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ANNOUNCER: Tonight on "Unsolved Mysteries"--

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Her name is Dolly

and her very existence has set off

a compelling debate regarding the future of cloning.

How far is science willing to go?

Should cloning be used to duplicate living human beings?

Can it be used to bring back the dead?

In Los Angeles, a young boy is rushed

to the hospital in a state of full cardiac arrest.

Two years later, a little girl is brought to the same ER

unconscious and battered.

The common link is this woman, a live-in nanny

accused of murder and assault.

He can pick up your scent even from a moving car.

He's one of nature's original and best detectives.

Meet Yogi the bloodhound.

We'll follow Yogi as he tracks a kidnapper and his young victim.

It was code named Operation Stargate,

and it may have been the most incredible espionage

program ever launched by our government.

David Morehouse was part of it, but Morehouse claims he

was no ordinary secret agent.

He was a psychic spy for the CIA.

Join me for these fascinating new cases and more,

on tonight's "Unsolved Mysteries."

[theme music playing]

It is just a nondescript wooden building,

but it was once headquarters for an incredible

clandestine operation.

The man you're about to meet claims

he was part of that operation.

He was one of America's psychic spies.

What I was trained to do is to transcend time and space

to view persons, places, or things remote in time and space

and to gather and report intelligence

information on the same.

And some examples of those targets

would be soft targets, which would be the mind of a test

engineer or of a design engineer or of a military figure

or a political figure or hard targets, which were weapons,

research and development facilities,

the locations of submarines, the locations

of counter-narcotics targets, things of that ilk.

I'm spiraling down, approaching the target.

I'm in the middle of something, just outside of a big building.

There's a great deal of activity here, lots of noise, confusion.

I can't quite make out the target location yet.

MONITOR: Can you find the target?

DAVID MOREHOUSE: There's two armed guards protecting

the entrance to this building.

MONITOR: Good.

Move there and let's see what we find.

DAVID MOREHOUSE: I'm moving through the door.

I'm going up a staircase.

Looks like there's a--

no, two-- two more armed guards.

MONITOR: Pass through the wall and describe

the contents of that room.

DAVID MOREHOUSE: I sense there's going

to be some sort of trial or judgment

that's about to take place.

My god, it's him.

It's the target.

It is called remote viewing.

The goal is to witness distant events

and gather information by harnessing

the psychic power of the mind.

For at least two decades, American intelligence agencies

employed this technique.

Most recently code named Stargate,

it was a top secret espionage program the government

never wanted you to know about.

David Morehouse certainly never expected to be the man

to blow the whistle on it.

David Morehouse was third generation Army, the son and

grandson of career officers.

He graduated from Brigham Young University

at the top of his class.

His background in ROTC training put

him on the military fast track.

By 1987, Morehouse was a company commander with the Rangers,

the Army's elite fighting unit.

In March of that year, he was sent to the Kingdom of Jordan

to take part in a desert training exercise,

but a stray machine gun bullet would

soon change his life forever.

[gunfire]

The bullet lodged in Morehouse's helmet, knocking him out cold.

It was then that he claims he experienced

a vision of overwhelming power.

DAVID MOREHOUSE: I had a messenger--

or I could call it an angel or a spirit--

that came to me during this time that I was knocked out.

I had spent some 13 years of my life practicing the art

and science of taking human life,

and yet here I stood in the presence

of something who said to me--

very vividly, I recall, said to me--

what you have chosen in life, the path

you have chosen in life, is the wrong path

and you are now to choose a path of peace.

And then it was over.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): But these sketches by Morehouse

are testimony that it wasn't over.

He began having horrifying dreams,

nightmares so debilitating they drove

him to an Army psychologist.

The psychologist suspected the concussion

had somehow released in Morehouse

a latent psychic faculty.

DAVID MOREHOUSE: I half hoped that this individual would

have me taken away and evaluated and medicated

and make it all stop.

Instead, what he did do was walk over to a file safe

and pull out three blue folders that were stamped "Top

Secret: Grill Flame" and brought them over

and proudly presented them to me and set them on my lap

and said, I would like you to review these

and I would like your analysis tomorrow.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The program was then

code named Grill Flame.

That night, Morehouse pored over the files,

especially the transcripts of the remote viewing sessions.

DAVID MOREHOUSE: The verbiage used

was almost frightening, chilling--

pass through the wall and describe

the contents of the room.

