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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: In
the early 1930s,

two amateur
prospectors in Wyoming

chanced upon a
baffling curiosity--

the mummified remains of a
tiny ancient human being.

X-rays revealed what appeared
to be a fully developed

skeleton just 17 inches
tall, about the height

of a coffee table.

Could the artifact be evidence
that a mythological race

of supernatural beings,
known as the little people,

actually existed?

In Mississippi, the tragic death
of 18-year-old Andre Jones,

the son of civil
rights activists,

is surrounded by a
storm of controversy.

In 1992, Jones was arrested at
a routine sobriety checkpoint.

But less than 36 hours
later, he was dead.

Authorities say he hung
himself with a shoelace

in the shower stall
of his jail cell.

Andre's parents say
he was murdered.

October 2, 1961.

An 11-year-old,
Alan [inaudible],

told his parents that someone
had left a baby in their car,

and they thought he was joking.

Today, that baby
is a grown woman

searching for her birth mother.

Also tonight, remarkable update.

A landlord watching
"Unsolved Mysteries"

is shocked to discover that
one of his former tenants

is wanted for murder.

Join me.

Perhaps you too may be able
to help solve a mystery.

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The American West--
a magical land

with a rich and colorful past.

For many, the frontier conjures
up images of outlaws, cowboys,

and buried treasure.

But for Native Americans,
this is ancient ground,

steeped in a
history which defies

conventional beliefs and logic.

For generations, medicine men of
the Crow, Shoshone, and Arapaho

tribes have told
stories of a mythic race

of supernatural beings
able to perform feats

of amazing physical strength.

Incredibly, according
to legend, these people

stood less than 2 feet high.

For more than a century, the
story of the little people

was just the kind of tall tale
that the pioneers scoffed at.

But all of that would
change in 1932, when two men

went prospecting in Wyoming.

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Hey.

EUGENE S. BASHOR: Cecil
Mayne and Frank Carr

were two amateur
gold prospectors.

And they were in the Pedro
Mountains, which is right along

the shore of
Pathfinder Reservoir,

about the center of the state.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
At the back of the cave,

Cecil Mayne and Frank Carr made
an extraordinary discovery.

What's that?

What?

Right here.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Perched on a rocky ledge

was a small figure just
6 inches high, mummified

in a sitting position.

PROSPECTOR: Some ancient
burial cave or something.

EUGENE S. BASHOR: We'd never
seen anything like that

before, and would
have no idea what

it was, except that they knew it
was probably worth taking out.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Several days later, Cecil Mayne

returned to the cave alone.

Paying no heed to the
notion that the cave was

a sacred Indian
burial site, Mayne

snatched the mysterious mummy.

It has been an object
of great controversy

and mystery ever since.

Over the years,
the mummy has come

into the possession of a
number of different people.

Unsubstantiated rumor has
it that each of the owners

died under unusual
circumstances.

As far as anyone knows,
the most recent owner

disappeared without a
trace nearly 20 years ago,

along with the mummy.

Those who believe in the
legend of the little people

claim a curse is responsible.

Others maintain it's
all just a coincidence.

The discovery of
the mummy in 1932

made headlines
throughout Wyoming,

and prompted speculation that
it had been placed in the cave

by one of the Native
American tribes.

EARL MURRAY: Many Native
American spiritual people

have told me that they
have certain ways they

bury and intern their dead.

And this-- this mummy is
in a different position

than anything they've ever seen.

So they don't know exactly--

from their own viewpoints,
they don't know what it is.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
However, Cecil Mayne did not

really care what the mummy was.

He was looking to sell it.

And eventually, he
found a willing buyer.

HOMER SHERRILL:
Chance of a lifetime.

Here it is, the
chance of a lifetime.

The 6-inch mummy man.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): In
1934, an insurance salesman

named Homer Sherrill
bought the mummy for $25

and took it on the road.

--Wyoming.

2 bits.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): One
of the first people to hand

over the price of admission
was a curious 10-year-old boy

named Eugene Bashor.

You won't believe in mummies?

Of course, you'll see it.

You will have a
great mummy tour.

EUGENE S. BASHOR: My dad
didn't want me to see it.

What I remember most about
that was what a hard time

I had talking him into giving me
$0.25 so I could see the mummy.

And when I went in,
you went in one door,

and then walked past a table
where the mummy was sitting.

There was a guard there.

And then out another door.

And they moved you right by.

You didn't get to
look at it very long.

It was about 6 and 1/2
inches high seated.

And standing, it would have
been about 17 inches high.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): The mummy

had brown skin and
a flattened skull,

with wisps of gray
hair protruding

from the back of the head.

