Original subtitles

[music playing]

[music playing]

NARRATOR: Tonight on "Unsolved Mysteries."

ROBERT STACK: For six-year-old Katherine Korzilius, is it

was just a short walk home, but something

terrible happened on the way.

Now the mystery of Katherine's tragic death and her parent's

desperate search for answers, has been chronicled in a song

by a family friend and rock artist, Jon Bon Jovi.

His life of crime began when he was just six-years-old.

Now, he's considered the best cat burglar in America.

And he has relieved his wealthy victims of $30 million.

Beware of the Dinnertime Bandit.

The Gulf War, the Oklahoma City bombing,

the earthquake in Kobe, Japan--

according to the best selling book,

"The Bible Code," these events, and many others,

were predicted nearly 3,000 years ago.

Does the ancient text of the Bible

contain a secret code that charts the history of mankind?

You'll meet a young mother who says she needs your help.

Several years ago, her five-month-old baby vanished.

Now, police believe it was foul play

and she may be the key suspect.

MARLENE AISENBERG: When the police sit across from you

and say, we believe you know where your daughter is,

and we believe you know who has her,

there's a good reason to get an attorney.

Join me for these intriguing stories and more.

Perhaps, you may be able to help solve a mystery.

[music playing]

[piano playing]

ROBERT STACK: Even though she was just six years old,

Katherine Korzilius seemed to be leading a charmed life.

She lived in an upscale neighborhood

outside Austin, Texas with her parents Nancy

and Paul and her brother, Chris.

Her father was a personal manager

for rock star Jon Bon Jovi.

The two families were close and often vacationed together.

When Katherine had her first piano recital in December

of 1995, no one could have imagined that she would never

live to see the first grade.

And that her death would become a tragic unsolved

mystery, memorialized by her father's

old friend, Jon Bon Jovi.

[[MUSIC - JON BON JOVI, "AUGUST 7, 4:15"]

Tell me it was just a dream, August 7, 4:15.

ROBERT STACK: Tell me it was just a dream, August 7, 4:15--

that's when Nancy and Paul Korzilius's world

came crashing down.

August 7, 1996, was Paul Korzilius's birthday.

He was working at his office in New York City.

Nancy and the kids had spent the day

running errands around Austin, picking out a gift from.

You know, I think dad's really going to like his present.

I think he will, too.

Hey, Chris.

Katherine, settle down.

NANCY KORZILIUS: We had been very busy as usual,

doing some shopping and taking in some lunch

and some appointments.

It was extremely hot.

It was very quiet here in our neighborhood, as it usually is.

In fact, I can remark that it was

exceptionally quiet that day.

ROBERT STACK: On the way home, they stopped at the community

mailbox to pick up the mail.

It was a ritual Katherine looked forward to.

Nancy knew what would happen next.

Mommy, may I walk home?

Sure, I'll see you when you get there.

It was Katherine's way of saying she was a big girl.

NANCY KORZILIUS: I allowed Katherine to do that because I

knew she was ready to be more independent,

and she had done it before.

ROBERT STACK: Nancy and Chris drove home in the direction

the car was already facing.

Katherine went in the opposite direction,

the shorter way home.

ROBERT STACK: The Korzilius family

lives here on Elder Circle.

The community mailboxes are located here.

Nancy and Chris drove home in this direction.

Katherine apparently followed this route.

NANCY KORZILIUS: Both of my children

had walked home together and separately from the mailboxes.

It's a short walk, probably less than a quarter of a mile.

When Chris and I got home, we unloaded our car

and started putting our packages away.

Mom, Katherine's not back.

She probably just stopped somewhere along the way.

Go back up on the road and see if you can find her.

All right.

He came back in just a very short period of time,

a few minutes, and he was crying.

And he said, she's not there, mom.

We got in our car and drove right

next door to our neighbors.

I ran down the steps to their front door,

knocked on the door.

Their son answered.

Hi, is Katherine here?

No, ma'am.

She hasn't been by here at all?

I believe, at that moment, Chris and I knew that something

terrible had happened.

ROBERT STACK: Nancy would find out how to her just minutes

later.

NANCY KORZILIUS: I could tell that she was unconscious,

but she was breathing.

And I knew it was too hot to leave her on the pavement.

I know that it's never a good idea to move somebody

if you don't know what their injuries are,

but I just couldn't leave her there.

And I think having driven her to the emergency

before knowing the way very well,

I felt confident that I was able to drive that drive.

