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[music playing]

NARRATOR: Tonight on "Unsolved Mysteries"--

ROBERT STACK: Two families move into an idyllic suburb

only to discover that their homes lie on top

of an abandoned graveyard.

Soon they are tormented by strange phenomena

and threatening apparitions, and are driven into a state

of complete terror.

Are the spirits of the dead seeking vengeance on the living

for the desecration of their graves?

It was an affair that began with an all-consuming passion

that quickly disintegrated.

Now both Joann Albanese and John Edwards are missing.

Could their love have transformed

into a deadly obsession?

Halloween 2001, Penn State University.

21-year-old senior Cindy Song partied

into the wee hours of the night, then

grabbed a ride home with a friend.

Cindy waved goodbye and headed up to her apartment.

She has not been seen or heard from since.

These mysteries are all stories of personal quest for the truth

and a final solution.

Someone watching may know where that solution can be found.

Perhaps it's you.

[theme music]

ROBERT STACK: Just outside of Houston

stands a Newport subdivision known

for its 1,500 upscale homes, manicured lawns,

and bucolic setting.

In the early 1980s, Sam and Judith

Haney bought a house at the far western edge

of the development.

SAM HANEY: When we bought the house in Newport,

it was the house that we had always been looking for.

So it was the house that we intended to stay

at for a long period of time.

ROBERT STACK: But there was a morbid secret about the Haney's

perfect home, one that would soon turn their lives

into a never-ending nightmare.

[doorbell rings]

It all began when a mysterious stranger

showed up at their door with an ominous warning.

Yes?

SAM HANEY (VOICEOVER): This elderly man told me

that he had noticed that we were putting a swimming

pool in our backyard, and that there

was something about our backyard that I needed to know about.

So I followed him around to my backyard.

He pointed at the ground and said that there

are some graves right here.

There were two graves.

SAM HANEY (VOICEOVER): And he marked a spot on the ground

where they were.

And I really didn't know how to react to that.

I didn't know if he was just joking.

I couldn't understand why anybody would want to joke

about something like that.

JUDITH HANEY (VOICEOVER): All of a sudden, just

from a knock on the door, our beliefs, our emotions,

everything sort of changed.

Because it was like, gracious, I have

bodies in my back of my yard?

ROBERT STACK: Using a backhoe, the Haneys

decided to see if the man's alarming claims were true.

Dead stop!

Hold it, hold it!

I think I see something.

SAM HANEY (VOICEOVER): We encountered

some wood fragments.

And at that point, we stopped with the backhoe.

And we got down into the hole and continued digging by hand.

There was pine boards.

When we lifted up the first board,

we could see the indentation of a skeleton form.

It didn't take long to figure out that it

was an actual human remains.

ROBERT STACK: Sam had uncovered a very old pine coffin.

Over the years, it had been crushed

by the weight of the Earth.

Sam immediately called the sheriff

and county coroner, who conducted

an official exhumation.

Most of the bones had turned to powder.

But 25 fragments were found, some so brittle that they

disintegrated when touched.

A second coffin, located alongside the first,

was left untouched.

Two wedding rings were on the frail index

finger of the exposed skeleton.

JUDITH HANEY (VOICEOVER): They handed me the rings

and it was sickening.

My feelings were sick in my stomach.

To think that I had desecrated somebody's grave horrified me.

ROBERT STACK: Aghast at the thought of human remains

beneath their plush, green lawn, the Haneys vowed

to find out their identities.

Their search led them to a longtime resident

named Jasper Norton.

As a youth, Jasper had dug several graves in the area.

He told the Haneys that their home and surrounding houses

were built on top of an old African-American cemetery

called Black Hope.

The deceased were mainly former slaves.

The last burial was in 1939, and as many as 60 people

were interred there in paupers' graves.

The people had very little money.

They marked their graves however they could, with markings

on trees, with little stones, with fences around them

like a family plot.

ROBERT STACK: The two people buried in the Haney's backyard

were Betty and Charlie Thomas.

This picture of Betty is the only

known photograph of either one.

Census records reveal that the married couple were

born into slavery in the mid-1800s

and freed after the Civil War.