I mean, that made the hair stand up on the back of my neck.

It intrigued me beyond any description

that I could possibly offer.

And the next morning before the psychologist ever even came in,

I was standing at his door waiting to come

in and talk to him about it.

Relax.

Keep your focus.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): David Morehouse

volunteered to join the unit.

Working with a monitor, he learned to use biofeedback

to control his brainwaves and send his consciousness

to the far points of the globe.

I can feel the warmth of the sun on my back

and the cold on my nostrils.

DAVID MOREHOUSE: I was obviously apparitional in form

and I was hovering above whatever

it was from a very close distance and I was moving.

It wasn't the object that was moving,

I was moving across the object.

Peaking, dropping sharply.

Hell, I don't know.

I think it's a mountain.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): During practice sessions,

a monitor placed a photograph of the target site

in an envelope across the room.

His first time out, David Morehouse demonstrated

he had genuine ability.

DAVID MOREHOUSE: My first target was Mt.

Fuji.

I was shocked.

I didn't believe it.

In that instant, I had gone to Mt.

Fuji and was describing what I saw, smelled, heard,

and felt at that location.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Over the next year,

David Morehouse worked with seven other remote viewers

at Operation Stargate, steadily refining his psychic talents.

One of his most difficult assignments

came on February 17th, 1988.

On that day, Marine Lieutenant Colonel William Higgins

was taken hostage in Beirut, Lebanon

by a group of Shiite Muslims.

Colonel Higgins was head of the United Nations group

monitoring the fragile truce between Israel and Lebanon.

I got it.

It's him.

MONITOR: Are you certain?

Of course I am.

This is Colonel Higgins.

English?

Not English?

Who sent you?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Morehouse says he

and the other remote viewers, desperate to find Higgins,

began a marathon series of psychic sessions.

He's not doing well.

He looks worse.

[inaudible]

DAVID MOREHOUSE: Even though we could see him being moved

and we could describe his surroundings

in the room and the beatings and his physical conditioning

and his emotional condition, we still could not or were not

ever able to provide an address that

would allow a rescue team to go in

and affect the hostage rescue.

He's going to die.

I can taste it.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Morehouse claims

that the remote viewers psychically

sensed Higgins' death a year and a half into his captivity.

Just a few days later, the kidnappers

confirmed that Colonel Higgins had been murdered.

More than two years would pass before his remains

were recovered.

Another major challenge for the Remote Viewing Unit

came just before Christmas in 1988.

On December 21st, Pan Am flight 103

exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland,

killing all 259 people aboard and 11 more on the ground.

Hours later, with the cause of the crash still unknown,

the remote viewers were called into an emergency session.

They were not given any details or a specific target,

only a set of coordinates.

Their visions would prove to be remarkably similar.

--75, 29, 38.

I'm having difficulty focusing.

There's a great deal of emotion here.

I see people sitting in a row, some sleeping,

relaxing, some moving about.

I'm going to call this one.

I'm looking at the interior of an airplane.

That's it.

[explosion]

Oh my god.

The entire plane just disintegrated.

DAVID MOREHOUSE: For us remote viewers,

it was a tremendous emotional toll to us

to watch that catastrophic event take place

and to see the confusion of these souls

that were instantly there.

As everything that was physical about them plummeted to Earth,

their souls remained there in this ethereal state.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Within a day

of the disaster, Morehouse and the other viewers

pieced together a scenario.

They believed flight 103 was blown up

by a terrorist bomb hidden inside a suitcase

in the forward cargo hold.

Amazingly, after two months of detailed investigation,

the FBI and the Scottish police came to that exact conclusion.

At Fort Meade, Morehouse continued his psychic sessions,

but he was becoming disillusioned.

He claims the program's leaders were

pushing the remote viewers to use their minds

as tactical weapons.

We were starting to develop the protocols to be

able to access the mind of another human being

for the purpose of destruction or death.

And that is when I finally drew the line and said, I cannot

any longer be a part of this.

I can't see this tremendous gift turned

into a very powerful and tremendous and very elusive

dark weapon, which is what we were going to do with it.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): David Morehouse

decided to violate his security oath and go public.

The government's response was swift.

They threatened him with court martial.

Morehouse chose to resign his commission and leave the Army.

He eventually wrote a book, "Psychic Warrior."

