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NARRATOR: Tonight on Unsolved Mysteries.

Most people will go to great lengths

to avoid the fiery pain of a bee sting.

Most, but not all.

Meet two women with multiple sclerosis

who're convinced that the venom of honeybees

has been their salvation.

After 10 years of scandal and controversy,

the notorious Preppy Rape case ended in a hung jury.

Now Alex Kelly, son of wealth and privilege,

awaits the start of his retrial.

In a special demonstration, we'll

examine a key piece of evidence that apparently

helped decide the outcome.

For Jamie Santos, the benefits of exotic dancing

always outweighed the risks.

Then Jamie was found murdered in her apartment.

Incredibly, police believe the killer himself

may have reported the crime.

In Nevada, a forest ranger and his family are targeted.

Simmering hostilities over federal land

erupted into violence.

And also, they were separated as young children

on the other side of the Atlantic,

nearly 50 years later they've been reunited

here in the United States. - Join me.

Perhaps you hold the key.

Perhaps you may be able to help solve a mystery.

[music playing]

NARRATOR: There is no mistaking the sound

of quiet thunder of bees.

Unless you're in the honey business,

you undoubtedly avoid any person-to-person contact

with bees.

However, to some people, honey bees are

miniature flying drugstores.

Dispensaries of miracle cures.

You're about to meet two women who say they've

experienced the miracle.

Both have multiple sclerosis, or MS,

a crippling disease of the nervous system

whose complications can be fatal.

Both have reversed the course of MS

through a controversial treatment

known as bee venom therapy.

Literally stinging themselves with honey bees.

Kelly Ames was in high school when

MS first crept into her life.

By the time, Kelly was 22, her symptoms

became impossible to ignore.

One day I was at work, and I was walking

down a flight of stairs.

It must've been like 12 stairs, where

I just lost feeling in my feet, like all of a sudden.

And I fell down a flight of stairs.

And the women in my office were like, Wow, you know.

I explained to them that my feet sometimes get numb.

NARRATOR: - Medical tests revealed a cruel truth.

Kelly had MS. The unforgiving disease first robbed her

of the ability to walk alone.

Before long, MS was attacking her eyes.

I can't see anything out of this eye.

It's like it took over my life.

Within a week, I lost vision in my left eye

and I had no control over my muscles.

It was just very devastating.

I hated to depend on other people,

but, at times, I needed other people to help me.

NARRATOR: Kelly's doctor put her on steroids.

These potent drugs can temporarily

relieve the symptoms of MS, but no drug can stop its advance.

Having the steroid drip in my arm,

I would sit there for an hour and a half

looking at other people coming in wheelchairs

and wondering if that's going to be

me someday in that wheelchair.

NARRATOR: Then Kelly met a woman would literally walked away

from her wheelchair, after systematically stinging

herself with honeybees.

For Kelly Ames, it was the last ray of hope.

Kelly's father brought her to a local beekeeper who'd been

helping MS patients for years.

He was happy to donate the honeybees.

The rest?

Would be up to Kelly.

He told me that he did not want to be bothered by me

if I wasn't serious about it.

He said, you have to do this for six months straight,

every other day, faithfully.

Increase it by two every other day, until you get to 20.

And he scared me when he said that, because I realized

that I really had to take the responsibility

of sticking to this.

And, I did.

NARRATOR: Kelly and her boyfriend

set up a morning routine.

He placed the bees at specific spots on Kelly's body,

where nerves running to the damaged areas

are most accessible.

For Kelly's failing eyesight, that was behind the ear.

Bees were also positioned on Kelly's lower back

to treat the weakness in her legs.

The bees were left in place for as long as 15 minutes

to allow all their venom to penetrate Kelly's skin.

And just get dressed, and I'll come back, okay?

NARRATOR: MS had so ravished Kelly's nervous system

that she stung herself several hundred times

before actually feeling the full wallop of a sting.

I could actually feel what a bee sting felt like,

and it hurt.

It really hurt.

I was screaming.

I had my head in my pillow, and I was screaming.

And I was screaming, because I was happy

because I could feel again.

I knew that the therapy was starting to work,

because within a week my eyesight

started slowly come back.

I didn't depend on my cane as much.

And right then and there I just knew.