They died during the 1930s and their graves

were eventually forgotten.

JUDITH HANEY (VOICEOVER): Betty and Charlie's

family wasn't there anymore.

And it was up to me to give him the dignity that they deserved.

And that was very important to me.

ROBERT STACK: Judith and Sam Haney

made an extraordinary decision.

Plagued by guilt for digging up the Thomases,

they reburied the long departed couple in their own backyard.

I'm so sorry.

ROBERT STACK: The Haneys resolved

to live peacefully side by side with the Thomases.

But according to the Haneys, what would follow

was anything but peaceful.

JUDITH HANEY (VOICEOVER): There was a clock in my bedroom.

And one night, it started sparking and putting

out sort of a blue glow.

ROBERT STACK: When Judith checked the clock,

she found that it was unplugged.

The clock was only the beginning.

One evening Sam went to work the night shift,

leaving Judith alone.

MAN: (GHOSTLY) What you doing?

JUDITH HANEY (VOICEOVER): I heard

the sliding glass door open.

And I heard, which I thought was Sam, saying what you doing?

And that sort of shocked me.

And I thought, well, he forgot something.

Everything was quiet.

The sliding glass doors were locked.

And I thought, well, you know, you must be losing your mind.

This really must be getting to you.

But much to my amazement, that's not where the story ended.

In the morning, I awoke, went in my closet to get my red shoes.

And I could not find them anywhere.

So, of course, I started looking for them,

and went through all of her closets

where she normally puts things.

And we just couldn't find it.

We had walked just a short distance

where the gravesites were, and I could

see something on the grave.

It was the shoes that Judy was looking for that morning.

And they were both side by side.

Like someone had just picked them up,

and carried them over, and laid them down on the gravesite.

ROBERT STACK: Even more disquieting to the Haneys

was when they realized what day this was--

Betty Thomas's birthday.

SAM HANEY: And I kind of got the feeling

that it was like Charlie was giving

Betty a birthday present.

I began to come to the realization

that this was not all in my mind.

And that this had to have some relationship

to Betty and Charlie's graves being disturbed.

Their spirits were saying, this isn't right.

The Haneys were not alone.

A dozen neighbors whose homes were built

on top of the abandoned cemetery reported lights, televisions,

and water faucets turning on and off for no apparent reason.

Many claimed to hear unearthly sounds.

Some even saw supernatural apparitions.

And there seemed to be an increasing maliciousness

to the bizarre events.

Could the spirits of the Black Hope

cemetery, angry the desecration of their graves,

be seeking vengeance?

Like the Haneys, Ben and Jean Williams

thought they had found suburban paradise when they moved

into the same neighborhood.

JEAN WILLIAMS (VOICEOVER): And then after we moved in,

everything changed.

When I tried to plant new plants,

they just would not live.

No matter what I did, you know, fertilizer, whatever,

they still would not live.

And I constantly had a foreboding feeling,

a feeling of things are not right,

or something bad is about to happen.

ROBERT STACK: The Williams said that near the flowers,

sinkholes appeared in the unmistakable shape of a coffin.

The Williams would fill them in only to have them mysteriously

reappear a few days later.

The Williams also noticed strange markings on an oak tree

by the sinkholes.

An arrow pointed towards the ground,

beneath it were two horizontal slash marks.

A long time resident of the area told the Williams

he was the one who had marked the tree

as a way to identify where his two sisters were buried.

JEAN WILLIAMS (VOICEOVER): I was devastated.

I couldn't believe that, you know,

my god, here we are living on top of graves.

I felt guilty.

And I felt like, well, I mean, we've desecrated graves.

ROBERT STACK: According to the Williams,

their ideal home was soon invaded by a menacing presence.

Nebulous shadows rapidly slid along the walls.

Whispered words and a putrid smell followed in their wake.

Had the dead sisters, or other spirits

disturbed from their eternal resting places,

come back to life?

At the time, the Williams' granddaughter

Carli lived with the couple.

During the blazing heat of summer,

Carli said she would stumble into bone-chilling pockets

of freezing air.

CARLI KARLUK (VOICEOVER): It would be very, very chilly.

