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this program is about unsolved mysteries
whenever possible the actual family
members and police officials have
participated in recreating the events
what you are about to see is not a news
broadcast a night an unsolved mysteries
the story of newlywed Shannan Davis who
died in a riding accident Shannon's
husband had purchased secret insurance
policies totaling three hundred and
thirty thousand dollars
in Oklahoma Eileen Conway died in a
mysterious car crash
the Highway Patrol ruled it an accident
her husband believes she was murdered
[Applause]
in 1928 Glen and Bessie Hyde vanished on
a Grand Canyon River trip fifty years
later a secret skeleton was found
in Concord California housewife Dottie
catered terrified of unfamiliar places
summoned the courage to take a train
ride
she has never returned
[Music]
our for mysteries tonight are connected
by common threads unexplained
circumstance
deceit the suggestion of foul play that
the heart of each is a husband and a
wife these mysteries would be difficult
to solve the stakes are high when
people's lives are involved perhaps you
can help we've recreated the events of
each story and precise detail in the
hope that someone somewhere knows the
truth join me you may be able to help
solve a mystery
[Music]
on July 23rd 1980 in a small Michigan
farming community newlyweds Dave and
Shannon Davis prepared to go for a
sunset horseback ride
within an hour Shannon was dead
[Music]
according to Dave Shannon was not an
experienced writer when they reached the
edge of the woods she lost control and
fell off the horse striking her head
violently on the ground
[Music]
Dave's simple and plausible story was
immediately accepted by the couple's
family and friends I felt that Shannon's
marriage was made in heaven
I really felt this I had began to love
David I described him probably to a lot
of people as a man's man
he was an outdoor person hunting fishing
he just was very manly and very likeable
and she'd say isn't he neat mom and I
thought it was neat I thought he would
protect her from anything I had no idea
what he was really like after Shannon's
death Bob and Lucille Moore began to
discover that Dave Davis was not the man
he seemed to be they began to find clues
and days behavior which led them to
believe that their daughter's death was
not an accident Dave Davis has now
disappeared there's a warrant out for
his arrest but the Mohr's are afraid
that their son-in-law may have gotten
away with a perfect crime at the
hospital
Shannon was pronounced dead of the
injuries caused by her fall minutes
later Shannon's parents were surprised
and upset on Dave insisted that their
daughter's body be cremated I said can
we take Shannon back to Toledo for bury
list please let's take her back to
Toledo let's take her home it's not what
she wanted I suppose our voices were
getting a little bit loud because I
don't believe in cremation I knew
Shannon didn't want that I felt so
strongly that if he was going to insist
on it I was gonna go try and find a
judge and get a temporary restraining
order to stop him from doing it
that night Lucille couldn't sleep she
remembered that her husband Bob had
caught Dave in a lie about life
insurance
Bob says David do you have insurance on
Shannon he said no and it just shot
right through me I remembered Shannon
coming home from her honeymoon the very
next day saying David took out a large
life-insurance on me that was the first
line picked up three days later Shannon
was buried Bob and Lucille Moore noticed
that Dave seemed unmoved
I blessed the body of Shannon holy water
after the funeral Shannon's parents
found out that David lived a life of
deceit he bragged that he'd been wounded
get Nam his own parents said he was
never in the service all this was
crowding in on me and I just all I could
think inside is David did you kill my
daughter and it just was there I knew
that he had murdered my daughter I
didn't know what to do with it I felt
ashamed I just felt like I was going
crazy inside
two days after the burial six separate
insurance companies contacted the
funeral home requesting copies of
Shannon's death certificate her death
left Dave Davis the beneficiary of three
hundred and thirty thousand dollars Bob
Moore then discovered the Dave may have
been involved in other insurance scams
he burnt the farm down across the road
and he had other fires and the fake
injury from when he worked for the
automotive company so I think he was
just out to live on insurance money and
he just kept getting bigger and bigger
all the time
he started out with a simple fire and
now he was up to the point where he was
gonna collect big insurance at Bob and
Lucille Moore's insistence Shannon's
body was exhumed the medical examiner
found the injuries on the body
consistent with a fall from a horse
indications of an unknown drug however
were found in Shannon's body but the
medical report still ruled Shannon's
death an accident three months later an
article in the Detroit Free Press
exposed Dave's alleged insurance
swindles the case was reopened and Dave
moved to Florida detective Don Brooks
was assigned to the investigation the
information was contained in that
newspaper article was phenomenal I
