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ANNOUNCER: Tonight on "Unsolved Mysteries"

ROBERT STACK: It was unthinkable,

just days after the cold-blooded attacks of 9/11, America

faced another ominous threat, bio-terrorism.

The instrument of death this time, anthrax.

A toxic bacteria can kill in a matter of days,

and did, five times.

The killer is still on the loose,

and the FBI needs your help to solve this baffling case.

ROBERT STACK: A Texas teenager is kidnapped,

his father has seven hours to collect the ransom

and deliver it to his abductors.

The fate of young, Kyle McElroy, hangs in the balance.

ROBERT STACK: For more than 20 years, Monica Libao,

has been searching for her birth parents.

Her investigation has brought her to a painful conclusion.

At a very young age she may have been kidnapped.

Perhaps you can help Monica learn the truth.

ROBERT STACK: At Texas A&M University,

a suspected serial rapist is caught

when his first victim has a second startling face

to face encounter with him.

After being released on bail, Don Richard Davis Jr.

dropped out of sight.

We'll bring you an update on his surprising arrest and trial.

ROBERT STACK: A woman whose family

was ripped apart by murder searches

for her long lost siblings.

Thanks to our audience, she is finally

reunited with a relative she believed

she would never see again.

Join me for these intriguing stories and more.

Perhaps you may be the one chosen

by fate to solve a mystery.

[theme - "unsolved mysteries"]

ROBERT STACK: Tuesday, October 16 2001.

Norma Wallace reported for work at the postal office

in Trenton, New Jersey.

Hey, Ava.

ROBERT STACK: She wasn't feeling well,

and thought it was a mild case of the flu.

But as the day wore on, Norma became increasingly ill.

She could barely breathe.

Some 200 miles away in Washington D.C.,

another postal worker, Leroy Richmond,

was suffering nearly identical symptoms.

He too became gravely ill.

In a matter of days, both Norma and Leroy

were hospitalized, their conditions

growing worse by the hour.

They seemed to be slowly suffocating to death.

Doctors couldn't figure out why.

But after administering a battery of tests,

they finally came up with a diagnosis, (LABOURED BREATHING)

anthrax.

What these veteran postal workers were told by doctors

was terrifying.

Like millions of other Americans,

Leroy Richmond and Norma Wallace were

aware of an anthrax related death

in Florida just days earlier.

Now they were suffering from the most

virulent form of the disease, fatal 95 percent of the time.

Suddenly, in the wake of September 11th,

the nation faced a second wave of terrorism.

Who would commit such heinous crimes and why?

ROBERT STACK: Someone, somewhere in the world

had access to the deadly substance anthrax.

The knowledge to work with it, and an environment

appropriate for its handling.

Was it an individual, or the work of a group?

Where were they located, and what were their motives?

These questions plagued investigators

and continue to do so today.

For a nation still reeling from a 9-1-1 terrorist attacks,

it seemed nearly impossible to fathom.

ROBERT STACK: The anthrax time bomb

started ticking 11 days before striking Norma and Leroy.

On October 5th, 2001.

63-year-old Robert Stevens, a photo editor

at the sun newspaper, died in Boca Raton, Florida.

The cause, exposure to anthrax spores, which experts believe

came from an open letter.

But the letter had been thrown away, it's origin unknown.

Suddenly federal investigators were thrust into the world

of bio-terrorism. They were baffled.

VAN A. HARP: We don't have a crime scene

in a traditional sense, we don't have witnesses,

and we really don't have anyone that we can call

an informant, at this point.

ROBERT STACK: The same week, more media targets.

NBC News, and the New York Post in Manhattan.

TOM RIDGE: It is clear that the terrorists

responsible for these attacks intended to use

this anthrax as a weapon.

ROBERT STACK: But this time a clue,

postmarks on the envelopes, Trenton, New Jersey.

A swarm of FBI agents checked every mailbox

in town for traces of anthrax.

They found none.

Only more questions.

Why Trenton?

Was the anthrax package there?

Did the terrorists live in the area?

