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A DIVISION OF TIME WARNER ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY, L.P.

FOR CENTURIES,

MAN BELIEVED NO ONE COULD PENETRATE

THE SILENCE OF THE DEAD.

THAT THE MYSTERY OF HOW SOMEONE DIED

WOULD DIE WITH THEM.

THEN, 100 YEARS AGO,

SCIENCE REALIZED THE NEED FOR A DOCTOR

SPECIFICALLY TRAINED TO INVESTIGATE MURDER.

AND MODERN FORENSIC SCIENCE WAS BORN.

TODAY, THE FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST

HAS ELEVATED THE AUTOPSY TO A FINE ART,

USING HIS SKILL TO INVESTIGATE ALL UNNATURAL DEATHS.

THE ACCIDENTS, THE SUICIDES,

AND THE MURDERS.

HE IS CALLED THE INTERPRETER OF THE DEAD

BECAUSE HE REVEALS THEIR SECRETS

THROUGH THE MYSTERY OF THE AUTOPSY.

IN NOVEMBER OF 1997,

POLICE IN BRADENTON, FLORIDA,

RECEIVED A FRANTIC PHONE CALL,

FROM A MAN WHO SAID THAT HE HAD FOUND A STRANGE OBJECT

LYING ON THE SHORE OF THE MANATEE RIVER.

WHAT THE POLICE FOUND WHEN THEY ARRIVED

WAS AN ALMOST PERFECT HUMAN HAND,

CUT OFF AT THE WRIST.

AS I'M STANDING THERE LOOKING AT THIS HAND,

THE FIRST THING THAT COMES TO MY MIND IS,

THAT SOMEBODY GOT THEIR HAND CAUGHT IN THE COOKIE JAR

AND THEY PAID THE PRICE.

THE HAND APPEARED TO BE THAT OF A MALE

AND IT WAS WELL PRESERVED.

I COULD SEE THAT IT WAS A CLEAN CUT.

I KNEW THAT THERE MUST BE A BODY

THAT GOES WITH THIS HAND SOMEWHERE.

HOPING TO FIND THE REST OF THE BODY,

POLICE CAREFULLY SEARCHED THE MANATEE RIVER.

THIS BODY OF WATER IS POPULATED BY

BOTH SHARKS AND ALLIGATORS.

THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS OUT THERE

THAT WILL EAT A BODY UP

IF IT STAYS IN THAT RIVER LONG ENOUGH.

WHILE THE MARINE UNIT CONTINUED THEIR SEARCH,

DETECTIVES TOOK THE HAND TO THE FINGERPRINT DIVISION

OF THE MANATEE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT.

WHEN THE HAND WAS BROUGHT TO THE CRIME LAB

IT WAS SO WATERLOGGED THAT THE FINGERPRINT TECHNICIANS

COULDN'T RAISE A USABLE FINGERPRINT.

WHAT HAPPENS AS THE BODY DECOMPOSES,

THE OUTER LAYER OF SKIN SEPARATES FROM THE INNER LAYER.

THE INNER LAYER CAN GET VERY WATERLOGGED

BUT THE OUTER LAYER STAYS THIN

AND KEEPS ITS RIDGING.

SO, WHAT THEY DID, IS THEY CUT OFF SOME OF THE DIGITS

AND WERE ABLE TO REMOVE THE OUTER LAYER OF SKIN INTACT.

THEY THEN PUT THE OUTER LAYER OF SKIN ON THEIR OWN FINGERS,

WERE THEN ABLE TO ROLL THAT FINGER

AND THEY WERE ABLE TO GET ONE VERY USABLE FINGERPRINT.

IN ORDER TO FIND OUT WHO THE HAND BELONGED TO,

THE FINGERPRINT WAS RUN THROUGH

THE AUTOMATED FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM,

WHICH CONTAINED OVER 150,000 PRINTS

OF PEOPLE WHO HAD BEEN ARRESTED IN THE FLORIDA AREA.

INCREDIBLY, THE SYSTEM TOOK ONLY MINUTES,

TO FIND A MATCHING PRINT.

IT BELONGED TO A 70-YEAR-OLD MAN

NAMED WILLIE SUTTLE,

A MAN WHO HAD HAD A MINOR POLICE RECORD.

HE HAD PASSED AWAY OF NATURAL CAUSES

A YEAR PRIOR TO THE IDENTIFICATION.

I JUST COULDN'T UNDERSTAND WHERE THIS HAND HAD BEEN

FOR THE SIX MONTHS THAT THIS MAN HAD BEEN DEAD AND BURIED.

TO SEE IF WILLIE SUTTLE'S BODY

HAD ACTUALLY BEEN DISMEMBERED,

DETECTIVES WENT TO THE NEW MEMPHIS CEMETERY,

A BURIAL GROUND FOR THE POOR AND HOMELESS.

THERE, IN A SHALLOW GRAVE,

THEY FOUND AN OLD, ROTTING, WOODEN BOX.

INSIDE OF THE BOX,

A BODY BAG CONTAINING THE REMAINS OF WILLIE SUTTLE.

EVERYTHING WAS CONTAINED IN THAT BAG.

JUST BODY FLUIDS AND DECOMPOSITION.

THE ORGANS THAT ARE NORMALLY CONTAINED

IN A SMALL BIO-HAZARD BAG,

WERE AT THE MAN'S FEET.

THE FIRST THING AUTHORITIES NOTICED

WAS THAT SUTTLE'S LEFT WRIST WAS WRAPPED IN DUCT TAPE

AND HIS HAND WAS MISSING.

BUT THE BIGGEST SURPRISE CAME WHEN THEY X-RAYED THE BODY.

THE MEDICAL EXAMINERS AND THE POLICE

WERE STARTLED TO FIND LITTLE METAL PINS

THAT WERE INSIDE THE BODY.

WHEN THEY OPENED UP THE ORIGINAL AUTOPSY INCISION,

MANY SMALL DOLLS HAD BEEN PLACED INTO THE BODY

AND ON THE BACK OF EACH DOLL

WAS A NOTE HELD TO THE BACK BY A METAL PIN.

SOME OF THE HANDWRITING ON THE NOTES WAS STILL LEGIBLE,

AND IT WAS CLEAR THAT SOMEONE HAD PLACED A CURSE

ON SEVERAL PEOPLE WHO LIVED IN THE LOCAL AREA,

CONDEMNING THEM TO ROT JUST LIKE THE DOLLS

INSIDE OF WILLIE SUTTLE'S BODY.