ROBERT STACK: Katherine Korzilius

had suffered a fractured skull.

She never regained consciousness.

NANCY KORZILIUS: Katherine was on a ventilator

to keep her breathing, but she was brain dead.

It wasn't a matter of her being in a coma or being unconscious,

her brain had died.

I arranged for a charter aircraft

so I could come directly home, but in the end,

it was too late anyway.

I arrived at 12:30 in the morning

and I believe she was pronounced dead at 11:30 that night,

an hour before my arrival.

ROBERT STACK: From the start, everyone assumed that Katherine

Korzilius was a victim of a hit-and-run,

but even as the police searched for a driver,

a disturbing question surfaced.

How did Katherine end up in the spot where she was found?

Katherine was last seen headed in this direction.

Less than 10 minutes later, she was

found here on the opposite side of the circle,

half a mile away.

The extent of her injuries were

such that she didn't take a step after she received the injury.

And the point that her body was found on Elder Circle,

is not on the path that she walked from the mailbox

to the house.

ROBERT STACK: No one could explain it,

and the medical examiner's report

would only deepen the mystery.

He determined that Katherine had not died

from a hit-and-run accident.

In addition to the head injury, he found abrasions

on Katherine's left shoulder, the small of her back,

on her right hip, and on both knees.

What could have caused them?

The injuries that Katherine sustained

could have been the result of either jumping from a moving

vehicle, being thrown from a moving vehicle,

or falling from a moving vehicle.

The type of injury that we expect in this circumstance

that would have been the same.

[music playing]

ROBERT STACK: If Katherine did tumble from a moving

vehicle, whose vehicle was it?

And was she pushed?

Or did she fall?

PAUL KORZILIUS: One of the theories that investigators

proposed was that indeed, somehow Katherine had jumped

on the back of our vehicle without Nancy's knowledge

and as the vehicle drove around Elder Circle,

she had fallen off which was a way to explain where she was

found in Elder Circle, which is completely

opposite of where she would have been on her normal route.

[music playing]

ROBERT STACK: The Korzilius family was stunned.

Was it possible that Nancy was responsible for her daughter's

death?

The Korzilius's hired their own private investigator,

Barbara O'Brien.

She has difficulty with the police scenario.

Now the problem with that is, it's a hot August day.

This whole car would have been very, very hot.

There's only one place to hold on to all the way up here.

And the door is the only other place down here to hold on to,

and it opens when you get a hold of it.

She also had a broken left thumb and she had a splint

on her thumb so it would have been

extremely difficult for her to get a hold on anything.

And her mother would have seen her in the rear view mirror.

ROBERT STACK: For the Korzilius family,

the implication is clear.

They believe their daughter was abducted and murdered.

A search of a vacant overgrown lot,

just 30 yards from the mailboxes,

may have provided a crucial clue.

A few days after Katherine's death,

the investigators did bring in the K-9

unit and search the area.

They did pick up her scent over in this vacant lot, which would

indicate that she was coming in this direction

from the mailboxes, taking the most direct route home.

The scent was lost, however, which tells us that this may

have been the point where she was abducted

or the injury took place.

But she was then later moved to where

she was found by her mother.

She looked like she'd been laid out there for me to find.

Her hair was smooth down.

Her shirt was straight.

Her shorts were straight.

Her toes were pointed straight.

Her sandals were on.

I know someone moved her, and I know someone

laid her there for me to find.

ROBERT STACK: What did happen to Katherine Korzilius that August

afternoon?

A year after her death, Katherine lives on in memories.

Her neighbors on Elder Circle had planted a tree

and placed a plaque in her name.

[MUSIC - JON BON JOVI, "AUGUST 7, 4:15"]

Tell me it was just a dream, August 7, 4:15.

God closed His eyes and the world got mean.

August 7, 4:15.

JON BON JOVI: I think if Paul and Nancy, as parents, knew how

it happened, perhaps it could help them with the closure

of this tragic event.

Nothing that anyone can say or do

is ever going to bring their daughter back to them,

but it's twice as hard not knowing what happened.

NANCY KORZILIUS: I think of families of people

who are missing in action.

Well, they're not here, but what happened to them?

And that's exactly, to a certain extent,

how I feel about our daughter.

I had Katherine's body, but something happened

in the last 15 minutes of her life

that I don't know what that was.