Finally this was kicking in, it was working for me

I know Kelly Ames, and her situation is a perfect example

of how the venom therapy helps MS. She was not doing well,

and when she started her bee venom therapy,

it had a clear difference in her symptoms

and her outlook on life.

Do you think you're numb enough?

Okay, what I'm going to do is grab the bee

on the upper part of body.

NARRATOR: Today Kelly Ames teachers

bee venom therapy to others in the grip of multiple sclerosis.

Some doctors dismiss the therapy as little better than voodoo,

Kelly's remarkable recovery is hardly unique.

When I decided to do the venom therapy,

we kind of kept it a little hush-hush,

because I didn't know what other people's reactions would be.

I know what the reactions of my doctors were,

so I figured, you know, we'll keep a little quiet.

NARRATOR: Maureen Norton began to experience

the symptoms of MS shortly after the birth of her second child.

She was seized by a tingling pins and needles sensation

in her legs, that made walking nearly impossible.

It was very scary, I just kinda pictured myself

in a wheelchair holding my little baby,

and my son along the side now I didn't want that.

NARRATOR: But that was right where Maureen was headed.

Then she started bee venom therapy.

I was always afraid of bees and about being stung.

But I just felt that this was my only answer.

NARRATOR: A beekeeper who lived nearby

agreed to teach more Maureen the fine art of bee wrangling.

How to grab his bristly neck and coerce

it to jab a stinger at precisely the right location.

I was told to sting you on the top of your foot, right here.

NARRATOR: By the time Maureen got started with bee stings,

MS had numbed her feet so thoroughly she could

hardly sense they were there.

To the touch, Maureen's feet were icy blue cold.

OK, I think that's long enough.

Within minutes, my foot was warm.

You could feel the venom going through,

and the blood felt like there was life in my foot again.

It was just an incredible feeling.

I knew, right from that moment, that something good

was happening.

And I felt that this was going to help me.

NARRATOR: How much did it help?

This photograph of Maureen and her son

was taken six weeks after she began the sting therapy.

Maureen has just crossed the finish

line in a seven mile walkathon.

Three weeks later, Maureen was prancing across the dance floor

at a party celebrating her spectacular recovery.

Today, I am a very active person.

I haven't had any attacks.

Sometimes, depending if the stress

gets too much in my life, that you know I'll get some pins

and needles fillings feelings in my hands, or in my right knee.

I immediately just take my bees out,

and I'll give myself a couple of stings

and the feelings are gone.

NARRATOR: Should we prize bees for their sting

as well as their honey?

Mainstream science has hardly begun to address the question,

though some doctors believe bee venom therapy is far

too promising to be ignored.

At first it may be easy to dismiss bee venom therapy.

The fact is, it sounds a little kooky.

However, in studying about bee venom,

there are certain substances which make sense

in multiple sclerosis therapy.

We know that the immune system is involved,

and of course a neurologic system is involved,

therefore bee venom, which has components which affect both

the immune system and neurologic system,

is a natural substance which seems

to have some effects in MS.

NARRATOR: Skeptics might argue that improvements reported

by bee advocates are in reality the periodic remissions

typical of MS. But Kelly Ames is convinced

her progress is a direct result of bee venom therapy.

I stopped doing the therapy for a couple of weeks,

and I felt myself sliding back.

I felt some symptoms coming on again, and it scared me.

So right away, I grabbed a bee.

I stung myself a couple of times,

and within seconds I could feel it go through my body

and stimulate my muscles and make me much stronger.

So right now, I know I'm not in remission.

It's time for physicians and the medical community

to take a serious look at whether bee

venom may relieve the suffering of some of our patients.

NARRATOR: Estimates are that as many as 10,000 MS

patients are currently using bee venom therapy.

Proponents also claim success in treating arthritis

and chronic fatigue syndrome.

Recently the Multiple Sclerosis Association of America

began funding major scientific research

on this controversial treatment.

Bee experts do have one warning, roughly one person in 25

is deathly allergic to honey bee stings.

Anyone considering this treatment

should consult a physician.

Coming up, last November, the rape trial of Alex Kelly

ended in a hung jury.

Now we put a critical defense claim to the test.

