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ROBERT STACK: Tonight on "Unsolved Mysteries,"

a teenage girl and her friend vanish

the night her parents are slain and their home set ablaze.

We only had one body accounted and for, could find no others,

yet we had all the cars there at the house?

ROBERT STACK: Were they abducted or were

they involved in the murders?

A young American woman is stranded on Jamaica when

her business plans go awry.

Days later, she vanishes.

What happened to Claudia Kirschhoch?

A young teen tormented by ghosts--

for the past nine years, Michael Jones

believes supernatural spirits have

been tormenting him, from poltergeist activity

to physical torture.

There's a-- there's a lot of ghosts in our house that are

after me, and there's a lot of bad ones and good ones,

and they're all fighting with each other.

ROBERT STACK: Could the spirits be vying for this boy's soul?

A young widow falls for the charismatic leader of the pack.

She has no idea he is a dangerous ex-convict

wanted by federal authorities.

Did she willingly join him as he fled,

or did she become his victim?

Join me for these intriguing cases.

Perhaps you may be able to help solve a mystery.

Vinita, Oklahoma, a small rural town in Craig County,

December 29, 1999--

Ashley Freeman turned sweet 16.

At her home, it is a night of celebration for her parents

and for her best friend Laura Biden.

Laura, she said to me, daddy, is it

all right if I spend the night with Ashley

to the Freeman's home?

I said, well, if you just make sure you're home

by noon tomorrow, you know?

And noon tomorrow didn't happen the way it should've.

ROBERT STACK: Sometime during the night,

the Freeman's home becomes an inferno.

By 8:00 AM, when Laura's parents arrived,

the fire is extinguished.

But the Freeman's home has been reduced to ashes.

There's her car.

ROBERT STACK: Laura's car is on the charred property,

but there is no sign of their daughter.

Jay and Lorene Bible feared the worst.

We did find one body--

Who?

But it's not Laura.

The county coroner told me that there was only

one body is all they found.

I said, have they found anybody else?

And she said, no.

I said, did they look?

And she said, yes, we've looked, but there's

no other bodies there.

ROBERT STACK: The lone body discovered in the debris

is that of Kathy Freeman, the mother

of Laura's friend, Ashley.

The Craig County Sheriff's Department

and the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation are perplexed.

Where are Ashley, her father, Danny, and Laura Bible?

We only had one body accounted for, could find no others,

yet we had all the cars there at the house.

That was a little bit bizarre, and no one could quite piece

two and two together on that.

It didn't make any sense.

We was just kind of wondering where they could be.

I mean, we didn't know.

We didn't have a clue what had happened.

Couldn't even come up with a good idea

as to what might have happened.

One person dead and three missing.

The case became even more baffling

when the coroner determined Kathy

Freeman died not in the fire, but from a shotgun wound

to the head.

The arson squad concluded the blaze was deliberately set.

Authorities speculated Kathy might have been

killed by her husband, Danny, who then

fled, taking the girls hostage.

But there would be other suspects, including

the investigators themselves.

Even the two missing girls were not above suspicion.

ROBERT STACK: Laura Bible and Ashley Freeman

were inseparable friends since kindergarten.

Both were honor students and the popular at school.

Even when one ventured her own separate way,

there was the other, cheering her on.

Laura and Ashley call each other at least once a week,

if not more.

What one was thinking the other was thinking.

It's kind of like when two people--

one can finish a sentence when the other one starts one.

ROBERT STACK: The day after the fire, Laura's parents returned

to what is now a crime scene.

They hope to find a clue the investigators had missed.

After searching only five minutes,

Jay Bible made a shocking discovery.

Oh, no.

Oh, Lori, come here, quick!

ROBERT STACK: A body, burned almost beyond recognition.

The Bibles quickly determined, however, it was neither Laura

nor Ashley, but an adult male.

There was no face there.

He did not have anything from the upper teeth

all the way to the top of his head.

It was totally gone, like he'd been shot in the face.

We just couldn't believe that they had overlooked

a second body in this fire.

ROBERT STACK: The body was identified as Danny Freeman,

Ashley's father, who investigators had initially

believed murdered his wife.

Like Kathy, he had been shot at close range with a shotgun.

Investigators reexamined the crime scene,

but no additional bodies were found.

The new search, however, yielded one important clue.

Laura's purse, which contained her driver's license

and nearly $200 in cash.