[music playing]

ROBERT STACK: He's charming and attractive

and may be out to steal your jewels.

Have you seen Alan Golder?

[music playing]

ROBERT STACK: He looks like just another tourist.

He rides tour buses to see the homes of the rich and famous.

He admires the finer things in life,

especially if they belong to someone else.

His name is Alan Golder, and his prior profession

was jewel thief.

Police believe he's at it again.

During the daytime, the cases fashionable neighborhoods so at

night, he can find the perfect moment to strike.

While he's upstairs, the owners of the home

are downstairs having dinner.

JAMES WALTERS: Alan is very good at what he does.

He gets a thrill out of what he does.

He has no other goal in life other than to be the best

jewel thief that he can be.

42-year-old Alan Golder was arguably the best cat

burglar in the United States.

From 1976 to 1980, Golder made millions stealing jewelry.

He was caught and served 15 years in prison,

but since his release in 1996, Golder

may have reclaimed his title as a Dinnertime Bandit.

Police are seeking your help to catch a thief.

[music playing]

ROBERT STACK: Golder's life of crime

began early, at the age of six.

He grew up poor in Long Island, New York.

His father, a career criminal, had abandoned

the family when Alan was three.

At 16, Golder dropped out of high school.

Even at that young age, he was earning anywhere

from a few hundred to several thousand dollars a night

by stealing.

At 21, Alan Golder he had found his niche,

burglarizing the homes of wealthy people

in Greenwich, Connecticut.

JAMES WALTERS: He thinks he is today's

answer to the Pink Panther.

He's in it for the thrill that he gets out of it as I think

about things now, in some ways, I'm

amazed Alan hasn't come forward just because he's missing all

these wonderful opportunities to be interviewed

by different TV shows.

ROBERT STACK: Between 1976 and 1980,

Alan Golder had some very good years.

It's estimated that he stole at least $25 million

worth of jewels and gems from the richest people in America.

ANNA DEJESUS: When you think about the crimes

that he committed, the ordinary person

would have said, well, with as much money as he's gotten,

why didn't he stop?

It was like an art for him.

And in another way, it was almost compulsive

for him, as if he's suffering from some sort

of compulsive disorder.

ROBERT STACK: Golder's reputation caught

the attention of the mob.

It happened when he tried to fence some stolen

jewelry at a shop in New York.

BILL KNOEDELSEDER: What it turns out

is that this particular jewel store was

a front for the Genovese family's international jewel

fencing operation.

So being 19-years-old, or whatever he was at the time,

he didn't really know what he was getting into at that point.

He was just trying to sell some jewels, but what he did was

he was, in fact, getting embedded with the mafia.

ROBERT STACK: The mob liked Golder's ambition

and took him under their wing.

They wanted to change him into an international jewel thief.

BILL KNOEDELSEDER: He would go meet them in New York

and he would hang out with them and they would

take him out to a restaurant.

It was sort of a Pygmalion thing that went on.

They sort of groomed him for the business.

You have to look for the three Cs in the diamond-- the color,

the cut, and the clarity.

Don't pick me up diamonds from a box on top of the dresser.

These are never good.

Nobody keeps expensive diamonds on top of the dresser.

Very close.

ROBERT STACK: But it was his relationship

with a mafia that would lead to Golder's downfall.

In 1978, Golder was being pressured

to bring in more jewelry.

He and two other mafia jewel thieves

were instructed to hit a home in the Hamptons.

It's believed that Golder never carried a weapon,

but one of his accomplices did.

[gunshots]

BILL KNOEDELSEDER: Alan claims he never even saw the guy.

That happened it happened in another room

in another part of the house.

And they didn't know if they killed him or not.

But they found out the next day, that the man died.

ROBERT STACK: Alan Golder's life spun out of control.

He was doing drugs and going through money like water.

Eventually, he was caught.

Facing a murder charge, he looked for a way

to reduce his sentence.

Now you know that we've got you

at the Lever estate two times previous, that we know of.

I need you to tell me, specific names and specific numbers

right there on that piece of paper.

ROBERT STACK: In exchange for selling out the mob,

Golder was given a sentence of 15 years to life.

BILL KNOEDELSEDER: You can assume that there

was a contract out in his life.

He became an official protective witness,

and the entire time he was in prison,

he was basically in protective custody.

In prison, he wasn't housed with the regular inmates.

He was housed with guys that were special cases.

That they had to watch out for so that he wouldn't be killed.