In 1995, the CIA admitted the existence

of Operation Stargate.

In the wake of the negative publicity,

the program lost its congressional support

and was shut down.

English?

Not English?

Who sent you?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): How great are the untapped powers

of the human mind?

Can they release us from the prisons of our bodies?

Can remote viewing be used to reveal the secrets of the past,

the present, even the future?

If you believe David Morehouse, the potential

is real, the ramifications both awesome and ominous.

Coming up, when researchers announced

that a sheep had been successfully cloned,

controversy spread worldwide.

What happens when science circumvents nature?

But first, the search for a fugitive nanny

suspected of assaulting the very children entrusted to her care.

July 25, 1990, a chilling nightmare for any parent.

Paramedics rush four-year-old Ashley Berman into an emergency

room outside of Los Angeles.

She was unconscious and barely breathing.

Can you tell me how that happened?

I-- I-- she apparently had some sort of seizure

and fell and hit her head.

How far was the fall?

It wasn't far.

She just fell on the floor.

I don't know, I wasn't there.

She was with the nanny.

Has she had seizures before?

Yes.

She's had them before, but it's never been serious, no.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): A short time later, the doctor

made a stunning accusation.

Ashley had been physically assaulted. the likely suspect,

her nanny.

I looked at him and said, no way.

I said, I don't know what you're talking about.

Rosa would never hurt Ashley.

She took care of her.

We had neighbors that would see Rosa and Ashley at the park.

They would call me up and tell me how lucky I

was to have somebody like Rosa.

I did not believe them.

With more and more working couples facing the daunting

challenge of earning a living and raising a family,

many parents have been forced to rely on live-in nannies

to care for their children.

Most of the time, it's the beginning

of a loving and wonderful relationship,

but every so often, as in the case of Jeff and Sharon Berman,

parents discover that they have unwittingly

subjected their child to a reign of terror.

Listen, we understand you worked for our neighbor.

How long did you work there?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The Bermas met Rosa Hernandez

in 1988, when she applied to be the live-in nanny

for two-year-old Ashley.

That first day, Rosa was accompanied by her cousin,

who helped to translate.

[speaking spanish]

JEFF BERMAN: Rosa was very highly recommended

by various neighbors.

One neighbor that she worked for a couple of years

beforehand who swore by her that said that she was wonderful

and that she would be perfect to watch our daughter

and that she had experience with kids and she

was very good at what she did.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): But how

would Ashley respond to Rosa?

The Bermans had the answer very quickly.

JEFF BERMAN: When we brought Ashley down to meet her,

Ashley seemed to connect very well, as well

as Rosa connected with Ashley.

So I felt that this was definitely going to work out

and that she'd be good with Ashley.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The next week, Rosa Hernandez

moved in with the Bermans.

From the outset, she and Ashley were practically inseparable.

Everything seemed to be working out fine.

Ashley seemed to be very fond of Rosa.

We'd be at a store and Ashley would

always go over towards the gums and say,

can we buy this for Rosa?

She always wanted to buy things for Rosa,

she'd always talk about Rosa.

She always wanted to make Rosa be happy and feel happy.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): For a year, all went well.

Then, however, Ashley began suffering from a series

of mysterious injuries.

How are you doing?

Oh, my goodness.

What happened to your arm?

A boy hit me.

At school?

Every time we asked Ashley, what happened, how did you

get this, she'd always tell us it happened at school,

that she hurt her hand on the swing,

that a little boy hit her with a shovel, another child

hit her with a Barbie.

There was always an answer that it happened at school.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): But in February of 1990,

it happened at home, a deep gash on Ashley's head

that required several stitches.

You fell down the stairs.

Were you there, Mom? - No.

The nanny was with her.

What happened?

She jumped in the stairs and she hit it and she fell.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): According to Rosa,

Ashley had been periodically blacking

out and experiencing seizures.

Although the Bermans never witnessed an episode

themselves, they feared Ashley had

developed a serious physiological disorder.

We put Ashley through all kinds of tests.

We put her through CAT scans, MRIs which were

very difficult to get a four-and-a-half-year-old

child into an MRI.

With all the tests, they could find absolutely nothing

that related that she had any tendency

really towards seizures.

All indications was is that she was a very healthy child.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): A few months later, Jeff Berman

came home early from a walk to find

that his very healthy child had once

again been severely injured.

