strange goo was

or where it came from.

Unfortunately, all
samples of the substance

are gone, making further
study impossible.

Perhaps the answer will come
some day soon when the skies

open up over another small
community and the blobs

once again fall to earth.

Next, on a college campus
in Texas, two brutal rapes,

one unknown assailant.

Now the suspect is
identified and on the run

after a chance encounter
with one of his accusers.

[theme music]

Perhaps the most shocking
of all crime statistics

is that one out of every three
women in the United States

will be sexually assaulted
during her lifetime.

One of three.

Occasionally, even the
safety of a college campus

can be violated by
a sexual predator

as it was at Texas A&M
University in January of 1995.

The rapist hid his intentions
behind a show of normalcy.

He was just a jogger.

He looked like
any other student.

When the jogger ran by the
victim, he ran out of sight,

then turned around
and came back.

She didn't feel at that
time that that was really

strange because of the fact
that there were a lot of joggers

that you know, go
to a certain area.

They'll turn around,
they come back.

And they may come
back the same way

or they may continue
a different route.

- Hey.
- Hi.

Chilly evening tonight.

Yeah.

Let go of me.

This is a knife.

The suspect kept
telling the victim

to do what he told her to do.

Get on your feet.

He also kept that
knife within her sight.

And she had every
indication at that point

that he would use
that knife on her.

ROBERT STACK: Thirty
minutes later, the rapist

disappeared into the shadows.

University police soon
released a composite drawing

and character profile
of the suspect.

He was probably
a college student.

He would strike again.

He would use that knife.

We had to catch this guy.

We had to identify him.

We had to find out where he was.

And we had to prevent
him from performing

another sexual assault.

ROBERT STACK: The profile
was right on target.

Three months later, a
knife wielding assailant

attacked another
Texas A&M student.

Hey.

Stop.
Get away from me.

No.

She was very frustrated that
she couldn't overpower him.

But from nowhere, she said,
a knife appeared and was

placed against her throat.

He threatened her.

He told her that if she screamed
he was going to kill her.

And therefore, she complied
with his instructions.

He then took her
to a nearby field.

There was about five
foot tall grass.

And he had already matted
down a six foot diameter area

so that the grass was
real low, which is where

he then sexually assaulted her.

The site was chosen, but
not necessarily the victim.

He just waited for the
right one to come by

and then took her
to the location

that he had already prepared.

ROBERT STACK: This composite
is based on the second victim's

description.

When compared to
the first drawing,

it bolstered investigators'
fears that a serial rapist

was stalking the campus.

Upon reviewing the
information that we had,

we became very concerned that if
it was indeed the same person,

if he had committed one
and committed a second,

there was most likely going
to be a third and a fourth

and so on until he was stopped.

ROBERT STACK: Authorities
wallpapered the campus

community with posters.

However, the sketches could
only deal in generalities.

The suspect had straight
hair, not curly.

He was young, not
old, white, not black.

A lot of people end
up saying yep, looks

like just any regular person.

Even the second victim
that I had interviewed

in depth she made
the comment too,

just looked like a
clean cut student.

ROBERT STACK: The
critical break came

from the first victim herself.

In November of 1995, 10
months after the assault,

she stopped for groceries
at a local market.

Have a good day.

Thanks.

Howdy.

How you doing?

Hey.
- Fine, thanks.

This is a knife.

Do what I say and
I won't hurt you.

We're gonna go for
a little walk, OK.

OK.

That will be $42.57, please.

Can I write you check?

Sure.

Let go of me.

This is a knife.

Can I your driver's
license, please?

Driver's license?

Yeah.

Thank you.

ROBERT STACK: The
young woman was

convinced she was face to face
with the man who raped her.

Excuse me.

Hey!

You forgot something.

ROBERT STACK: Police would soon
learn that the clerk was named

Don Richard Davis Jr. He
was scheduled to graduate

in three weeks from Texas A&M.

I'm Detective Villarreal.

This is Detective Lindholm.

We're with the Texas A&M
University Police Department.

Hi.

We're investigating
the two rapes that took

place on the campus last year.