Although the mummy was
seen by hundreds of people

over the next 10 years, no
serious scientific analysis

was undertaken until 1950.

Mr. Goodman?

Ivan Goodman.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
By then, the mummy

had fallen into the
hands of a used car

dealer named Ivan Goodman.

Well, what do you
have to show me?

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Goodman

took the relic to
Dr. Paul Martin

at the Chicago Museum of
Natural History for an analysis.

DR. GEORGE W. GILL:
Some serious efforts

were made in the
early 1950s to get

this little mummy documented.

And it was done rather well,
I think, for the times.

There were photographs
taken, good photographs

that we can still look at.

There were x-rays taken.

Really a surprising amount of
very effective documentation

was made.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The
x-rays revealed that the object

had a complete
skeletal structure,

as well as a full set of teeth.

Initially, it did appear
to be the mummified remains

of a fully developed
human being which

happened to be 17 inches tall.

But after reviewing
all of the material,

Dr. Martin reached an
altogether different conclusion.

In his opinion, the mummy
was not a mature adult,

but an infant who had suffered
from a medical abnormality

known as anencephaly.

This is a condition
in which infants

are born without a brain
and lack a complete skull.

As a result, they may often
take on the physical appearance

of an adult.

However, Eugene Bashor claims
that other experts believe

the malformed skull could
have been the result

of a severe blow to the head.

EUGENE S. BASHOR:
Some of the people

I've interviewed that were
experts, doctors, radiologists

said there were pieces of skull
in the scalp that's hanging

down, like it was beat down.

And it's the result
of trauma, injury.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Eugene Bashor further states

that the scientists
he spoke with

believe the mummy had other
adult characteristics.

EUGENE S. BASHOR: It also
has a full set of teeth,

quite prominent teeth.

And infants would show two
sets of undeveloped teeth

still up in the jaws.

These have descended,
and there's

no other teeth above them,
like a baby or a young person

would have.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Dr.
George Gill still disagrees.

Yeah, all the physicians and
physical anthropologists that I

know of who have ever looked
at it that I've been able

to verify, to
actually talk to them,

have said that it's
some type of infant,

and-- and it looks to them to
be an anencephalic human infant.

Oh, I certainly am going to do
everything I can to prove that.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
In October of 1950,

Ivan Goodman loaned the
find to Dr. Leonard Wadler,

curator of a New York museum.

--sound of that.

I'm gonna trust
him with you, Doc.

You take good care of him.

Oh, don't worry.

He's in good hands.

You take care, sir.

I shall.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Goodman

felt there was a fortune to
be made if Wadler could prove

that the mummy was
a North American

relative of the pygmies, a race
of people in Africa and Asia

who stand 4 to 5 feet in height.

Unfortunately, Ivan Goodman
died of a sudden stroke

before the theory was proven,
and Wadler kept the mummy.

What was the mysterious
artifact uncovered

in the remote mountains of
Wyoming more than 60 years ago?

Was it proof of the existence
of a mythological race known

as the little people,
or was it the tragedy

of an anencephalic infant
born in primitive times?

So much more could be done
today in the way of analysis

on this small mummy.

DNA analysis could be done.

We have methods now that
could allow dating to be done

without being that destructing.

So it's really important
that the scientific community

take another look at it.

The controversy exists.

It continues.

It could be settled
if we had the mummy.

At this point in time, we don't
know, and that's the mystery.

Dr. Leonard Wadler was last
known to be living in Florida.

However, no one has seen the
doctor or the mummy since 1975.

While the scientific
community would

like to find the
mummy for analysis,

Native Americans hope the
relic will be recovered

for its spiritual value.

In their view, a sacred
burial site was disturbed.

And ultimately, they
would like to return

the artifact to an
appropriate resting place.

Next, a series of
mysterious hanging

deaths in jails
across Mississippi

sparks a federal investigation.

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Tonight, there's a scandal
brewing in Mississippi,

a scandal which has
prompted Attorney General

Janet Reno to order
an investigation

by the Justice Department.

Over the past five years,
no fewer than 48 inmates

in Mississippi jails, half
of them black, half of them

white, have died under
mysterious circumstances.

Every single death
was a hanging.

Every single death
was ruled a suicide.

This is a story of one
Mississippi hanging.

In the summer of
1992, Andre Jones

was 18 years old, about to start
his freshman year of college.

His mother, Esther, was
president of the Jackson,

Mississippi branch of the
NAACP; his stepfather,

Charles X. Quinn, a
Nation of Islam minister.

1: 00 AM, Saturday, August
22, Brandon, Mississippi.