DETECTIVE NOW REALIZED THEY WERE LOOKING FOR A PERSON

WHO APPARENTLY BELIEVED IN BLACK MAGIC.

THE DETECTIVES KNEW THAT WHEN THE BODY LEFT

THE MEDICAL EXAMINER'S OFFICE,

BOTH HANDS WERE STILL ATTACHED.

AT THE GRAVESITE,

THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE THAT ANYBODY HAD EVER DUG UP

OR DISTURBED WILLIE SUTTLE'S BODY.

THEREFORE, WHATEVER WAS DONE

TO PUT THOSE DOLLS IN THE BODY

WAS AT THE FUNERAL PARLOR.

MRS. PAULA ALBRITTON,

THE OWNER OF THE GREEN FUNERAL HOME,

WAS BROUGHT DOWN TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT

TO BE INTERVIEWED BY DETECTIVES.

WHEN MRS. ALBRITTON WAS CONFRONTED WITH THE FACT

THAT HER NAME IS ON THESE NOTES

ATTACHED TO THESE DOLLS, INSIDE MR. SUTTLE,

SHE HAD NO EXCUSE.

DURING HER INTERVIEW WITH THE POLICE,

MRS. ALBRITTON TOLD THEM

THAT SHE WAS A PRACTITIONER OF VOODOO.

SHE SAID SHE USED IT TO DEFEND HERSELF

BECAUSE HER BUSINESS WAS GOING BAD

AND SHE WANTED TO GET RID OF HER COMPETITORS.

PAULA ALBRITTON EXPLAINED THAT THE REASON

SHE'D PUT THESE DOLLS INSIDE THE BODY WAS THAT,

AS THE DOLLS ROTTED,

HER COMPETITORS WOULD ALSO ROT

AND LOSE THEIR BUSINESSES.

AS FAR AS THE HAND GOES,

SHE SAID IT WAS HER HELPING HAND

THAT WOULD HELP HER IN THIS VENTURE.

AS IT TURNED OUT,

THE ONLY PEOPLE IT HELPED WERE THE POLICE.

ON DECEMBER 15th, 1994, IN CATASAQUA, PENNSYLVANIA,

A MAN NAMED ANDREW KATRINAK

RUSHED HOME FROM WORK TO BE WITH HIS FAMILY.

WHEN HE GOT THERE,

HIS WIFE, JOANN, AND THEIR THREE-MONTH-OLD BABY

WERE MISSING.

THE NEXT MORNING HER HUSBAND FOUND HIS WIFE'S ABANDONED CAR

JUST 300 FEET FROM THEIR HOUSE.

ANDREW KATRINAK TOOK POLICE DOWN TO HIS BASEMENT

AND SHOWED THEM THAT HIS CELLAR DOOR

HAD BEEN PRIED OPEN,

AND THAT THE TELEPHONE WIRE LEADING TO AN ANSWERING MACHINE

HAD BEEN CUT.

A mystery is unfolding in Catasaqua.

A young mother and her baby boy

appear to have vanished.

( female ) There's an empty crib in the Katrinak house

on Front Street.

He says the two have been missing

since yesterday afternoon.

We're at a loss, the police are at a loss.

We don't know.

What do you do ? where do you look ?

SOON AFTER THEIR DISAPPEARANCE,

PICTURES OF JOANN AND HER BABY WERE PLACED ALL OVER TOWN

IN HOPES THAT SOMEONE MIGHT HAVE SEEN THEM.

AT THIS POINT, WE DIDN'T JUST HAVE

A WOMAN AND A BABY WHO WERE MISSING,

WE ALSO HAD VERY SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES

SURROUNDING THEIR DISAPPEARANCE.

EVEN THOUGH NEIGHBORS TOLD POLICE

THAT THE KATRINAKS APPEARED TO HAVE

A GOOD RELATIONSHIP,

AUTHORITIES STILL REMAINED SUSPICIOUS ABOUT HER HUSBAND.

THE MAIN FOCUS OF THE INVESTIGATION AT THIS POINT,

OF COURSE, WAS ANDREW KATRINAK.

HE WAS JOANN'S HUSBAND, HE WAS ALEX'S FATHER

AND WE FELT THAT IF THERE WAS ANY INFORMATION

ABOUT THEIR WHEREABOUTS,

HE WOULD HAVE THAT.

BUT WITHOUT A BODY,

DETECTIVES DID NOT HAVE THE EVIDENCE

TO ARREST HIM OR ANYONE ELSE.

WINTER SLOWLY PASSED AND THE GROUND BEGAN TO THAW.

AND ON A FARM MORE THAN 50 MILES AWAY

FROM THE KATRINAK HOME,

A MAN CAME ACROSS WHAT LOOKED LIKE A PILE OF CLOTHES

LYING IN SOME SECLUDED WOODS.

MY NEIGHBOR IS A POLICE OFFICER

AND HE CAME TO MY DOOR,

AND WHEN I OPENED THE DOOR, I KNEW.

I SAID, YOU FOUND THEM.

FOUR MONTHS AFTER HER DISAPPEARANCE

JOANN AND HER BABY HAD FINALLY BEEN FOUND.

SHE HAD BEEN OUTDOORS BETWEEN DECEMBER AND APRIL,

BUT HER BODY WAS FAIRLY WELL PRESERVED

BECAUSE OF THE COLD TEMPERATURES.

THE BODY OF ALEX WAS LEFT UPON THE ABDOMEN OF HIS MOTHER.

IT ALMOST APPEARED AS THOUGH THE OFFENDER

WAS ATTEMPTING TO PLACE THE INFANT

BACK INTO THE WOMB OF THE MOTHER.

EVEN THROUGH A SEVERE WINTER,

THE CRIME SCENE HAD REMAINED INTACT.

THE BABY'S BOTTLE,

AND HIS FAVORITE TOY TELEPHONE WERE STILL THERE.

BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY,

AFTER HOURS OF SIFTING THROUGH THE SOIL,

A DETECTIVE FOUND TWO HUMAN HAIRS

LOCATED UNDERNEATH THE BABY'S DIAPER BAG.

IT WAS THEIR FIRST BREAKTHROUGH

BECAUSE THE HAIRS DID NOT BELONG TO ANYONE

IN THE KATRINAK FAMILY.