What reason would Laura have to leave

it behind, unless she had been taken away against her will?

I felt that's somebody had went

in there for whatever reason, murdered Danny and Kathy,

and took the girls.

ROBERT STACK: If Laura and Ashley were abducted,

who took them, and why?

The Craig County Sheriff's Department

tried to piece together what happened

the night of Ashley's birthday.

Her boyfriend who attended the party

said that all was well when it broke up at 9:30 PM.

Whatever occurred must have begun sometime

after he left at that hour.

At first, investigators believe a robbery

may have turned deadly.

But the cash left behind in Laura's purse

eliminated that possibility.

If murder alone was the intruder's intent,

who in Vinita, Oklahoma had reason to kill

Danny and Kathy Freeman?

One shocking possibility was voiced by Danny Freeman himself

three months before he was killed.

He told his brother, Dwayne--

Listen, Dwayne, if anything should ever happen to me,

I want you to take a look at the sheriff's office.

Sheriff, Hear why?

He and I was at his house, and he put his finger in my face,

and he said, if anything ever happens to me,

look at the sheriff's department.

And he was serious.

He was in my face to drive it home with me.

ROBERT STACK: For months, it had been rumored in Vinita

that the Craig County Sheriff's Department had

been feuding with the Freemans.

It began when Danny's son, Shane, was shot and killed

by a deputy after he had stolen a truck and a neighbor's gun.

Although Shane's killing was ruled justifiable,

the Freemans threatened to filed a wrongful death

lawsuit against the sheriff's department.

According to some in Vinita, the Freemans'

accusations provoked deputies to embark

on a campaign of intimidation.

Get out of the truck, Danny.

What is this about?

This is about you looking all over town--

He was basically told, according to Danny,

that they could do anything they wanted to

to him and his family, and there wasn't

a thing he could do about it.

You're taking yourself out of the investigation?

ROBERT STACK: When Danny and his wife were found dead,

the Craig County Sheriff's Department voluntarily

turned the case over to the Oklahoma

State Bureau of Investigation.

Because it was of such a concern to the residents

of the area, we looked into the possibility

that deputies could have been involved with the deaths

of Danny and Kathy Freeman.

We utilized several techniques, one of which was polygraph.

All consented to the polygraph examinations,

and all cleared themselves as a result of those examinations.

The overall conclusion of our efforts

was that the sheriff's office had nothing

to do with the murders of Danny and Kathy,

and did not know the whereabouts of the two missing girls.

ROBERT STACK: The hint of another possibility

occurred two weeks before the murders.

According to an informant, Danny Freeman

met two unidentified men, one of whom was clearly unwelcome.

What's he doing here?

We just got some things we want to talk to you about.

ROBERT STACK: Rumors in Vinita had spread that Danny was

a small time drug trafficker.

I'm not dealing with you while he's

here, so you can just take off.

ROBERT STACK: Could a drug deal gone bad have

resulted in a double murder?

If you wanted to consider that it was drug related

and that someone, for revenge purposes, entered the home,

killed the mother and father and abducted the children,

and nothing fits correctly.

In that type of scenario, the very last thing

that the people who committed to murder would want to do

would be abduct the children.

ROBERT STACK: A disturbing possibility remained.

Could Ashley Freeman herself have murdered her parents,

then fled with Laura?

I believe that the Freeman girl

could possibly be involved.

I believe that there is a great deal of friction in the Freeman

household because of reports that Danny and his daughter

did not get along well at all and hadn't for some time.

That's something we can't overlook.

Ashley Freeman might have something to do with the death

of Danny and Kathy.

However, it's been 15 months since the incident.

I find it difficult to believe that the girls,

by themselves, could hide out that long and not be found.

ROBERT STACK: Today, Jay and Lorene Bible

are left with only unanswered questions and the void

of their daughter's absence.

We have come to the conclusion that Laura

was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I do feel that she's still alive,

but whether she's alive or dead, I want to know.

She put up the Christmas tree and we still

have that Christmas tree standing in the house.

We haven't taken it down.

You know, we love her dearly and wish we could have her back,

wish we can have both girls back, because at this point,

I'd take them and raise them both and never let them go.

ROBERT STACK: Jamaica, a picturesque Caribbean island

known for its sun drenched beaches, crystal clear waters,

and all inclusive resorts, the kind of place

where people come to live out their dreams.

But what if visiting the Jamaican paradise

turned into a nightmare?