Andre Jones and his
girlfriend, Tanisha Love,

were stopped at a routine
sobriety checkpoint.

Andre was driving a
friend's pickup truck.

May I see your driver's
license please, sir?

I don't have it.

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ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
1:30 AM, Jackson, Mississippi,

20 miles from Brandon.

Andre's parents were
awakened when the phone rang.

Hello?

TANISHA LOVE (ON PHONE):
Hello, Mr. Quinn?

This is Tanisha.

I'm sorry to call you,
but Andre's been arrested.

Arrested?
Andre's been arrested.

Arrested?

For what?

For what?

Yeah, mom.

It's me.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): 2:00 AM.

Andre called his parents from
the Brandon police station.

I don't know what
the charges are.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
He said he did not know

what he had been charged with.

4: 00 AM.

Andre telephoned again,
this time to say he

had been transferred
to the Simpson County

Jail 40 miles south of Jackson.

According to his parents,
he still did not know what

the charges against him were.

ESTHER JONES QUINN: We were
told that-- that they could not

tell us anything at that time.

And Simpson County just refused
to-- to even talk to us.

And they told us that we
could not come to that jail.

Have you heard anything?

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): The Quinns

say that they spoke
with Andre at least

five different
times on Saturday.

How can they keep me in
here an extra day and they

haven't even charged me?

ESTHER JONES QUINN:
He was very much

concerned about his charges.

And we could not
tell him anything.

He was very much concerned
about getting out

immediately and-- and
so that he could attend

school the very next day.

About midnight that night, a--

I heard a knock on the door.

It was a Jackson police officer.

--Jackson Police Department.

OK.

I have a message here for
Mrs. Esther Jones Quinn.

I'm her husband.

I could take it.

Sir, I really need to
deliver this to her in person.

Charles, what is it?

This officer has
a message for you.

OFFICER: Esther Jones Quinn?

Yes?

He gave me a piece of paper
which I only had a phone number

for the Simpson County Jail.

I'm really not sure, ma'am.

ESTHER JONES QUINN (VOICEOVER):
There was not a note.

There was not a message.

It was only a number.

Yes, hello?

Yes, my name is
Esther Jones Quinn.

Yes.

I was informed that Andre
had committed suicide,

that I was casually informed
that he had committed suicide,

as if they could have been
talking to someone that

didn't even know who he was.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
According to Andre's parents,

he had never shown
suicidal tendencies.

He had never even
suffered from depression.

Andre had no previous
arrest record.

So when Esther and Charles Quinn
started to look into his death,

they naturally began with the
circumstances of his arrest.

Andre and Tanisha had stopped
by the Quinns' house in Jackson

around 11:45 Friday night.

They left and drove east toward
Brandon, where Tanisha lived.

Near the Brandon city limits,
they came upon the checkpoint.

According to the
Quinns' lawyers,

the police say that
Andre Jones stopped

just short of the checkpoint.

Hey.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): They
say Andre tossed an object out

of the window of the truck.

Sir, did you just throw
something out of this vehicle?

No, officer.

Let me see your
driver's license.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Police identified the object

as a .38 caliber handgun.

Is that an open beer can?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Inside the truck,

they say there was
an open can of beer.

And finally, the
truck, which Andre

had borrowed and driven
for more than a week,

turned out to be stolen.

Put your hands on the roof.

Spread your legs.

CHARLES X. QUINN: I'm
not sure if he knew

or not if the truck was stolen.

It would appear to me that if
he knew the truck was stolen,

he would be skeptical
in driving it so openly.

I didn't know nothing
about the truck.

But I know there wasn't
no beer in the truck

and he did not throw a
gun out of the truck,

because there was
no gun in the truck.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Tanisha Love's version

of the events is very
different from the reported

police version.

Can I see your
license please, sir?

I don't have it.

You don't have a
license with you?

No, I forgot it at home.

- What's your name?
- Andre Jones.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Tanisha claims

that as soon as the
officers heard Andre's name,

their attitude
immediately changed.

Thank you, sir.

TANISHA LOVE: After
they asked him his name,

they all went to a little--

I said, like, a
little huddle, you

know, like a football huddle.

And they was-- I don't know
what they was talking about,

'cause they was talking low.

And after that, that's
when they came to the truck

and asked Andre again
did he have his license.

And he said no, sir, I
don't have my license.

Step away.

Hands on the roof
of the vehicle.

TANISHA LOVE: And the asked
him to step out of the truck.

And that's when
they handcuffed him.

They shackled his
feet and they had him

handcuffed at the same time.

I didn't understand
what was going on.

Mr. Jones, you have the
right to remain silent.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
State public safety

commissioner Jim Ingram believes
Andre Jones was not shackled.