Or were the letters mailed from the city only as a ruse?

ROBERT STACK: Whoever had the diabolical will and ability

to put anthrax in the mail, could

easily have the intelligence to plot unimaginable false trails.

October 9th, 2001.

Two more anthrax laced letters, again postmarked Trenton.

This time, politicians are targets.

Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy,

at their officers in D.C. A form of anthrax

so pure and concentrated it was termed, weapons grade.

DR MERYL NASS: It was dangerous, dangerous stuff.

It was estimated that two trillion spores

went into each of those envelopes, which

would have been two grams.

One envelope may have had 100 million lethal doses.

ROBERT STACK: Unthinkable.

Under the right conditions, just two grams of anthrax

could potentially wipe out one third of the US population.

Investigators came to a significant conclusion.

[music playing]

ROBERT STACK: Notes contained within the anthrax laden

envelopes were so similar in handwriting,

they had to come from the same source.

But the content of the notes could be viewed

as a clue, or another ruse.

ROBERT STACK: Did references to 9/11, death to Israel,

and Allah is great, point to Arab terrorists?

Or to some wanted investigators to think Arab extremists

were involved?

[music playing]

VAN A. HARP: We are looking at three broad areas.

The first being international terrorists, domestic terrorism.

We're looking at some of the individuals

within the United States.

And then, we're looking at the lone wolf as well.

ROBERT STACK: October 20th, 2001.

[music playing]

ROBERT STACK: Hundreds of federal investigators worked

night and day to solve a crime like none

they had ever encountered.

[music playing]

ROBERT STACK: Meanwhile, postal worker Norma

Wallace fought for her life.

Her temperature soared above 100.

She was in shock.

The anthrax spores were secreting a lethal exotoxin,

causing blood vessels to break and the bacteria

to pulse through her bloodstream.

(LABOURED BREATHING)

NORMAL WALLACE: I felt like I was dying.

I felt like I couldn't breathe.

Once the spores enter your lungs,

they actually attack the tissues and the lymph

nodes, and causes the anthrax to actually

take possession of your body.

Yes.

DOCTOR: Norma, you gotta read this us

ROBERT STACK: Norma knew her condition

was serious, but the news of just how serious, was alarming.

BROTHER: I'm just reading about the survival rate.

NORMAL WALLACE: When my brother brought me the information

back, it said that inhalation anthrax was

the deadliest form of anthrax.

95% of the people die.

So I said, I'm ready.

Whatever God decides for me, I'm ready for it.

ROBERT STACK: The prognosis for Leroy Richmond was also grim.

Suffering excruciating pain, Leroy

laid helpless as his lungs filled with fluids.

Worse, doctors knew their most powerful

drugs are rarely effective in fighting the silent killer.

LEROY RICHMOND: I think I was about as near death

as I ever was going to get.

My breathing had become so shallow,

that I was absolutely panting like a dog would breathe.

And, I heard a couple of guys say, man he's

not going to last but a couple hours,

and that will be it for him.

[music playing]

ROBERT STACK: But how would two mail sorters

at two different post officers become

infected in the first place?

High tech mail sorting equipment.

Investigators concluded that the sheer speed of 30,000 envelopes

per hour, flying through a sorter,

could send millions of anthrax spores into the air.

Routine machine maintenance, using air blowers,

only made the possibilities worse.

LEROY RICHMOND: I looked up and saw this dust and this soot

and stuff, coming out of the machine,

and I just looked up and said, oh my god.

And I said, like that, and probably in that instance,

I may have inhaled the spores.

ROBERT STACK: Miraculously, Norma and Leroy survived

their harrowing ordeal.

However their lives will never be the same.

I can't do all the things that I would normally do.

And the diagnosis from the doctors

is, hey look Mr. Richmond, the toxin's

will be in your, on your system, for at least

a year and a half to two years.

The hardest part is not knowing what's going to happen

next year or 10 years from now.

You know, whether my memory's going

to come back or, whether I'm just

going to fade into oblivion.