AT THE AUTOPSY, THE FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST

DETERMINED THAT SOMEONE HAD SHOT JOANN KATRINAK

JUST BELOW HER RIGHT EYE,

AND HAD VICIOUSLY STRUCK HER IN THE HEAD 19 TIMES

WITH A BLUNT INSTRUMENT.

BUT HE COULD NOT DETERMINE

IF THE BABY HAD BEEN SMOTHERED

OR HAD BEEN LEFT TO DIE DURING THE WINTER.

THIS WAS, AS WE TERM IT, OVERKILL.

THIS WAS A PERSON WHO HAD A RAGE FOR THE VICTIM,

WHO COULD'VE HAD A REAL PERSONAL PROBLEM

OR A HATRED FOR THE VICTIM.

TWO DAYS LATER,

ANDREW AND THE REST OF HIS WIFE'S FAMILY

ATTENDED THE FUNERAL OF JOANN AND HER BABY.

ALTHOUGH HE WAS VISIBLY UPSET,

ANDREW KATRINAK WAS BEING WATCHED VERY CAREFULLY

BY THE POLICE.

WITH JOANN'S CAR NOW AT THEIR FORENSIC UNIT,

THE EVIDENCE TEAM BEGAN A LONG DETAILED EXAMINATION

OF HER VEHICLE.

THEY VACUUMED THE INTERIOR

AND COLLECTED EVERY PARTICLE OF DEBRIS IN THE CAR.

ONCE AGAIN,

THEY FOUND UNIDENTIFIED STRANDS OF HUMAN HAIR.

THEY FOUND SIX HAIRS THAT DID NOT MATCH

THE MOTHER, THE FATHER, OR THE BABY.

BUT THEY DID MATCH THE TWO HAIRS

THAT THEY HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN COLLECTED

AT THE CRIME SCENE.

SOME OF THE HAIRS HAD BEEN PULLED OUT BY THEIR ROOTS,

INDICATING THEY'D BEEN PULLED OUT DURING A STRUGGLE.

THEY ALSO HAD DRIED BLOOD ON THEM.

WHICH MEANT THAT THEY HAD PROBABLY COME

FROM WHOEVER HAD KILLED JOANN KATRINAK AND HER BABY.

THE HAIRS WERE OVER EIGHT INCHES LONG

AND DIRTY BLONDE.

BUT UNDER A MICROSCOPE,

FORENSIC SCIENTISTS DISCOVERED

THAT THE SECTION OF HAIR CLOSEST TO THE ROOT WAS BROWN,

INDICATING THAT THE HAIR HAD BEEN DYED.

THE FACT THAT THE HAIRS WERE OVER EIGHT INCHES LONG

AND WERE DYED SUDDENLY SUGGESTED

THAT THE PERSON WHO HAD COMMITTED THESE HORRIBLE MURDERS

WAS NOT A MAN, BUT WAS A WOMAN.

SEVERAL OF ANDY'S OLD GIRLFRIENDS WERE INVESTIGATED,

INCLUDING A WOMAN NAMED PATRICIA RORRER.

ANDREW KATRINAK TOLD ME

THREE DAYS PRIOR TO JOANN AND ALEX'S DISAPPEARANCE,

PAT RORRER HAD CALLED THE KATRINAK RESIDENCE

BECAUSE SHE WANTED TO SPEAK TO ANDY.

JOANN KATRINAK HAD ANSWERED THE TELEPHONE

AND SHE ANGRILY TOLD PAT RORRER,

"DON'T CALL HERE AGAIN.

ANDY'S HAPPILY MARRIED AND HAS A BABY NOW",

AND SLAMMED THE PHONE DOWN ON PAT RORRER.

SO, ONCE WE FOUND THE BODIES OF JOANN AND ALEX KATRINAK,

WE DECIDED TO LOOK FURTHER INTO THAT PHONE CALL

AND FURTHER INTO PATRICIA RORRER.

DETECTIVES LEARNED THAT PAT RORRER

HAD LIVED WITH ANDY FOR FIVE YEARS,

BUT THEY HAD BROKEN UP

LONG BEFORE HE HAD MET HIS WIFE.

AND ALTHOUGH RORRER NOW LIVED OVER 500 MILES AWAY,

IN NORTH CAROLINA,

IT SEEMED THAT SHE HAD NOT FORGOTTEN

ABOUT HER OLD BOYFRIEND.

WE HAD TESTIMONY FROM BOTH OF HER SUCCEEDING BOYFRIENDS

THAT OCCASIONALLY,

WHEN SHE WOULD BECOME INTOXICATED OR DESPONDENT,

THAT SHE HAD PERSONAL EFFECTS

FROM HER RELATIONSHIP WITH ANDREW KATRINAK,

PHOTOGRAPHS OF THEM TOGETHER,

THAT SHE WOULD GET OUT AND GO OVER AND LOOK AT.

SO, SHE HAD A THING FOR ANDREW KATRINAK

THAT SHE WOULDN'T LET GO.

( Baden ) DETECTIVES, NOW DROVE TO NORTH CAROLINA

TO COLLECT BLOOD AND HAIR SAMPLES

FROM PATRICIA RORRER.

BUT THEY WERE TROUBLED BY ONE OBVIOUS FACT.

THAT PATRICIA RORRER HAD BLACK,

NOT BLONDE HAIR.

ON THE WAY TO THE HOSPITAL

SHE MADE A BIG DEAL OF HER HAIR COLOR,

BY SAYING TO ONE OF THE POLICE OFFICERS,

AFTER LOOKING AT THE WARRANT,

SHE SAID, DIRTY BLOND ? WHO HAS DIRTY BLOND HAIR ?

I DON'T HAVE DIRTY BLOND HAIR.

BUT, FORTUNATELY FOR THE POLICE,

PATRICIA RORRER WAS VERY GOOD ON HORSEBACK.

SO GOOD, IN FACT,

THAT JUST ONE WEEK BEFORE THE MURDER

SHE WON FIRST PRIZE IN A RODEO COMPETITION.

AND OF COURSE SHE HAD HER PICTURE TAKEN.

AND IT CLEARLY SHOWED THAT PAT RORRER

HAD DYED HER BROWN HAIR BLONDE.

EVEN THOUGH SHE WORE A COWBOY HAT,

WE WERE ABLE TO GET THE LENGTH AND THE COLOR OF HER HAIR

WHICH MATCHED PERFECTLY WITH THE HAIR,

THE SIX THAT WERE FOUND IN THE CAR,

IN LENGTH AND COLOR.

THEY WERE ALL ABOUT EIGHT INCHES IN LENGTH

AND THEY WERE ALL DIRTY BLOND.