ROBERT STACK: But according to authorities, while in prison,

Golder continued to sift through magazines profiling

the homes of the wealthy.

Following his parole in 1996, he tried to go straight

or so he said.

He even had a job in mind, working as a chimney sweep.

ANNA DEJESUS: I explained to him,

there are certain employment positions that you,

because of your conviction and your criminal history,

you cannot work.

And entering into people's homes to clean chimneys

is one of them.

Then, after that, he had considered pursuing school.

We had talked at length as to what sort of careers

he could choose, but he was set on going to a gemology school,

he wanted to study gems.

ROBERT STACK: Not long after, police had another rash

of high profile burglaries on their hands,

but Alan Golder was not a suspect at the time.

But in October 1997 in Greenwich, Connecticut,

police believe Golder pushed his luck a bit too far.

He allegedly was forced to tie up a homeowner

and fled in her car.

Now police believe the Dinnertime

Bandit was back in business.

Alan Golder apparently went underground.

We can confirm, that in Greenwich, in 23 incidents

of burglary or attempted burglaries,

Alan succeeded in removing over $750,000

worth of jewelry from the houses that he hit here.

ROBERT STACK: In his career, Golder has stolen more than $30

million worth of jewelry.

And police believe he has no intention of stopping.

Alan Golder is wanted on 23 counts of burglary

and one count of kidnapping.

[music playing]

[music playing]

ROBERT STACK: Coming up.

Some say there are codes in the Bible

that predict major world events.

You decide if it's true.

[music playing]

The Bible, for centuries, mankind

has pondered its mysteries.

For many, it's the word of God, but journalist Michael

Drosnin is convinced that the Bible

may hold still other mysteries.

His controversial book, "The Bible Code,"

hit the best seller list soon after its publication

in early 1997.

Drosnin claims that there is a secret code within the Bible,

a code that has predicted the most important

events of the 20th century.

Here are some examples.

MICHAEL DROSNIN: The greatest terrorist event

in American history, the Oklahoma City bombing,

was encoded with the words-- terrible, frightening, death,

and there will be terror.

The great Kobe earthquake in Japan

that killed more than 5,000 people,

was encoded with the words--

earthquake, fire, Kobe, Japan, and the year

that it took place, 1995.

The Gulf War is encoded with the words--

Hussein, enemy, SCUDs.

Ever since there was a Bible, people

have been searching for secret hidden messages in the Bible.

I can tell you that there is no doubt

that the Bible code does exist.

And that it does detail events that

took place thousands of years after the Bible was written.

[music playing]

ROBERT STACK: In September of 1994,

Michael Drosnin persuaded an intermediary

to hand deliver a letter to Israeli prime minister, Yitzhak

Rabin.

MICHAEL DROSNIN: Mr. Prime Minister,

an Israeli mathematician has discovered

a hidden code in the Bible.

The only time your full name, Yitzhak Rabin,

is encoded in the Bible.

The words-- assassin that will assassinate--

cross your name, that should not be ignored.

I think you are in real danger, but that the danger

can be averted.

ROBERT STACK: 14 months later, prime minister Yitzhak Rabin

spoke at a peace rally in Tel Aviv.

It was a last speech Rabin would ever get.

As he left the podium that night,

he was gunned down by an assassin.

Is it possible that this event was foretold

nearly 3,000 years ago?

[music playing]

The Torah, it is said to be the word of God

brought down from Mount Sinai by Moses.

And incorporating the first five books of the Old Testament.

Hebrew scholars maintain that the Torah

predates the birth of Christ.

Prague, Czechoslovakia 1938, Rabbi HMD Weissmandl

discover the first known example of Bible

coding in the modern era.

The word, Torah, was spelled out when he skipped every 50

letters in the book of Genesis.

Skipping the same number of letters in the books

of Exodus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy,

brought the same result. Coincidence?

The odds were against it.

Over the next 50 years, advances in computer technology

lead to the next major breakthrough

in cracking the Bible code.

Israeli scientists Doron Witztum and Eliyahu Rips became

intrigued by Weissmandl's work.

They used a computer program called,

a skip code, to find words and patterns in the Hebrew

text of the Torah.

A skip code tells a computer to start with any letter of a text

and then, skip through the letters at chosen intervals.

In his book, Michael Drosnin uses this example

to show how it works.

If you skip every three letters of this sentence,

it would look like this.

You are left with a new sentence.