[music playing]

ROBERT STACK: Despite their uncertainty,

Norma Wallace and Leroy Richmond at least have a future.

Four other anthrax victims weren't so lucky, bringing

the death toll to five.

October 21st and 22nd, 2001, Washington D.C.

Leroy's coworkers, Thomas Morris and Joseph

Corsini, October 31, New York City,

hospital worker Kathy Nguyen.

Three weeks later, Ottilie Lundgren in Derby Connecticut.

ROBERT STACK: The deaths of Kathy and Ottillie

were especially puzzling.

Authorities concluded they had somehow come in contact

with anthrax tainted mail, that may have been contaminated

in the sorting process.

But no one could say for certain.

DR MERYL NASS: It was said that the lethal dose for human

was eight to 10,000 spores.

It would suggest by the deaths of the late in Connecticut,

and New York City, that probably many fewer

spores lead to their death.

ROBERT STACK: November 30, 2001 A breakthrough.

Experts determined the anthrax spores in each of the letters

came from the same strain of the bacterium.

The so-called Ames strain was confined to only

six research labs in the US.

That led FBI profilers to conclude the anthrax attacks

are probably not the work of international terrorists,

but rather someone right here at home.

Someone who may have had access to one of these facilities.

VAN A. HARP: Loading these letters with anthrax

required specific expertise.

In other words, it couldn't be done

in your basement, or your garage,

unless you had some specific equipment.

ROBERT STACK: May, 2002.

Still no prime suspect.

[music playing]

ROBERT STACK: However, scientific analysis

of the genetic fingerprints of the anthrax spores

revealed they may have come from one of two research sites,

both under the control of the US Army.

The Medical Research Institute at Fort

Detrick, Maryland and the Dugway Proving Ground in Utah.

ROBERT STACK: Today federal investigators

are in the midst of a controversial program

to administer voluntary polygraph

tests to large numbers of employees at these two sites.

The goal, to smoke out individuals

who might have information about the anthrax attacks.

[music playing]

ROBERT STACK: Meanwhile, with no assurance the elusive killer

has ties to any of these facilities,

the manhunt continues at home and abroad.

[music playing]

NORMAL WALLACE: That person has to be a serious coward,

and unable to deal with reality, to have

done something like that.

And it's not just that it could have happened here,

but it could have happened anywhere.

VAN A. HARP: We are in the middle

of an exhaustive national, international, investigation.

We've interviewed over 5,000 people already.

We've issued well in excess of 1,300 subpoenas.

And every little piece of the puzzle helps.

[music playing]

[theme - "unsolved mysteries"]

Ha ha.

Day shift is over, time for the real workers.

ROBERT STACK: 18-year-old Kyle McElroy

is among the most promising young citizens of

the small town of Troup, Texas.

He works for his father, Kevin, who owns a plastics factory.

At the end of each day Kevin turns the reins of the business

over to Kyle.

Despite his youth, he has proven himself

to be an adept supervisor of the night shift.

He's going to give me 12 cotter pins to hold me

in place until the morning, OK.

ROBERT STACK: Together, father and son

have made the McElroy plastics company a booming success.

(TELEPHONE RINGING)

ROBERT STACK: Friday, March 10th 9:20 AM.

McElroy Plastics.

Who is this?

Sarah, who?

KEVIN MCELROY: Marnie come in and told me that,

asked if I knew a Sarah.

And I said, what company does she work for?

She said, she wouldn't tell me nothing.

This is McElroy, how can I help you?

WOMAN (ON THE PHONE): Kevin, we have your son.

Take the 110 South, you'll find his truck there.

Look in truck for further instructions.

Do not call the police we are watching you.

I'm really in the mood for this right now.

I'm thinking, you know, it's might be a joke.

That's not funny.

KEVIN MCELROY: And I'm really not believing what I'm hearing.

Put him on the phone.

KEVIN MCELROY: So she put Kyle on the phone

just, for maybe five seconds or so.

KYLE MCELROY (ON THE PHONE): Daddy do what they say.

They mean it, or they're gonna kill me.