In fact, Ingram disagrees
with Tanisha's entire account.

There was no
confrontation whatsoever

with the young Andre Jones.

In fact, the officers were very
amazed how cooperative he was.

This is two for one.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
According to Commissioner

Ingram, Andre was so cooperative
with the Brandon Police

Department that he
admitted being in a gang,

and even showed the
police gang hand signals,

which they photographed.

--kill two of yours.

JIM INGRAM: And he
posed for photographs

with different sign signals
indicating how gangs

makes statements about signs.

It was a very cooperative
attitude on both sides.

The-- the officers have
indicated they really were

impressed with this young man.

My child was very independent
and a very intelligent

young man, with his
own aspirations.

And he had no need or--
or no desire to become

involved within a gang.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Despite repeated requests,

copies of the alleged photos of
Andre illustrating gang signals

have not been made available
to "Unsolved Mysteries"

or to Andre's family.

Andre was charged
on four counts--

driving a truck whose vehicle
identification number had been

altered; carrying a
concealed weapon; possession

of stolen license
plate tags; and driving

with an open
container of alcohol.

Commissioner Ingram remains
adamant that the arrest

was non-confrontational.

Charles Quinn, however, says
that an inmate in Brandon

claims that police used racial
epithets to intimidate Andre.

CHARLES X. QUINN: One of the
inmates who were transferred

with Andre said that
the officer said,

do you know what happened
to niggas for stealing

a white man's truck?

And of course, other statements
were said to put fear in Andre.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
At approximately 4:00 AM

on Saturday, Andre
was transferred

from Brandon to the Simpson
County Jail 35 miles away.

The Simpson County
facility had a reputation

as a dangerous jail.

This is a rough diagram
of the cell into which

Andre Jones was transferred.

12 other inmates were being held
in the narrow L-shaped space.

A dimly lit corridor
next to the cell

led to a toilet and
the shower stall

where Andre's body was found.

JIM INGRAM: One of the
inmates came forward

and said, hey, this guy
sure been in the shower

for a long time.

One of the men
walked back and said

they found a young man
hanging by a shoelace,

and the shower still running.

And that's when they
called for the guards.

And immediately they unlocked
the cell and took him down.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Authorities state

that Andre Jones had hung
himself with his own shoelace.

They say Andre tied the
shoelace to an iron grate

above the showerhead.

When Charles Quinn was
allowed to visit the cell,

he estimated the grate
was approximately

8 feet above the floor.

CHARLES X. QUINN: He
would need someone

to have held him up to do that.

And he would have needed some
type of a stool to stand on.

That's incorrect.

The point of attachment of the--

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Dr. Steven Hayne,

the state-approved pathologist
who performed the autopsy,

said investigators
had demonstrated

that it was possible for Andre
to have hung himself unaided.

That position
was easily reached

by a member of the
Sheriff's office,

who was acting as the decedent.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Andre's parents

also feel it is impossible
that their son's

body could have been
supported simply by a lace

from his running shoes.

But Dr. Hayne says
the laces were tested

by the manufacturer, and
their tensile strength

was found sufficient.

Less than a week
after Andre's death,

his parents hired an independent
pathologist, Dr. James Bryant,

to examine the remains
and review the case.

DR. JAMES BRYANT:
I think it's highly

probable that he was strangled.

Someone did this to him.

In the usual case
of a suicide by--

by hanging, the ligature mark
is along the side of the neck,

and doesn't go all the way
around-- it's in this fashion--

whereas in the case
of Andre Jones,

the-- the ligature marking
went along the side of the neck

and all the way into the
back, and criss-crossed

in this fashion.

This suggests to me that--

that there was-- that
someone had come from behind

and wrapped the ligature
around his neck.

And then furthermore,
there's-- there's no knot mark.

The knot imprint area
would be in the hairline.

And the hairline
would act as a buffer,

no longer allowing
for that imprint

to be present on the upper
back surface of the neck.

No, Andre Jones's
hair was cut short.

And the criss-cross marking
was not in the hairline.

And there were no knot
marks anywhere else.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Dr. Hayne's autopsy report

listed no evidence of
bruising on Andre's neck

or anywhere else on his body.

Dr. Bryant's observations
were different.

DR. JAMES BRYANT: He had some
bruising under one of his eyes.

And also, he had some
bruising on the shoulder

of the same side.

The bruising could have been
right at the time that he died,

or it could have been
sometime during the day.

But-- but-- but
apparently, he was--

he suffered some
kind of blunt trauma

sometime during-- during
the time he was in the jail.