In this case, the encoded message is, read the code.

The Israeli mathematicians ran a script called searching

for the names of 34 prominent Jewish rabbis

spanning the last 1,100 years.

Amazingly, all the names were found embedded

in the book of Genesis.

When the computer found the encoded names of the rabbis,

it also found nearby, their Hebrew dates of birth or death.

The scientists ran the search again

with a new list of rabbis.

The results were the same.

According to Michael Drosnin, the odds

of finding the dates with the names were 10 million to one.

When these findings were published,

they aroused the attention of researchers around the world,

including Harold Gans.

Gans is a former senior cryptologic mathematician,

a code breaker, at the US Department of Defense.

When I first heard about it, I dismissed

it as simply ridiculous.

ROBERT STACK: Gans wrote his own computer

program to test the validity of the code,

and had identical results.

Then in close proximity to the rabbis, one of whom

was a distant relative, he found the encoded names of cities.

He later learned that these were the same cities

where the rabbis either had been born or died.

The odds here were more than a million to one.

HAROLD GANS: I set out to prove that it was nonsense, instead,

I ended up proving that, in fact, it was true.

I must admit, I felt a chill go up my spine

when I saw it corroborated.

ROBERT STACK: Journalist Michael Drosnin took

the research a step further.

Using the existing skip code programs,

he searched for the names of historical figures.

The results were tantalizing, but not entirely convincing,

at first.

MICHAEL DROSNIN: I did not fully believe

the Bible code was real until the day

that Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated.

The one time his name appeared in the Bible, the words,

assassin will assassinate, ran right across his name.

ROBERT STACK: Drosnin embarked on his own ambitious research

into the mysteries of the Bible code.

He now included a wide range of history's

most important personalities and pivotal events.

If Drosnin is correct, everything that follows

was predicted nearly 3,000 years ago.

According to Drosnin, Adolf Hitler

is encoded with the words--

Nazi and enemy, evil man, and slaughter.

Pearl Harbor is encoded with the words--

destruction of the fortress, World War, and December 7.

According to Drosnin, Watergate is encoded with Nixon,

and who was he?

President, but he was kicked out.

In the case of the Oklahoma City bombing,

Drosnin claims the code is surprisingly accurate.

He says it includes a name of the building that was blown up,

the Murrah Building.

The date and time of the attack.

And even the name of the man convicted

of the crime, Timothy McVeigh.

But not everything in the code is gloom and doom.

Drosnin notes that Shakespeare is encoded

with Macbeth and Hamlet.

The Wright Brothers are encoded with airplane.

And the phrase, man on the moon, appears

with spaceship and Apollo 11.

But there are those who question Drosnin's claims.

Humans are pattern seeking animals.

We look for cause and effect relationships

in our environment, meaningful ones.

ROBERT STACK: Michael Shermer is a publisher

of "Skeptic Magazine."

He believes the Bible code is an example

of self-fulfilling prophecy.

The Bible code is nothing more than a form of seek and ye

shall find.

Whether you're using the Bible, or the dictionary, the Yellow

Pages, some other novels, all you

need is a long string of letters and then, you

can run your computer skip code sequence program

and come up with all kinds of things.

ROBERT STACK: Michael Drosnin disagrees.

He says he ran the skip code program on several books,

including Tolstoy's epic novel, "War and Peace,"

he claims he found nothing of significance.

Drosnin is convinced that the secret code

is exclusive to the Bible.

MICHAEL DROSNIN: Every major figure in world history

I have looked for, every major event in world history,

I have looked for, has been encoded accurately

in remarkable detail in the Bible.

ROBERT STACK: To date, Drosnin says

he has uncovered hundreds of encoded references

to historical persons and events.

What then, are we to make of the dire predictions

he believes the Bible code makes for our future?

MICHAEL DROSNIN: The most terrible warning

that's encoded in the Bible is of a possible nuclear World

War within the next 10 years.

The words, World War and atomic Holocaust,

are both encoded in the Bible with the same two

years, the years 2000 and 2006.

I'm not calling that a prediction, but a warning.

That's what I think the Bible code really

is, a series of warnings, of dangers we can prevent if we

take the warnings seriously.

Well, now, wait a minute.

You can't prophesize the end will come,

the end might not come, the end might be delayed,

or the end might not come at all.

You've now made all possible predictions,

which is no prediction at all.

That's not prophecy.

The Bible code, as far as I'm concerned,

does not predict anything.