ROBERT STACK: The last time Kyle had been seen,

was at the end of his work shift the previous night.

Kevin was now certain the mysterious Sarah

was dead serious.

Kevin McElroy had only moments to decide what course of action

to take.

Despite the kidnappers warning he

contacted the Troup, Texas police department.

The officers were determined to keep their involvement

a secret from Kyle's abductors.

Following Sarah's orders, Kevin set out

to retrieve the written instruction

from Kyle's abandoned truck.

ROBERT STACK: As a precaution, Kevin

allowed a Troup, Texas police officer

to follow him discreetly.

The officer, posing as a rancher,

was stopped further along the road,

and observed Kevin from a distance.

Both men knew they had to expect the unexpected.

[music playing]

ROBERT STACK: The truck was locked and Kevin had no keys.

KEVIN MCELROY: The first I was thinking

is, are we dealing with a bunch of terrorists,

or what if, while I'm trying to get in the pickup it blows up.

(SHATTERING GLASS)

ROBERT STACK: The ransom note was just

where Sarah said it would be.

KEVIN MCELROY: The letter said that they were asking

for $200,000, in $100 bills, and that I

had seven hours to come up with the money,

and then go back to my office.

That's when they would call me and tell

me where to drop it off at.

ROBERT STACK: With 6 and 1/2 hours remaining

until the kidnappers deadline, Kevin

arrived at a prearranged staging area,

to meet with the authorities.

The FBI was now in charge of the case.

[inaudible]

But they want a couple $100,000

GARRET FLOYD: There was nothing in that note and tell us

where Kyle was, where to deliver the money,

or what means Kyle would be released.

So we knew the abductors had to contact Mr. McElroy again.

Ride with him.

GARRET FLOYD: So I sent two agents with him.

ROBERT STACK: For their plan to work,

FBI agents had to be present at Kevin's factory, when

the kidnappers phoned again.

But they had to do so under conditions of absolute secrecy.

All of Kevin's employees were sent home

under the pretense of a major mechanical breakdown

at the plant.

--main extruder fixed, you guys will be back.

ROBERT STACK: 4:00 PM The way was now clear for the FBI

to move in.

By this time Kevin had collected only half

of the demanded $200,000.

Terry to Gary, were inside.

ROBERT STACK: The next move belong to the kidnappers.

(TELEPHONE RINGING)

ROBERT STACK: 6:30 PM

Hello

Do you have the money?

KEVIN MCELROY (ON THE PHONE): I got most of it.

What you need most the money.

I can't get the whole $200,000, it's a Friday,

the banks don't have it.

ROBERT STACK: The FBI worked furiously to trace the call.

You don't anymore time.

KEVIN MCELROY: The FBI had asked to stall her.

I said, you're going to get your money.

I said, but I want to Kyle and I want

to make sure he's all right.

She said, he's fine.

She said, you're not going to get talk to him.

WOMAN (ON THE PHONE): Listen to me.

Pay attention.

Take the money you have--

ROBERT STACK: Sarah instructed Kevin to drive to a pay phone

outside a local restaurant.

There he would find a note directing him what to do next.

Go alone and

ROBERT STACK: The call was traced to a rural phone booth,

but by the time the FBI got there, Sarah had vanished.

The only course of action now was to follow her orders

and take every precaution possible.

(GARAGE DOOR OPENING) (TIRES SQUEALING

[music playing]

ROBERT STACK: 7:15 PM.

[music playing]

(DOOR CLOSES)

KEVIN MCELROY: I didn't see a note or--

I was kind of expecting a little brown envelope

like ransom note come in.

And so, I went to picking through all that trash.

I thought, well you know, maybe there's

something in this trash.

Maybe only candy wrappers.

So, you know, I went through it, and in the very bottom

of that pile was a note.

ROBERT STACK: The note ordered Kevin

to deliver the ransom money to a laundromat a half a mile away.

He would then receive another call at his office,

informing him where he could find Kyle.

The FBI rapidly deployed a SWAT team near the back

of the Laundromat.

We got a degree view, there's no movement at this time.