thought if this is even 50 percent
accurate we're on to something here
Brooks contacted the toxicologist who
had earlier found traces of the unknown
drug in Shannon's body I explained to
him that we had a very large number of
chemicals that we were looking at
there's over 250 thousand chemicals in
common use and we had searched for and
ruled out maybe a thousand and I said
what I need is some help
metagraph right this is it you see the
deepika right here and you see how nice
and clean it is because it's so clean
that means that I think it's a drug this
is important to the case it's gotta be
if we can identify he asked me actually
for information about Davis's background
one of the things I told him was that he
was a Dirt Farmer and he had some large
animals on the farm doctor 49 then
discussed the idea of contacting
veterinarians in the area that may have
serviced Dave Davis I talked to you a
little bit earlier I happened to ask
three different vets in area if they
knew of any drugs that may affect the
muscular system or the nervous system
that they would use on large farm
animals and when I did so one of the
veterinarians I talked to provided me
the name of a drug dr. Forni tested that
drug an animal tranquilizer it matched
perfectly the sample taken from
Shannon's body now Brookes needed to
connect the drug the Dave Davis we're
able to determine that several years ago
Dave Davis took part in a deer hunting
camp at which members of the camp used
this drug to hunt deer with with bow and
arrows Sharon was exhumed a second time
to injection marks were found one on
Shannon's shoulder and one on her wrist
Dan Brooks called and he said bingo they
found Shannon is injected with something
and we're going to move now we're going
to get him on October 13th 1981 a grand
jury issued a first-degree murder
warrant for Dave Davis
[Music]
detective Brooks believes that Dave
Davis pushed or coaxed Shannon off her
horse wrestled her to the ground and
paralyzed her with a lethal tranquilizer
Brooks believes that Dave then struck
her head on a rock so that the injuries
would appear accidental I don't think
there's any question that this is
premeditated murder
I believe he married shannon davis to
kill her and to profit i want to get him
and I want him see him locked up and I
want him to feel at all times that were
breathing right down his back because I
will not let go that can't bring her
back but put him put him away before he
does it to some other girl and he will
he will after our broadcast a viewer
recognized Dave Davis as an acquaintance
living in American Samoa a small island
in the South Pacific Davis was arrested
nine days later by FBI agents at the
time of his arrest Davis was living in
this house with a 20 year old Samoan
wife he told her that his first wife had
died in a tragic accident
three-and-a-half weeks later Davis was
returned to Michigan to stand trial for
murder
didn't do it police say your wife was
poisoned
after only two and a half hours of
deliberation a Michigan jury convicted
Dave Davis of first-degree murder for
Shannon's parents the verdict brought an
end to their nine years struggle for
justice this is what we waited for your
life that we got what we wanted he's
gonna be locked up the rest of his life
that's what we wanted but we're on the
rest of her life missing her that's why
I said he gave us the death penalty now
we're giving it to him
[Music]
last September he presented the mystery
of George Marsh a Kansas City laborer
who died alone in a nursing home in 1982
he had no known heirs or relatives but
he left behind a legacy of a hundred and
seventy-five thousand dollars we hope to
someone watching the broadcast might
have known George Marsh or his heirs
there were a few clues a birth
certificate showing that George Marsh
had changed his name from Joseph Zelenka
and some family photos including this
portrait of a young woman inscribed your
loving niece
Eleanor when I looked up and saw my
senior high school picture on TV I
couldn't believe it so then when he read
your loving niece Eleanor did that
that's how I signed I was just stunned I
was just amazed and then the very next
picture was Uncle Joe and I said to my
gosh that's Uncle Joe this woman Eleanor
taller is George Marcia's long-lost
niece in the high school photo
the Zelenka family lives in Rock Springs
Wyoming Joseph's brother Jim has been
looking for Joe since 1931 I'd never
know they're no idea why he kept away
from the family because there's no hard
feelings we were all United always in
everything the zelenka's are currently
waiting for a final judgment from the
public administrator's office in Kansas
City Jim and Eleanor planted divide the
hundred and seventy-five thousand
dollars among Joe's surviving relatives
but more importantly they want to
preserve Joe's memory they intend to
bring his body back to the family burial
site
[Music]
the money you don't mean as much as
finding out where he's at
I just feel good all over to know that I
located him and no worries that and I'd
be able to bring his body back to rest
with her rest of his family
[Music]
in our next story we'll meet a man who
returned home to find his house empty
the bathtub full of water a phone off
the hook and his wife missing
[Music]
April 29th 1986 10:40 a.m.