In May 2000, New York based travel writers Claudia

Kirschhoch and Tania Grossinger found themselves stranded

on Jamaica when their business trip to Havana, Cuba

was suddenly canceled.

When we found out that we weren't going to Cuba

we were really, really upset.

I had assignments.

Claudia was there on work.

We were also concerned because when they told us

we couldn't go, they also told us we

couldn't get back to New York.

ROBERT STACK: Just prior to her trip to the Caribbean,

Claudia Kirschhoch had landed a job as an editor

at "Frommer's Travel Guides."

For someone who had a passion for travel and adventure

it was a dream come true.

But tragically, this was destined to be the final trip

taken by Claudia.

While awaiting her return to the US,

the savvy and experienced 29-year-old traveler

vanished without a trace and has yet to make it home.

Let's put one up here, OK?

ROBERT STACK: Claudia's parents, Fred and Mary Ann Kirschhoch,

rushed to Negril, Jamaica as soon as they

learned of her disappearance.

When we found out she was missing,

we knew that there was a definite problem.

Knowing her, knowing that she called frequently,

knowing that she would have told us there was a change of plans,

we knew there was something drastically wrong.

Fred and Mary Ann Kirschhoch were not

prepared for the hurdles they would encounter in trying

to learn Claudia's fate.

But coming to grips with their daughter's dire situation,

they would have to deal with Jamaican red tape, false leads,

and lost or missing clues.

And in the end, conflicting theories

would emerge to explain what happened to Claudia Kirschhoch.

ROBERT STACK: Sandals Resorts has sponsored

Claudia Kirschhoch and Tania Grossinger's original press

trip to Havana, Cuba.

When the trip was canceled without warning,

a chain put them up at the resort in Negril, Jamaica

until return flights could be booked back to New York.

In the mean time, the two women who'd

only met for the first time on this trip

decided to make the best of being in limbo.

So ladies, where you come from?

We're from New York.

ROBERT STACK: Claudia made friends with Anthony Grant,

one of the resort's bartenders.

She was a big fan of reggae music.

Grant reportedly offered to take her to a nearby club.

This looks like fun.

The next morning, she told me that she had gone out

with one of the bartenders, who turns out to be Anthony Grant.

She told me that they went to a club,

that they smoked some dope, and that they went skinny dipping.

It didn't seem to be a remarkable experience for her.

I mean, it was just something that she did.

You know, the situation is, in retrospect, I

wish I could remember everything she said,

but in fact, it wasn't such a big deal to her or to me.

OK, so you remember the bar tender--

ROBERT STACK: Tania Grossinger managed to book a flight

home sooner than Claudia.

She expected her travel companion would follow shortly.

They agreed to meet up in New York City

once Claudia returned to her job there.

But later that afternoon, Claudia Kirschhoch mysteriously

vanished from the island.

CLAUDIA KIRSCHHOCH: You think I'm

going to be able to find somebody

that can braid my hair just up the way there a little bit?

ROBERT STACK: She was reportedly last seen by a lifeguard,

walking along a Negril beach away from the resort.

She didn't?

ROBERT STACK: On June 2, Claudia's parents

were notified that she hadn't shown up for work

in New York as scheduled.

Fred and Mary Ann Kirschhoch had an unsettling feeling

when they finally reached someone at the Jamaican resort.

Call her mother.

ROBERT STACK: Hotel maids had reported Claudia

missing after noticing she had not slept

in her bed for several days.

Nothing in her room seemed amiss.

Every item of her clothing, except for one bathing suit,

was neatly packed away in her suitcase.

Her passport, credit cards, cell phone, and $180 in cash

were recovered from the hotel safe where she left them.

Probably the most devastating piece of news,

initially, was that all of her belongings were in her room.

I mean, we would rather have heard that some of her things

were missing and then we would have thought

maybe she went somewhere else.

Well, we heard the news that Claudia's

things were all in her room and they didn't know where she was.

It's not-- that's not Claudia.

Claudia's a really organized, orderly person.

If she was planning to go off somewhere,

she would have made a phone call.

She would have let us know.

We felt very early on that something happened to her

and that something just was not right.

ROBERT STACK: As soon as they found Claudia was missing,

the Kirschhochs hurried to Jamaica.

Good afternoon.

I wonder if you could tell me if you've seen my daughter.