BART LAROCCA: When Kevin drove up to the laundromat,

to drop out the ransom money, there was a lot of tension.

Any time someone's life is on the line,

there's a lot of tension.

You want to get this done, and find

the victim as soon as possible.

(DOOR CLOSES)

[music playing]

ROBERT STACK: One hour passed.

FBI AGENT: Two suspects approaching from the north.

Beanie caps, blue sweatshirts, blue jeans.

They're looking around, going for the money.

Got the money they're go.

FBI! FREEZE!

GO! GO!

GO! GO!

GO!

GO!

[music playing]

ROBERT STACK: One of the men arrested

was an employee of the McElroy Plastics Company, a friend

of Kyle's, Victor Feredas.

The FBI learned his real name was Daniel Rios.

Two alleged accomplices were also arrested.

But the woman who called herself,

Sarah, was nowhere to be found.

The following day the suspects told

the FBI Kyle could be found on an abandoned

farm outside of town.

Kevin waited anxiously, as agents

went in search of his son.

KEVIN MCELROY: It was late in the evening.

They asked me if I could speak to me,

they had some information for me.

And I could tell by the looks on their face that it wasn't good.

And they said, he was dead.

They had found him dead.

It's like somebody walking up and hitting you,

but you can't feel it.

You know, you think about it, and it just makes you mad.

ROBERT STACK: The medical examiner

determined Kyle had been choked to death

before the first ransom call was ever made.

The FBI believes his abductors made a recording of Kyle,

then killed him.

Sarah then played the tape for Kevin over the phone.

They say they learned that Sarah was in fact

Desiree Dawn Lingo-Perkins.

The FBI believes she was a prostitute

known to frequent migrant worker camps in the area.

She is now wanted for murder.

She is 5 foot 6, and her weight fluctuates

between 170 and 200 pounds.

[music playing]

[theme - "unsolved mysteries"]

ROBERT STACK: May, 1970.

In a small Texas town, a fragile child clutched her only friend

and waited patiently.

Her family was on the move again, a routine that

had become all too familiar.

It was eighth move to five different states

in Monica Libao's young life.

Eventually she would move a total of 28 times in 15 years.

MONICA LIBAO WOLFE: I would come home from school,

you know, and there would be boxes everywhere,

and I knew it was time to go again.

Monica's parents, Pablo in Burma,

Libao were older, her two half-sisters grown,

and never around.

However, the lonely little girl didn't question

her family's nomadic lifestyle.

Or why she was always kept home from school

on class picture days.

Monica simply learn to fend for herself, But it wasn't easy.

MONICA LIBAO WOLFE: I would get kind

of angry because, by the time I made friends,

we were up and gone again, so.

That was kind of hard.

ROBERT STACK: Then at age 16, when most teens were thinking

about boys and the latest fashion rage,

Monica's life was turned upside down.

MONICA LIBAO WOLFE: My mother got ill,

and I had to transfer my mother's

medical papers to where she was, in the hospital.

And I was reading through my mom's folder,

and I read some words that just, probably

changed my life forever.

That's when I have found out that my mother had

a total hysterectomy in 1945.

There's no way I could have belonged to her.

Imagine finding out your mother

had a hysterectomy nearly two decades before you were born.

That she couldn't possibly have been your mother,

and for 16 years you'd been lied to.

If Burma Libao wasn't Monica's mother then who was?

The search for that answer has consumed Monica's life,

leading her into an incredibly tangled web of lies,

half truths, and innuendos.

What makes this story even more disturbing however,

is where it all may lead, to an unthinkable crime.

Don't be concerned with this, it is not--

MONICA LIBAO WOLFE: I asked my mother, I said,

if you're not my mother, I want to know who is my mother.

Because this is my life

It has no bearing--

MONICA LIBAO WOLFE: And

We are your parents--

MONICA LIBAO WOLFE: She got mad, - Yes it does--

MONICA LIBAO WOLFE: But

this my life--

MONICA LIBAO WOLFE: She told me that, my mother

was a family member,

My sister?