[speaking spanish] - Whoa.

Slow down.

Slow down.

What happened?

Come here. Calm down.

What happened?

She slipped.

She slipped.

And Rosa proceeded to tell me that Ashley had fallen down.

She was wearing some shoes and she tripped and she fell down.

And I felt comfortable that she had just fallen.

I saw the shoes, the shoes were in the kitchen floor.

So when, again, the scene was re-enacted by Ashley,

it all made sense.

Can you tell me what happened?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Just nine

days later came Ashley Berman's frightening brush with death.

I thought Ashley was going to die on us I mean,

I just looked at her, she was all pale, hooked up.

And I thought we were going to lose her.

And pretty much we were told if she survived, if she lived,

she'd more than likely be retarded or blind or both.

Give me a CAT scan, a full set of lab,

and run the IV [inaudible].

After I examined Ashley, I was suspicious that Ashley

might have been abused.

She had some small hemorrhages in the retina.

This is a condition that's associated

with shaken baby syndrome.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Dr. Gillingham

decided to check into Ashley's medical history

and phoned her pediatrician.

I have one of your patients here, an Ashley Berman.

She's showing signs of retinal hemorrhaging.

It wasn't until I spoke with Ashley's pediatrician

that we made a connection to a prior case

where the same caregiver had been involved in taking

care of a child who died of what they

thought might be child abuse.

This way, number two.

For the Bermans, it was a shocking piece of news.

Two years earlier, Dr. Gillingham

had treated a 17-month-old boy who

was rushed to the hospital in a state of full cardiac arrest.

That day, the toddler had reportedly been

in the care of Rosa Hernandez.

The Bermans knew of the incident,

but had heard the boy choked on a hot dog.

We were able to resuscitate the child,

get the child breathing and with a good blood pressure

and pulse.

The child was subsequently admitted to the hospital

but then died within the next, I think, 17 or 18 hours.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): An autopsy

revealed that the boy had a fractured skull

with internal bleeding.

His death was ruled a homicide.

However, there was not enough evidence to file

charges against Rosa Hernandez.

Now with Ashley Berman fighting for her life,

police believed they had a case against Hernandez.

She was charged with child abuse and murder.

I love Ashley.

I never hurt her.

I love her.

And Rosa's first reaction was she

looked at me with an evil look in her face and said,

why, mister?

Why?

I love Ashley.

I love Ashley, when they led her out.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Ashley spent

a full week in the hospital and eventually

made a complete recovery.

Today she is 11 years old and more

than willing to talk about her experiences

with Rosa Hernandez.

ASHLEY BERMAN: She used to push me down the steps.

I would hide her [inaudible] shawl to get her back

and so she took silverware and hit my nails.

And she would also take her earrings

and poke them through my nails.

And she would bang my head against the walls,

the doors, and the wood floors.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): In March of 1991,

Rosa Hernandez pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter

and child abuse.

Despite protests from the Bermans,

she was released on her own recognizance

and promptly disappeared.

I believe that it's been a long enough period of time

that she feels safe, and I fear that that's true

because if it is, she's back in the States

and she may be babysitting right now another child that's going

to fall victim to her abuse.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Today, some seven years

after her traumatic ordeal, Ashley Berman

has a younger brother and sister and a bright and promising

future.

Every time that I look at her, I visualize

what could have been--

the fact that she could have died,

she could have been retarded, she could have had

major learning disabilities.

I'm very thankful that we were lucky,

that Ashley is a normal, healthy 11-year-old child

today because she may not have ever

made it past four and half.

She would have been four and a half forever.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Maria Rosa Hernandez, a native of El

Salvador, is now 32 years old.

She is five feet, four inches tall

and weighs approximately 130 pounds.

She is a mother of three.

Hernandez speaks broken English and has

what appeared to be burn scars on her right upper forearm.

When we return, police enlist the astonishing abilities

of Yogi the bloodhound in the desperate search

for a little girl.

He doesn't have a badge, he never

went to the Police Academy, he doesn't even own a uniform.

But when it comes to tracking down criminals,

he's one of the best.

This is Yogi, a five-year-old purebred bloodhound,

one of 1,000 bloodhounds currently

working in law enforcement.

Forget all the modern investigating techniques.

In this story, Yogi proves that nothing beats a remarkable nose

of a bloodhound.

