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ANNOUNCER: 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.

ROBERT STACK: It was
one of the boldest

breakouts in Oklahoma history.

19-year-old Travis
Duncan and two

escaped prisoners
led state troopers

on a frantic high-speed chase
that ended in a wild shootout.

and Travis Duncan's
disappearance.

For more than three
years, Stephen Marfeo has

searched for his wife Doreen.

She mysteriously
vanished in 1990,

but police believe Marfeo's
concern is a clever smokescreen

intended to cover up
his own involvement

in his wife's disappearance.

For 500 years it has
been one of the world's

most famous portraits--

Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.

But her identity has
long been a mystery.

Tonight, a controversial
new theory--

could the person behind
the enigmatic smile

be Leonardo himself?

When Raymond Young vanished
off the coast of Louisiana,

his family assumed
he had drowned,

but authorities are convinced
that Young is very much alive

and enjoying a good life
thanks to millions of dollars

scammed from the government.

Join me for these
intriguing cases.

Perhaps you may be able
to help solve a mystery.

[theme music]

This story is about one
of law enforcement's worst

nightmares--

three young
criminals on the road

with a truck full of
weapons and nothing to lose.

At the apex of this
explosive triangle

was 19-year-old
Travis Wade Duncan.

His family had lived in central
Oklahoma for four generations.

In more than 100 years,
not one of the Duncans

had ever been in
trouble with the law,

until Travis came along.

In April of 1992,
Travis Duncan was

an apprentice auto repairman
in Seminole, Oklahoma.

He had just moved into
his own apartment.

After one minor legal
scrape in Texas,

Travis had maintained
an excellent work

record for nearly a year.

JOE CRAIG: Travis was
a quiet young man.

He'd get a little mischief now
and then, but growing up he

was he was a good kid, you
know, from a good family there.

ROBERT STACK: But
in June of 1992,

Travis Duncan was
arrested for stealing

guns from his employer.

Travis claimed he
bought the guns.

He said he had no
idea they were stolen,

much less stolen from his boss.

Bail was set at $25,000.

Duncan's family could
not afford to post bond,

and he was incarcerated at
the Seminole County Jail.

In you go.

CLINT WITHERS: He appeared to be
a little nervous to be in jail.

Travis was the kind
that was very quiet.

He never did cause
any trouble at all.

He was just a real quiet
type, kind of kept to himself.

ROBERT STACK: Another
prisoner at the jail

was 19-year-old John Fisher.

According to law
enforcement officials,

Fischer was by turns
charismatic and crazy.

I'm rid of this bed,
I'm rid of this cell,

I'm rid of everybody.

I'm out of here.

CHARLES SISCO: Fisher
was arrested on a murder

charge, first degree murder.

John's goal in life was to
be the drug lord of Oklahoma.

He was constantly
fantasizing about,

and bragging to
other people that he

was in with the Medellin
Cartel of South America

that he had beaucoups of
money, just any amount you had.

He had several accounts that
had hundreds of thousands

of dollars in it.

Most people knew
he was fantasizing.

ROBERT STACK: But Travis
Duncan was not most people.

Naive and gullible, he was
an easy mark for John Fisher.

The two would forge
an unholy alliance.

Hey, I'm getting out of here.

I got $200,000 in
a bank in Oklahoma.

I got guns, I got
a car, everything.

CLINT WITHERS: Fisher was the
kind that would look you right

in the face and tell
you exactly how he felt.

He was a leader among
the other inmates.

Everybody looked up to him.

Oklahoma's mine.

Six months out of
here, Oklahoma's mind.

I always considered Fisher
to be an escape risk just

by his actions.

And he would come straight out
and admit it, that he would

escape if he had the chance.

I'm gonna run this place.

ROBERT STACK: For weeks, John
Fisher filled Travis Duncan's

head with his wild ideas.

Then on August 18th
1992, Duncan's bail

was reduced after his
parents hired a new lawyer.

Travis Duncan was
released on the condition

that he live with his
mother and father.

But Duncan insisted on moving
back to his own apartment.

Over his parents' objections, he
took his sister's pickup truck

and left.

No one knows where Travis
Duncan went, only what he did.