Your name came to
us as a look alike.

Yep.
Now this is just routine.

We've already interviewed
more than 70 people.

But I'd like to get your
picture for a photo lineup.

Sure.

His demeanor, his posture,
even his physical continence

was very timid, very sheepish.

But interesting enough,
we started to really study

that picture and look at him.

And we started to really
look in those eyes,

they didn't match the sheepish
behavior that we had seen.

The eyes ended up reflecting
a very thoughtful,

aware, focused, individual.

ROBERT STACK: When this
photograph of Davis

was shown to the
second victim, she too

identified him as the rapist.

DNA was the clincher.

Police say that preliminary
tests showed with 90% certainty

that Davis and the rapist
were one in the same.

Give a call as soon as
I get back to the station.

ROBERT STACK: In
January of 1996,

Don Davis Jr. was
arrested and charged

with aggravated
sexual assault. Those

who knew him were incredulous.

Teachers praised his
abilities and his works.

His peers liked him very much.

He had lady friends both
within the university

and outside the
university environment.

Some described him as a
very handsome young man

with good manners.

There's a lot of people who
think very highly of him

and can't even perceive
of him ever committing

these type of offenses.

When I heard these
charges, I was in disbelief.

I thought there's got
to be some mistake.

Don's not that type of person.

He's-- there's
nothing aggressive

about his personality.

And I thought it was a case--

I still think it is a
case of mistaken identity.

ROBERT STACK:
However, investigators

say that the final DNA test
results have left little margin

for such an error.

The evidence was pretty
overwhelming and conclusive

that out of all the
white males in the world,

he was a one in five
million on one incident

and one in five
billion in the other.

ROBERT STACK: Don Davis Jr. Was
released on bail of $150,000.

A court ordered him to
stay with his parents

and observe a 10 PM curfew.

On August 20, 1996, six days
before the start of his trial,

Davis did not come home.

[music playing]

Coming up, the
authorities say Whitey

Bulger ruled the
Boston underground

for more than 20 years.

Now they need your
help to track him down.

But first, the mysterious
art of Qi Gong.

Can this ancient
Chinese practice

harness the body's natural
energy to help heal the sick?

[theme music]

For the Chinese, energy is
a force vital to all life.

They believe it flows
through our bodies like blood

through our veins.

The Chinese also believe there
are a rare few who can control

that energy, healers
who have mastered

an ancient and mysterious
art known as Qi Gong,

literally the
exercise of energy.

Guangdong province, southern
China, 20 years ago.

Ni-hao.

ROBERT STACK: Hong Liu, a
young doctor from Shanghai,

climbed to a cave hidden
high in the mountains.

Liu had grown up in a
family of physicians

schooled in traditional
Western medicine.

But he suspected there was
more to healing than science.

The isolated cave was a home
of a Qi Gong master named Kwan,

a man who reputedly
could diagnose illness

with a single glance and
perform cures without even

touching the patient.

For eight long years, Hong
Liu worked with Master Kwan

learning how to tap the
energy of the universe

to find enlightenment
and heal the sick.

Today, Dr. Hong
Liu is one of 12 Qi

Gong high masters in the world.

He lives in Southern
California is

the only one of those
masters practicing

in the United States.

[non-english speech]

INTERPRETER: Qi Gong
is not a miracle cure.

Qi Gong can improve health.

Qi Gong can you cure
some illnesses, but it

cannot cure every illness.

I really wanted and hoped
that there was somebody out

there that had a magic wand that
was going to wave it over me

and say oh, you're cured.

You have your full use
of your left side back.

That's the kind of,
you know, that's where

I was coming from at the time.

ROBERT STACK: That
time was December,

1994 Selim Babac,
accompanied by his mother,

made his first
visit to Master Liu.

Selim was in the
final stages of AIDS.

He was partially paralyzed,
losing his vision,

and had recently been
diagnosed with PML, a brain

virus that is swift and deadly.

You OK?

I remember asking my
physician maybe a month

or so after I was
diagnosed, do you

have any other PML patients.

He says, yes.

And I said, how are they?

They said, they're all dead.