And you'd have just this feeling of foreboding,

or just, like, you knew something wasn't right.

Anywhere in the house, you would have a feeling

that you were not alone.

Somebody was watching you.

It terrified me to be in the house by myself.

[flushing]

The toilets used to flush on their own.

Can you hear the voices?

[murmuring]

CARLI KARLUK (VOICEOVER): As the water went down, I could hear--

it was almost like conversations.

Like I could hear people murmuring to themselves.

It was a presence, or spirit, or something there.

Something that wanted to be heard,

wanted me to know it was there.

JEAN WILLIAMS (VOICEOVER): One time, Carli

and I decided to take a nap.

Carli had her book and she was reading.

And all of a sudden, we heard the back door open--

What was it?

JEAN WILLIAMS (VOICEOVER): --someone

come in, close the door.

We heard footsteps coming up the hall.

We both looked at each other.

And then we both looked towards the door.

[footsteps creaking]

It was at this point that I realized

somebody was in our house that didn't belong there.

We looked everywhere.

Nothing.

There wasn't a soul in that house but us.

What the noise was, I don't know.

It's locked.

CARLI KARLUK (VOICEOVER): It was terrifying.

Even to this day, I still feel it was a presence--

like a ghost, if you will.

I mean it was something there.

It was something that was trying to scare us.

I absolutely believe that all of these things

happened to us because we were on the graveyard.

And that we we're simply going to be

tormented until we left there.

ROBERT STACK: As the unexplainable

phenomena seem to increasingly target

the Williams, Ben and Jean debated what to do next.

BEN WILLIAMS: Me and Jean, we talked it over.

And she said, well, what can we do?

Walk off and leave it?

She said, we ain't got enough money

to pay it out on another home.

I says, we always been fighters.

We're going to stay right here.

And fight it and try to beat it.

ROBERT STACK: It wasn't long before Ben got his chance.

BEN WILLIAMS (VOICEOVER): I came home from work around 10

after 12 from the midnight shift.

And I walked straight to the kitchen,

opened the refrigerator door.

And that's when I seen these two ghostly figures.

And they went straight backwards into the den.

And then they started moving toward the hall

going down to the bedrooms.

I noticed that they was headed right down the hall to Jean's.

Well, when I walked through the bedroom door,

instead of two forms being there, there was just one.

And it was standing right about a foot and a half

from the end of the bed.

And the only thing I really thought of,

they ain't messing with my wife.

[tense music]

Ben, what are you doing?

BEN WILLIAMS (VOICEOVER): As I dove through it,

I felt a sticky, cold sensation in my body.

Are you OK?

And I turned around looked at the end of the bed,

and wasn't nothing there.

ROBERT STACK: But the Williams' nightmare was far from over.

In rapid succession, six of the Williams' immediate relatives

were diagnosed with cancer.

Three succumbed to the disease.

BEN WILLIAMS: You just don't have

that much sickness and death in that a short period of time.

The spirits of the dead wanted me and my family

to get off of their graveyard.

ROBERT STACK: The Haneys lives were also unraveling.

JUDITH HANEY (VOICEOVER): I was crying all the time.

I was frightened.

I was scared of doing my daily routine in my own home.

If you can think of every gambit of emotions

that a person can have, I was going through those things.

ROBERT STACK: The Haneys decided to fight back in court.

They sued the developer for not disclosing that their home

was built over a cemetery.

In part, so that everyone would know what was happening

at the Newport subdivision.

A jury awarded them $142,000 for mental anguish.

But in a devastating reversal, the judge

ruled on legal grounds that the developers were not liable.

The verdict was thrown out and the Haneys ordered

to pay $50,000 in court costs.

SAM HANEY: And at that point, we decided to file bankruptcy.

So, all in all, we ended up losing the case,

losing the money, losing the house.

We were exhausted.

And we got in our car and went to where

there was love and support, and tried to put it behind us.

ROBERT STACK: The Williams also explored legal recourse.

But they say they were told that without definitive proof

of a cemetery on their property, nothing could be done.

To complicate matters, it was illegal in Texas

to disturb a grave without permission from the family.