We were informed
by one of the inmates

that Andre was taken
off that cell block

and out of that jail.

And when he was
brought back in, he

was brought back
in in a wheelchair,

and that he was laid
on the shower floor,

and the hanging
scene was staged.

My findings, based upon the
evidence both at the scene,

as well as from the
post-mortem examination,

has been reviewed by
many other authorities,

including the Armed Forces
Institute of Pathology,

the Department of Justice,
the US Attorney's Office,

as well as the Federal
Bureau of Investigation,

and by the Attorney
General's Office of the State

of Mississippi, and
they're in concurrence

with the findings that I made.

Yeah, there was
really no indication--

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
In March of 1993,

a coalition of
civil rights groups

conducted hearings in
Jackson, Mississippi.

Both eyes was black.

The right side of his eyelid--

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Those testifying

included the families of both
black and white jail inmates

who had died under
questionable circumstances.

And I have to sit and hold
my four-year-old daughter--

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
After two days of testimony,

the US Commission
on Civil Rights

recommended that the
Justice Department

open an investigation.

They don't have
to go through that.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Five months

later, Dr. Emily
Ward, a specialist

in forensic pathology,
was named Mississippi

state medical examiner.

Dr. Ward went over the
autopsy report of Andre Jones,

as well as the autopsies
of several other men

who have died by hanging
in Mississippi jails.

DR. EMILY WARD: I think
that it's extremely

unlikely that any
of these deaths

are anything other than suicide.

All of the deaths
have been investigated

by not just one agency, but
one or two, or sometimes three.

And I think that
although sometimes there

may be questions that need to be
answered related to the death,

I don't think that
in any way affects

whether or not the death
is suicide or homicide.

I would never believe that
Andre committed suicide.

I know my son was
murdered And the fact

that his life was
taken so cruelly

and so abruptly
makes me even more

determined to see
that he is vindicated.

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ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
When we return,

a man wanted for the
murder of his girlfriend

is captured thanks
to an alert viewer.

[theme music]

In July of 1986,
22-year-old Paula Pasciak

and her boyfriend,
Jerry Gervasoni,

arrived in Kissimmee,
Florida from New Jersey

to visit Paula's mother.

Honey, I'm so glad
that you're here.

Do you remember
Jerry, don't you?

Yes, I do.

They stayed there
about one week.

No, I don't.

Come on, let's get the bags.

Paula was as happy as a lark.

The two of 'em were.

I mean, they were very--

together, they were-- they
were just happy go lucky.

So do you guys have any
plans for tomorrow, or what?

Uh, well--

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Paul and Jerry

had arrived on a Wednesday.

--see my relatives
down in Miami.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
On Sunday night,

they said their goodbyes.

They told Barbara
they would be leaving

early the next day to visit
another part of Florida.

Uh, we're getting
kind of tired.

BARBARA PASCIAK: I got
up the next morning.

OK, sweetie.

Good night.

Good night.

And I thought I heard them up.

And I didn't know
whether they were or not,

so I didn't bother
to say goodbye.

Maybe if I had, you know, things
would have been different.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
In the days that followed,

an odd smell would
intermittently

waft through Barbara's home.

She searched everywhere
looking for a source,

finally checking
her own bedroom.

[gasps]

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Hidden under the bed,

wrapped in a bamboo curtain,
was her daughter's body.

Paula Pasciak had been
strangled to death

and left under the
bed for nearly a week.

The prime suspect
was Jerry Gervasoni,

but he dropped from sight.

He successfully
eluded authorities

for more than seven years, until
the night of our broadcast.

Update.
British Columbia, Canada.

On October 21, 1993,
Jerry Gervasoni

was arrested in the small
community of Salt Springs

Island, where he had been
living under the assumed name

Gordon MacIntyre.

When our program
aired in Canada,

Gervasoni's former landlord
recognized him and immediately

called authorities.

I come home and sit down to
dinner at about 9:30, quarter

to 10:00.

And I flipped on
the TV, and there

was this black-and-white photo
of Gordon MacIntyre, my tenant.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Once in custody,

the suspect vehemently
insisted that he

truly was Gordon MacIntyre.

But fingerprints soon
confirmed that he

was in fact Gerald Gervasoni.

At the local airport,
Gervasoni tried

to avoid photographers
as he was hustled

on to a waiting airplane.

He was then flown
to a deportation

hearing in Victoria, Canada.

Gervasoni will be held there
pending extradition to Florida,

where he will face charges in
the murder of Paula Pasciak.

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[theme music]

Alex, don't play
with the tree.

Come on.