ROBERT STACK: Master
Liu claims he can simply

look at his patients
and see where

the Qi energy flow is blocked.

Then he uses his own Qi
to help clear the path.

The session had barely begun
when Master Liu's apprentice

removed Selim's leg brace.

Next, Master Liu
told Selim to rise.

Stand up.

OK.

Don't worry.

OK.

Don't worry, don't worry.

OK.

Close eyes.

I was amazed.

I couldn't believe
that I was standing

without the aid of anything.

OK.

It felt that something
was coming into my body

from afar, from behind me when
master Liu was working on me.

It felt like
something-- something

was penetrating my skin,
and as a result, making me

stand upright.

Every time I felt myself leaning
this way or leaning that way

or falling, he would just
push his energy into my body.

And that would make me
stand upright again.

It was like shadow
boxing, in a way.

My son would start
going to one side.

He would bring the energy
from his body toward my son

without touching my son.

And he would straighten up.

He would start going
to the other side,

he would go from the other side.

It was-- it was-- it was a
most incredible thing to watch.

Yes.

ROBERT STACK: From that day on,
weekly sessions with Master Liu

were a regular part
of Selim's therapy.

Sit down.

OK.

[non-english speech]

INTERPRETER: The
good part is that he

is also using Western medicine.

So that's why I think if I used
Qi Gong with Western medicine

and they work together,
what will happen?

The effect has been positive.

You want to have a
backgammon tournament tonight?

Why not?

ROBERT STACK: To
Selim, the result was

nothing short of miraculous.

Within six months, he had
regained 80% of the mobility

on his left side and could
walk without a brace or crutch.

Selim's dramatic
improvement amazed everyone,

especially his Western doctors.

I was quite surprised to
see Selim recover in the way

that he did.

In my experience, patients with
AIDS and PML do not improve.

They deteriorate.

ROBERT STACK: It's clear that
for the moment, at least,

Selim has beaten the worst odds.

His doctors credit
a new approach

to drug therapy that uses
a combination of AIDS drugs

rather than one at a time.

Selim, however, is
convinced that Qi

Gong was a crucial component.

I cannot say Master Liu cured
me, but he definitely brought

me to the road of recovery.

If you can imagine coming from
the point of being diagnosed

as somebody who is just as
good as dead to where I am now,

I mean, it's just--

I'm elated.

I'm totally elated.

Selim Babac is now one
of thousands worldwide

who practice Qi Gong
sometimes in group

sessions like this one.

Debi Patella has a bone marrow
disease, a condition that is

often a precursor to leukemia.

For Debi, Qi Gong is a full
partner in her therapy.

It's not a cure, but
a way to alleviate

the side effects of drugs
prescribed by her doctors.

I don't have any of
the symptoms anymore.

I don't get the headaches,
I don't get nauseous.

I have tried
everything, you name it.

Nothing has ever
give me the energy

that Qi Gong has done for me.

I wish I would've have known
about it a long time ago.

I feel like I'm me again.

How it works, I don't
know, I don't know.

But I honestly feel
it worked for me,

and it can work for others.

ROBERT STACK: In
1993, Randy Hebert

says he was diagnosed
with an aggressive form

of prostate cancer.

Three doctors told him
he should have surgery.

Instead, he tried Qi Gong.

Skeptically with
one eye kind of open

and the other one kind of
closed I started to go to him.

ROBERT STACK: Master Liu put
Randy on a macrobiotic diet,

taught him exercises
to do at home,

and gave him treatments
three times a week.

I know other people that he
has worked on, they've gotten

into trance-like states.

I never did.

But I did feel something
going through me.

Something almost like heat.

ROBERT STACK: After working
with Randy for three months,

Master Liu made an
astounding pronouncement.

He said to me,
the cancer is gone.

And I still get
goosebumps to this day.

And I said, what did you say?

And he says, the cancer is gone.

ROBERT STACK: Randy scheduled
another biopsy immediately.

How are you doing today?

ROBERT STACK: The
results appear to confirm

Master Liu's diagnosis.

Well, I have
good news for you.

- You do?
- Yes.

Your biopsy results
are negative.