It was then that Jean made her decision

she will forever regret.

JEAN WILLIAMS (VOICEOVER): That was the last straw.

Do you want a body?

I'll show you a body.

So I thought to myself, I can dig.

And I can dig about two feet a day.

And I knew I would reach a body.

[groaning]

ROBERT STACK: But soon after she started digging, Jean felt ill.

I'm going to do the rest later.

I'm going to take over, OK?

OK.

ROBERT STACK: Her daughter Tina volunteered to finish the job.

JEAN WILLIAMS (VOICEOVER): And she dug for, I'd probably

say almost half an hour.

Oh.

Are you OK?

Yeah, I feel just a little faint.

I'm-- I'm digging.

And I remember her saying that she felt funny.

She was getting dizzy, as well.

And she put the shovel down, and she went back inside.

BEN: You lay down, honey.

CARLI KARLUK (VOICEOVER): And she just lay down on the couch.

She's like, mom, daddy, I don't feel right.

You know, there's something wrong.

We've got to call 911.

CARLI KARLUK (VOICEOVER): The last thing

I remember her saying was, mommy, take care of my baby.

Take care of my baby.

And she looked so scared.

JEAN: Talk to me, Tina.

JEAN WILLIAMS (VOICEOVER): Almost immediately,

her eyes started glazing over.

And I was talking to her, trying to talk her out to dying.

Please Tina, talk to me.

And all this time her eyes were changing.

Until they got to the point where

I knew that she wasn't with me or she wasn't, you

know, responding at all.

ROBERT STACK: Tina had suffered a massive heart attack.

Two days later, she died.

She had just turned 30 years old.

JEAN WILLIAMS (VOICEOVER): And I realized that I

had desecrated another grave.

And now I'm paying.

I told Ben-- I says, we have to get out of here.

It doesn't matter what we lose, what we had.

Nothing matters except that we get out of here.

And I knew that if we didn't that I

was not going to make it.

Because my fight was gone.

I could fight no more forever.

Fine.

BEN: Great.

How you doing?

All right.

ROBERT STACK: The Williams escaped to Montana

and later moved back to Texas.

Today, they are a happy, growing family no longer plagued

by mysterious noises, horrific apparitions,

or heartbreaking tragedies.

None of the subsequent residents living in the Williams, Haney,

or other nearby homes ever experienced

any paranormal activity.

If we would've known what was going to happen,

we would left a lot sooner than we did, a lot sooner.

JEAN WILLIAMS: We paid the price.

Oh, the price was so heavy.

We paid with our family.

We paid with our health.

We paid with our savings.

Everything was gone.

If we had not left the cemetery, we would not be here today.

I believe that.

ROBERT STACK: After spending a long weekend

with their divorced father, Amber and Brittney Albanese

returned to the Las Vegas home they shared with her mother,

Joann.

GIRL: Mom, we're home.

Mom, can we order a pizza?

ROBERT STACK: The two girls quickly noticed telltale signs

that something is not right.

Mom?

Joann's two daughters came home

and they found mother wasn't home.

Joann was not there, which may not have been that uncommon.

But when they went into her bedroom, they found her purse.

And they found particular items of jewelry

that Joann only took off when she showered.

Immediately upon completing the shower,

she would put them back on.

GIRL: Mom?

ROBERT STACK: After Joann failed to turn up the following day,

she is reported missing.

Las Vegas police detectives soon discover that a second person

has disappeared--

Joann's boyfriend of five months, John Edwards.

It appeared that this boyfriend-girlfriend

went out on an outing and just hadn't returned yet.

And when Joann and John failed to show up at work,

contact their family, that's when

we figured we'd better take a little closer look at it.

After years of suffering through disappointing dates

and dead end relationships, Joann Albanese believed she had

finally found the perfect mate.

John Edwards was handsome, charismatic, and

attentive to her every need.

John would often take Joann on romantic getaways.

And initially, police thought the couple had

simply left for the weekend.

But as the investigation unfolded,

it became apparent that John Edwards

was not who he seemed to be.

Joann?

Yes?

Remember the guy I told you about?

Very charming? - Uh-huh.

No wife, no kids?