Travis manufactured Molotov
cocktails, different things,

loaded up the back
end of the pickup

with all types of ammunition,
9 millimeter pistols, shotguns,

all different types of things,
some camping equipment,

and food, water, things
to live off of if they

had to hide for while.

ROBERT STACK: Seminole County
jail, 5:30 PM, the next day.

Hey, hey Travis.

Hey, what's up?

Not much.

Hey, you mind if I go over
and look at Travis' pick up?

Absolutely not, just
finish up what you're doing.

Glen?

Hey Travis.

Hey, want some cigarettes?

Yeah, thanks.

Let's go.

Don't move.

Turn around,

CLINT WITHERS: When he
pulled the gun on me,

I was frightened.

He also told me if I
didn't cooperate with him,

that he would shoot me.

This job ain't
worth your life.

Move.

ROBERT STACK: Duncan was
familiar with the jail routine.

He knew that at this hour, only
the jailer would be on duty.

In, in.

Take off your shirt.

Hurry!

Go on, take off that shirt.

Give it to me, now.

Don't move, boy.

Don't you move, boy.

ROBERT STACK:
Duncan quickly found

the keys to the other cell.

He lost no time
freeing John Fisher.

Don't you move, boy.

Fish, you ready?

I'm ready, I was born ready.

Let's go man, now.

ROBERT STACK: Fisher
tried to turn the escape

into a mass jail break, but
only one other prisoner,

Timothy Johnson, was willing.

JOE CRAIG: I think it came
as a surprise to Fisher

that Travis did this,
showing up in just

the quick moment that he did.

We were prepared for a break,
for an escape from the inside.

We never dreamed of one
coming from the outside on us.

It was approximately 30 minutes
before we knew of the escape.

And a general broadcast was
sent out over the escape

with the vehicle description
and the occupants.

The highway patrol's police
units up on the interstate

picked him up on radar
running a high rate of speed.

And we were able to monitor
the traffic at that point

and [inaudible]
who they were after

and what the circumstances was.

On August 19th, I was
notified by my troop

headquarters of a
vehicle traveling

at high speed on I-40.

The vehicle was occupied
by three white males,

and we set up a roadblock
to attempt to intercept

the vehicle as it came through.

As it came around the curve,
got within a visual sighting

of our roadblock, the driver,
Travis Duncan had accelerated

to about 100 miles an hour.

[tires squealing]

I jumped in my patrol car and
began pursuing the pickup.

They continued east
on I-40, burning

about a hundred miles an
hour I caught it, the pickup.

Fish began to lean
out the window

and point the shotgun at my
patrol car as I was pursuing.

Every time he'd lean out and
to draw a beat on my unit,

then I would go to the
left of the driver's side

of the pickup, get as
far over as I could,

get out of the line of fire.

This is something that you
expect to see on the movies,

but you don't really
expect it to happen to you.

ROBERT STACK: By 7:30 PM, the
three fugitives, heading due

east, had rampaged along a 150
mile stretch of Interstate 40

at speeds of up to
100 miles per hour.

Just 24 miles from
the Arkansas Border,

they headed for
Kerr Lake, an area

which the troopers knew well,
but the fugitives did not.

BILL JAMES: We
exited the interstate

and started south
on the county road.

Because we did, Fisher leaned
out the passenger's window

and threw what appeared to be
a beer bottle up in the air.

Like, he tried to
throw something

through the windshield
of my patrol car.

That Molotov cocktail failed to
ignite because it hit the road.

The wind and the high speed
blew the wick out of it,

all it was doing was smoldering.

ROBERT STACK: Seconds later,
Fisher lobbed another homemade

bomb our of the truck.

It, too, failed to detonate.

BILL JAMES: As we
entered the park area,

I began to crowd him
at a high rate of speed

again to push him from
making a left turn

to go back to the east.

At that point, I had them going
straight south into a closed

area where there was
a big steel gate,

and I knew they'd have to
either stop at the gate

or they would crash through
this heavy steel gate.

[gun firing]

ROBERT STACK: A fierce
firefight broke out.

Incredibly, no one
was wounded, even

though 70 rounds were fired.

The vehicle had over 2000
rounds of ammunition in it

after it crashed.

There were about seven Molotov
cocktails and some pipe,

or black powder pipe
bombs in the vehicle.