There's no sign of cancer.

That's great.

ROBERT STACK: Over the
next year and a half,

Randy had three more
biopsies, all were negative.

Nevertheless, it will
take more than one case

to convince the medical
community that Qi

Gong is an effective treatment.

We'll do a biopsy
every six months.

Despite 4,000
years of history,

I think that Qi Gong and other
forms of alternative therapies

really need to be held up
to the same light and burden

of proof, burden of evidence
that traditional medicine is

held up to.

[non-english speech]

INTERPRETER: Modern medicine
solves many problems.

But it has some areas
that need improvement,

more research and development.

Qi Gong, generally speaking,
is a good supplement.

That's why I recommend
Western medicine

combined with our method.

This is more guaranteed
for the patient.

ROBERT STACK: Officially, the
American Medical Association

has no opinion on Qi Gong as a
legitimate healing technique.

Next, join the search for Whitey
Bulger, the reputed godfather

of Boston's Irish mob.

And later, a rising
rap star searches

for his infant son and the
people who kidnapped him.

[theme music]

Next January, six
men are scheduled

to go on trial for
extortion and racketeering

here in Boston, Massachusetts.

The star witnesses
will be several

of their alleged victims.

But authorities have every
reason to fear for the safety

of those witnesses.

If the trial were to start
today, one of the defendants

would be conspicuously absent.

He is perhaps New England's
most notorious fugitive,

Whitey Bulger, the reputed
godfather of the Irish mafia.

James J. Whitey Bulger has
been described as a throwback

to the gangsters of the 1930s.

Quick witted, hot tempered,
ruthless, a petty thief

turned bank robber who spent
nine years in federal prisons

including Alcatraz.

After his release, Bulger
allegedly established an empire

in South Boston.

According to the
authorities, Whitey

ruled his turf with an iron
fist for more than 20 years.

And in the process, earned
an estimated $25 million.

In his heyday, Whitey
Bulger operated

out of the back
of a liquor store

on the edge of South Boston.

How you doing, Sean?

Good to see you.

ROBERT STACK: Late
one night in 1989,

he allegedly
arrived to take care

of some unfinished business.

Relax, Timmy.

Reportedly, Whitey's associate
Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi

was waiting inside.
- How are you?

Good.

ROBERT STACK: Their
guest of honor

was a local tavern
owner named Tim

Connolly, whom
Whitey had allegedly

targeted for extortion.

Oh, I'm fine.
I'm fine, thanks.

Sit down, sit down, sit down.
How's your family?

Good Jim, thanks.

Good.

Timmy, I got a problem here.

I got this guy, he
owes me $40,000.

And he decides the way he's
going to pay me back is

take a mortgage on his house.

I sent that paperwork in.

Yeah, yeah.

And something
is happening here,

and my friends aren't
helping this guy along.

- Whitey.
- Whitey?

Who you calling Whitey?

I want some respect
from you, jerk.

I respect you.

Oh, I'll show
you some respect.

This is respect.

This is respect.

Jimmy--

That's respect.
That's respect.

Jimmy!

That's respect.

I'm going to let you buy
your life for $50,000.

Jimmy, that's an
awful lot of money.

$50,000 by the
end of the week.

I can't get it all, Jimmy.

Oh yeah, well it's good you
caught me on a good day, huh.

Because I'm going to let you
give me $25,000 in two days.

ROBERT STACK: Two days
later, Tim Connolly

claims he did the only
thing he felt he could do.

He returned to the liquor
store with $25,000 cash.

How are you, Tim?

Good Jimmy, yourself?

Good, good.

Going down to Florida?

Yeah, yeah, I'm leaving
in the morning, Jimmy.

Good.

Bulger realized that they
got half of the money back,

and Connolly had
promised the other half

and everything was forgiven.

Connolly claims that
Bulger then came

out, put his arm
around him, and said,

now you're our friend again.

Thanks.

But Tim Connolly apparently
did not feel as enthusiastic

about the friendship.

He went to the FBI.

They, in turn, began building a
case against the so-called don

of South Boston.

James J. Whitey Bulger came
from a prominent local family.