It warns us of possible dangers.

It doesn't give us one pre-determined future, but all

of our possible futures.

[music playing]

HAROLD GANS: Mr. Drosnin is a journalist.

He is reporting on a very complex

mathematical work of world renowned mathematicians.

He has not used scientific methodology.

And his actual conclusions are logically unsound.

It is far better, in my mind, to sound a false warning,

than to fail to warn of a real danger.

People sometimes say to me, where's the good news

in the Bible code?

Why all these predictions of terrible catastrophes?

And I say, the good news is that some intelligence cared enough

about us, to encode the Bible and leave us

these warnings so that these dangers

could, in fact, be prevented.

[music playing]

Teenagers may runaway, toddlers may wander off,

but if a baby disappears, more often than not,

foul play is involved.

A couple in a suburb of Tampa, Florida

claims someone took their baby.

Kidnapped her in the dead of night.

Only one thing is certain, the baby is missing.

[music playing]

ROBERT STACK: November 24, 1997, Marlene Aisenberg says

she got up shortly after 6:00 that morning

and went into the kitchen.

MARLENE AISENBERG: I noticed the laundry room door to the garage

is open and I'm like, what's that doing open?

And I just run to the first bedroom

and I look in Sabrina's crib and she was gone.

And I was just--

I was hysterical.

Steve, Sabrina's missing!

Sabrina's gone!

ROBERT STACK: Sabrina, Steve and Marlene

Aisenberg's third child, barely five months old, had vanished,

taken from her own crib.

The Aisenberg's home was now a crime scene.

This frightened lot of people, terrified

a lot of young parents.

It was chilling for people who lived in that community.

It was a quiet, safe, out-of-the-way place.

And then, a baby disappears.

ROBERT STACK: How could a baby just disappear?

The Aisenbergs had left their garage door open overnight.

The interior door may also have been left unlocked,

but there were no clues about an intruder.

Who took baby Sabrina?

Marlene Aisenberg says the investigation suddenly

took an unexpected turn, she and her husband

became prime suspects.

No forced entry.

No ransom note.

We think you had something to do with the disappearance

of Sabrina.

Why don't you just tell us where Sabrina is.

MARLENE AISENBERG: To me, it was the most unbelievable

thing I could have ever heard.

I was like, I have no idea where Sabrina is.

I have no idea who took her, that's why you're here.

Help.

Find her.

ROBERT STACK: Deputies removed a number of items

from the Aisenberg home, including

Sabrina's crib and bedding.

They were sent to the FBI lab at Quantico for analysis.

As a search for baby Sabrina continued,

the Aisenberg's taped a public appeal pleading for her return.

This morning, someone came into our home

and took our baby, Sabrina Paige, out of her crib.

ROBERT STACK: The plea might have inspired sympathy

for the Aisenbergs, it did not.

MARTY ROSEN: Some people felt that they

were guilty of something.

Some people felt that they were involved in some way

in Sabrina's disappearance.

ROBERT STACK: The day after Sabrina vanished,

the media taped the Aisenbergs smiling

as they left their home.

Public opinion counted it as another strike against them.

A lot of people in the community saw that clip

and saw Steve's smile and they saw Marlene

with a quick flash of a smile, and they jumped to conclusions.

They said, why would these people be smiling?

There must be something wrong here.

Are you withholding any information?

ROBERT STACK: The Aisenbergs voluntarily

took a polygraph test.

Did you help take your daughter from your home

that night?

No.

Do you have any knowledge of your daughter's

current location?

No.

ROBERT STACK: In Marlene's case, the results

are a matter of debate.

MARLENE AISENBERG: They told me it was inconclusive,

and they told me that they expected

it to be that because I was hysterical and everything.

My baby's gone, they would expect that.

Are you lying about your daughter's disappearance?

ROBERT STACK: The Sheriff's office

insists, Marlene Aisenberg's polygraph

results were not inconclusive.

But officials won't say whether she passed or failed.

No.

I don't give a damn about Hillsborough County polygraph.

ROBERT STACK: Shortly after Sabrina disappeared,

the Aisenbergs hired an attorney.

To some, it was another sign of their guilt.

The Aisenbergs say, the police left them no choice.

When the police sit across from you

and say, we believe you know where your daughter is

and we believe you know who has her,

there's a good reason to get an attorney.

ROBERT STACK: Months passed and still no trace of the baby.