There were firearms,
there was camping gear,

so they had every intention
of going into the woods

and not returning to jail.

You don't have time
to fear anything,

the adrenaline's
pumping so hard.

But your mind is
rushing, you know,

I hope I told my
kids that I love them

before I came to work today.

ROBERT STACK: At around 7:45
PM, Fisher, Duncan, and Johnson

fled into the woods.

Unwittingly, they had trapped
themselves on a peninsula

jutting into the lake.

By nightfall, the State Highway
Patrol, working with local law

enforcement agencies,
had attempted to seal

off all possible escape routes.

Finally, the Oklahoma
Lake Patrol was called in.

We're coming out, don't shoot.

Put your hands
up over your head.

Turn around.

We're unarmed, don't shoot.

Turn around.

Walk backwards towards the boat.

ROBERT STACK: Just
before 10:00 PM, Fisher

and Johnson were cornered.

They claimed Travis
Duncan had been shot

and was lying dead in
the woods, but later

they admitted that Duncan had,
in fact, gone off on his own.

BILL JAMES: I transported
Mr. Fisher back to the county

jail in my patrol car.

As we pulled into
the county jail,

Mr. Fisher looked me in the
eye and he said, you know,

you really are a nice guy.

He said, I don't want you
to take this all personal,

he said, but people
like me and you,

this is all in a day's work.

Which I stated, it may be
in a day's work for him,

but it is definitely not in
a normal day's work for me.

We kept the area contained
for nearly three days,

hoping to find Duncan.

We used tracking
dogs, we did searches

in case he had, in fact, been
shot and was down in the woods.

The place has been
thoroughly combed.

It was combed in a grid search
area over and over again.

We've had a mounted patrol
in here on horseback

to search all the wood
areas to no avail.

We're unable to locate him,
no signs that he's in there.

There was no evidence to
indicate that he'd been shot.

ROBERT STACK: One
month later, police

discovered a badly decomposed
male body on the south shore

of Kerr Lake.

He was a missing camper who
had been shot through the head

at approximately the same time
Travis Duncan disappeared.

Police now theorize that
Duncan swam across the lake.

He then murdered the camper
and used his truck to escape.

Update-- on May 5,
1994, Travis Wade Duncan

finally came home to
Seminole County, Oklahoma,

five days after he was
arrested in Boise, Idaho.

Thanks to a tip from
an alert viewer,

Duncan's life on the
run is finally over.

CHARLES SISCO: We believe that
he went from Oklahoma to North

or South Carolina, has went
into Washington and Oregon,

went to Hawaii, was in
Arizona prior to being

arrested in Boise, Idaho.

So he had traveled around doing
odd jobs, living from one state

to another.

ROBERT STACK: Once
in custody, Duncan

willingly revealed the details
of his escape from Kerr Lake.

BILL JAMES: Travis told
me that after the crash,

he stayed in the woods,
traveled through the woods

until he came to the edge
of the water on Kerr Lake.

He stayed hid in the bushes
until about an hour after dark,

and then he swam a cove, which
would be approximately a half

mile wide, and then came up
and stayed in the tree line

and walked a mountain
lion out, then

he was able to catch a ride
and go east from that area.

I'm delighted that
he's behind bars.

It kinda ends this story.

And I'm completely
satisfied with the results,

that nobody was injured.

He was apprehended,
and he's facing

the years in the penitentiary
that he's looking at.

ROBERT STACK: On
September 10, 1991,

detective Pat Brennan of
the Philadelphia Police

was stunned to receive
not one, but three

telephone calls from a convicted
rapist named Julius Patterson.

Out of the blue,
Patterson confessed

that he and his
girlfriend, Paulette Hite,

had killed two people.

He was like a
man on a mission.

He was out to convince me and
anyone else that would listen

to him that what he
had to say was real,

and he was out to make
the police act on it.

With this urgency in his voice,
and the detail to what he was

saying to us just made me feel
that everything he was saying

was the truth and
would be founded.

ROBERT STACK: Patterson
said one of the victims

was an elderly man
named Hall Luther

Gordon, who had mysteriously
disappeared in 1988.

How do you know he
was telling the truth?

ROBERT STACK: Patterson
claimed that the remains

of the other victim could be
found buried in the basement

of a Philadelphia row house.