His older brother
Billy is a former state

senator and current
president of the University

of Massachusetts.

But by all accounts, Whitey
was a wise guy from day one.

In South Boston,
you very often

had in real life
angels with dirty faces

where Jimmy Cagney
is the bad kid

and Pat O'Brien
becomes the priest.

That happens over there.

I know many families that
have a priest and a gangster

in the same family or
a gangster and a police

officer in the same family.

It's very common
in that culture.

ROBERT STACK: South
Boston is an insulated

Irish Catholic community.

A place where Whitey Bulger,
known to his friends as Jimmy,

felt right at home.

You talk to Frankie?

Ah yeah, some of his
guys don't know where

north ends and south begins.

Listen, we got
to talk to Frankie.

We've got to get that
straightened out.

South Boston really believes
that we look out after our own.

And that's what Whitey
Bulger was all about.

In South Boston, Whitey
Bulger was widely

viewed in the working
class as our gangster.

Yeah, he's a wise guy.

Yeah, he'll hurt you if you
deserve it or if you cross him.

But he's a gangster
with scruples.

He's a guy that will keep
an order, a certain order

to the underworld.

People maybe loved the
fact that they felt that he

took care of the community.

That he would be the guy that
would carry the groceries

of the elderly woman that
was getting out of a taxi

and trying to get
up to her apartment.

Or would help a little boy that
maybe had a dog, his dog died,

would go out and buy a
dog for a little boy.

But he also is viewed as
somebody that you didn't cross.

Oh wait, look who we got here.

Hey, hey, Bobby come over here.

ROBERT STACK: Bulger
reportedly had

no qualms about flexing
his muscles in full view

of the neighborhood.

Hi Jimmy, Hi Steve.

Nice seeing you both.

It's not nice
seeing you, Bobby.

Steve, they're going
to close me down.

Last month I had to come
up with a double month's

rent for these people.

Stephen, I swear, if only--

Bobby, Friday, 2:00.

Friday 2:00.

Jimmy.

Whitey Bulger
absolutely controlled

what went on in South Boston.

In fact, nothing
happened in South Boston

without his approval.

Every bit of illegal gaming,
loan sharking, drug dealing,

he had a piece of it.

If it happened, he
had to sanction it,

and he had to have
a piece of it.

ROBERT STACK: From time to
time, the feds brought Whitey

in for questioning,
but they never had

enough evidence to nail him.

For all intents and purposes,
Whitey Bulger was untouchable.

Whitey Bulger is the master
of eluding surveillance.

He learned quickly how
to avoid being caught.

He never said
anything incriminating

in any confined place.

And he had a real
habit of conducting

all of his business outside.

ROBERT STACK: But
the Boston Globe

has reported there was another
reason Whitey was never busted,

that he was actually
working with the FBI

as an informant to bring
down the Italian mafia.

I think there was always
a split within the FBI.

I think there were some agents
who for their own reasons

wanted to use him as a
resource, and probably

liked him at one level.

I think there were other
agents who looked at him

and said he's just
another gangster.

Those are the people we're
supposed to be taking off.

What I can tell you is
that when it comes to matters

within the FBI involving
informants and sources

and witnesses,
cooperating witnesses,

we just do not talk about that.

That is not something we
speak about in public.

ROBERT STACK: John Gamel
has been on the Bulger case

since 1990.

By that time, Whitey
had set up his office

on Castle Island at the
tip of South Boston,

just across the harbor was
Boston's busy Logan Airport.

You have planes coming over,
you have joggers running by,

you have dogs barking.

It is a perfect
location to avoid having

people like me listen to you.

What do you think?

Bulger also used a
technique the FBI has

labeled disciplined randomness.

When I was watching
Whitey, he might be sitting

and talking with somebody.

And I have literally seen
him having a conversation

with somebody, look at his
watch and go three benches down

and sit down and continue that
conversation with these people

10 minutes later and then
move again in 10 minutes.

Hey, Jimmy.

- How are you?
- I'm fine.

How are you?

I've been there when
it was 20 degrees.

I've been there when
it's 94 degrees,

and he's been out there.