MARTY ROSEN: The police held suffer press conferences fairly

early on in the case and told the reporters

that, in fact, they had evidence and that we

should just hang on.

That they were processing the evidence and that

it would be forthcoming.

That was almost a year ago and I've not seen

any of that evidence to date.

ROBERT STACK: The police declined

to comment on any evidence in this case,

including the results of tests done in the FBI lab

at Quantico.

Unfortunately, most of the leads

bring us back to a dead end and that brings

us back to this community.

And we feel that the answers to this crime

are within this community.

Our policy has always been that we

don't list people as a suspect unless we

have enough to charge them.

We have not ruled the Aisenbergs out.

They have failed to assist us in some ways

and it makes it more difficult to rule them out as having

some involvement in the case.

[music playing]

ROBERT STACK: The Aisenbergs continue to maintain,

Sabrina was kidnapped.

MARLENE AISENBERG: I believe that somebody

came into our home and just took her.

It had to be someone who wanted a baby so bad

and they couldn't have one themselves.

Or they needed money so bad that they would want to sell her.

STEVE AISENBERG: It could be that somebody just watched

Marlene and I and saw our habits of occasionally

leaving the garage open.

Knew we had a baby.

Or it could have been somebody that knew us casually

and then, through others, knew our habits.

So anything is just pure speculation.

[music playing]

ROBERT STACK: Update.

In September of 1999, a federal grand jury

indicted Marlene and Steven Aisenberg on charges

of conspiracy and lying to investigators

about the disappearance of Sabrina.

Two years later, a judge threw the indictment

out by lambasting prosecutors for misrepresenting

the strength of their case.

The US Attorney has agreed to reimburse

the Aisenbergs for the cost of their legal counsel.

[music playing]

ROBERT STACK: 31-year-old Lee Carter

Jr. was the kind of guy who always

tried to do the right thing.

But on the morning of July 28, 1993,

it seems doing the right thing got Lee Carter, Jr. killed.

A bomb, placed under the seat of his Porsche

parked outside Carter's home, ended his life instantly.

For members of Carter's family, the loss has been unbearable.

LEE CARTER, SR: There's been no closure of any kind.

I wake up in the morning, he's the first thing I think about.

I go to bed at night, I'd say most the time,

it's the first thing I'm thinking about,

the last thing I'm thinking about.

ROBERT STACK: Who would want to kill Lee Carter, Jr?

Police in Carter's upstate New York hometown have a suspect.

They would like your help in finding him.

They believe he is a dangerous killer, a man they suspect

is an enforcer for an outlaw branch of the Hell's

Angels motorcycle gang.

The man's name is Rick Vallee, and if you happen to know him,

be careful.

[music playing]

In the early 1990s, police believe Vallee led the Angels

in a battle for control of drugs and prostitution

along the US-Canadian border.

Police allege, Vallee's job was to kill people who

double crossed the biker gang.

Lee Carter, Jr. had been approached

by associates of Rick Vallee who wanted to use

his home as a safe house.

It is alleged that Vallee and the gang

had plans to smuggle 54 kilos of cocaine from the United States

into Canada.

Carter's home was close to the border.

Carter went to the police and agreed to act as an informant.

The drug deal was quickly thwarted

and Rick Vallee was charged with conspiracy to import cocaine.

My son didn't get into detail on it to me at all.

He did tell me he was working with the state police.

He told me he was helping them.

And I started to ask him what it was about and he said,

it was best that I didn't get involved in it.

That what he was doing was with them

and was on the up and up with law.

ROBERT STACK: Before the case could go to trial,

Lee Carter, Jr, the main witness, was eliminated.

Police believe Rick Vallee, a known demolitions expert,

planted the bomb that killed him.

PETER PERSON: Rick Vallee obviously made the decision

that if he took out the witness, had the witness killed,

then there was nobody to testify against him in court,

the drug charge would have to be dismissed,

which, in effect, is what happened.

ROBERT STACK: Two days after Carter's murder,

with the star witness against him dead,

the drug charges against Rick Vallee were dropped.

Two years passed, during that time, New York state

and Canadian authorities gathered enough evidence

to charge Vallee with Carter's murder.

Vallee was arrested in Canada and was awaiting extradition

to the United States.

While in custody, Rick Vallee had his jaw

broken in a jailhouse fight.

Over the next few weeks, he was treated

at a local hospital where two guards

would always accompany him.