Incredibly, he even
admitted that this victim

was his own sister.

Julius Patterson had
been telling the truth.

Testing would later confirm
that the bones found

in the basement were those
of his mentally handicapped

younger sister, Jessie.

These pictures of Julius
Patterson and Paulette Hite

were taken by a bank
ATM camera in 1991.

Authorities believe that
the pair may have stolen

as much as $150,000 in
social security benefits

from their two
victims, both before

and after they were murdered.

Following our most recent
broadcast of this story,

a former employer
of Paulette Hite

called our phone center to
report that Hite had been

working in a fast
food restaurant

in Cliffside Park, New
Jersey, under an assumed name.

Here's what happened next,
according to Philadelphia

Police Lieutenant Joseph Witte.

He gave us the social
security number she used,

and the FBI tracked that Social
Security number to a welfare

recipient in New York City.

FBI agents and New York
City Police Department

staked out the location where
she was to pick up her checks.

At that time, both Julius
Patterson and Paulette Hite

were apprehended.

ROBERT STACK: After the
arrest, Julius Patterson

led police to this
empty warehouse

in North Philadelphia,
where he said

he had left the partial
remains of Hall Luther Gordon.

Police records confirm
that some human bones

had been found there in 1989.

The police now believe
that they were the remains

of Hall Luther Gordon.

Three weeks later, Patterson led
police back to the same area,

claiming that he had buried
yet another victim there.

During the search, the
unexpected happened.

While behind the
factory, he assaulted

one of the detectives,
knocking him down,

and then ran down
the railroad tracks

and jumped off a
railroad trestle

that was about 10 feet
tall onto a street

and then made his escape.

ROBERT STACK: Three
days later, Julius

Patterson was captured
at an intersection

in North Philadelphia.

When he was
apprehended, Patterson

was standing at a bus stop
wearing severed handcuffs

concealed under a coat.

Next, a startling new theory
about the model for one

of the world's great
paintings-- the Mona Lisa.

Her face and smile have
captured imaginations

for nearly 500 years.

She has inspired poets,
painters, and musicians alike.

She is, of course,
the Mona Lisa--

a master work of the master
artist, Leonardo da Vinci.

Through the centuries, millions
have been drawn to the mystery

and beauty surrounding
the portrait,

except that art history
has it that the model

for the Mona Lisa was the wife
of a wealthy Italian lord.

Some say that the
loss of a child

accounts for her sad,
captivating expression,

but no one knows for sure.

According to legend,
Leonardo da Vinci

was so enamored of the Mona Lisa
that he carried the painting

with him everywhere he
went for the last two

decades of his life.

When he passed away in 1519,
the secret of the Mona Lisa's

identity went with
him to the grave,

providing generations
of scholars

fodder for a lively debate.

Recently, however, a computer
analysis of the portrait

may have uncovered
a startling clue

to the Mona Lisa's
identity, a clue which has

set the art world on its ear.

Lillian Schwartz, co-author of
the computer artist's handbook,

pioneered the use of
the computer in art.

In 1986, Lillian and a
colleague were working

with a new computer
program which involved

comparing two digitized images.

All right, and would
you call me when you

get something we can look at?

Sure

ROBERT STACK: By
pure coincidence,

Lillian had fed
into the computer

a self portrait of Leonardo
da Vinci and the Mona Lisa.

When the self-portrait
was reversed

and placed beside the Mona
Lisa, single face emerged.

The results left Lillian
Schwartz flabbergasted.

LILLIAN SCHWARTZ: This
was an incredible match.

When I pointed this out, I
said my god, look at this,

look at this.

I mean, Leonardo probably
used himself for the model

for the Mona Lisa.

And he said no, no, no.

He didn't want to agree.

He didn't even
look at the screen.

He didn't want-- he didn't
want to accept that.

ROBERT STACK: Everything
about the two faces appeared

to be a perfect match--

the eyes, the nose, finally
and especially the mouth.

Using a different
computer, Lillian even

managed to turn up the corners
of the self-portrait's mouth

and approximate the
famous Mona Lisa smile.

In addition, a comparison
of the foreheads

revealed a baffling curiosity.