On the evening
of October 2, 1961,

Mr. And Mrs. Earl Betcher
and their youngest son,

Alan, were leaving
Baptist Hospital

in Jacksonville, Florida.

Mom, I'm going to the car.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): The Betchers

had been visiting one
of their other sons,

and could never have imagined
the surprise that awaited them.

EARL BETCHER: Yeah, but I think
he'll get better if they do.

Mom, mom, there's a baby
in the back of our car.

Alan, come on.

Alan, that's not very funny.

No, mom, I'm--
I'm serious.

There's a baby in the car.

Come look.

[inaudible]

[cries]

Oh my god.

Sh, sh, sh.

Aw.

Did you-- did you
see anybody around?

No.

OK, OK, let's-- let's
take her into the hospital.

Come on

EARL BETCHER: Is she
gonna be all right?

DOCTOR: I believe so.
I don't--

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
The Betchers had found

a healthy baby girl, no
more than 72 hours old,

and weighing 8 and 1/2 pounds.

Local papers dubbed the
foundling Baby Girl X.

She lived in foster homes
for five and a half months

before she was adopted
by Mary Lou and William

Christie of Tallahassee.

The Christies named their
new daughter Terris--

Terri for short.

Terry grew up
happily, doted upon

by her parents and her
older brother and sister.

Terri always knew
she was adopted,

but not until she was a
teenager did she begin

to ask the difficult questions.

Who was their birth mother?

Why had she given her up?

I kind of rebelled and
wanted to know, you know?

That's when we went to the
library and looked it up.

And then I got excited.

I was proud, you know?

And when she pressured
me about her parents,

I had the big--

the big problem about whether to
tell her the truth as I knew it

or whether to say I
didn't know anything.

And I really wrestled with it.

And then I came out with that
I'd be safe to be truthful.

Do you think that's it?

I think you're right, look.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
At the local library,

Terry and Mary Lou tracked
down all the newspaper articles

about Baby Girl X. Terri
was surprised to learn

that she had been left
in the backseat of a car.

Nevertheless, she trusts
that her birth mother had

her best interests at heart.

TERRIS CHRISTIE
DERBY (VOICEOVER):

She might have been a 15,
16-year-old little scared

girl that had a baby
and ran away from home.

MARY LOU CHRISTIE: Look, look.
There's the picture.

TERRIS CHRISTIE
DERBY (VOICEOVER):

I believe she had a heart.

She put me somewhere
safe, where I was

gonna be well taken care of.

And I appreciate that.

She was probably watching
them when the little boy

came and found me in the car.

She was probably standing
there, watching it.

Did you-- did you
see anybody around?

No.

TERRIS CHRISTIE
DERBY: It bothers

me not knowing exactly what day
I was born, the time, you know?

Where I was born.

I don't even know if I was born
in a hospital, by a midwife,

in a car.

You know, I have no idea.

I just-- I would like
to find that out.

Well, I'll have to go--

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Today, Terri

is 32 years old, the mother
of a young son and daughter.

She wants her children to have
a heritage, to know their roots.

They're all down in there.

I would like to
find a beginning.

I just want to meet
her and see how she is.

I don't know, I'm getting older.

And I look at my kids and
see how they're growing.

And I look in the mirror
every day and I wonder.

Thanks to our broadcast,
Terri Christie Derby

now knows the answers
to all of her questions.

Sadly, Terri's birth
mother, Edith Campbell,

died on August 17,
1993, just a few months

before our segment aired.

But out of this sadness a
happy ending did emerge.

Terri was delighted
to learn that she had

a sister and three brothers.

They were delighted as well.

None of them had ever
known that Terri existed.

On July 8, 1994, Terri went
to a hotel in Miami, Florida

to meet three of her siblings,
Philip, Paul, and Cecelia, face

to face for the first time.

PHILLIP CAMPBELL: Hey.

Hi.

Hi, Terri.

Hey, Terri.

How are you?

It was the neatest
experience of my life.

I walked in and there was--

Greetings.
Paul.

TERRIS CHRISTIE DERBY:
--everybody I wanted to see.

Hey, Paul.

Next to me giving
birth to my own kids,

this is the best thing
that's ever happened to me.

Best thing.

My-- my experience is
that there's more than just

a biological thing in a family.

There's also a-- a karmic--

a sense of underlying
destiny that lies

underneath the whole thing.

And this, you know--
you meet somebody--

I meet Terri and it's
like, she is my sister.

I knew it right away, you know?

There's no doubt.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
At the reunion,

Terri and her adoptive
mother finally

saw a picture of Terri's
biological mother,

Edith Campbell.

According to a family member,
Edith had given Terri up only

because of extreme
financial desperation.