ROBERT STACK: Once in Negril, the Kirschhochs' attempts

to find out what happened to their daughter

were repeatedly dashed by frustration,

beginning with the resort that had sponsored Claudia's trip.

As a security precaution, the license plates

of all vehicles entering and leaving the Sandals Resort

are meticulously recorded in a log book.

The log book for the month that Claudia

disappeared cannot be found.

The videotape from a surveillance camera

mounted near Claudia's room was recorded

over before being viewed.

Room 621, the room where Claudia stayed,

was cleared by housekeeping and hotel security

before the potential crime scene was processed for clues.

Without any evidence of foul play,

Jamaican authorities focused on other possibilities.

Because she was last seen on the beach,

and because a bathing suit was the only item of clothing known

to be missing from her belongings,

Jamaican police investigated the possibility

that Claudia had drowned.

It's not impossible, but I would say it's highly unlikely.

That area, it's not deep.

And the current is not very strong.

And if something should go wrong with someone there,

the body would be found easily.

ROBERT STACK: As news of Claudia's disappearance

spread through Jamaica, numerous sightings

of a woman fitting Claudia's description

began to suggest another possibility.

Many local Negril residents believe

that Claudia was alive and had intentionally gone into hiding.

The local phrase "broken loose" was

used to describe how she may have chosen

to run away from her own life to live in the hills

with a Jamaican lover.

We know she wouldn't do that.

She had no reason to escape, as has been said.

She loved her life, you know, her family,

her friends, her new apartment.

Everything was going right for her.

So there was nothing to escape.

So we got a call that Claudia went off with a rastaman

in some hills in Jamaica.

We have checked several areas.

We have spoken to a number of rastafarians.

In fact, we have gone to an area where the report said she was,

and there is no information to suggest that Claudia Kirschhoch

was ever seen in that area.

If you ever see her or hear anybody say anything about her,

you know how to find me.

Where did she go?

Show me.

ROBERT STACK: Frustrated by the progress of the investigation,

Claudia's parents enlisted the assistance

of the FBI and an American Search and Rescue team.

According to Harry Oaks, he and his dog,

Valerie, tracked Claudia's scent to the home of Anthony Grant,

the Sandals Resort bartender Claudia had befriended.

The dog reportedly hit on a pair of boots, a pair of gloves,

and a knife. - Bingo.

ROBERT STACK: While searching Grant's car,

Valerie seemed to also hit on Claudia Kirschhoch's scent

in the back seat and the trunk.

The articles found, boots, knife, material that made up

the trunk of the car, was removed by the FBI

Evidence Response Team.

It was taken to the FBI forensic laboratory in the states.

It was checked for signs of human blood.

Nothing was found.

ROBERT STACK: Anthony Grant was investigated and polygraphed,

but the results were deemed inconclusive.

And at this point, Grant is not considered a suspect in Claudia

Kirschhoch's disappearance.

We interviewed him for several weeks.

We just don't find enough evidence to, in any way,

believe that Grant is involved in her disappearance,

other than that he was associated with her.

No one disappears from the face

of the Earth in a town of 3,000 people

without one other person knowing it.

We do believe that Anthony Grant, the bartender,

introduced her to someone who has a much

better idea of what happened.

We believe Anthony Grant probably

knows something as well.

ROBERT STACK: Today, the Kirschhochs

struggle to keep the search for Claudia alive,

despite dwindling leads and diminishing support.

We're not left with many good theories.

You know, all of them, all of them

are bad in some way or another.

The hardest part daily is Claudia's absence,

and knowing we may never see or hear of her again.

I mean, it's very easy to curl up and either stay in your bed

and just not go on with life, you know,

but we've got to find out what happened to Claudia,

and we're just going to keep digging and looking.

ROBERT STACK: The last apparent sighting of Claudia Kirschhoch

was on May 27, 2000, near the Beaches

Resort in Negril, Jamaica.

In this day and age, it may be hard to believe that there are

people who claim ghosts haunt their homes

and demons possess them.

But this quiet colonial house in Connecticut

is said to be just such a place, and the Jones family

who live here say they had no warning

of the ghostly incidence they claim have occurred.

MICHAEL: [scream] Mom!

MOM JONES: I ran upstairs.

Michael.

MOM JONES: I thought maybe he had cut himself.

I really didn't know.

Michael?

And there was Michael just curled up, like it was a fetus.

I mean, he was just frightened and shaking

and crying hysterically, something

I've never seen him do.