An extremely important clue
was that the supraorbital ridge

that is very prominent
in the Mona Lisa image

and in Leonardo's self-portrait
is found in almost all males,

over 90% males.

Rarely would you see
that in a female head.

ROBERT STACK: The conclusions
seem preposterous.

Had Leonardo perpetrated an
incredible practical joke

and actually served as
the model for the woman

often deemed the
world's most beautiful?

In January of 1987,
Lillian Schwartz

took her findings to magazine
publisher Wick Allison

WICK ALLISON: Initially
I was very skeptical

of Lilian's
discovery, but when I

got to understand the very
detailed work being done

in the laboratory, it started
to make not only sense to me

that this was the answer,
but as we got to know more

about human facial
characteristics,

that it was the only answer.

There are certain
things that right away

would puzzle an art historian.

One is that the images,
Leonardo's images,

say the Mona Lisa, is remarkable
precisely for the fact

that it's not very distinct.

The outlines of the face are
not very strongly marked.

There's a shadow under
the nose, so you can't

tell exactly how long it is.

So if one wants
to apply a scale,

there's nothing that
tells you exactly

where that scale should go.

In other words, you are
placing something very specific

on top of something
that's not very specific.

ROBERT STACK:
Professor Brandt is

also skeptical about
whether that drawing

is a self-portrait.

If the drawing is by
Leonardo, its style

suggests a date when he would
not yet have looked so old.

Some in the art world believe
the portrait was actually

drawn by a clever forger.

So Lillian, how's it going?

Oh, hi.

Well, I found something
really interesting here.

ROBERT STACK: Lillian
Schwartz refused

to back down in the face
of mounting criticism.

She set out to
prove her theory. .

Eventually, Lillian
came across this study

of an Italian duchess
named Isabella

that many believe was a
preliminary sketch for the Mona

Lisa.

When Lillian compared to
the drawing of Isabella

to an x-ray of the painting,
she found that it matched

to the under sketch that
people had always assumed

was the Mona Lisa.

For Lillian, it was the
final, crucial detail.

I'm convinced that Leonardo
started with Isabella,

and then he used himself to
complete this work of art,

changed much of what was
the duchess, incorporating

his own dimensions and forehead
to create this feigned,

this fictionalized face.

When you take all the evidence
of art history, all the things

we know about
Leonardo, when you take

the technical applications
of Lilian's work,

Lillian's theory holds up.

On reflection, I am
more convinced than ever

that it's the answer.

ROBERT STACK: However,
professor Kathleen Brandt

argues that most
everything about Lillian's

theory conflicts with Leonardo's
own philosophy about art.

Leonardo cautioned
artists that every painter

somehow paints himself.

That is, that his own
self image is somehow

inherent in his
images of others.

Leonardo says, we have to
try to counteract that.

So therefore, it would be
absolutely a contradiction

if he would should
willingly impose his image

into that of a young woman.

ROBERT STACK: Did
Leonardo da Vinci

serve as his own model for
the world's most celebrated

painting, or have some
scholars and artists

jumped to hasty conclusions?

For 500 years,
people have wondered

who posed for the
Mona Lisa, yet she has

refused to divulge her secrets.

Perhaps that is
why she is smiling.

When we return, a
grieving husband

becomes a suspect in the
mysterious disappearance

of his wife.

STEPHEN MARFEO: I
had nothing to do

with my wife's disappearance .

I would like to think
that she's still alive.

But I do feel that it's possible
it could go the other way, too.

I want to know
that she is alive.

Doreen?

On On March 29, 1990,
Stephen Marfeo of Johnston,

Rhode Island came
home from work to find

his house oddly silent, empty.

A small suitcase
was missing, and

Stephen's wife of
12 years, Doreen,

was nowhere to be found.

STEPHEN MARFEO: I started
looking for the clothes.

I noticed some jeans, a couple
shirts were missing, blouses.

I checked a small safe
that we used to have

and I noticed that there
was some money out of it.

There was probably a few
hundred in there that was gone.

Other than that, there
was-- the car in the yard,

there were no notes,
no letters, nothing.

ROBERT STACK:
Doreen Marfeo was 34

years old when she disappeared.

Since then, there have been
several unconfirmed sightings

of her, but beyond
that, nothing--

no phone calls, no
paper trail, no body.