Knowing what a--

what a loving
person she was, she

cared about nothing but her
children her whole life.

And I can only imagine
the anguish that--

that she went through when
she decided to do this.

Hey.

Hi, I'm [inaudible].

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Husband.

Nice to meet you.

Hi.

TERRIS CHRISTIE DERBY:
They make me feel wanted.

They make me feel like
I'm not an outcast.

Like, I kind of felt like I
was, you know, in the past.

But I-- I can feel their vibes,
love, whatever, you know?

It's kind of cool.

Come on, let's go.

Let's go over here.

Come on.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
The next day,

Terri met her other
brother, Chris,

who had been called
out of town on business

on the day of the reunion.

That's right.

Snuggle up, brothers and sister.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): At last,

the family circle is complete.

[theme music]

In the fall of 1993,
the entire country

was touched when
12-year-old Polly Klaas was

abducted from her home
in northern California

and savagely murdered.

Thousands of copies of
this composite sketch

were distributed by police.

In the end, its
stunning accuracy

helped confirm the identity
of the prime suspect,

Richard Allen Davis.

Davis is now in jail,
charged with the kidnap

and murder of Polly Klaas.

Law enforcement's secret
weapon in the Klaas case

was this woman, suspect
graphic artist Jeanne Boylan.

These days, the FBI and
numerous local jurisdictions

compete for her time.

Jeanne Boylan has come a
long way from her first job

in law enforcement.

In the mid-1970s, Jeanne worked
at the Sheriff's Department

in Multnomah County, Oregon.

The job gave her a
close-up look at how

suspects' sketches were made.

In many cases, Jeanne
didn't like what she saw.

MAN: Yeah, it was
more like that.

MAN: More like that?
MAN: Yeah.

MAN: Maybe like that?

No, more like that one.

JEANNE BOYLAN: I would hear the
way that investigators would

question witnesses or victims.

And I could-- I could
hear that they weren't

allowing them to answer.

They would cut the answers off.

It was kind of just the facts.

And I-- that--

that seemed to me to be wrong.

And then I would see the
drawings that would be produced

either through an identikit
or through an artist,

and I knew that
they weren't right.

There was something in terms
of-- something in terms

of the heart,
really, that was sort

of missing in those pictures.

Would you put any other
shape around the eyes?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Jeanne was convinced

that she could do better.

And in 1980, she got her chance.

A supervisor gave Jeanne one
of his most difficult cases,

an unsolved rape that
had languished for months

with virtually no leads.

I can't remember any more.

It's OK.

I was trying a lot of
different interview techniques.

And-- and I found that if I used
sort of a diversionary system

of interviewing, where we
would kind of circumvent

the-- the events of the crime
and the scenario of the crime,

and talk about other topics,
and I could relax them,

then periodically this
information would surface.

You know, I just
remembered something.

He had a scar, and it
started on his forehead,

and it led back into his hair.

JEANNE BOYLAN: It's like the
tip-of-the-tongue syndrome,

where you have somebody's
name that's right

there and you're
trying to remember it.

You can't bring it up.

And maybe two or three hours
later, you stop trying,

and it just pops into your mind.

I just remembered
something else too.

Um, he had a wide face.

JEANNE BOYLAN (VOICEOVER):
I knew that the drawing that

had been done on that
case prior to the one

that I was doing
was-- was wrong.

So what we came up
with was so radically

different, that that was sort
of fresh hope for that case.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Jeanne was right.

As a direct result
of her composite,

the suspect was arrested
and later convicted.

More cases followed, and
Jeanne's reputation grew.

I've seen a lot of the
work Jeanne Boylan has done,

and very impressed.

It's the best artist's
conceptions I've ever seen.

And if there-- we ever have a
chance of catching the person

we're looking for through
an artist's conception,

I think Jeanne Boylan is
gonna give us that chance.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Most recently, the FBI

turned to Jeanne Boylan
in the troubling case

of 16-year-old Jonathan Francia
of Albuquerque, New Mexico.

On January 12,
1994, Jonathan was

in his car behind this
restaurant in Albuquerque

when two strangers abducted him.

Five days later, a body believed
to be Jonathan's was found,

charred almost
beyond recognition

in the trunk of
his burned-out car.

One of the killers, known only
as Jason, is still at large.

[knocking]

Investigators asked Jeanne to
meet with a key witness, Scott

Johnston.

Hi.
Yeah, I'm Jeanne Boylan.

- Come in.
- Yeah, nice to meet you.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): He had
innocently spent several hours

with the killers at
his home in a Winslow,

Arizona trailer park.

This is a simple process.