ROBERT STACK: Michael Jones told his mother, Denise,

he saw a man in the room.

But it was no ordinary man.

Told him I was scared.

He was standing in front of me and he reached out to me

and he was smiling.

And then he just disappeared.

The man-- he touched my shoulder.

He was white, like a crayon color white.

He was a ghost.

He said he was a ghost.

Well, I thought maybe something

was wrong with Michael.

I can't say I didn't believe in ghosts,

I just never experienced something.

So I never thought it would happen to us.

Michael Jones was just five years old when

he says he saw his first ghost.

He claims the spirits have continued to invade his home

and torment his family.

Do ghosts haunt the Jones' house,

or could there be another explanation

for the extraordinary occurrences

Michael has experienced?

Soon after Michael's episode in his bedroom,

Denise drove her family to her parent's nearby home.

I was in the kitchen talking with my parents

when Michael started screaming again.

Mom!

What?

Look!

What's wrong?

And he says, that's the man.

That's the man.

I says, Michael, what is the man?

He says, that man up on the wall in the picture,

that's the man I see.

It's the old man.

I saw the picture and I got scared because that was

the man that, um, that I saw.

The man in the picture Michael was pointing to

was my grandfather who had passed

away when I was 10 years old.

Michael had never met him.

ROBERT STACK: Until that evening,

Michael had never seen a picture of his great grandfather, who

had been dead over 17 years.

I felt safer that it wasn't like a bad person

that was going to hurt me.

And my mom said not be afraid of him because he was a good man,

and she said not to be afraid of ghosts

because they can't harm me.

ROBERT STACK: At this point, Denise

didn't know what to think.

Her son was supposedly being visited by her grandfather's

ghost, and that wasn't all.

Michael now believed evil spirits

were also invading the home.

One time, me and Michael were in his room

and I asked him what these things wanted from him.

And I told him to talk to grandpa.

Grandpa will protect him.

Grandpa said that some of the bad people

want me on their side.

When I talk to my grandpa, he just

said that there's a lot of ghosts in our house

that are after me, and there's a lot of bad ones and good ones,

and they're all fighting with each other.

ROBERT STACK: By now, they were convinced the invisible enemies

were multiplying.

So Denise sought out a paranormal specialist

to examine both Michael and her home.

It's very important to be able to go in and determine

that it is something supernatural

that is occurring in the home.

ROBERT STACK: John Zaffis has been a paranormal investigator

for 26 years.

He has studied dozens of similar cases.

Zaffis spent hundreds of hours with Michael and his family,

researching Michael's sightings firsthand.

We usually have to go through all types

of different evaluations, psychological, physical.

I really would like it documented and known

that there isn't anything physically

or mentally wrong with these people

that are going through this.

ROBERT STACK: Hoping to get some answers for the strange goings

on, Denise says she submitted Michael to dozens

of neurological evaluations.

We went to the hospital a lot.

I had CAT scans and EEG, but they said everything was fine.

They all say it's not medical.

They realize it's very bizarre that Michael is a ghost boy.

He sees ghosts.

And there's nothing medically they can do.

ROBERT STACK: Michael's psychological profile

also showed nothing unusual.

But his drawings of what he claims

to be the most aggressive ghost, whom he calls the Black

Shadow Man, told another story.

Every day I'd see him, the Shadow Man.

It's not really the same shadow man.

It's just like a bunch of different ones.

I don't know why I see ghosts and all this

is happening to me.

ROBERT STACK: Zaffis's research uncovered that Michael

was very ill at birth.

His heart had stopped 26 times.

With Michael, my explanation is that

he had near-death experiences.

I believe since birth he's had that ability where that door

has been open for the spirit to be able to communicate

back and forth with him.

At this point, Michael is more under oppression.

Oppression is the stage before possession.

And I think it is at the point where

it is trying very, very hard to be able to totally

take Michael over.

ROBERT STACK: According to Denise,

it seemed the bad spirits were winning.

One time me and my husband were

downstairs, when all of a sudden we were

listening to banging upstairs.

We heard him scream and we heard

a thumping, so we ran upstairs.

And Michael was on his bed like a little boy, scared.

His bed was shaking up and down.

The bed started shaking a lot, and it lifted up like 3 inches,

and I just yelled for my mom.

Mom!

And then it dropped and it stop shaking.

We all ran out of the house because we needed

to get a break from the house, because it's

very scary in there.