Over the past three
years, Stephen Marfeo

has spent thousands of dollars
searching for his wife,

who he believes is still alive.

He has publicized the case
on television and newspapers,

and has offered a $5,000 reward.

The police, however,
have become convinced

that Doreen was murdered.

And Stephen Marfeo has
discovered that when someone

disappears for no
apparent reason,

the most obvious suspect is
the person who knew them best.

Stephen Marfeo met
Doreen Dobson in 1976,

and quickly found they both
enjoyed active lifestyles.

Two years later,
they were married.

Stephen worked in
the jewelry business

and enjoyed weightlifting
and driving fast cars.

Doreen was a successful
career woman,

a purchase manager at the
Rhode Island School of Design.

With their similar
outgoing personalities,

Doreen and Stephen
seemed the perfect match.

Hello?

Hi, Mr. Kendall, how are you?

ROBERT STACK: But
in the fall of 1989,

a crack appeared in the
Marfeos' perfect world.

That October, Doreen
abruptly quit her job

and said she needed a change.

STEPHEN MARFEO: It was
a surprise to her bosses

as well as myself and
her friends and mother.

Yeah, I've enjoyed
working with you too.

OK, OK, well, take care.

You just don't quit a
job and not go anywhere.

She's not the type to
just leave for no reason.

ROBERT STACK:
According to Stephen,

Doreen's behavior grew
increasingly erratic,

to the point that she
seemed on the verge

of a nervous breakdown.

STEPHEN MARFEO: From a
strong, independent woman

she became very weak,
very unassured of herself,

basically a nervous wreck
in a matter of weeks.

Doreen, do you
know what time it is?

I know, I know.

Look, just go back
to bed, I'll be there

in a couple of minutes, OK?

Doreen, please, what is it,
please tell me what's wrong.

Is it me?

Is it something I did?

No, It's not you,
it's me, I just--

STEPHEN MARFEO: When I did
try and push the issue,

she would get more hysterical.

I can't talk about it.

I can't.

STEPHEN MARFEO: I remember
a couple times she said

I think I'm having a breakdown.

And tears were coming
down, she would just shake,

all I could do was hold her.

Please, please talk to me .

Don't shut me off like this.

STEPHEN MARFEO: We always could
talk about everything before,

why not now?

She said it's, I
can't at this time.

I will tell you, but
I can't at this time.

And I never did find out.

ROBERT STACK: Stephen
says that Doreen's

bizarre behavior continued
until the day she disappeared.

Hi, Laura?

Hi, is Doreen there?

ROBERT STACK: Stephen admits
he did nothing for two days

after Doreen vanished, assuming
she needed some time alone

to sort things out.

Finally, he called
Doreen's mother,

but she had not seen or talked
to her daughter in over a week.

I really think she went
away to get a few days

by herself to clear her head.

LAURA DOBSON: When Steve
called me in the morning,

he sounded strange.

I said, there's something wrong.

Then he called in the afternoon.

Right away I knew.

I told him call the police now.

Don't wait.

ROBERT STACK: The
police questioned

Doreen's family and friends.

However, no one knew what
might have prompted her

to just pick up and walk away.

Then, a phone call
took the investigation

in a new direction.

I just called
Stephen Marfeo back.

He said he had Doreen
followed around

by two private investigators
for like 11 months.

STEPHEN MARFEO: I didn't
think it was anything major,

but I just felt
something wasn't right.

So [inaudible].

Something's not right, I
want to find out what it is.

So I did hire a private
investigator on and off

for a year, maybe
a few hours a month

to find, follow
her once in awhile,

because I didn't know
what was going on.

I just felt that there
was something wrong.

But they never found anything.

Basically, what
you have is you

have a man who has
a personality, who

has his wife followed around for
11 months for no reason at all,

and this same man later on, down
the road, his wife disappears.

She's missing for
two days, and he

has no concern to
follow her, or call her,

or to report it to the police.

I mean, that's
totally inconsistent

with his personality when he her
followed around for no reason.

Here, you have your wife
missing now for two days,

and you don't think
anything's unusual,

you don't make any phone
calls or call the police?

It's not consistent.

ROBERT STACK: Authorities
had nothing but suspicions.

On the one hand, there
was nothing to indicate

that Doreen was still alive.