Also, when a popular exotic dancer is murdered,

the only clue is an anonymous call to 911.

But first, a US forest ranger searches for the unknown bomber

who attacked his family.

March 31, 1995.

Carson City, Nevada.

The bomb was placed right over here on the window ledge.

And as you can see--

NARRATOR: US Forest Service ranger Guy Pence was

called to work just after dawn.

An explosion had ripped through his office the night before.

Do you have any idea what kind of bomb this was?

NARRATOR: The FBI initially believed

the bomber had targeted the building, not

any particular employees.

Guy Pence suspected otherwise.

I really always felt that it was aimed as a direct statement

to me.

Now it may be aimed as a direct statement

to me as the district ranger, or as a federal employee,

and not so much at me specifically.

NARRATOR: Why would Guy Pence or the Forest Service be a target?

Perhaps because they are on the front line of a war

that most of us don't even know about.

Some call it the Sagebrush Rebellion,

an informal alliance of people opposed to federal control

of local public land.

For most of this century, ranchers, loggers, and miners

have had permits that gave them access

to huge tracts of that land.

In some families, those permits have been handed

down through five generations.

Over a long history, we've always

had conflicts over national resource management.

And that can be conflicts over grazing,

timber harvest, recreation.

NARRATOR: To accommodate all users

and protect the diminishing resources,

the US Forest Service began to restrict private use.

As district ranger, it was up to Guy Pence

to make sure everyone complied with the new rules.

Everybody in the district, across the board,

is going to take a 20% cut.

Well, I reckon we've been through worse.

We'll handle this one, too.

I'm with you.

NARRATOR: People didn't like it but they went along.

However, some saw Guy Pence himself as the enemy.

You wind up with 22 extra tomorrow,

you just bring it back up on your own,

and we'll just call it good.

I don't think that's the case.

We're running the whole herd through.

Michael, we went through this.

We said 800, and you said you weren't going to give

me any trouble about it.

I don't think that's the case, Guy.

You're making a mistake, Michael.

NARRATOR: Guy Pence says scenes like this have become

a regular part of his job.

Similar conflicts all over the West

are what originally gave rise to the Sagebrush Rebellion.

The issue that we have here is these people

have a right to graze forage, they have a right

to mine minerals, they have a right to harvest timber,

and the bureaucrats have exceeded their authority.

In some way or trying to stop them one way or the other.

And we are standing up as county governments

to protect their rights.

I'm telling you what's going to happen.

NARRATOR: Ironically, many of the people opposed

to the new federal rules are local elected leaders

like Commissioner Carver.

However, they say they are dismayed by violent acts

like the bombing of Pence's office.

We were devastated by it.

The first thing we did is notified our County Sheriff's

Department to put extra patrol on all federal agency

employees in my county.

We posted $100,000 bond.

We want to put a stop to it as bad as anybody else.

NARRATOR: Four months after the bombing,

any question about whether Guy Pence had been

personally targeted was erased.

Pence took a back-country assignment.

He brought along his youngest daughter.

His wife Linda stayed at home with her two older daughters.

It was August 4, 1995.

We had been making pickles, which is a very hot job.

And lots of boiling water going on in the kitchen

to add to the heat of the whole house,

and we were about finished.

And had rented a movie.

And Morgan and I had gone into the front room

to get that started.

We sat down next to the windows.

Kalter, our oldest daughter, was back in her bedroom

at the back side of the house talking

on the phone with a friend.

Kalter, it's starting.

I thought you wanted to see this!

FOOTSTEPS]

What was that?

What?

You didn't hear that?

What did you hear?

I think someone walking or footsteps

or something out there.

OK, sweetie, I'll go check on it.

[ding]

There's the buzzer for the pickles, can you grab them?

Oh yeah.

NARRATOR: When Linda looked outside,

she saw nothing unusual.

Mom, Mom, can you help me with this?

Yeah.

Thanks.

I went into the kitchen, and Morgan

said this is going to take a few minutes

I better go turn off the movie.

Hey.

Here, put this on?

[explosion, glass breaking]

NARRATOR: Fortunately, no one was hurt.

The homemade bomb had been placed directly

beneath Guy Pence's van.

The charred wreckage was an unmistakable message.

It's a very hard thought to accept that someone

would try to kill your family.