We're looking for a little girl, sir.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): May 18th, 1993.

Police in Englewood, Colorado, a Denver suburb,

search door to door for a five-year-old Alie Berrelez

Alie was last seen playing in the courtyard

of the apartment complex where she lived with her family.

Her babysitter went inside for a few minutes.

When she returned, Ali had disappeared.

The search continued for four days,

but police could not find a single clue.

Finally, they turned to an age old crime fighting tool.

I had never been exposed to the bloodhounds and the work

that they do.

And it was certainly something-- anything we could try

to do to find this little girl.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): As news cameras rolled,

Yogi the bloodhound and his handler, Canine Officer

Jerry Nichols, went to work.

Yogi took Alie's scent from clothing she had recently worn,

then started moving.

He first went up the stairs, zeroing

in on a single apartment, Alie's home.

It was a good sign.

Yogi was on the right track.

I wanted to have hope that this bloodhound would be

able to find our granddaughter.

From my balcony on the second floor,

I was watching the dog work and there was a sort of comfort

that I felt because I felt, now they're going to find her.

Now they're to find her and they're

going to find her alive.

Where did he go?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Yogi led

Jerry out of the apartment complex

and south, down the street.

The media crush followed close behind, recording every move,

but the dog wasn't bothered at all.

JERRY NICHOLS: He didn't care.

He was oblivious to everything other

than what he was doing because he's happy doing it.

Well, a bloodhound is by instinct a tracker by nature.

It's something they are bred to do and they live to do.

Their sense of smell is just incredible.

The loose skin around the face just

acts as a place for the scent to be attracted to the skin folds.

The jowls, the slobbering is the moisture

that the dog is emitting will actually help enhance

that scent around his face.

He's putting moisture in the air.

And those long dangling floppy ears,

it stirs it up in front of him.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): A scent trail,

whether animal or human, comes from thousands

of dead skin cells that are constantly being shed.

If those cells are not swept away by weather changes

like snow, rain, or severe winds,

the scent could remain clear for up to a month.

JERRY NICHOLS: When a dog is introduced a specific scent

to track, he basically focuses on that scent

and forgets and ignores the rest.

His job is this is the scent I have to work,

this is where I'm going to go in.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): As Yogi followed Alie's scent,

Jerry quickly recognized a familiar pattern

in the way the dog was working.

JERRY NICHOLS: If a person's walking on foot,

the scent's a little bit stronger

and they're going to stay by the sidewalk.

But he is working the wide between the street

and between the fronts of businesses

and he's still picking it up on the fringes.

And seeing him do that before, he just--

in my mind, he was working a car.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Unbelievable

as it seems, we leave scent trails even

from fast-moving cars.

The skin cells shoot out through the car's ventilation

and exhaust system and are deposited on this side

of the road, where a bloodhound's

nose can quickly pick them up.

JERRY NICHOLS: We've even done scenarios

in training where we'll put a person

in a trunk that's sealed up and they still can pick it up.

His world is his nose.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Yogi led the search

party south for several miles, covering almost 40 city blocks.

At the entrance to a freeway, he headed

straight up the westbound ramp.

Where is he, buddy?

Oh, good dog.

Good dog.

I was very skeptical that dog was doing anything

other than going for a walk.

But when he took that first ramp to I-470

and did so with so much confidence,

then I started to wonder, maybe the dog

is really onto something here.

Now we're on an interstate.

As far as I know, we could end up coming around I-70

and heading towards California.

You think he's still got it?

Oh, I know he's got something.

I mean, that's why he's coming this way.

But I don't know how far we're going to go

or where we're going to go.

Let's go.

Come on, buddy.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The search party

drove west to the next exit.

Would the scent trail lead Yogi further down the freeway

or off the exit ramp?

Come on.

Let's go.

Where is he?

Come on.

JERRY NICHOLS: Sure enough, he kept on working

and he went past it.

So then we'd load him up, go the next exit.

And we did the same thing several times.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): To save time and effort,

the police decided to skip the fourth exit

and move onto the fifth.

Yogi quickly made it obvious that they had overshot the mark

and lost the trail.

He doesn't have it here.

We're going to have to get back on the other side.

We've had everything going westbound up to here.

Now it's not here.

Come on.

Where is he? come on.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): They backtracked one

half mile to the previous exit.