THEY ALSO MATCHED THE TWO HAIRS THAT WERE FOUND

WHERE THE BODIES WERE FOUND.

SO, WE HAD EIGHT HAIRS THAT MATCHED THE HAIR

DEPICTED IN THE PICTURE

TAKEN A WEEK BEFORE THE CRIME WAS COMMITTED.

ON FEBRUARY 6th, 1998,

PAT RORRER WENT ON TRIAL IN ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA,

FOR MURDER.

ALTHOUGH SHE INSISTED THAT SHE WAS INNOCENT,

DNA COMPARISON TESTS SHOWED THAT HER HAIR

AND THE HAIRS FOUND AT THE CRIME SCENE

WERE IDENTICAL.

THE JURY FOUND HER GUILTY

AND SHE WAS SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON.

IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT PENALTY SHE GOT,

SHE WON... SHE TOOK MY LIFE.

AND MY LIFE WAS PERFECT, DECEMBER 15th, 1994.

AND IT'LL NEVER BE THAT AGAIN.

AUTHORITIES SAID THERE WAS NO RATIONAL EXPLANATION,

WHY A PHONE CALL SO ENRAGED PATRICIA RORRER,

THAT SHE DROVE 500 MILES TO MURDER A WOMAN

SHE NEVER MET,

LEAVING HER THREE-MONTH-OLD BABY TO DIE.

EARLY ON THE MORNING OF NOVEMBER 26th, 1997,

A PHYSICIAN BY THE NAME OF MARGO PRADE,

DROVE HER VAN INTO THE PARKING LOT

OF A MEDICAL CENTER CALLED PROFESSIONAL CENTER WEST.

IT WAS A ROUTINE THAT DR. PRADE HAD BEEN FOLLOWING

FOR ALMOST 11 YEARS NOW.

BUT TODAY WOULD BE DIFFERENT.

SHE WOULD NEVER GET OUT OF HER CAR.

CO-WORKER LORI COLLINS, OUT FOR A CIGARETTE,

WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO FIND HER BODY.

I SAW DR. PRADE HUNCHED OVER TO THE PASSENGER SIDE.

HER WHITE LAB JACKET WAS ALL BLOODY.

I WAS YELLING AT HER, WANTING HER TO GET UP,

SHE DIDN'T.

I FELT FOR A PULSE AND SHE DIDN'T HAVE ONE.

AND SHE WAS NOT MOVING.

WHEN DETECTIVES FROM THE AKRON POLICE DEPARTMENT

ARRIVED AT THE CRIME SCENE,

THEY QUICKLY REALIZED THAT THE MURDER OF DR. MARGO PRADE

WAS NOT A RANDOM KILLING.

SHE WAS RESTING WITH HER HEAD ON THE PASSENGER SEAT.

HER CELL PHONE WAS WITHIN REACH OF HER HAND.

SHE COULD SEE IT, SHE COULD CALL FOR HELP.

HER PURSE WAS THERE.

THE CONTENTS OF HER PURSE

APPARENTLY HAD NOT BEEN RIFLED.

AND SHE APPARENTLY HAD BEEN SHOT

FROM THE RIGHT SIDE,

WHICH WOULD INDICATE TO US

THAT SHE UNLOCKED THE DOOR FOR WHOEVER WAS IN THE VAN.

AS THE BODY WAS BEING PREPARED FOR AUTOPSY

BY THE MEDICAL EXAMINER,

IT QUICKLY BECAME APPARENT TO DETECTIVES

HOW MARGO PRADE WAS KILLED.

EVERY TIME WE TOOK OFF A LAYER OF CLOTHING

ANOTHER BULLET FELL OUT.

WE GOT RIGHT DOWN TO HER BRA AND PANTIES...

I MEAN THERE WAS STILL ANOTHER ONE IN HER BRA.

I HADN'T REALIZED THAT SHE'D BEEN SHOT THAT MANY TIMES.

MARGO PRADE HAD ACTUALLY BEEN SHOT SIX TIMES,

AT CLOSE RANGE, WITH A .38 CALIBER PISTOL.

BUT THE MOST NOTABLE ASPECT OF THE HOMICIDE

WAS THE MARK FOUND ON HER ARM.

THE KILLER HAD APPARENTLY STRUGGLED WITH DR. PRADE

AND HAD BITTEN HER SO VICIOUSLY

THAT THE BITE HAD GONE THROUGH HER LAB COAT.

BUT WHAT THE POLICE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND

WAS WHY THERE WAS JUST THE IMPRESSION

OF HALF A BITE MARK.

THE FUNERAL OF MARGO PRADE

BROUGHT OUT, LITERALLY, HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE.

NOT ONLY FRIENDS AND RELATIVES,

BUT MANY OF THE PEOPLE SHE SO LOVINGLY CARED FOR.

( male ) IF THAT HAPPENED TO DR. MARGO PRADE,

THAT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU, THAT COULD HAPPEN TO ME.

IT COULD HAPPEN TO ANYBODY.

SHE WAS SO WELL-LOVED

THAT THERE WAS A STRONG COMMUNITY SENTIMENT

THAT HER KILLER MUST BE FOUND.

MARGO PRADE'S DEATH CRIED OUT FOR JUSTICE.

THE MEDIA BEGAN TO PUT TREMENDOUS PRESSURE

ON AUTHORITIES TO SOLVE THIS BRUTAL MURDER.

EVEN MARGO'S EX-HUSBAND,

CAPTAIN DOUGLAS PRADE,

A HIGHLY DECORATED POLICE OFFICER,

VOLUNTEERED TO TAKE A LIE DETECTOR TEST,

WHICH HE PASSED,

AND WAS THEN IMMEDIATELY DISMISSED AS A SUSPECT.

THE POLICE DEPARTMENT'S DOING AN OUTSTANDING JOB.

THEY'RE USING ALL OF THEIR RESOURCES

TO INVESTIGATE THIS,

INCLUDING THE RESOURCES OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT,

SO I FEEL VERY CONFIDENT

THAT THEY'LL REACH A RESOLUTION

TO THIS SITUATION, SOON.

POLICE THEN RECEIVED AN ANONYMOUS LETTER

ABOUT AN ACQUAINTANCE OF MARGO PRADE'S,

NAMED DELPHINIA GILBERT.