There's absolutely no doubt in my mind

that whoever did this knew my family was at home.

The windows were open, the lights were on, the TV was on.

My own daughter heard their footsteps,

and that they left a killing device

and ran into the darkness.

I have a hard time comprehending how any human could do that.

NARRATOR: Like the first bombing,

there were a few solid clues and no suspects.

The FBI laboratory in Washington DC has advised us

that these bombs are very similar in construction,

and most likely were manufactured

by the same individual.

We're not looking for a sophisticated bomber

in this particular case, we're looking for someone who

knows the basics and the basic use

and application of explosives to make this bomb.

But if this was not a mastermind by any stretch

of the imagination.

NARRATOR: While the FBI continued searching

for the person or persons responsible for both attacks,

Guy Pence and his family moved to another location.

He could have quit his job, but Guy chose to keep

working for the forest service.

I think the stakes are very high.

Those stakes are our natural resources.

Those stakes belong to all of us.

300 million Americans, and those unborn today.

Those resources belong to them.

It's extremely important to me that the forces that support

this kind of thing understand that this is not ever

how you win, but you only lose.

That's extremely important that this perpetrator be brought

to justice so that everyone understands this is

not how we solve our problems.

NARRATOR: Next, a woman is reunited

with her long lost brother, thanks to you, our viewers.

And later, a simple car seat mechanism plays a crucial role

in notorious Preppy Rape trial.

Most of us would gladly spend a lifetime

trying to find someone we love.

Tonight's update took that and more.

It involves a search to span two continents, two generations,

and almost half a century.

Plymouth, England 1952.

Eleanor Karofsky helped her five-year-old son

prepare for a long journey.

Christopher was going to the United States

with another family.

I'll miss you, mama.

I'll miss you, too, Christopher.

My mother didn't really want to send him with somebody else,

but my father kept saying, you know,

education, education, he's going to get a good education.

He's going to be able to start school,

so it was easier for him.

But my mother, I guess, being a woman,

it just tore at her heart.

NARRATOR: It was only seven years after World War II.

Refugees from Eastern Europe, like Helena and her husband

Paul desperately wanted a better life.

In America, Christopher would live with friends

until the Karofskys and their daughter Michelle could follow.

A few months later, however, the Karofskys changed their plans

and decided to stay in England.

They wrote their friends in America asking

them to send Christopher back.

Helena, Helena.

Yeah?

I have received letter from America.

America?

Yes.

The don't send Christopher back.

What?

They don't send Christopher back.

Christopher!

NARRATOR: The Karofskys tried every avenue they could think

of to have Christopher returned, but there

was nothing anyone could do.

The Karofskys never saw Christopher again.

In 1973, [inaudible] died.

20 years later, Helena also passed away.

Her last wish was that her children

would someday be reunited.

I want to be able to tell him how much my mother loved

him, how she never forgot him.

How, to the day she died, that she loved him.

NARRATOR: After so many years, we knew finding Michelle's

brother might be a long shot.

In fact, the story aired several times with little response.

But not long ago, the right person was watching.

Keely Smith is on maternity leave.

Here's Lu Hanessian and with the details.

Thanks, Bob.

As it turned out, the critical viewer was

Christopher's adoptive sister.

When she told him about Michelle's search,

Christopher called our phone center.

He gave the operator specific details only Michelle's long

lost brother could have known.

A month later, Christopher traveled

from his home in upstate New York to Michelle's home

outside Houston, Texas.

It was a moment 44 years in the making.

As I was waiting for Christopher to come,

and I was looking out the window,

I was wanting my mom to be here, and wishing that she was here.

Because she had dreamed of this.

Hi.

Hi.

Long time.

Did it.

I can't believe it.

I really can't describe how I felt. It's--

I can't describe it, It's too much for words.

All these years, wondering, hoping,

and it's finally come true.

Christopher introduced his wife, Ellen, then

met Michelle's husband, Derek, her daughter, Kerry,

and her granddaughters, Caylee and Danielle.

I'm just happy, that I have him now.

It's just so hard to describe something

I've dreamt about, God, for 30-odd years.

And it's here.

It's hard-- I keep looking at him

because I can't believe it's actually happened.