PETER PERSON: During the course of his visit,

he had consistently set up where he would

take a shower around 8:00.

At this particular point, he had been on the phone

and indicated to one of the guards

that he would like the guard to wait there

because he was waiting for an important phone

call from his attorney.

He then went to take a shower with the other guard.

As both of them entered the shower room,

the one guard was accosted.

What took you?

ROBERT STACK: With the help of an accomplice, Vallee escaped.

It's the last time anyone has seen Rick Vallee.

My gut sense is that he's out of the country,

and that he's gone someplace else

and has probably established a new identity.

Obviously, we'd love to have somebody call us and tell

us, well, Rick Vallee is in this house right now having dinner.

And I can assure you that within moments, we'd be

there and get him into custody.

[music playing]

LEE CARTER, SR: When I think of Richard Vallee,

I think is an individual that thinks nothing of taking life.

Thinks nothing of anyone else whatsoever.

He is it and that's all.

He has no values.

It would help, considerably, to know

that at least the individual wasn't

out there living high on the hog while he

is taking someone else's life.

[music playing]

[music playing]

ROBERT STACK: Next, the hunt for an escaped convict ends

thanks to one of our viewers.

[music playing]

On a previous broadcast, we asked for your help

in finding a ruthless killer who'd escaped

from an Oklahoma prison.

Michael Wayne Brown was able to elude law enforcement

authorities for over 15 years, but thanks

to an "Unsolved Mysteries" viewer,

Brown is now back behind bars.

When he was only 18, Michael Wayne Brown

and another teenager were in the middle of burglarizing

an insurance office when an employee

stopped by to pick up a file.

Give me the gun.

Turn around!

[gunshot]

ROBERT STACK: Brown was put on death row

for murdering Richard Sullivan.

However, that sentence was later commuted

to life without parole.

Michael Wayne Brown had served nine years

in the Oklahoma State prison system

when his luck began to change.

A lonely widow named Donna Moses began writing him letters

as part of her church groups attempt to help convicts

find spiritual comfort.

But these pen pals quickly became something more.

SHERRY NICKERSON: She was lonely.

She hadn't had anybody for a very long time.

And she needed that companionship.

Someone to talk to her about things

and show her love and affection.

And that's what she got from him.

Do you, Michael Wayne Brown, take this woman to be

your lawfully wedded wide?

ROBERT STACK: Less than three months after meeting Brown,

Donna Moses married him.

In November of 1984, Brown was transferred

to a minimum security prison that was a perfect opportunity,

and he wasted little time.

Michael Wayne Brown and another inmate jumped a four foot fence

and raced for freedom.

Authorities believe that Donna Moses

Brown drove the getaway car.

Within a year, the second convict was captured.

For 15 years, authorities received

numerous tips about the whereabouts

of Michael and Donna Brown.

And then, finally, one paid off.

[music playing]

Update.

In 1999, an alert "Unsolved Mysteries" viewer

chanced upon a photograph from our website.

GREG: I couldn't believe it.

It looked like him, but my mind said it's not him,

but the picture said, it was him.

Greg knew Donna and Michael Brown

as Linda and Kenneth Ginter.

The Ginter's owned a video store in the quiet suburb

of Ketterling, Ohio.

In fact, Greg's wife worked at the store.

PETER PERSON: You'd never know he was a murderer.

You would never know that.

Like I said, he was like an icon in the community.

Everybody liked him.

The kids would come in there and high five him.

He'd give them candy.

And super nice guy.

ROBERT STACK: Coincidentally, about 15 minutes after spotting

the photos on the "Unsolved Mysteries" website,

Greg received a phone call from Kenneth Ginter.

The phone rings and it was him.

And he was asking my wife to work that night.

I told him that I seen a guy on the computer

that looked like him.

And I said, Michael Wayne Brown, and he

kind of got quiet for a minute.

And he says, well, Greg, everybody has a twin.

So I left it at that.

ROBERT STACK: Realizing that he had been recognized,

Brown quietly dropped from sight,

but knowing that the FBI was one step behind him,

he turned himself in.

Brown is serving the remainder of his sentence

at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary

in McAlester, Oklahoma.

Authorities view Donna Brown as a hapless

victim of her husband.

She was never charged with any wrongdoing in connection

with Brown's escape.

[music playing]

[music playing]

For every mystery, there is someone

somewhere who knows the truth.

Join me for the next edition of "Unsolved Mysteries."