On the other hand, there
was no evidence that she

had met with foul play.

Then, on June 13, 1990, 2
and 1/2 months after Doreen

disappeared, police got
their first break in the case

when they received
two anonymous letters.

In the first letter
opened by investigators,

the author attacked
Doreen's character

and accused her of
cheating on her husband,

saying, among other things--

--although on the outside,
she personifies class beauty

and professionalism, in
reality, she is nothing

more than a cheap harlot.

Her promotions were achieved
by her sexual prowess

rather than management
or leadership abilities.

JOHN L. NARDOLILLO:
The first letter

that we received mentioned
names of people she was involved

with that we spoke to, who were
totally surprised to even have

the police question that
their name was even mentioned

in this investigation.

One of them was an
elderly gentleman.

I mean, we talked to coworkers.

There was absolutely no
inclination of Doreen

having an affair with anyone.

Her coworkers said that was
totally out of her character.

She had mentioned just in normal
conversation with her coworkers

that that's something she
would never be involved in

or tolerate was any
type of marital affairs,

even long before
she disappeared.

ROBERT STACK: However,
according to Doreen's sister,

Doreen had once
considered leaving Stephen

for another man, not one
year before she vanished,

but 10 years earlier.

LORNA DOBSON: She
was having an affair,

and the guy that she was
having an affair with

was leaving, or wanted to
have her leave with him

to wherever he was going.

She was pretty weary, very
upset about what she should do.

And she came to me, and
eventually my husband,

to talk about it, and we all
decided that probably the best

thing she should do is not do
what she was thinking of doing.

So this had been a thought that
passed through her head before.

ROBERT STACK: The
second letter was even

more disturbing than the first.

This letter gave
a chilling account

of how Stephen Marfeo had
allegedly murdered his wife.

Stephen got hot
under the collar.

He made for couch
and strangled Doreen.

On a narrow dirt road
he stopped and deposited

wife's body in reeds in a pond.

When we first
received these letters,

the captain and I felt as though
that Stephen Marfeo may have

been the author of
these letters based

on some of the information that
was contained, the contents.

He would have only been the
one to know these contents.

What we did at that point
was to reaffirm our belief.

We had him sent up to
Syracuse University

and had him examined by
Dr. Murray Miron, who's

an expert on psycholinguistics,
for his opinion as who

was the author may have been.

DR. MURRAY MIRON:
Well, it's got to be

someone who knew
Doreen quite well,

close to the
family, the Marfeos.

And then one says that
the easiest and simplest

account of this
was it was designed

to deceive the authorities.

ROBERT STACK: In his report,
Dr. Miron pointed a finger

directly at Stephen Marfeo.

Miron concluded that Marfeo
probably wrote both letters

and was, quote,
a logical suspect

in the murder of his wife.

STEPHEN MARFEO: I did
not type any letters.

They're police, they can
say whatever they want.

And they do, and they
get away with it.

I'm really getting
tired of the accusations

and the allegations, innuendos.

If you have something,
bring it forward.

ROBERT STACK: The police
seized several typewriters

to which Stephen had access.

A comparison of type styles
revealed at the first letter

had indeed been written on a
typewriter belonging to one

of Stephen's close relatives.

LEO E. O'DONNELL: It
establishes for the first time

a linkage between the document,
the instrument, and a suspect.

So it was of major
importance to us,

and I mean, it's
like a fingerprint

as far as identification.

It's easy for them
to suspect the spouse.

And they've been
proved wrong before,

and they'll be
proven wrong again.

Everybody calls
me an optimist,

and everybody says
oh, Steve killed her.

But I don't believe that at all.

None of his friends do as
well, the ones that I know,

that I've talked to.

I, myself, don't.

The police do, but
there is no evidence.

They've tried to convince
me that he did do it.

There's a possibility, but in
my mind, when I see the way

Steve acts when the mail comes,
a phone rings, as I said,

that goes back.

He still thinks
that she's alive.

ROBERT STACK: Today, Stephen
Marfeo lives in the same house

that he and Doreen
shared for 12 years.

The police still believe that
Stephen is the only person

responsible for the
disappearance of his wife,

although they lack
enough evidence

to charge him at this time.