Christopher and Michelle have a lot of catching up to do,

but they're already well on their way.

I never expected it to really happen,

but I always dreamed that maybe one day my turn would come,

and I would find my brother.

But, dreams, I guess they do come true.

NARRATOR: Coming up, a beautifully young dancer

is murdered, and some believe the killer

himself notified the police.

But first, the trial of accused rapist Alex Kelly

ended in a hung jury.

Will independent testing validate

the defense or the prosecution?

It was a trial 10 years in the making.

The case has scandalized and captivated the national media.

Last October, alleged rapist Alex Kelly,

after nearly a decade on the run,

faced his accuser in court.

She is now a grown woman.

She claims that in February of 1986,

just after her 16th birthday, Alex Kelly raped her.

The trial ended with a jury hopelessly deadlocked.

Tonight with a retrial on the horizon,

we will take a unique look at one of the pivotal issues

in this case, which may ultimately

determine whether Alex Kelly could,

in fact, be guilty as charged.

Darien, Connecticut, 40 miles northeast of New York City,

is one of the country's most affluent and exclusive

communities.

Alex Kelly was one of Darien's brightest young men,

and a wealthy, devoted family and a promising future.

In high school, Kelly was a gifted wrestler

with a trademark move, the guillotine.

Alex Kelly was 18 years old when his perfect world

came crashing down.

On February 10th 1986, he met the alleged victim

during a party at this house.

At around 11:30pm, Kelly offered to take her home in his

girlfriend's Jeep Wagoneer.

But, according to the young woman,

Alex Kelly did not drive her home.

Instead she claimed he pulled into this secluded cul de sac

and proceeded to rape her.

Four days later, this time at the nearby Stamford

Country Club, another party, another young woman.

Another accusation against Alex Kelly.

Kelly was arrested for both alleged rapes.

He denied the charges, claiming that both incidents had

been acts of consensual sex.

He was released on $200,000 bond,

pending the start of his trial.

But when jury selection commenced,

Alex Kelly was nowhere to be found.

Over the next eight years, he continually

eluded the authorities.

Then in July of 1994, police and FBI agents

raided the Kelly home in Connecticut,

and learned the surprising truth about Alex Kelly's years

on the run.

Alex Kelly was leading the good life overseas.

He traveled all over, his passport was stamped with just

dozens of countries in and out.

Greece, and Sweden, and France, and all over the globe.

He spent a lot of his time at ski resorts,

living the high life.

And , you know, he would write letters

home talking about his hang-gliding

and his parasailing.

And in one letter, he even said I could live like this forever.

And he wasn't exactly suffering.

NARRATOR: Photographs in the Kelly home

showed Alex's parents visiting him while he was in hiding.

Investigators also found in an unmailed letter which revealed

Kelly's address in Sweden.

So, Alex knows that law enforcement

is closing in on him now.

Tom Puccio is hired by the family as Alex's lawyer.

Puccio met with Alex in Europe to negotiate

the terms of his surrender.

And it was shortly thereafter in January of 1995

that he surrendered to Swiss authorities.

In May of 1995, Kelly was extradited to the US.

He was arraigned on charges of sexual assault and kidnapping.

He was released on $1 million bond.

The trial for the first alleged rape commenced in October 1996.

Most days Alex Kelly arrived at court,

hand-in-hand with his old high school girlfriend, Amy Monitor.

The star witness was Kelly's alleged victim.

In riveting detail, she outlined the terror

she said she had experienced.

At one point, she said that his hand was on her neck

the entire time, before he pushed her

into the backseat of the Jeep.

And at that time, it just seemed like that this

was her description of what happened,

and it didn't seem like this was any more a piece of evidence

than anything else and that this wasn't

going to mean anything more than anything else she was saying.

But it turned out quite differently.

NARRATOR: Defense attorney Thomas

Puccio leaped to the attack.

If Alex Kelly's hand had never left the victim's throat,

it would have been impossible for him to both release

and lower the back seat with his one free hand.

First order of business is to thank the jury.

NARRATOR: The case ended in a mistrial

after the six person jury deadlocked at four

to convict, and two to acquit.

Later some of the jurors stated that the testimony

about the seat latch had played a major role

in the deliberations, apparently leading some to believe a rape

had never occurred.