Yogi again picked up the scent and led them off the freeway.

He headed in the direction of a wooded area, Deer Creek Canyon.

The canyon is located here, southwest

of the apartment complex where Alie Berrelez disappeared.

Yogi had been trailing Alie's scent

over city streets, parking lots, and freeways

for more than seven hours.

He had covered nearly 14 miles.

Yogi, come on. Let's go.

Come on. Pick it up.

I know you're hot.

Com eon.

Let's go.

JERRY NICHOLS: He was slowing down a little bit,

the tongue was really dragging and he was really slobbering

and I could tell he was getting hot.

Yogi where is he? Come on.

Come on.

JERRY NICHOLS: A hound has a drive, unfortunately,

they will run themselves to death.

If they get tired, they don't care.

They don't stop. - I know it's hot.

Come on.

That's a boy.

Come on.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Though it

was clear Yogi's strength was failing, Yogi refused to stop.

Good dog.

Good boy.

He basically kept looking at me as to, why are we stopping?

I'm not ready to stop.

I want to keep going.

This is my track, I want to get there.

It's kind of hard for him.

He didn't really appreciate me putting him up,

but I put him up.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Jerry felt he had no choice.

Yogi had to rest.

Before Jerry could bring the dog back the next morning,

human volunteers picked up the search.

Within an hour, they knew why Yogi had not wanted to quit.

The body of Alie Berrelez was found

less than two miles from the point where

Yogi had been forced to stop.

Without Yogi, Alie's body might never have been discovered.

JERRY NICHOLS: I think at first it didn't sink in

because I was pretty upset at the fact

that Alie was found dead.

And then over time, I realized everything worked just right.

He was started right, the dog worked well,

and to end up where he did it just-- yeah,

I was totally amazed.

I really couldn't believe it at first.

Because he was able to find her,

we were able to at least have a decent funeral

for our granddaughter.

We were able to view her, we were able to be there with her.

It was something because we felt that we had found her,

we had a type of joy that we felt OK, everybody

is here again together.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Yogi's job was not over.

Alie's killer unwittingly left behind a single vital clue,

his scent.

Yogi took that side and trailed it back to the same apartment

complex where Alie had lived.

The killer had apparently returned

to the scene of the kidnapping.

The track was working, so that focused our investigation

as to we were looking for someone that had been

in the same area and brought our focus

back to the apartment building.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Police have

not yet found Ali's killer.

While the investigation continues,

Alie's family and friends have set

up a foundation to donate bloodhounds

to police departments.

We were going to do something in memory of our granddaughter

and my thoughts were, what if there were always bloodhounds

available minutes, seconds after a child is called in missing?

What if those bloodhounds would be available?

Would they be able to find a child

before that child gets hurt?

Would this one bloodhound, had he been there minutes

after our granddaughter had been abducted,

would this bloodhound have been able to find our granddaughter

right there in somebody's apartment in the apartment

complex before she was hurt?

These dogs have a purpose in law enforcement.

I mean, we're out here working for the communities

and the citizens.

And the citizens do not care what

it takes to get the job done, they just expect

you to do everything you can.

And if this is a tool to help us do that, that's what we do

and that's how we approach it.

And they really have done some amazing things for us.

Come on, let's go. Pick it up.

I know you're hot.

Come on.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Next, she

symbolizes both the power and the pitfalls of modern science.

She is the first perfect clone and

her existence may forever alter our concepts of life and death.

With the fictional Dr. Frankenstein built his monster

from scavenged body parts, terrified filmgoers

can still remind themselves it's only a movie.

Few would have guessed that just decades later, science

would be on the brink of actually creating a human being

in the lab, not out of parts but through an extraordinary

process known as cloning.

Once considered impossible, cloning is a dramatic advance

that may someday end the tyranny of diseases like cancer

and sickle cell anemia.

But some fear we have opened a Pandora's box

of freakish possibilities that could allow us

to endlessly recreate ourselves or even

bring the dead back to life.

Critics argue that such matters are best left to nature.

Simply put, cloning is making an exact copy,

and in nature it is hardly uncommon.

When a fertilized egg divides and separates,

the result is two embryos, two sets

of identical genetic codes, one set of identical twins.

The challenge for science was duplicating the process

artificially and at will.

In the 1950s, researchers took DNA from one frog embryo

and made a second frog, its exact genetic double.