There was one time when I walked

into Michael's room something caught my peripheral vision.

I saw this shadow, and he just walked right across the wall.

I asked her, I said, is it six feet?

And she said, yeah.

And I said, is it just all black?

She said, yeah, and I told that was the man I've been seeing.

ROBERT STACK: Denise said Michael later

revealed that the evil spirits were physically tormenting him.

Everything started getting worse

and they started hitting me and scratching me and poking me.

And it hurt.

Usually when there's a physical manifestation,

scratches, bite marks, this is definitely a sign

that something is either attached to that individual

or it has some way gained access.

And at that point is where it could be very, very

vulnerable where that person could

go completely under possession.

ROBERT STACK: To save her son from the intruders,

Denise says she sold her home and moved

the family across town.

But the new house was no refuge.

I was on the phone with my mother.

Michael was sitting right next to me, to my left,

watching TV, when all of a sudden, he started screaming.

We just looked at my brother, and we just

saw like a scrape going all the way up his arm,

like it was drawing blood.

I felt a sharp pain, like a knife, but it hurt really bad.

That was very horrifying.

I mean, it was almost like I was on top

of him trying to protect him, and I

still could not protect my son.

After this incident, we needed someone who dealt with this.

And I was able to find the bishop, who

agreed to give it the exorcism.

ROBERT STACK: As frightening as an exorcism sounded,

Denise felt it was the only way to save Michael.

They started performing the exorcism in Latin.

I could tell there was something wrong with Michael.

He kept looking to one side of the church.

And I saw the shadow man in the front left corner

of the room of the church, and I could

see his whole body and his feet, and he was just standing,

and he was all black.

And my stomach started burning, and I told the priest,

and he gave me a cup of holy water and said, drink this.

I was praying to God that it was going to work and help,

and that Michael might be granted some relief.

Although we were told it might not be the end all,

it might have to be repeated, there

may need to be a house exorcism, we were aware of that.

And they were right, because about three

weeks later it all began again.

ROBERT STACK: To this day, very little

has changed at the Jones' household.

Over the past few years, Michael has undergone four exorcisms,

and his family has moved eight times.

Although these things always seem to provide relief,

it is usually temporary.

Today Michael still has negative attacks,

and he also sees spirits.

We just live one day at a time.

It hurts when I see my son going through this.

I don't know what to do.

Do I see a brighter future for Michael and the family?

Absolutely.

There's many of families that go through this

and it's very difficult. And it's

like the old saying goes, it's always

the darkest before the dawn.

Pretty much everything's been hard for me.

So everything that's happened has been hard.

And I'm getting used to it.

ROBERT STACK: Nadine Jelovcic is worried

about her sister, Margie.

Without explanation, Margie has abruptly

left her home in Gary, Indiana.

I was looking for clues.

Did she write something down?

Did she leave something that I could pick up on

to know that she would return?

I looked in the closets.

Luggage was there, clothes were there, all of her things,

so whatever she left with, it had

to be just enough for a few days,

not enough to be for a long period of time.

Nadine is puzzled to find many personal items Margie never

leaves behind when she travels, but the most baffling of all

is Margie's inhaler, which she needs for her asthma.

Wherever she has gone, she has not traveled there in her car.

Her family is as perplexed as they are worried.

Did Margie Jelovcic suddenly leave of her own free will,

or was she the victim of foul play?

Over the previous year, Margie's life

had been turned upside down by a series of turbulent events.

Her puzzling disappearance may be the final result

of that turmoil.

Margie's sister, Nadine, suspected

she was in hiding with a dangerous fugitive named

Randy Yager.

How she became involved with such a man

is a story as unlikely as it is tragic.

Six months before her disappearance,

Margie's life seemed ideal.

She was fulfilling her dream as a musician, playing violin

in the Detroit Orchestra.

She was also a happy newlywed, planning a bright future

with her husband Nasser.

But just six months after their wedding,

he was killed in a traffic accident.

Margie was shattered.

She decided to quit her job in the orchestra,

leave Michigan, and moved back to her hometown, Gary, Indiana.

There she sought the security she had always found

with her mother and sister.

It was really hard for her, because she was so used

to being in Michigan with all her friends, school,

and work and everything.

It was really, really hard on her.

She spent a lot of time crying and trying to decide what

to do, and she insisted to come back and help

my mom with the business.

ROBERT STACK: Margie coped with her despair

by immersing herself in her new job.