a farmer in rural Oklahoma notices an
ominous plume of smoke rising from a
nearby road we call the authorities
20 minutes later the Oklahoma Highway
Patrol arrived at the scene
they found a burning car embedded and
deserted bridge the heat was so intense
that the cart actually melted into the
metal guardrail and to which it had
crashed when Highway Patrol arrived a
body was inside the car at the time but
it was futile exercise whatsoever to try
to get two documents in the car due to
the car had already burned so bad by the
time the flames subsided the body behind
the wheel was burned beyond recognition
skid marks indicated that the car speed
at impact was 50 to 60 miles per hour to
the Highway Patrol is seemed like just
another senseless accident a computer
check revealed the car belonged to Pat
Conway who lived with his family in
Lawton Oklahoma 15 miles from the crash
site the next day the victim was
identified as Pat's wife of 33 years
Aileen the Oklahoma Highway Patrol ruled
Aileen Conway's death is a one vehicle
fatality accident within hours of the
crash however a number of mysterious
discrepancies emerged which led Pat
Conway to believe that his wife had in
fact been a victim of foul play there's
no doubt in my mind it was murder and if
I live to be a hundred years old I'll
still be pushing to try to find the
individual or possibly two individuals
whoever was involved
[Music]
Patt first became suspicious when he
returned home a few hours after the
accident the patio door was wide open
Hayley's purse which she always carried
with her was sitting by an armchair her
driver's license and glasses were still
in it an ironing board is setup and the
iron had been left on water from a
garden hose was running into the
backyard swimming pool and most
significantly in the master bathroom at
the back of the house
the tub was still full of water and the
phone was off the hook
the thing that really got my attention
was the phone being off the hooker so
she had attempted to make a phone call
possibly the police department we have
no way of knowing who between me and the
kids one would say one thing and one
another and we start putting it together
and and right away we find out when
there was no accident at all another
disturbing detail magnate Pat what was
Aileen doing out on that lonely country
road neither of them had ever been in
the area and there was certainly no
reason for Aileen to be there by herself
nothing about his wife's death made
sense Pat contacted ray Anderson at the
district attorney's office the first
impression that I had of this case when
I met with mr. Conway was that of a
spouse that was left alone and behind
not expecting the tragedy that happened
and looking for an excuse or looking for
some reason why this happened other than
than just being an accident
however when you start looking at the
extenuating and surrounding
circumstances the way that she left her
house then it leads you to believe that
there is possibility that there can be
foul play that you and I take that side
of the road and I'll take this dad just
kind of look for anything a few days
later Pat and Ray Anderson went to the
crash site looking for clues any clue
hey could you come over here a minute
200 feet from the bridge they found a
church bulletin in the grass yeah this
is the church built and out of our car
from the previous Sunday can it was on
the dash of the car all right are you
sure that side of your car you think I'm
positive no doubt that's where it was a
lien always drove with the windows
rolled up and the air conditioning
turned on the bulletin could not have
flown out of a moving car the car would
had to have been stopped someone else
may have been with her opened the door
set the accelerator and slammed it into
drive hoping to run mrs. Conway off into
the creek and to make it appear as
though it was an accident
as a result of Anderson's investigation
the Lawton District Attorney changed the
official cause of death from accidental
to unexplained the DA then asked the
Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation
and the State Fire Marshal to evaluate
the likelihood of arson what made me
suspicious at first was looking
photographs and seeing how much burn
that was in the vehicle this thing was
completely burnt destroyed the burn was
similar that were gasoline or something
that like that was used in it and
another thing that brought my curiosity
up was in fact that the gas cap was