MONICA LIBAO WOLFE: My sister

Shirley had a child, she couldn't take care of you--

- Why didn't you tell me? - --and loved you--

MONICA LIBAO WOLFE: I was shocked.

--roof over your head and you--

MONICA LIBAO WOLFE: That was probably

the worst shock of my life.

She said it was you.

Is that true?

ROBERT STACK: It was true that Monica's half sister was

much older, 19 years in fact, but could

she really be her mother?

MONICA LIBAO WOLFE: I asked her straight out

if she was my mother and she said, no I'm not your mother.

Don't believe her. I am not your--

MONICA LIBAO WOLFE: She said well, mom just

doesn't want to face the truth, and I

said, well, what is the truth?

Then who is

MONICA LIBAO WOLFE: And my sister told me--

I really don't want to talk about that

MONICA LIBAO WOLFE: --that--

Who is?

MONICA LIBAO WOLFE: --my real mother,

(DEEP SIGH) sold me for a bus ticket to New York,

and that she was trash, and no good,

and I didn't need to know her anyway.

She gave you to your mom--

ROBERT STACK: Had Monica really been soled

for the price of a bus ticket?

--price of a bus ticket--

ROBERT STACK: Or was this simply another bizarre story

about her birth mother?

Monica didn't know who to trust or who to believe.

And that's the truth as far as--

ROBERT STACK: Again she handed her parents

to tell her the truth.

MONICA LIBAO WOLFE: The more I ask,

the more they wouldn't tell me anything.

And, I started wondering at that point,

maybe something bad happened.

ROBERT STACK: Monica was now convinced her parents

had something to hide.

She began snooping around the house in search of any link

to her past.

And soon ran across a sturdy metal box.

Inside was the very document Monica had hoped

to find, her birth certificate.

But the details seemed sketchy.

There was no hospital listed, no address, no doctor,

and the document had not been filed

until the early 1970s, when Monica was seven years old.

She had only one place to turn for help.

One of her half sisters. - --with your signature--

MONICA LIBAO WOLFE: She said your mom

and dad paid a lawyer $2,000 to make

this false birth certificate.

ROBERT STACK: Was Monica's whole life a fraud?

It now made sense why, growing up,

she never had her own social security number,

but used her father's instead.

Chicago is listed as Monica's place of birth,

and in 1990 at age 26, she contacted

Illinois judge, Jeanne Scott, in hopes

of finding an adoption record.

Judge Scott answered her in a letter.

JEANNE SCOTT: She told me that she could not find anything

from the years 62, 63, 64.

That she had searched all the records that they had there.

ROBERT STACK: Chicago would turn into another dead end.

Sadly it all seemed like a bad soap opera with Monica thrust

into the lead role.

For the next decade Monica was haunted

by the strange and conflicting stories surrounding her past.

Still she managed to get on with her life,

marry, and have a daughter of her own.

Mom I need to know who I am.

And I think it's important for my daughter to know that too.

ROBERT STACK: During a rare family get together,

Monica decided to try one last time to find out the truth.

--over and over.

I'm your mother.

It's me.

MONICA LIBAO WOLFE: My mom, at that point,

was just angry, very angry.

She started getting mad at my sister,

they just kind of looked at each other.

(EXASPERATED NOISE) Mother!

ROBERT STACK: According to Monica

her half sister suddenly became irate.

I never gave birth to this child--

ROBERT STACK: She began ranting about how nearly four

decades earlier, her mother had hidden

a tiny baby from the police.

Mother, I had to tell lies the police,

and I did that for you and dad.

She's lying now.

They were--

ROBERT STACK: Monica was stunned.

In an instant the past came flooding back,

--talking about police though?

ROBERT STACK: She remembered as a teenager

overhearing her father talk about stashing

a cardboard box in a bar.

Something about roadblocks, and the need to tell the truth.

A picture began to emerge that was both ugly, and sinister.

The police were looking for here [interposing voices]

MONICA LIBAO WOLFE: The indication

that I got from the whole thing is that my mother

had probably kidnapped me.