SOMEONE HAD WRITTEN LETTERS TO THE FBI

AND ALSO TO DOUG PRADE,

IMPLICATING ME IN THIS MURDER,

SAYING THAT I WAS SOMEONE THAT KNEW DR. PRADE,

I PRETENDED TO BE HER FRIEND, BUT I HATED HER.

FLYERS WERE CIRCULATED AROUND TOWN

SAYING THAT DELPHINIA GILBERT

HAD ALREADY BEEN ARRESTED FOR MURDER.

THIS FORCED THE GILBERTS TO DEFEND THEMSELVES

IN THE PRESS.

BUT THE POLICE STILL HAD ONLY ONE REAL CLUE

TO THE KILLER'S IDENTITY,

AND THAT WAS THE BITE MARK ON MARGO PRADE'S ARM.

THE ONLY THING THEY COULD DO

WAS TO TAKE DENTAL IMPRESSIONS FROM EVERYONE CLOSE

TO MARGO PRADE.

EVERYBODY HAS A SET OF TEETH

WHICH ARE UNIQUE AND INDIVIDUAL

TO THAT PARTICULAR PERSON

AND CERTAIN SUBSTANCES CAN CAPTURE THOSE

UNIQUE AND INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS

WITH GREAT FIDELITY.

WHAT I DID WAS I TOOK EACH DENTAL CAST

AND MADE A BITE MARK IN WAX

TO COMPARE WITH THE BITE MARK

ON THE ARM OF MRS. PRADE.

I WENT THROUGH EACH OF THEM

AND WAS ABLE TO EXCLUDE ALL OF THEM,

WITH THE EXCEPTION OF MR. PRADE.

DR. LEVINE FOUND THAT THE IMPRINT PATTERN

OF DOUG PRADE'S LOWER TEETH

MATCHED THE BITE MARK LEFT ON THE BLOOD STAINED LAB COAT,

AS WELL AS ON THE VICTIM'S ARM.

WHAT I BASICALLY TOLD THE POLICE WAS,

ONLY ONE OF THE MODELS COULD'VE LEFT THE MARK

AND THAT BELONGED TO DOUGLAS PRADE.

ON SEPTEMBER 1st, 1998,

CAPTAIN DOUGLAS PRADE WENT ON TRIAL

FOR THE MURDER OF HIS EX-WIFE.

DOUGLAS, DID YOU KILL MARGO PRADE ?

NO, I DID NOT... I DID NOT.

NOT ONLY DID DOUG PRADE DENY THAT HE HAD KILLED HIS WIFE,

BUT HIS LAWYER TRIED TO DEMONSTRATE

THAT HE COULDN'T HAVE BITTEN ANYONE,

BECAUSE HIS UPPER TEETH WERE FALSE,

AND THEREFORE, HE LACKED THE STRENGTH

TO LEAVE A BITE MARK THROUGH HER CLOTHING.

IT WAS IRONIC THAT THE VERY THING

THE DEFENSE TRIED TO USE TO HELP THEIR CLIENT,

ONLY SERVED TO ANSWER THE QUESTION

AS TO WHY THERE WAS ONLY HALF A BITE MARK

ON HIS WIFE'S BODY.

IT WAS OBVIOUS THAT THE BITE MARK

WAS CREATED BY DOUG PRADE'S LOWER TEETH.

THE JURY FOUND THE BITE MARK EVIDENCE COMPELLING

AND DOUGLAS PRADE WAS CONVICTED OF MURDER

AND WAS SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON.

WE DETERMINED THAT HE HAD BEEN OBSESSED WITH HIS WIFE.

AND I THINK HE FELT LIKE HE CREATED HER.

HE CREATED THIS PROMINENT DOCTOR

WHO WAS EXTREMELY POPULAR AND EXTREMELY SUCCESSFUL

AND I DON'T THINK HE COULD TOLERATE THE FACT

THAT SHE WAS GETTING RID OF HIM.

IT WAS A PRIDE THING.

IT IS A FUNDAMENTAL TRUTH IN FORENSIC SCIENCE

THAT AT EVERY CRIME SCENE

THE CRIMINAL ALWAYS LEAVES SOMETHING BEHIND.

SOMETIMES IT IS SOMETHING AS OBVIOUS

AS A FINGERPRINT.

BUT THEN THERE ARE THE MORE BIZARRE CASES.

LIKE THE KILLER WHO WAS CAUGHT

BECAUSE HE LEFT HIS FOOTPRINT

ON THE NECK OF HIS VICTIM.

OR THE CASE WHERE AN EAR PRINT WAS USED IN COURT

TO CONVICT A MAN OF MURDER.

BUT IN 1979,

IN A SMALL BANK IN CALIFORNIA,

AN EQUALLY UNUSUAL CASE MADE FORENSIC HISTORY.

AS CUSTOMERS CASUALLY GO ABOUT THEIR BUSINESS,

SECURITY CAMERAS QUIETLY RECORD THE DAYS EVENTS.

A WOMAN ENTERS THE BANK.

AFTER MAKING OUT A DEPOSIT SLIP,

SHE WALKS OVER TO A BANK TELLER,

AND CASUALLY HANDS HER THE DEPOSIT SLIP.

SHE THEN PULLS OUT OF HER HANDBAG

AN AUTOMATIC PISTOL, AND DEMANDS MONEY.

THE TELLER FRANTICALLY HANDS HER $10,000.

THE ROBBER THEN TRIES TO RUN OUT OF THE BANK.

NOT REALIZING THE DOORS ARE LOCKED,

SHE BANGS INTO THEM,

HITTING HER FACE ON THE GLASS.

SHE RECOVERS AND ESCAPES.

WHEN THE DETECTIVES ARRIVED AT THE CRIME SCENE,

THE WITNESSES TOLD THEM WHAT HAD HAPPENED,

AND ALSO MENTIONED

THAT THE ROBBER HAD RUN INTO THE DOOR.

WHEN DETECTIVES EXAMINED THE GLASS,

THEY NOTICED A SMUDGE.

THEY SOON REALIZED THEY WERE LOOKING AT A PRINT.

NOT A FINGERPRINT, BUT A LIP PRINT.

WHEN THEY RE-RAN THE TAPE,

THEY SAW THAT WHEN THE ROBBER HIT THE DOOR,

SHE HAD STRUCK HER LIPS AGAINST THE GLASS,

SO, TECHNICIANS USED TRANSPARENT TAPE

TO LIFT THE PRINT OFF THE DOOR

JUST AS THEY WOULD A FINGERPRINT.

IT WAS THEN TRANSFERRED TO A FINGERPRINT CARD.