missing and most arson cases and this is
documented of a vehicle the gas cap is
removed and that was the case here
in formal burn tests on dashboard and
upholstery samples from a car similar to
a liens suggest the inside of her car
may have been doused with gasoline we
took the material and we applied a
blowtorch to it set the material on
florrum then remove the wrote orange and
the buyer went out which is consistent
with a flame retardant type material and
then we took some gasoline and sokka
material and then of course the thing
was completely destroyed and being
without some type of an accelerant like
gasoline the fire would not burn that
back if a lien Conway was murdered on
the bridge that day one question still
remains why we don't really have an
answer for what put her out there a lot
of theories floating around perhaps she
interrupted a burglary we backtracked a
little bit into the neighborhood and
apparently there had been reports of
burglaries in the weeks and months
preceding this situation so the
possibility of an interrupted burglary
is there it had to be robbery whoever
came in didn't know she was here and
once they found out she was here they
didn't want to leave her to identify
them so then this makes murderers out of
them if this case is so Billy because
that there will be somebody that talks
there will be somebody that admits their
involvement in this and of course I'm a
firm believer that that's what normally
captures they're criminals is their
inability to keep their mouth shut
no one knows exactly what happened to a
lien Conway on a remote country bridge
in Oklahoma that day a year later at
Conway is still searching for answers
even though you're discouraged you you
keep pushing it every day you constantly
think about it when you go to bed of an
eider get up in the morning it's on your
mind on time but somehow it needs to be
solved
I'll never quit as far as trying to
solve the case
next the story of Glen and Bessie Hyde
who disappeared on a perilous rafting
trip on the Colorado River
both were soon lost until a woman
claiming to be Bessie Hyde said she
murdered her husband
[Music]
the Colorado River cuts through the
grande cap perilous stretch of water
that was once considered the most
dangerous in the world
in 1928 two newly weds set out to
navigate these pressures whitewater
rapids were never seen again every cold
a Grand Canyon photographer was one of
the last people to see them alive 50
years later when the cold died
authorities were surprised by a gruesome
discovery in his boathouse on the rim of
the canyon hidden in a canoe was a
single human skeleton that appeared to
have suffered a violent death
whose bones were these
how did the victim die
one good option would be that the
individual met death by homicide a
second option would be suicide it would
be nice to know who this individual was
I mean somebody is missing somebody was
out there and there may be friends or
relatives who would very much like to
know who it is
the disappearance of the honeymoon
couple and the discovery of the human
remains in the boathouse happened almost
50 years apart yet they were connected
by an article in an Idaho newspaper and
by the Arizona law authorities they
suggested that the bones might be those
of the adventurous young river after
Glen Hyde tonight we'll examine these
mysteries of the Grand Canyon what
happened at Glen Hyde and his bride
Bessie is their disappearance connected
to the secrets of the bones in the
boathouse Glen and Bessie Hyde were
married in Twin Falls Idaho on April
10th 1928 Glen was 27 Bessie just 18
years old
that fall they built a boat for a
special honeymoon adventure a trip down
the Colorado River to California through
the dangerous Grand Canyon Glen was a
thrill seeker this journey would mean
instant notoriety Glen wanted to make a
record run through the Grand Canyon you
want to do it in a homemade boat you
want to do it with a new bride who had
never been on rivers before and he
wanted to do without life jackets in the
fall of the year about six months after
they were married they were in Green
River Utah an experienced River man at
the Green River looked at the boat and
he thought it looked to him like a
coffin it was unlike anything that had
run down the Colorado before
the hides took 26 days to get from Utah
to the Bright Angel Trail to the heart
of the Grand Canyon a new record where
the most dangerous stretch still ahead
they stopped to see Emery Kolb who had