I really started thinking, my god, had they just up

and taken me, you know, from somebody.

ROBERT STACK: To this day that question

and others remain unanswered.

Was Monica abducted as an infant?

An appalling crime that forced Pablo and Burma Libao to stay

one step ahead of the law?

Was a tiny baby sold by a desperate young girl

for the price of a bus ticket?

Or is Monica's half sister, not her sister

at all, but her mother?

I need to find out who is.

MONICA LIBAO WOLFE: I would be willing to go through anything,

a DNA test, anything at all, to be able to find

out the truth behind all this.

ROBERT STACK: If Monica's half sister agreed to be tested,

it would answer at least one of these puzzling questions.

However, according to relatives, she

recently left her husband of 25 years and simply disappeared.

On another sad note, Monica's own husband

passed away in 1998.

He was only 31 years old.

That tragic loss has only deepened Monica's resolve

to find her birth mother.

MONICA LIBAO WOLFE: I am without an identity,

and I am searching, and I'm probably

going to keep searching.

I'm not going to give up.

Monica was born with only half an earlobe

on her left ear, a clue that may help unravel this mystery.

And if Monica was indeed kidnapped,

she believes it happened in the Miami,

Florida area in 1963 or 1964.

[music playing]

[theme - "unsolved mysteries"]

Previously we brought you the story of the fear that gripped

Texas A&M University, when police

thought that a serial rapist was on the loose.

Now that a suspect is behind bars,

the residents of a small college town

can finally feel more secure.

ROBERT STACK: The rapist hid his intentions

behind a show of normalcy.

He looked like just another student out for an evening jog.

But as he turned to go back to our his intended victim,

his casual demeanor turned violent.

JIM LINDHOLM: The suspect kept that knife within her sight,

and she had every indication, at that point, that he

would use that knife on her.

ROBERT STACK: 30 minutes later the rapist

disappeared into the shadows.

University police released a composite sketch and character

profile of the suspect.

Several months later, a knife wielding assailant

attacked another Texas A&M student.

DAVID VILLARREAL: From nowhere, she

said, a knife appeared, and was placed against her throat.

He threatened her.

He told her that if she screamed he was going to kill her,

and then took her to the location

that he had already prepared.

ROBERT STACK: This composite was based on the second victim's

description.

A comparison with the first drawing

bolstered investigator's suspicions that a serial rapist

was stalking the campus.

Authorities papered the campus community with posters,

but the rapes went unsolved for 10 months.

The critical break in the case came from the first victim

herself, when she happened to stop for groceries

at a local market.

Howdy, how are you doing?

Hey

Fine, thanks.

This is a knife.

ROBERT STACK: The young woman was

convinced that she was face to face with a man who raped her.

Excuse me.

You forgot something.

ROBERT STACK: Police would soon learn that the clerk was named,

Don Richard Davis Jr., he was scheduled to graduate

from Texas A&M in three weeks.

When this photograph of Davis was shown to the second victim,

she too identified him as the rapist.

DNA tests confirmed the identification

with 90% certainty.

Don Richard Davis Jr. charged with aggravated sexual assault

and released on bail.

Six days later, Davis disappeared.

For the next five years, police had

a fugitive case on their hands.

[music playing]

ROBERT STACK: In October of 2000,

a routine traffic violation in Cleveland

would be the beginning of the end for Davis.

DAVID VILLARREAL: Don Davis got stopped on a traffic stop

one day and when they rolled his fingerprints,

at that point in time, that's when it connected

up as a hit with Don Davis.

And then that information just kind mushroomed from there.

ROBERT STACK: Davis was brought back to Texas to stand trial

on the rapes of the two women.

But before his trial began he plead guilty to the charges.

A jury heard testimony to determine his sentence.

Don Richard Davis will serve 99 years

in prison pending his appeal.

JIM LINDHOLM: With the conviction of Mr Davis,

justice has been served, and I know for a fact

that the two victims that we had are extremely relieved.