THE TECHNICIANS THEN USED BLACK POWDER

TO GET A CLEARER VERSION OF THE LIP PRINT.

BOTH CARDS WERE THEN SENT

TO THE FINGERPRINT DIVISION OF THE FBI.

A FEW DAYS LATER, SOMEONE CALLS THE POLICE AND SAYS

THAT THE PERSON WHO ROBBED THE BANK

WAS NOT A WOMAN,

BUT WAS A MAN NAMED JONATHAN JACKSON.

BUT WHEN WITNESSES AT THE BANK

LOOKED AT JACKSON'S MUG SHOT FROM A PREVIOUS CONVICTION,

THEY COULDN'T IDENTIFY HIM

BECAUSE THEY ONLY REMEMBERED SEEING A WOMAN.

SO DETECTIVES GOT A COURT ORDER

AND BROUGHT HIM DOWN TO THE FINGERPRINT DIVISION

SO THEY COULD TAKE A PRINT OF HIS LIPS.

THEY HAD HIM PUT ON THE SAME COLOR LIPSTICK

THAT WAS FOUND ON THE BANK DOOR,

AND THEN TOOK AN IMPRESSION OF HIS LIPS.

HIS LIP PRINT WAS THEN COMPARED

TO THE LIP PRINT FOUND ON THE BANK DOOR.

THE CREASE PATTERNS FROM EACH OF THE TWO LIP PRINTS

WERE IDENTICAL,

AS INDIVIDUAL AS FINGERPRINTS

AND AS INCRIMINATING.

JONATHAN JACKSON WAS FOUND GUILTY

AND GIVEN 10 YEARS IN PRISON.

AND HE LEARNED A VALUABLE LESSON--

NEXT TIME YOU ROB A BANK,

DON'T WEAR LIPSTICK.

EMILITA VILLA WAS BORN IN THE PHILIPPINES...

BUT HAD ALWAYS DREAMED OF LIVING IN THE UNITED STATES.

IN 1987, THAT DREAM WAS FULFILLED

WHEN SHE MARRIED A RETIRED ARMY OFFICER

NAMED JACK REEVES.

THEY RETURNED TO HIS HOME IN ARLINGTON, TEXAS,

AND EMILITA QUICKLY ADAPTED TO HER NEW LIFE THERE.

MAKING FRIENDS QUICKLY, ESPECIALLY WITH OTHER WOMEN,

WHO, LIKE HER, HAD COME FROM THE PHILIPPINES.

BY 1993, SHE HAD GIVEN BIRTH TO A BABY BOY...

No, don't touch.

AND HAD ALL OF THE POSSESSIONS

THAT SHE HAD EVER DREAMED ABOUT.

Bye !

BUT IN OCTOBER OF 1994,

EMILITA'S CAR WAS FOUND ABANDONED

AT A LOCAL SUPERMARKET.

HER FRIENDS TOLD POLICE THAT SOMETHING WAS WRONG,

THAT SHE WOULD NEVER JUST LEAVE HER CHILD AND DISAPPEAR.

WHEN DETECTIVE TOM LeNOIR WENT TO INTERVIEW HER HUSBAND,

HE WAS SURPRISED BY WHAT JACK REEVES HAD TO SAY.

WHEN JACK AND I MET, IT WAS FIVE DAYS LATER.

AND FROM THE VERY MEETING WITH HIM,

HE STARTS TALKING, QUITE FRANKLY,

VERY TERRIBLY ABOUT HER.

HE STARTS TALKING ABOUT, WHAT HE SAID,

HER LESBIAN AFFAIRS.

HE STARTS TALKING ABOUT HOW SHE WAS NOT A GOOD MOTHER.

THEN HE STARTS REVEALING...

AND I DON'T KNOW WHY HE REVEALED THIS,

BUT HE TELLS ME THAT HIS PAST WIFE DIED IN 1986,

THAT SHE DROWNED OUT AT LAKE WHITNEY.

HE TOLD ME THAT HE HAD MET HER IN KOREA

AND HE TOLD ME HER NAME WAS MYONG,

SO, I JUST HAD TO ASK,

AND I ASKED, DID YOU HAVE ANY OTHER WIVES

THAT HAVE DIED THAT WE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ?

AND THAT'S WHEN HE TOLD ME ABOUT SHARON REEVES.

IN 1978, JACK REEVES' FIRST WIFE, SHARON,

HAD COMMITTED SUICIDE.

THE CORONER'S REPORT NOTED THAT A CUT FOUND ON HER TOE

INDICATED THAT SHE HAD USED IT TO PULL THE TRIGGER

ON A SHOTGUN THAT WAS FOUND AT THE SCENE.

BUT DETECTIVES NOW BECAME CURIOUS

AS TO WHY JACK REEVES HAD THREE YOUNG WIVES

EITHER DISAPPEAR OR MYSTERIOUSLY DIE,

AND THEY DECIDED TO REVIEW THE SUICIDE DEATH

OF HIS FIRST WIFE, SHARON.

BUT SHARON HAD BEEN DEAD FOR OVER 16 YEARS

AND WHEN THEY LOCATED HER FILE,

THE ONLY THINGS THAT DETECTIVES FOUND

WERE A DEATH CERTIFICATE AND AN 8x10

BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPH OF HER SUICIDE.

IT WAS A BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPH, AN 8x10,

THAT SHOWED SHARON REEVES' BODY LAID OUT ON THE BED,

NO CLOTHING ON.

WE LOOKED AT THE PHOTOGRAPH,

AND IT JUST DIDN'T LOOK RIGHT.

IT LOOKED LIKE THE BODY HAD BEEN STAGED.

ANYBODY KNOWS WHEN YOU SHOOT A SHOTGUN

THERE'S GONNA BE A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF RECOIL.

THE WAY THIS GUN WAS LYING,

THERE WAS NO WAY SHE COULD HAVE PULLED THE TRIGGER,

THERE HAVE BEEN ANY RECOIL

AND THAT GUN JUST MAGICALLY CAME BACK

AND LEANED AGAINST HER BODY.

ON DECEMBER 14th, 1994, DETECTIVES,

IN ORDER TO GATHER MORE EVIDENCE,

EXHUMED THE BODY OF SHARON REEVES.

WHEN THE COFFIN WAS OPENED,

BECAUSE OF THE LARGE AMOUNT OF FUNGUS PRESENT,

HER BODY WAS SHROUDED IN WHITE LIKE A MARBLE STATUE.