Uh-huh.

Well, he's back there training somebody.

ROBERT STACK: A friend introduced 39-year-old Joann

Albanese to John Edwards.

And she soon agreed to date the smooth-talking fitness trainer.

Nice to meet you Joann.

Joann, like most women, thought him to be, you know,

very dynamic and a very interesting and attractive man.

They began going out quite a bit.

JOHN: Did a lot of hunting when I was in Alaska.

Hey, babe.

ROBERT STACK: John Edwards quickly integrated

himself into Joann's life.

And the two appeared to be madly in love.

But it wasn't long before disturbing signs

emerged that Edwards was no Prince Charming.

Is this strawberry?

It looks like it.

ROBERT STACK: Edwards paid for nothing, apparently

living off of Joann's earnings.

Is he stupid or something?

Hey! Hey!

You brought the wrong drink.

ROBERT STACK: And his charm had transformed

into an all-consuming possessiveness.

If Joann complained, John reportedly

became violently angry.

Will you shut up?

He makes sure that he's pretty much

the only person she's with.

Obviously, she was with her children as well.

But-- that he takes up most of her time.

He, from what we understand, even

made sure that he was there when she would go to the bathroom.

ROBERT STACK: On the day of her disappearance,

Joann left her job at 4:30 PM.

She allegedly told family and friends

that she planned to end her relationship with John

at dinner that evening.

Joann was never heard from again.

Four days later and 250 miles away,

Joann's car was found parked in a remote desert

area outside Prescott, Arizona.

There was no sign of Joann or John.

The car, no, there's nothing.

Finding the car abandoned where it was,

it pretty well confirmed our fears that we

had a foul play incident here.

ROBERT STACK: Police discovered a truck parked outside Joann's

home that was positively identified by witnesses

as belonging to John Edwards.

That truck would expose a first crack in Edwards

carefully constructed facade.

Go ahead and run the plate on the vehicle for me, please.

LARRY HANNA (VOICEOVER): We ran that license plate

and it came back as absolutely no record,

which is rather unusual.

What do you got, Fred?

Plate doesn't go to the vehicle

or anyone in particular.

So there's a problem there.

Somebody's trying to cover something.

We started questioning whether or not John Edwards

was who he claimed to be.

ROBERT STACK: Any doubts police had about Edward's identity

were confirmed when they searched

the house where he was staying.

LARRY HANNA (VOICEOVER): We began looking

through some of his belongings.

And we found a wallet that was duct taped closed.

Bingo.

LARRY HANNA (VOICEOVER): And when I opened my wallet,

I found identification with the person we knew as John Edwards.

But it was the name of John Addis.

Hello, John Patrick Addis.

LARRY HANNA (VOICEOVER): Alaska driver's license,

a certification card from the State of Alaska

saying he is certified in crime scene investigations.

Let's check it out.

So we realized at that point that the person we were told

was John Edwards was, in fact, a John Addis.

ROBERT STACK: Who was John Addis?

And why had he gone to such extreme lengths

to conceal his identity?

The answer to that question did not

bode well for the ultimate fate of Joann Albanese.

As detectives delved into Addis's past,

they uncovered allegations about a vicious trail

of battered women that began in the Alaskan wilderness.

Las Vegas police discover that John

Addis was actually once a law enforcement officer himself.

He joined the Alaska State Troopers in the early 70s,

and quickly rose up the police ranks to become

a crime scene investigator.

John was a very intelligent man.

As an investigator, John really wasn't

a people person as much as some others perhaps were.

But if you wanted good science at a crime scene, and someone

who could think in these terms and these concepts,

John Addis was the guy.

ROBERT STACK: By 1980, John Addis and his wife

Jodi had been completely accepted

by the tightly knit Fairbanks law enforcement community.

Wasn't such a big waste, we got to see the territories.

Hey, mother. Get a sandwich for Joe.

ROBERT STACK: Only Jodi was aware her husband

had a darker side.

He was very controlling.

It started out by just pushes or shoving.

And then it was grabbing my hair,

pushing me up against the wall with his hand

against my throat.

I told you to stay away from those people!

I told you not to talk to them!