already twice navigated the Colorado
River Rapids Kolbert arrived at the
canyon in 1902 and said about
documenting its grandeur his stunning
photographs and immense knowledge of the
river soon made Emery Kolb a legend he
was a very enthusiastic about his River
trips and so proud of everybody that I
know those interested in the river at
all all the years I was there first came
and talked to em Rico well the Hyde's
visited cold Bessie had grown tired of
the river trip Henry tried to warn them
of the certain dangers ahead he asked
them to stay with him through the winter
and postpone their trip until the
weather improved he even offered the
couple his own life jackets but Glenn
refused all coab's offers there's really
no reason to fear both Bessie and I are
good strong swimmers come on Bessie the
light will be fading mr. cope told me
that he tried his best everywhere in the
world are talking about it going he said
you have no idea of what you're getting
into he's not been there and I know what
it's like
Thank You me exactly there isn't and
even inner tubes in the went flat for
you he said that I'm gonna do it without
or else
[Music]
two days later Glen and Bessie
disappeared
Army aviators flew into the canyon and
spotted the empty boat below Diamond
Creek
[Music]
Emery Kolb was asked to lead the search
party to find the last couple
surprisingly when he discovered the boat
it was undamaged boats seemed to be
intact it closed food
Glen's rifle was on board camera with
exposed film there's a very sketchy
diary but a diary that Bessie Hyde had
been keeping was on board they found
everything there except for the people
there's no sign of them
the bodies of Glen and Bessie Hyde were
never recovered 50 years later the
discovery of the bones in Kolb's
boathouse fueled speculation could these
be the remains of Glen Hyde and how are
they connected to Emery Kolb
get him examined the authorities turned
the skeleton over to dr. Walter Burke be
an expert in the science of identifying
human remains he discovered that the
bones are of a male Caucasian 20 to 23
years of age 6 feet tall with light
brown hair dr. Brooke B also discovered
a bullet embedded in the skull what we
found out from the from the bullet that
was removed from the skull was that not
only was this a 32 caliber projectile
that came from revolver that began
manufacturing about 1902 two point one
centimeters the production date of the
gun and clothing fragments found with a
skeleton suggest the death occurred in
the 1920s during that time only two
people Glen and Bessie Hyde are known to
have disappeared in the Grand Canyon
stature still somewhere along the line I
heard a rumor to the effect that Emery
Kolb could have murdered Glen Hyde in
order that he could have I guess
beautiful Bessie it's so preposterous
and that I just can't believe it that he
would off somebody and and then keep the
damn body around you got verticality on
his marriage yes we're gonna have to
rotate that more than the left dr. Burke
be hoped up with the rumors to rest you
superimposed a photograph of Glenn over
the skull to precisely compare bone
structure even more this was the only
way to determine if the skeleton was
indeed
knives these skull is of a different
shape than the face of Glenn hide the
eye orbits themselves are angled in a
different direction than Glenn heights
the cheeks are wider even the shape of
the chin is wrong when hides chin was
somewhat rounded as we can see on the
photograph whereas the chin of the
submitted skull tends to be fairly
squared off so those features alone do
not match these remains these bones were
submitted for analyses are not the
remains of Glenn hide period end of
story
but the story in fact does go on the
mystery deepens
if the balls did not belong to Glen Hyde
and what happened to Glen and Bessie
[Music]
the answer may lie in the eyewitness
reports claim Bessie Hyde is still alive
and that she was seen back in the Grand
Canyon retracing the steps of her
ill-fated honeymoon adventure 43 years
after she disappeared in 1971 an unknown
woman took a 20-day rafting trip through
the canyon geologist George Billingsley
was also in the party she was a very
serious person she was always just
watching the canyon and helping out a
little bit around camp all time wanted
to do something and very happy but quiet
and pretty much to herself towards the
end of the trip they made camp at
Diamond Creek the same spot where Glen
and Bessie Spode had been found four