By the 1980s, the same process had been used to create

cow and sheep embryos.

However, scientists couldn't engineer a clone

from a fully grown animal--

at least not until Dolly.

The whole world now knows who and what

she is, the first mammal ever cloned from an adult.

With her birth in Scotland last July,

researchers crossed an historic threshold.

I had no doubt that we would be

able to take the technology that was used in Scotland

and perfect it with human eggs.

And within a few years, with a little bit of tinkering

they'll be able to clone human beings.

There is much about cloning that we still do not know.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): That looming

possibility prompted an immediate response

from the president.

--creation is not simply a matter of scientific inquiry.

It is a matter of morality and spirituality, as well.

Therefore, today I am issuing a directive--

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): President Clinton's ban

on federal funding of human cloning research

came amidst rampant speculation that it was

not a question of if, but when human cloning would

be a reality.

Countries can pass laws, they can regulate,

they can discourage in a very legitimate way,

but they ultimately cannot control cloning.

There is no way to prevent some latter day Victor Frankenstein

from cloning a human being if, indeed,

she or he chooses to do so.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The presumed

difficulty of imposing controls has spawned dire predictions.

Perhaps cloning would lead to the creation of a workforce

of enslaved clones or end in a race of fiendish humanoids

without souls, or perhaps the search for people to clone

will reach beyond the grave.

It is possible to freeze cells,

and if the cells are frozen properly, you could bring,

for example, a dead person back to life

in the sense of bringing his genes back to life.

People today could die, have their cells frozen down,

and potentially in the future these people could

have clones of themselves born.

It's possible to imagine that we could clone someone

from the past who was not just someone who was good,

but also someone who was extremely evil.

If, for example, someone recommended that we clone Adolf

Hitler, the expectation would be that this

would be the same evil leader of the past.

But what we know, of course, that that

would be an impossibility.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): It is impossible

because a clone of an adult doesn't

emerge from the lab as another fully-formed adult.

Far from it.

A clone begins as a microscopic embryo floating

at the bottom of a test tube.

Imagine, then, if someone did, indeed, successfully clone

Adolf Hitler.

The embryo would have to be implanted

into a surrogate mother, carried for nine months until birth,

then raised into adulthood.

There is no way to know, let alone

guarantee, who that person would turn out to be.

We don't know what produced Adolf Hitler

in the first place, to what extent

was it his genetic makeup; to what extent

was it very small variations in the circumstances of his life.

The new person that is born will look eerily

like the person that already exists,

but it will be a different person.

It will have its own personality, its own soul.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The same limits apply to those

we might want to see cloned--

people like Albert Einstein or Ben Franklin.

However, as tantalizing as it might seem to resurrect

the past, the best use of cloning

appears to be in building the future.

The most obvious advantage of cloning is for someone who

cannot have children to be offered the opportunity

to have children.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): For such couples,

cloning could be a godsend.

But others might see it as an opportunity to cheat

death by recreating themselves.

There is the fear that people might

want to clone themselves to achieve

an immortality of some sort.

And this is the worry that somebody will clone themselves

into a child and then expect that child to live

the same life that they lived.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The lure of immortality

and the potential of cloning could add up to an even more

appalling outcome, the possibility

of a real-life Frankenstein.

There's the worry in many people's mind that individuals

will want to clone themselves to be able to use their so-called

clones for body parts if their body

parts wear out later in life.

Every clone that is born is going

to be a complete human being.

The person won't be a sub human being in any way whatsoever.

And if you took a heart out of that person,

that would be murder--

nothing less than murder.

Cloning is like a hammer.

You can use it for good purposes or you can use

it for objectionable purposes.

You can use it to build a house or you can use it

to bash someone over the head.

Cloning has the potential for providing

a real service to humanity.

Once we have gotten over the shock of the more startling

possibilities, we will come to the realization

that genuine advantages may attached to it.

The scariest cloning scenarios do seem

unlikely, at least for now.

But as we learned with splitting the atom,

scientific advances can give rise

to unintended consequences.

With human cloning all but inevitable,

this is a time for researchers, theologians, and civic leaders

to lay down some ground rules.

With foresight, cloning might serve us well.

Otherwise, just like Frankenstein's monster,

it could emerge from the lab as an awesome threat.

Join me next time for another fascinating edition

of "Unsolved Mysteries."

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