THE BODY WAS MUCH BETTER PRESERVED

THAN I EVER EXPECTED.

ONCE WE BEGAN TO CLEAN THE BODY OFF,

ALTHOUGH IT WAS NOT LIKE A NEWLY BURIED BODY,

THE BODY WAS STILL IN VERY GOOD SHAPE.

THERE WAS STILL A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF RESIDUAL SKIN.

ALMOST THE ENTIRE BODY WAS COVERED COMPLETELY IN SKIN.

THE FIRST THING DR. BARNARD NOTICED

WAS THE SCAR THAT WAS STILL CLEARLY VISIBLE ON HER TOE.

THE HUSBAND SAID THAT SHE SHOT HERSELF

AND TRIGGERED THE WEAPON WITH HER TOE.

TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT WITH YOUR FOOT OR WITH YOUR TOE

ON THE TRIGGER, FIRST OF ALL,

WOULD BE VERY DIFFICULT TO IMPOSSIBLE,

SINCE I'VE NEVER SEEN THAT OCCUR AT ALL.

SECONDLY, THE WAY THAT IT WOULD HAVE TO BE ANGLED

WOULD BE A HORIZONTAL WOUND,

AND THIS WAS VERTICAL.

MORE IMPORTANTLY,

WHEN DR. BARNARD TRACED THE PATH OF THE SHOTGUN BLAST,

HE FOUND THAT IT ENTERED THE BODY

AT A VERY ACUTE ANGLE.

WHICH MEANT THAT THE GUN WOULD HAVE TO HAVE BEEN HELD

IN AN ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE POSITION,

FOR SHARON REEVES TO HAVE PULLED THE TRIGGER.

TO PROVE THEIR THEORY,

DETECTIVES HAD A FEMALE OFFICER

WHO WAS THE SAME HEIGHT AND WEIGHT AS SHARON REEVES,

HOLD THE SHOTGUN IN A POSITION

THAT WOULD MATCH THE PATH OF THE BULLET

FOUND IN SHARON REEVES BODY.

HERE WAS THIS WOMAN, SHE WAS A TRAINED PERSON.

SHE WAS WELL BUILT, STRONG,

BUT WHEN IT CAME TO HER TRYING TO HOLD THAT SHOTGUN,

SHE WAS NOT ABLE TO PULL THAT TRIGGER.

THE WOUND TRACK COULDN'T MATCH.

SHE COULDN'T PULL THE TRIGGER THE WAY THE WOUND TRACK WAS.

THE DEMONSTRATION PROVED

THAT SOMEONE HAD MURDERED SHARON REEVES.

AND THE ONLY OTHER PERSON WHO WAS IN THE HOUSE THAT NIGHT

WAS HER HUSBAND, JACK.

IT WAS IRONIC THAT ALTHOUGH AUTHORITIES

HAD STARTED WITH AN INVESTIGATION

INTO THE DISAPPEARANCE OF HIS THIRD WIFE, EMILITA,

THEY WERE NOW PROSECUTING JACK REEVES

FOR THE MURDER OF HIS FIRST WIFE, SHARON.

OUR EVIDENCE WAS BUILT UP

AND WE FELT REAL STRONG ABOUT BEING ABLE TO GO TO TRIAL.

I GOT A PHONE CALL SAYING

THERE HAVE BEEN BONES DISCOVERED IN BOSQUE COUNTY

AND IMMEDIATELY, IT FLEW IN MY MIND,

THAT'S EMILITA.

AND I DON'T KNOW WHY,

BUT I KNEW, IN MY HEART OF HEARTS,

IT WAS EMILITA.

THE SKELETON OF EMILITA REEVES

HAD BEEN FOUND IN A SHALLOW GRAVE NEAR LAKE WHITNEY.

ANIMALS HAD DEVOURED HER FLESH AND SCATTERED HER BONES,

WHICH MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR PATHOLOGISTS

TO TELL POLICE HOW SHE HAD BEEN MURDERED.

NEVERTHELESS,

DETECTIVES HAD EVIDENCE THAT PLACED JACK REEVES

AT LAKE WHITNEY AT THE TIME OF HER DISAPPEARANCE.

JACK REEVES WAS FOUND GUILTY OF TWO MURDERS

AND RECEIVED A COMBINED SENTENCE

OF 134 YEARS IN PRISON.

SHORTLY AFTER HIS CONVICTION,

AUTHORITIES LEARNED THAT JACK REEVES

WAS SO SURE HE WAS GOING TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER,

THAT AT THE TIME OF HIS ARREST

HE HAD ALREADY PURCHASED A TICKET TO THE PHILIPPINES

AND HAD MADE PLANS TO BRING BACK ANOTHER BRIDE.

MAN'S DESIRE TO ACHIEVE PHYSICAL IMMORTALITY

SPANS THOUSANDS OF YEARS.

FOR THE EGYPTIANS,

MUMMIFICATION BECAME A RELIGIOUS RITUAL,

FOR THEY FEARED IF THE BODY DECOMPOSED AFTER DEATH

THERE COULD BE NO AFTERLIFE.

OTHERS PRESERVED THEIR LOVED ONES OUT OF GRIEF,

LIKE THE SICILIAN FAMILY

WHO PRESERVED THIS TWO-YEAR-OLD CHILD,

WHO, EVEN TODAY,

LOOKS EXACTLY AS SHE DID WHEN SHE DIED,

MORE THAN 80 YEARS AGO.

BUT THEN THERE ARE THOSE

WHO TRY TO BRING THE DEAD BACK TO LIFE.

THIS IS THE STORY OF THE STRANGE OBSESSION

OF DR. KARL VON COSEL.

IN 1931, DR. KARL VON COSEL

WAS WORKING AS A BACTERIOLOGIST

IN A HOSPITAL IN KEY WEST, FLORIDA.

THE HOSPITAL WAS FILLED WITH PEOPLE SUFFERING

FROM THE THEN INCURABLE DISEASE, TUBERCULOSIS.

ELENA HOYOS WAS ONE OF THOSE UNFORTUNATE PEOPLE.

KARL VON COSEL TRIED EVERYTHING IN HIS POWER

TO SAVE THE YOUNG WOMAN,

BUT DESPITE HIS EFFORTS,

ELENA DIED THREE MONTHS LATER AT THE AGE OF ONLY 22.

VON COSEL HAD BEEN SO TAKEN BY HER BEAUTY

THAT BEFORE SHE WAS BURIED,

HE HAD A DEATH MASK MADE OF THE WOMAN

HE HAD GROWN TO LOVE.