They feel better, and I think they probably sleep a lot

better now, because Mr. Davis will no

longer be out on the streets.

[music playing]

[theme - "unsolved mysteries"]

ROBERT STACK: On a previous broadcast,

we brought you the story of Lori Delorme Magnan.

At the age of three Lori was adopted

under mysterious circumstances by a family

in Kansas City, Missouri.

The reason for her adoption was kept

secret by all parties involved.

Lori had no idea what happened to her birth parents,

or her brother, and three sisters.

As she grew older Lori search for her family, but only

discovered that her mother, Frances Camarena,

died on November 27, 1956.

[music playing]

ROBERT STACK: Along with her husband and son,

Lori decided to look at the Kansas City Star

on the day of her mother's death.

Staring back at her from the front page

was a 14-month-old Lori, surrounded

by her four siblings.

That's when I first time I saw the picture of me,

and my brother, and my sister's.

First time.

ROBERT STACK: The accompanying article

finally revealed a dark, violent secret in Lori's past.

[music playing]

ROBERT STACK: In the pre-dawn hours of November 26, 1956,

Lori's father, Alexander Camarena,

murdered Lori's mother.

No, stop! (GUNSHOT)

ROBERT STACK: Lori learned that her father

was convicted of second degree murder and died in 1991.

But her efforts to find her older sisters, Phyllis,

Rosemary, and Nancy, and her younger brother, Robert,

have failed.

My real brother and sisters, we lost both our parents now,

Here you are mommy.

LORI DELORME MAGNIN: And, I think they need me,

like I need them.

ROBERT STACK: Shortly after our broadcast,

Ruth Crook, Lori's birth cousin, contacted our tele-center.

A friend of Ruth's had seen the show,

and told her that her long lost cousin was

looking for her birth family.

RUTH CROOK: It was a happy shock,

and very exciting to know that she had been found,

because everyone always wondered what

happened to those children.

My dream's coming true.

ROBERT STACK: Three weeks later, Lori found herself

at her adopted sister's house, outside of Kansas City,

eagerly awaiting the arrival of the relatives she has spent

her entire life searching for.

Hi.

- Hi. - How are you?

- Fine. - This for you.

Oh, thank you.

ROBERT STACK: First out of the car

was Laurie's older sister Rosemary.

LORI DELORME MAGNIN: I just, was just, looking at her.

I just couldn't believe it.

And we were both crying, and it was just--

it just felt good to hold her.

We just held each other.

I'm so happy that you're here.

(CRYING)

ROSE MARIE MENESES: And I was just shaking

when I got out of the car.

You know, just nervous, and happy--

very joyful.

ROBERT STACK: Hi Diana, how are you?

ROBERT STACK: Soon, Lori was surrounded

by aunts, uncles, and cousins she never even knew she had.

This is my youngest son, Clint.

I had three boys.

ROBERT STACK: As her birth family and adopted family

became acquainted, Lori's circle of loved ones

grew larger than she could have ever imagined.

--my sister Carol, our brother Doral.

This is Rosemary.

Hi.

I feel surrounded by love.

I feel really great.

I have all these pictures of me when I was a baby.

I haven't ever seen.

ROBERT STACK: And for the first time,

Lori got to see a picture of her mother.

Oh, she's beautiful.

ROBERT STACK: The eldest sister, Phyllis, was only

able to attend the reunion, but she and Lori

met each other shortly after the rest of the family reunited.

Sadly, Lori's younger brother, Robert,

is seen as an infant in the news photo, died in 1982.

And after our original broadcast,

Lori finally located the last sibling, Nancy.

Nancy and Lori have spoken on numerous occasions,

and hope to have another family reunion in the near future.

Dear God, thank you for bringing together

this wonderful family of families.

We specially thank for--

LORI DELORME MAGNIN: Now that we're all back together,

that we have each other now.

We'll write each, other call each other, visit each other.

Nothing will keep us apart.

Everybody is just all excited.

It's all excitement, it's all good.

[theme - "unsolved mysteries"]

For ever mystery there is someone who knows the truth,

perhaps it's you.