You can't treat me this way!

I can treat you any way I damn well feel like.

ROBERT STACK: After 11 years of marriage and four children,

Jody finally had enough.

While the couple were driving into town,

John started yet another fight.

I decided I can't live like this anymore.

So I had to make a decision.

I decided I am not going to put up with this

when I jumped from the vehicle.

[suspenseful music]

ROBERT STACK: Although John reportedly chased her down

into her back in the truck, Jody ultimately was able to escape.

Shortly thereafter, she was granted a divorce.

In the ensuing years, Addis quit his job

as a state trooper and married wives number two and three.

I started to trace back all of his prior relationships.

What I saw was an escalation in violence.

It was extremely violent with his third wife.

Who, after just having a baby with her,

he was choking her so badly that her feet were off the ground.

He had physically raised her as he was strangling her.

ROBERT STACK: It was during this time

that John Addis abducted his four children

from his first marriage.

He was arrested and served one year in prison before being

paroled to Fresno, California.

But John Addis broke his parole and disappeared from sight.

Five years later, Addis resurfaced in Las Vegas

as John Edwards, where he met Joann Albanese.

Authorities now believe that Joann

tragically became the alleged chronic batterer's

first murder victim.

LARRY HANNA (VOICEOVER): Our best guess

on what happened was probably, before they

went to dinner, they got into a heated argument.

And as a result of that argument,

we firmly believe that John and her got into a fight

and John killed her.

And once she was dead, John panicked.

John packed her into her own car and drove her down to Arizona,

and ultimately disposed of the body and a car

outside of Prescott, Arizona.

ROBERT STACK: A full three years after her disappearance,

a hunter discovered Joann Albanese's

skeletal remains one mile from where

her car had been abandoned.

A warrant for murder was issued for John Addis.

He has now been missing for six years.

This is not a stupid individual.

This is a homicide detective who taught

crime scene investigation.

He's as sharp as they come.

And that's what makes him tougher to find.

John Addis won't be easy to catch

and won't be easy to arrest.

I hope I'm wrong.

I hope he watches this segment and decides

to do the honorable thing and give himself up.

[music playing]

CINDY (VOICEOVER): I'm strong.

I'm beautiful.

I can do anything I want.

ROBERT STACK: The words of Cindy Song,

posted to her personal website eight months

before her scheduled graduation from Penn

State University in May 2002--

a day that would celebrate a lifelong dream.

Cindy grew up in South Korea, but left in 1995

to live with her aunt and uncle in Virginia

and attend high school.

Her past rich in family tradition, her future full

of promise, Cindy was enjoying every minute

of her newfound freedom in America.

But on Halloween 2001, Cindy Song's dream

was apparently shattered.

It was a Wednesday, the perfect excuse for students

to party on a school night.

Cindy and two of her girlfriends,

Stacy Paik and Lisa Kim, showed up

at their favorite haunt dressed in costumes, ready to drink

and dance the night away.

LISA KIM (VOICEOVER): Cindy wore a rabbit outfit.

She had bunny ears and a tail that she had bought.

It was a very cute outfit.

It wasn't like a sexy outfit.

It was a very cute outfit.

That was her thing, she was very cute.

She liked to look cute.

ROBERT STACK: The girls partied until 2:00 AM.

Next stop, a friend's to play some video games, then home.

I'll talk to you later.

OK, call me.

ROBERT STACK: It was now 4:00 AM on Thursday, November,

1st 2001.

OK.

[speaking korean]

ROBERT STACK: Stacy waved goodbye to her friend

and drove off.

She never saw Cindy enter her apartment

and has not seen her since, nor has anyone else.

Cindy Song simply disappeared that night.

Police were baffled.

BRIAN SPRINKLE: We have no body.

We have new crime scene.

And we have no actual crime.

So it's been very frustrating without any

of those pieces of the puzzle.

And because of that, it seems that she

just vanished in thin air.

ROBERT STACK: Back in Seoul, South Korea,

Cindy's mother learned the heart-wrenching news.

[speaking korean]

INTERPRETER: I wanted to be here for her,

but I was in Korea at the time.