He had a select group
of trusted associates,

and they would be
the go between.

They were the ones that
would go out and deal

the bookmakers and
loan sharks and pick up

money to bring back to Whitey.

Very rarely did Whitey
make an appearance

and actually have a face
to face confrontation.

He left other people
to do his dirty work.

But unfortunately for
Whitey, he made an exception

in Connolly's case.

I'm going to let you give
me $25,000 in two days.

Now get out.

And if I don't get the
rest of it, this is you.

Tim Connolly turned to the
FBI because he was scared.

And I think Connolly
decided that it

was time to start talking.

Are you implying
that Mr. Bulger

threatened you, Mr. Connolly?

ROBERT STACK: Connolly
provided authorities

with the evidence needed to
build a federal racketeering

case against Bulger.

In January of 1995,
Whitey was indicted,

along with his associate
Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi.

Also indicted was "Cadillac
Frank" Salemme, boss

of New England's Italian mafia.

But in true Whitey fashion,
Bulger managed to slip

through the authorities' grasp.

I think that the law
enforcement rushed the arrest

a little bit, because they
were worried that they were

going to lose their
intended targets,

that they would all take off.

And so they grabbed
Stevie Flemmi.

And when they did, they
were unable to locate

Frank Salemme or Whitey Bulger.

Six months later they found
Frank Salemme in Florida,

but they have yet
to find Whitey.

I think a lot of people who
have had dealings with Whitey

and who are going to be
witnesses in the upcoming case

are probably nervous about the
fact that he's not in custody.

[music playing]

ROBERT STACK: Next,
a house set afire,

a young woman murdered,
a four week old

son of a rap musician abducted.

[theme music]

[MUSIC - YOUNG LAY, "PLAYAH'S
MODE"]

Listen to the sounds I bring.

I been dropping but they
get 'em jockin' like feens.

I come so clean when I spit
it that lecher's mouthpiece.

ROBERT STACK: His IS name Lathan
Williams, known to his fans

as Young Lay.

A rising star in
the rap music world,

and now a young
man at the center

of a bizarre double mystery.

A tragedy that has torn
from him the two most

important people in his life.

We just came by
to see the baby.

ROBERT STACK: A case that has
stumped police in Vallejo,

California for months.

In the spring of
1996, things were

going well for Lathan Williams.

He had recently signed
a recording deal.

This new video was
about to be released,

and his girlfriend
had just given

birth to their first
child, a boy named Le-Zhan.

What I feel about Le-Zhan
was he's the first son,

you know what I'm saying.

The summer is fittin to come,
you know what I'm saying.

I'm fittin to be with him,
you know what I'm saying,

take care of him.

It was an experience to me.

You know what I'm saying?

I was happy.

ROBERT STACK:
Lathan's girlfriend,

17-year-old Daphne Boyden,
lived with her grandmother

in Vallejo.

Daphne was working hard
to finish high school

while caring for baby Le-Zhan.

On May 17, 1996, Daphne's
grandmother Riva Lee Boyden

was getting ready to go
to her weekly bingo game

when the doorbell rang.

Is Daphne home?

Yeah, come on in.

She's in the back.
Daphne?

Yeah?

You have company.

OK, I'll come out.

ROBERT STACK: Daphne was
getting a lot of visitors.

She was a mother of a
local rap star's baby.

Everybody wanted to
see Lathan's son.

I'm good.

We just came by
to see the baby.

Oh, it's so cute.

Y'all can sit down.

Daphne, I'm going
to play bingo.

I'll be gone a couple of hours.

ROBERT STACK: Riva Lee didn't
recognize these two girls,

but Daphne obviously knew them.

Everything seemed fine.

Riva Lee couldn't
have been more wrong.

An hour later, she
was rushing home.

Neighbors had told her
that her house was on fire.

She had no idea whether Daphne
and Le-Zhan were still inside.

That's my house, I've
got to get up there.

Ma'am, I've got to--
you can't get in there.

You can't go in there, ma'am.
- I tried breaking loose.

They said, no, no, don't go in.

He said your grand
daughter is dead.