decades earlier that evening a river
guide told the legend of the missing
couple and the woman matter-of-factly
revealed her true identity I'm Bessie hi
she told us seriously enough to where we
wouldn't sure what else to say
but we all figured she was just making
up her own story now but later on you
know we got to thinking now maybe she
really was Bessie because the age was
she never smiled when she said what she
said as if she really knew he beat me up
according to the woman Glenn was
obsessed with completing the trip no
matter how dangerous when she tried to
leave a fight erupted
[Music]
I've got the full name of the woman then
eventually contacted her back in Ohio
the one I asked her about the hides and
their disappearance she denied
everything she said she hadn't told the
story she said she didn't know anybody
named Hyde and she says she wasn't
Bessie Hyde my gut feeling though is
that she was the mystery surrounding the
story still remain unsolved if the bones
at Emory copse boathouse are not Glen
hides whose are they and why did coke
keep them hidden in that canoeing for so
many years the mysteries have survived
the years and for now they remain part
of the legend of the Grand Canyon
[Music]
next the story of a woman trapped in her
house by agoraphobia the irrational fear
of unknown people and places strangely
she has vanished
the Bay Area Rapid Transit System known
to commuters as the Bart trains link San
Francisco with the East Bay cities
On June 12th 1985 jewel Kaler drove his
wife Dottie to the BART station in
Pleasant Hill California 18 miles from
Oakland she entered the station and
purchased a ticket a simple task
performed each day by millions but this
was a test of courage for Dottie Caylor
Dottie suffers from agoraphobia an
irrational overwhelming fear being in
public places facing the unknown and the
possibility of panic shadows every step
no one knows if Dottie overcame her fear
that day and actually boarded the train
what is certain is that for two and a
half years there's been no trace of
Dottie King
[Music]
Oh after the first few days I thought
that she had left temporarily too well
simply make things inconvenient for me I
think that Dottie could have disappeared
to get even with her husband who had
disappeared on her for half of their
married life she could have done that in
the beginning it's very hard to imagine
her doing that for a great long period
of time immediately after she
disappeared daddy's friends wondered why
a woman so afraid of the unknown would
leave behind everything she had and
everyone she knew at first they thought
she may have left to escape an unhappy
marriage start a new life in another
city but as a months and years elapsed
there was no word from Dottie holidays
birthdays and anniversaries went by now
daddy's friends and family are wondering
could she really have vanished
voluntarily or was her disappearance
more sinister in 1973 Dottie married
jewel cater an entomologist with a
national forest service they settled in
the Oakland suburb of Concord but over
the years her home became a self-imposed
prison
Dottie had what doctors have called
agoraphobia she would stay inside most
of the time she couldn't even apply for
a job much less hold one down it was a
real problem
[Music]
dottie and Jules Mary's deteriorated da
D was often a home alone because jewel
was working out of town over 50% of the
time then in November of 1981 the
relationship erupted in violence she
told me that they got in an argument it
escalated to the point where he finally
hit her with a board or something and
she received a wound in her head and and
that she did grab some scissors and said
you keep away from me and protected
herself and she was standing over top of
me with those scissors Jewell says that
dotty started the fight swearing at me
and saying I'll kill you you son I'll
kill you and I grabbed her little typing
stand and hit her with it dotty needed
to pull together the threads of her
disintegrating life so in 1984 she
joined a support group called women in
transition without ever telling jewel
she attended meetings for over a year I
met her in the fall and of course the
last time I saw her was in late spring
and I thought she'd made a tremendous
amount of progress actually as time went
on I would notice she's adding a little
more color to her outfits she is taking
a little more care with her hair she cut
her hair in a new style which was very
scary thing for her It was as if a new