BUT WHILE AT THE CEMETERY,

HE ALSO REALIZED

THAT WATER WOULD EVENTUALLY SEEP INTO HER COFFIN

AND QUICKLY DESTROY HER BODY.

SO, HE GOT PERMISSION FROM THE FAMILY

TO BUILD A CONCRETE MAUSOLEUM ON THE SITE OF HER GRAVE.

INSIDE, HE PLACED A METAL, AIRTIGHT CASKET,

WHICH CONTAINED AN INCUBATOR TANK FILLED WITH FORMALDEHYDE

TO FURTHER STOP ANY DECAY THAT MIGHT TAKE PLACE.

DR. VON COSEL'S OBSESSION WITH ELENA

BEGAN TO CONSUME HIS LIFE.

HE LEFT HIS JOB AT THE HOSPITAL

AND NOW BEGAN TO SPEND MORE AND MORE TIME

INSIDE THE LITTLE STONE HOUSE.

HE WROTE IN HIS JOURNAL,

BUT DR. VON COSEL'S NIGHTLY VISITS

BEGAN TO ATTRACT THE CURIOUS.

MORE AND MORE PEOPLE WONDERED

WHY HE CAME TO THE MAUSOLEUM EVERY NIGHT.

BUT ONE DAY HIS VISITS SUDDENLY STOPPED.

AND PEOPLE BEGAN TO WONDER WHERE HE HAD GONE.

YEARS PASSED BEFORE KARL WAS SEEN AGAIN.

TO AVOID THE CURIOUS,

HE HAD TRANSPORTED ELENA'S BODY

TO A SMALL HOUSE NEAR THE SEA.

NEIGHBORS SAID THAT THEY WOULD OFTEN HEAR HIM

PLAYING THE ORGAN, LATE INTO THE NIGHT.

DAY AFTER DAY, HE WOULD COME AND GO,

ALWAYS CARRYING WITH HIM LARGE BOXES

FILLED WITH PERFUME AND PRESERVATIVES.

RUMORS BEGAN TO SPREAD,

AND FINALLY,

ELENA'S SISTER LEARNED OF KARL'S STRANGE BEHAVIOR.

WHEN SHE WENT TO HIS HOME,

SHE DEMANDED TO BE TAKEN TO THE MAUSOLEUM

TO SEE ELENA'S BODY.

THAT WILL NOT BE NECESSARY, VON COSEL SAID,

AND HE PROCEEDED TO TAKE HER UPSTAIRS TO THE BEDROOM.

AND THERE, LYING IN THE BED,

DRESSED IN A WEDDING GOWN,

WAS SOMETHING THAT LOOKED LIKE A DOLL,

ITS FEATURES GLISTENING LIKE WAX,

ITS GLASS EYES STARING INTO SPACE.

HORRIFIED, ELENA'S SISTER REFUSED TO BELIEVE

THIS PUPPET WAS THE PERSON SHE HAD KNOWN ALL HER LIFE

AND SHE DEMANDED THAT THE BODY BE AUTOPSIED.

SO, AUTHORITIES PUT IT INTO A BASKET

AND TOOK IT TO THE LOPEZ FUNERAL HOME

WHERE AN AUTOPSY WAS PERFORMED.

AT THE AUTOPSY,

DOCTORS FOUND THAT SHE WAS BASICALLY A DECAYED CORPSE.

JUST FRAGMENTS OF SKIN, NO BLOOD,

AND BONES THAT WERE HELD TOGETHER BY PIANO WIRE.

SHE HAD GLASS EYES,

AND A WIG MADE OUT OF HER OWN HAIR

THAT HAD FALLEN OUT OVER THE YEARS AS SHE DECAYED.

AS HER SKIN DETERIORATED,

HE WOULD REPLACE IT WITH OILED SILK AND WAX.

HE USED PERFUME TO COVER UP THE ODOR

OF THE DECOMPOSITION PROCESS.

AS THE PATHOLOGIST CONTINUED THE AUTOPSY,

THEY FOUND THAT HE HAD INSERTED A VAGINAL TUBE

INSIDE OF THE BODY,

SO SEXUAL INTERCOURSE COULD BE PERFORMED.

IT WAS DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE THAT A SANE MAN

COULD HAVE LIVED THIS WAY WITH A CORPSE,

FOR SO MANY YEARS.

VON COSEL WAS EXAMINED BY PSYCHIATRISTS

AND DECLARED TO BE SANE,

BUT THE PATHOLOGIST SAID THAT THIS WAS THE MOST BIZARRE CASE

OF NECROPHILIA HE HAD EVER SEEN.

EVEN SO, ALL CHARGES WERE DROPPED AGAINST HIM

BECAUSE AFTER SEVEN YEARS,

THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS HAD PASSED.

AFTER THE TRIAL,

ELENA'S BODY WAS RESTORED AND PUT ON EXHIBITION.

THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE NOW CAME TO SEE THE WOMAN

WHO HAD BECOME PART OF THE NOW INFAMOUS LOVE AFFAIR.

EVENTUALLY SHE WAS REBURIED,

ONLY THIS TIME,

THE LOCATION OF HER COFFIN WAS KEPT A SECRET,

SO VON COSEL WOULD NEVER BE ABLE TO FIND HER AGAIN.

IN 1952, POLICE WERE CALLED TO AN ABANDONED HOUSE.

THERE, THEY FOUND THE BODY OF AN 83-YEAR-OLD MAN.

LYING NEXT TO HIM WAS A LIFE SIZE DOLL

WEARING THE DEATH MASK OF ELENA...

THE MAN WAS KARL VON COSEL,

WHO EVEN IN DEATH

HAD REFUSED TO BE PARTED FROM HIS BELOVED.

THE LAST ENTRY IN HIS JOURNAL SAID,

"... FOR SHE HAS SURVIVED DEATH.

FOREVER AND EVER, SHE IS WITH ME."

WHETHER DEATH OCCURRED YESTERDAY

OR HUNDREDS OF YEARS AGO,

THE DEAD'S LONG SILENT VOICES RETURN TO ANSWER

THE QUESTIONS PUT TO THEM

BY THE FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST.

HE IS THEIR INTERPRETER

AND UNDERSTANDS THEIR LANGUAGE.

FOR HIM, DEATH IS NOT THE END OF THE STORY,

BUT JUST THE BEGINNING.

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