I said, dead?

ROBERT STACK: Daphne was dead.

The news grew worse.

None of it had been an accident.

Daphne had been
murdered, the house

torched to cover up the crime.

And there was more.

Baby Le-Zhan was missing,
apparently kidnapped.

For Lathan Williams, the
shock was devastating.

He couldn't believe
they were both gone.

I was saying please, to
myself, please, Daphne come

walking around this corner,
you know what I'm saying,

with this baby.

You know what I'm saying?

ROBERT STACK: Daphne's death
outraged the community.

Hundreds turned out for a march
memorializing Daphne and urging

La-Zhan's safe return.

The question on
everyone's mind was why.

I did hear that some
girls were threatening her.

And I didn't understand
that, you know.

But they said it
was behind my son.

I don't know for sure or
not what the situation is.

But it seems to me, apparently
somebody wanted a baby.

And they wanted to
do away with her.

And why, I don't know.

Daphne herself
was a 17-year-old

girl that attended school, did
well, seemed to be well liked.

The problem was
that she did have

this baby that was fathered
by a up and coming rapper

in the area.

He was signed to a contract and
was actually doing quite well.

And we initially felt
that possibly there

were some jealousies
that had been

aroused in competing females
for Lathan's affections.

Is Daphne home?

Yeah, come on in.

She's in the back.

ROBERT STACK: The
obvious suspects

were the two girls
who had visited Daphne

the evening of her murder.

Daphne?

ROBERT STACK: They were
first seen just before they

arrived at the
house by a neighbor

who wishes to remain anonymous.

I saw two girls on the
same side of the sidewalk.

One of the girls, she had
like a black tote bag.

And she unzipped the bag and
pulled out something which

appeared to me to be a rope.

You got the light?

Yeah sure, I got everything.
Come on.

All right.

When they were
walking past by me,

you know how you
watch scary movies

and you get scared, that's the
kind of feeling I had inside me

when I looked at their eyes.

Another witness
allegedly noticed

the girls leaving
the Boyden house

just before the fire broke out.

One girl may have
been concealing

something in her jacket.

A few blocks down the
street, the two girls

were spotted again.

Yo ladies, yo, yeah.

Come here, I want to
talk to you for a minute.

ROBERT STACK: These witnesses
too believed one of the girls

may have been
concealing something.

If the girls did indeed murder
Daphne and kidnap baby Le-Zhan,

was it for love of Lathan?

Or could there have
been another motive?

Ten months earlier,
Lathan himself

had been a target, a victim
of an attempted hold up.

- Break yourself.
- What's up, homey?

You know what time it is.

I thought we was cool.

Give up the damn
loot or I'll bust you.

Come on, come on.

Anybody moves, everybody dies.

ROBERT STACK: One bullet hit
Lathan, piercing his brain.

When he recovered, he
testified against the shooter.

It's only natural to
assume that there could

be some possible
connection there,

that it may be some
type of retaliation.

We don't want to over
inflate that possibility.

But again, it's
unsolved, so we're trying

not to close any doors on it.

OK, I don't think, you
know what I'm saying--

ROBERT STACK: However, Lathan
Williams is convinced the two

attacks are not connected.

Me being shot, you
know what I'm saying,

had nothing to do with it.

Because of the fact that
they would try to get at me,

you know what I'm saying.

My life would have
been in danger,

you know what I'm saying, not
my baby mama's life, you know

what I'm saying, and my kid.

ROBERT STACK:
Whatever the motive,

police have no doubt
that whoever killed

Daphne also kidnapped La-Zhan.

We still feel that there's
hope to recover the baby.

Obviously, we feel
it's still alive.

And we hope with
this information

on a nationwide level it can
lead to some further leads that

eventually lead to an arrest.

[music playing]

[theme music]

ROBERT STACK: On our next
"Unsolved Mysteries,"

a deranged ex-policeman
and his wife,

a homemade bomb, an elementary
school held hostage.

At the moment of detonation,
it seemed only a miracle could

save the children,
and many believe

that is exactly what happened.

Join me next time for
another compelling hour

of "Unsolved Mysteries."

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