The victim stated that he reached over

and grabbed her by the throat.

He immediately put spread his legs over her body,

was choking her.

NARRATOR: Connie Williams was one of the six jurors.

Although he ultimately voted to convict,

he has lingering doubts as to how the crime

might have been committed.

He reached around, and at some point

she heard a clicking noise.

The clicking noise was the lever being pulled.

NARRATOR: The lever is a spring-loaded device,

designed to be lifted and held up

while the seat is pushed down.

As you can see, there's no way that I

can pull his lever forward.

Let's put my hand forward, and pulling the levers forward,

with both hands in the seat.

There was no way I can do it with one hand.

NARRATOR: Unsolved Mysteries decided to put

the defense claim to the test.

We asked Failure Analysis Associates,

an engineering consulting firm, to conduct

an impartial demonstration.

The firm procured a 1983 Jeep Wagoneer

and hired two actors of physical characteristics

similar to Alex Kelly and the young woman.

That, that's always like that.

NARRATOR: Regarding the use of the seat latch,

the actor portraying Kelly was simply told where the latch was

and that it needed to be lifted to release the seat.

He was then told to simulate an attack,

and simultaneously lower the back seat using only one hand.

The test was repeated three times.

In each instance, the actor successfully lowered

the seat without difficulty.

Quite surprising to me that he could physically move the latch

so quickly and move the seat back so fast,

given the impression I had about the latch mechanism

when I first observed the car.

What we're seeing in this car, is because in the condition

of this particular vehicle, that it

is possible to lift this latch and get it stuck

on a exposed nut and bolt.

NARRATOR: The test did, however, contain a built-in flaw.

In 1986, the Wagoneer was just three years old.

The vehicle in the test was 13 years old.

Scientists believe a decade of wear

may have weakened the latch so that it

could be moved laterally.

To approximate the amount of wear on the latch at the time

of the alleged incident, Failure Analysis next

brought in a 1990 Wagoneer, one of the last years

the model was manufactured.

The test was repeated with a simulated attack.

On four occasions, the actor attempted

to manipulate the latch and lower the seat with one hand.

Only once, his second attempt, and with a fair amount

of difficulty, was he successful.

A simple conclusion that it's possible or not possible

doesn't seem to be in the works.

But, nevertheless, we could probably

say that with a vehicle that's in relatively new condition,

it's very hard to do with one hand.

Although our actor was managed to do it that one time.

So, even there, it's really surprised me, I think,

that he could do that.

Whether that seat could have been operated

in the way the alleged victim described,

is really dependent on the condition of the seat

and the age of the vehicle.

And that's a primary factor in figuring out whether it could

have happened and that's something we'll never

know about the subject vehicle.

Is the condition of the seat in that vehicle.

NARRATOR: It should be noted that the subject

vehicle was not available for either the court

case or demonstration.

It was reported stolen approximately three years

after Alex Kelly was arrested.

When we return, she was a beautiful and popular

exotic dancer.

Now the investigation into her murder

hinges on a single question.

Who called the police?

A good Samaritan, or the killer himself?

You're about to hear an actual 911 call.

It was recorded by an emergency operator in Wheeling,

Illinois just north of Chicago.

The caller spoke from a pay phone

and refused to give his name.

Police believe that he alone holds

the key to solving a murder.

NARRATOR: The anonymous caller was right.

She was 27-year-old Jamie Santos wasn't breathing.

She had been smothered with a pillow,

and nothing would ever revive her.

Jamie had lived just down the road from her family.

Calls and visits were frequent.

Holidays were spent together.

She was just like a burst of energy.

When she walked in, you knew she was there,

her presence would just radiate.

I think she ultimately she just wanted to get

married and have a family.

Success was important to her.

I don't think she really had a handle on what she wanted

to be successful at, but ultimately it

was children and family.

NARRATOR: Jamie's aspirations may have been unremarkably

tame, but you would never have guessed

it if you met her on the job.

Jamie had parlayed her natural good looks

into a steady income.

She pulled in better than $1,000 a week

dancing for exclusive private parties in and around Chicago.

When Jamie first told us that she was going into dancing,

entertainment.

It was a little difficult to handle,

but she explained to us how it was going to work,

we felt a little bit more comfortable.