Dottie were emerging
she had secret lives a secret existence
that I knew nothing about and she wanted
it that way she pursued that I only
began to become aware of it Oh near the
time that she disappeared I wasn't even
aware of it I was just suspicious
Dottie secretly rented a post office box
as she could receive mail without jewels
knowledge she opened a personal bank
account and transferred five thousand
dollars into a cashier's check then one
month before Dottie disappeared jewel
told her he had to accept a job transfer
to Salt Lake City
dottie had said in the event that i got
transferred that she was not interested
in going with me so I wasn't expecting
her to go with me and wouldn't even have
wanted her to I guess according to
Jewell on Wednesday June 12th dotty set
off on an overnight trip he drove her to
the Pleasant Hill BART station I took
her down to the BART station she had
with her a little overnight bag and I
dropped her off then she walked around
the corner of the station and
disappeared jewel is certain that dotty
had her purse as well as her overnight
bag as she walked into the station for
the last time but he can't be sure that
Dottie ever boarded the train
the next day around noon Jill returned
home early from work and got off the
train at the Concord BART station in the
parking lot he was surprised to find
daddy's Volkswagen next to his car
so I walked over and looked inside and
then I noticed her purse and that was
very very strange she told me how
important it was to her to have her
purse with her all the time she felt
secure if she felt she had a lot of her
things with her and she felt safe out in
the world that's one of the things that
made me feel so terribly upset when I
realized that she had not taken her
purse with her jewel left a note on
Daddy's car asking her to contact him
over the next four days he left two more
notes talking about problems he was
having with a house he also expressed
his love and pleaded with her to come
home I spoke to jewel and jewel told me
that he hadn't seen her for three or
four days and he didn't know where she
was and that she that her car was was
there her purse was there and he didn't
know where she was I was extremely upset
I asked him if he called the police and
he said that he had not and this made me
very just almost hysterical five days
after Dottie vanished jewel filed a
missing persons report with a Bay Area
Rapid Transit Police the following day
the Concord Police Department was
finally notified of Dottie's
disappearance not by jewel but by the
BART police
two weeks after Dottie vanished jewel
moved to Salt Lake City where he still
lives and works back in Concord Dianne
hired a private investigator
Francie Kohler
the status of the case of this coin is
we view it as I view it as 10%
missing-persons case and 90% potential
foul play as their attempts to locate
dotty turned up no new leads Diana and
Francie started to worry that dotty
might be dead they began to consider
jewel as suspect we don't know for sure
if dotty ever got to the BART station
the only one that has reported that
dotty went to the BART station is her
husband jewel we don't know if she ever
got there if this was proves to be
anything other than a straight
disappearance case jewel will be a
suspect in her disappearance or in her
death whatever it may be you know along
with anybody else that may have been
close to her at the time or prior to her
disappearance you would certainly
consider those around that person as
being possible possible suspects no that
doesn't bother me at all I suspect that
she either willfully disappeared and
then was helped to permanently disappear
or perhaps just got in with the the the
wrong person right at the start
two and a half years have passed and
still no one knows if dotty cater built
a secret life for herself to escape an
unhappy marriage or if she was simply
the victim of foul play
I think there's a chance that Dottie is
dead which is very disturbing to think
about I have many dreams about this and
the authorities I speak to and the
friends I speak to come up with hundreds
of ideas there's no peace there's no
rest
there's no conclusion and we won't
forget her it was hell living with
Dottie it was hell having her disappear
the way that she did and yet since I've
gotten here and gotten settled and into
a new job and that whole problem is
behind me
things are really pretty good
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