If God will just allow me to see her, hear her, and touch her

again, I will be so grateful.

Cindy Song was known to have an independent streak

and liked to be spontaneous.

But she was also hardworking and responsible,

an art major who achieved good grades and held down two jobs.

Friends say running off on a whim

was simply not something Cindy would ever do.

Questions and theories concerning what may

have happened to Cindy abound.

Yet her fate remains a complete mystery.

When it happened, I kept on calling her.

ROBERT STACK: A search of Cindy's apartment a few days

after her disappearance showed no sign of any struggle.

But there were some clues.

STACY PAIK (VOICEOVER): We found her eyelashes on the counter,

because she was wearing fake eyelashes.

So we knew that she must have at least come in

and took those off.

And her backpack was in her room as well, which

she had been carrying earlier.

So we knew that she at least came in and dropped that off.

ROBERT STACK: Another clue, Cindy's cell

phone still in her bag.

According to friends, she never went anywhere without it.

Her bunny costume, however, was nowhere to be found.

I don't think she ran away because--

BRIAN SPRINKLE (VOICEOVER): We know that, whenever she'd

left the apartment, she was wearing the clothes

she had on that night.

We also know that her purse, or pocketbook,

or whatever she had with her that evening that

contained her driver's license and credit cards

were with her too.

Because we could not locate those in the apartment.

ROBERT STACK: Detectives checked Cindy's phone records,

no calls in or out, then her credit cards and e-mail.

There was no activity on her credit cards.

And there were no e-mails or any activity on her email accounts

that gave us any clue to her disappearance.

ROBERT STACK: Early November, police

and volunteers combed a wooded area

near Penn State University--

no trace of Cindy Song.

She had apparently vanished, leaving

detectives with nothing to go on but hunches and theories.

First, Cindy's state of mind.

Had she become depressed and taken her own life?

Friends say, no way.

They remembered Cindy's upbeat mood on Halloween night.

STACY PAIK (VOICEOVER): That's actually how she always is.

She's very bubbly.

She's just always happy and she always wants everyone

else to be happy around her.

ROBERT STACK: So if Cindy wasn't depressed,

had she perhaps run off somewhere

without telling anyone?

That theory was also quickly dismissed.

When we conducted the initial search of her apartment,

some of the things we found were two tickets to a Britney Spears

concert that were coming up a couple of days

after her disappearance.

And we also found some printouts from where she had ordered

a computer, and was due to be delivered, I believe,

on November 6th.

So that if she was going to leave the area on her own,

she wouldn't have ordered these or planned

to attend those functions.

ROBERT STACK: So what did happen to Cindy

Song that Halloween night?

Friends said it wasn't unusual for Cindy

to run out to a nearby 24-hour market

no matter how late it was.

BRIAN SPRINKLE (VOICEOVER): Upon her going there or coming back,

something happened.

Such an abduction, maybe somebody had

grabbed her and abducted her.

[shouting in korean]

ROBERT STACK: A few days after Cindy Song disappeared,

a chilling scene reportedly unfolded in Philadelphia's

Chinatown district.

Nearly 200 miles from Cindy's apartment,

a woman matching Cindy's description

was seen crying and yelling for help.

Later, the eyewitness came forward with a description

of the alleged abductor.

MAN: (SHOUTING) Get out of here, lady!

ROBERT STACK: A police artist created this composite drawing

of a man with olive to light brown complexion

and medium-length hair.

He is not a suspect.

But police would like to question him.

Meanwhile, Cindy's mother flew to Philadelphia

to help in the search.

Since her arrival, Bansoon Song has kept her daughter's story

alive locally, while also generating

national and international coverage.

It is a seemingly endless ordeal,

yet she is not about to give up.

[speaking korean]

INTERPRETER: I want to stay in America until I can find Cindy.

I will do anything to find Cindy.

Because Cindy is always in my heart.

ROBERT STACK: This is the last photo of Cindy Song taken

the night she disappeared.

Cindy is 21 years old in this picture,

stands just over 5 feet tall and weighs 110 pounds.

She has long, straight black hair and brown eyes.

Join me for our next journey into the unknown

on "Unsolved Mysteries."

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