Because our main concern really wasn't the type of work

she was doing, but was for her safety.

Once she reassured us that she would have somebody accompany

her at all times, the driver or bodyguard,

we felt a little bit more comfortable.

How would you like to make a little extra money?

I don't think so.

Come on, let's go.

It's okay.

If she went into a place and the atmosphere wasn't right,

because the people had been drinking too much or something,

they'd just fold up and leave.

NARRATOR: On Sunday, October 27, 1991 Jamie didn't feel well.

She canceled her bookings.

She rented a couple of videotapes,

she called a friend.

That is what we know about the last night Jamie Santos.

The call for help came the next morning roughly 11:30 a.m.

There's no time.

Send an ambulance to 1765 Stonehenge Court

in Wheeling immediately.

There's a young woman.

She's not breathing, she's turning blue.

NARRATOR: Paramedics found Jamie in her bedroom.

There were obvious signs of a struggle.

Jamie's head was carefully propped on a pillow.

She had not been raped.

With no eyewitnesses, no fingerprints, nothing that

would yield a DNA profile, the only lead was

a male voice on the 911 tape.

No one in Jamie's family could identify the caller.

Investigators could not even determine

whether he was the killer or simply a passer-by.

There is a possibility the 911 caller

could be an innocent bystander that stumbled upon this.

There is evidence of a struggle, possibly somebody

could have heard a struggle.

Possibly somebody could have seen

somebody running from the area, and seen an open door.

Anybody home?

Hello?

911 caller could be afraid to come forward,

thinking that they'll be accused of being the killer,

when in fact, you know, they were bystander.

NARRATOR: However in this perplexing case,

police can just as easily envision

a scenario where the 911 call was made by the killer himself.

Hey.

Hi.

Can I come and talk for a while?

Well we've already talked, I--

We don't have evidence that there was forced entry.

So, there's a good chance person was an invited guest.

No, don't.

Don't

Could be a crime of passion.

Could have been something that started

out innocently and turned bad.

It could have been a domestic-type argument.

Look, I'm going to have to ask you to leave.

What? Now don't start with this.

No, no, no, no, no, no, - Don't, you're hurting me.

Stop it.

[inaudible]

Things went too far.

And when the person realized that he had hurt Jamie,

he had remorse.

And in that, he tried to, in several ways, get her help.

You know, he put a pillow under her head,

he made an honest effort to get medical help for her.

NARRATOR: Further bolstering the theory that the killer knew

Jamie was a certainty when providing Jamie's

address to the operator.

Send somebody, ambulance or police to 1765 Stonehenge

Court in Wheeling immediately.

1765 Stonehedge, like the bush.

What phone are you calling from?

His familiarity with the area means that he had been there

either, several times before, or he had a specific reason

to have the knowledge he did of the address,

as far as the numbers on the street,

and the pronunciation of the street.

NARRATOR: Authorities believe that if the killer did know

Jamie Santos, there is a strong likelihood

he had set his sights on her within world of exotic dancing.

Hey, hey, hey.

You're really sexy.

NARRATOR: Perhaps one of Jamie's clients

couldn't take no for an answer.

Perhaps one of her drivers had been nursing a secret passion

that flared out of control.

But every question leads to the same brick wall.

The 911 tape is a very important clue.

We feel that with the identification of the voice,

and this tape, we can resolve this matter.

I'm always trying to figure out if I know the voice,

if I know who that person is.

When I hear the urgency in his voice,

it just brings up all the emotions

of I know what he's seen, and I know that I can't help her.

I feel that this person could give us

some information on this, and I can't understand

why he doesn't come forward.

And help us to relieve some of the pain of Jamie's death.

NARRATOR: Here again is the actual 911 recording

made in October of 1991.

If you recognize the voice, contact the Wheeling,

Illinois police department.

Please listen closely.

Send someone to 1765 Stonehedge Court in Wheeling,

immediately.

There's a young woman there who's not breathing.

She's turning blue

- 1765 Stonehenge? - Stonehedge.

Hedge like the bush.

OK.

In Wheeling?

Yeah.

What phone number are calling from?

I don't know, it's a public phone.

When were you at that house, sir?

Bye.

[beep]

Sir?

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