She managed the night shift at the tavern owned by her mother.

There she first encountered Randy Yager.

What's your name?

I haven't seen you here before.

My name's Margie.

Margie, how do you do?

My name's Randy.

Randy was one of the highest ranking members

of a notorious biker gang called the Outlaws.

He possessed an allure tailor-made to charm

a vulnerable young widow.

I think that he complimented her in ways that she needed

to be complimented, and she needed, perhaps,

those accolades that made her feel good.

And he knew how to say the right things to charm her,

and she in turn was charmed by him.

Well, you should hook up with us sometime.

I mean, meet a lot of new people,

go out have a good time.

Maybe.

ROBERT STACK: Randy's charisma masked a darker side

to his personality.

Margie had no idea he was an ex-convict

with a long criminal record.

His apt nickname was Mad.

He and other members of the Outlaws

were then under federal investigation

for racketeering, drug dealing, and murder.

Two of the Outlaw members murdered this old couple

because they had a lot of money inside their house,

and actually stabbed them with a screwdriver through the throat.

I mean, these are bad people that do that.

ROBERT STACK: Soon after they met, Margie began dating Yager.

Margie was a good girl, for lack

of a better term, who seems to have

taken a walk on the wild side.

This is uncharacteristic from what I've learned of her

through interviews and stuff.

ROBERT STACK: At what point she became

aware of his criminal activities,

her family does not know.

The only thing they knew for certain

was that Margie began to change.

NADINE JELOVCIC DEREK: She became extremely distant.

How about I make you some coffee?

No, I got to go.

You sure?

She became distant with me and my children,

and distant with the customers.

And I don't know whether she was told to be distant,

to not to speak, or she just totally started

to remove herself from society.

ROBERT STACK: Three months into her relationship

with Yager, Margie left with him on a trip to Las Vegas.

They were unaware that at that very moment,

United States marshals had begun an operation

to arrest Randy and several members of the Outlaws.

48 hours later, news of the operation

reached Margie's mother.

17 members of the Outlaws were indicted for a Midwest crime

spree, that included bombings, robberies, and six murders,

but US marshals had been unable to locate Randy Yager.

I saw the pictures and I said, oh my god, my daughter

went with that man, you know?

Oh my god, what's going to happen to her now?

ROBERT STACK: Federal agents rapidly

tracked Yager to Las Vegas.

But it was too late.

He and Margie had apparently fled the city.

The first thing I could think of

was, was he going to hurt her?

Was she going to be in harm's way

because she's with this guy who now everyone in the country

is looking for, and she's with him.

And what if by mistake they find him and they hurt her?

ROBERT STACK: Two weeks passed.

Then Margie returned to Gary safe but shaken.

Strangely, her devotion to Yager was stronger than ever.

According to her family, she was consumed

by irrational fears of the authorities pursuing him.

Is everything all right?

Yeah, everything's fine, mom.

Do you want to talk?

No, I don't want to talk.

She felt that they would try and find him through her.

She was led to believe that her apartment was bugged,

that people were following her in her parking lot.

She had an extreme paranoia.

And I said, Marge, what should you be paranoid about?

Nobody's after you.

You've not done a thing.

ROBERT STACK: Three months after her return,

Margie mysteriously disappeared.

At first it just seemed that she had run off

and joined Yager wherever he was at.

But upon investigation, we found out

that she had taken none of her clothes,

her car, or anything else.

It just seemed that she was gone.

We're really not sure what happened there.

ROBERT STACK: Did Margie willingly

join her fugitive boyfriend, or could

something more sinister explain her abrupt disappearance?

Margie's family believes that even if she

is with Randy Yager, she is no longer

his girlfriend, but his victim.

I feel that he is holding her back

and he won't let her communicate her family, and at this point

he's brainwashed her.

Because this is so out of character for Margie

not to make a phone call to us.

ROBERT STACK: It is possible, however, that Margie

has attempted to do just that.

Hello?

ROBERT STACK: Over the past four years,

her mother has fielded several mysterious calls,

all in the morning before her tavern opens.

The caller never speaks, and only after a long pause,

hangs up.

For Margie's family, the baffling calls

offer the slender hope that they will one day see her again.

I want Margie.

I want her to come home.

I want to hear her voice, and whatever she did, she did.

But come home.

My heart and my door is always open for her.

I'm waiting for her.

Join me next time for another intriguing edition

of "Unsolved Mysteries."