STEPHEN MARFEO: I
had nothing to do

with my wife's disappearance,
nor do I know where she is.

I would like to think
that she's still alive,

but I do feel that it's possible
it could go the other way too.

I want to know
that she is alive.

ROBERT STACK: Next,
a business man

vanishes after scamming
the government out

of millions of dollars.

April 6 1993, off the coast
of Louisiana near the mouth

of the Mississippi River.

For businessman Raymond Young,
it had been a perfect day.

Since dawn, he and his son
Edward, along with two friends,

have been enjoying a
favorite activity--

scuba diving.

At 6 PM, Raymond and Edward
decided to make one final dive.

20 minutes later, a panicked
Edward surfaced alone.

Have you seen my dad?

No, I haven't
seen him anywhere.

ROBERT STACK: The
peaceful outing

had turned into a nightmare.

Raymond Young was missing.

A massive search
would turn up nothing

and Young's family
assumed he had drowned.

However, the authorities
are convinced

that Raymond Young
is alive and well

and that he staged
his own disappearance.

Raymond Young was the type
of person who liked to gamble.

He was a chance taker.

He spent millions of
dollars in his activities.

He liked to live
the good lifestyle,

and he saw that he could
make big money fast.

ROBERT STACK: Raymond Young was
a flashy self-made millionaire

who owned and operated
a wholesale fuel company

on Marco Island, Florida.

Message was right,
opportunity of a decade.

No, would I lie to you?

ROBERT STACK: Young
set up the company

to distribute diesel fuel
for offshore marine use.

Because he supposedly
sold to wholesalers only,

Young was exempt from
paying federal excise taxes.

However, when customs officials
discover that millions

of dollars were flowing in and
out of Young's personal bank

accounts, they began to
suspect that his real business

was scamming the government.

In reality, Raymond Young had
been selling his fuel to retail

gas stations throughout the
state of Texas and pocketing

the money he should have been
paying in taxes, an estimated

$0.40 per gallon sold.

MERLE THROOP: $0.40 a gallon may
not seem like a lot of money,

but when you multiply that
by the hundreds of thousands

of gallons that Ray
Young l distributing--

this took place over a two
to three year period of time.

So he could have in actuality
defrauded the government

for an excess of $15 million.

ROBERT STACK: In
October of 1991,

the IRS and US Customs Service
launched a joint investigation

into a Young's activities.

Simultaneously, Young began
to liquidate his assets.

Eventually, the
authorities would decide

to charge Raymond Young with
17 counts of tax evasion,

but Young left Florida
while the investigation

was still under way.

In May of 1992, Young
surfaced in New Orleans.

Federal agents set
up a surveillance

and observed his Mercedes
parked alongside a luxury

yacht, which was being
primed for ocean voyage.

Although the vessel was
flying a foreign flag,

records confirm that the boat
belonged to Raymond Young.

Somebody's new's
up on the bridge.

That could be our man.

It is our man, let's get him.

You have the right
to remain silent.

Anything you say
can and will be used

against you in a court of law.

MERLE THROOP: When Raymond
Young was arrested,

by all indications, Raymond did
not think he was going to be

found guilty on these charges.

He told all of his friends
that he would not be convicted

and felt very confident
that would be the case.

Ray, wait, now that was a
totally unexpected verdict.

ROBERT STACK: Raymond Young
could not have been more wrong.

In January of 1993, he was
found guilty on 16 counts.

Counselor, I am
not going to prison.

Ray, don't do
anything foolish.

ROBERT STACK: Even though Young
faced up to 13 years in prison,

he was eventually
granted bail clean up

his personal and
business affairs.

Two days before he
was to be sentenced,

Raymond young went scuba
diving in the Gulf of Mexico

and has not been seen since.

On our next "Unsolved
Mysteries," a modern day

Cowboy is found shot to
death and his girlfriend

turns up missing.

Is she also dead, or
is she the key figure

in a sinister murder plot?

My daughter did
not kill that man.

I would like to think
she's still alive,

but I believe she's dead.

I've come to terms with God.

I just want him to help me
settle his case, to find

out who did it and let
them pay the penalty

and they should pay.

For every mystery
there is someone,

somewhere, who knows the truth.

Perhaps that
someone is watching.

See you next Wednesday.

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