I don't want you
to worry about it.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Jeanne instinctively began

to assess Scott's
potential as an eyewitness.

JEANNE BOYLAN: Scott is--

he's a very interesting man.

Visual things are
very important to him.

You can tell in the way that he
dresses and he combs his hair.

And, you know, he takes-- he
takes some care in the way

that he looks, which
was the first cue to me

that I would be able to work
in a visual context with him.

So one thing that
I did was I got out

some Play-Doh, something to
anchor him in the present,

and gave it to him for
him to actually work on

or to-- to play with
and sort of feel,

to keep him in the moment.

[inaudible] more
in the longer.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
As Scott told his story,

Jeanne began to sketch the
fugitive killer named Jason.

Scott had met Jason
on January 13, 1994.

That day, a friend
of Scott's named

Trena Richardson was
staying at the trailer,

along with her three children.

They were awaiting the
arrival of Trena's husband,

Paul, who was going to Alabama.

He pulled in at around 6:00
AM, accompanied by a stranger.

Scott, what's happening?

Not much.

This is Jason.

Hi.

How's it going?

Come in.

My first impression
of Jason was, oh boy,

this guy dresses like a cowboy.

You know, the long, slender--

kind of attracted-- the girls
would be attracted to him.

He had the velvet hat, the
long hair, and the jacket,

and the-- and the
jeans, and kind

of, like, worn-out tennies.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Scott noticed

something else about Jason--

something he would not truly
understand until much later.

I looked down and
I noticed his hand.

It was kind of, like,
red, kind of clay type.

I thought it was
just, you know, dirt.

But apparently it was blood.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Soon after he arrived,

Jason took a shower--

the only time Scott
saw him without a hat.

Ashtray?

Tell me a little bit
about how you would

put the placement of the hair?

I'd place the hair
kind of, like, long

in back and over the ears--

I had no idea that anything was,
you know, wrong, like any crime

has been committed.

Um, I was just going along,
just like my everyday,

you know, normal routine,
and they were too.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Scott
told Jeanne that he and Trena

went out to run
errands around 9:00 AM,

leaving Paul and
Jason at the trailer.

SCOTT JOHNSTON (VOICEOVER):
We came back, pulled up,

and that's when they
were washing the car.

So as we pulled up, they saw us.

And they shut the trunk.

And they acted like they didn't
want us to see what was in it.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): At the time,

Scott had no idea that the
body of Jonathan Francia

was in the trunk.

Scott, you've got a gas can?

No, but I can go borrow one.

OK.

SCOTT JOHNSTON (VOICEOVER):
So I went next door,

got the gas can, and came back.

And that's when Trena, Paul,
and Jason were outside, talking.

We've got to take
care of [inaudible].

Why?

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): An hour

later, Trena and Paul said
they were leaving to escort

Jason to the main highway.

SCOTT JOHNSTON: That was
the last time I saw Jason.

I thought that he went back
to wherever he was-- you know,

maybe to Dallas or
maybe to somewhere

else, where he has-- you know,
where he told me he was from.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Four days later, local police

followed an eyewitness report
to a remote corner of the desert

some 30 miles from
Scott's trailer.

There, they found the
burned-out automobile

and the charred remains
believed to be Jonathan Francia.

He said he was from Dallas.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Paul
Richardson who was arrested

just over two weeks later.

Under questioning
by the FBI, Paul

admitted that he and Jason
had abducted and then

murdered Jonathan Francia.
- --kid in a--

a car behind a restaurant.

We took it.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Two
days after his confession,

Paul Richardson committed
suicide by hanging

himself in his jail cell.

Finding the remaining killer
is now up to Jeanne Boylan.

Would you create a
division between the brows?

Would you have it connected?

I have it kind of--

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Authorities

are counting on Jeanne's
unique interviewing skills

and artistic talent
to help them flush out

the mysterious drifter Jason.

--down to the surface?

[inaudible] a little bit.

When I first seen
the composite, it

looked pretty much
like the same person

I've seen in the--
in the trailer.

Pretty, pretty close.

I was amazed at how well
it, you know, turned out.

I never thought I could
remember that much.

That's him.

OK.

OK, is there anything
else you'd add to it?

I believe that Ms. Boylan
has a magician's touch

in dealing with witnesses who--

and has a way of just extracting
a-- a photo from their mind,

if you will.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): These
are Jeanne's sketches of Jason,

based on Scott
Johnston's description.

BETTY FRANCIA: When I first
saw the composite drawing,

I felt a lot of anger,
because all this time there's

not really been a picture.

And now there's a face,
and there's a real

person up there who
killed my son and who

might kill somebody else's.

LARRY FRANCIA: It would
settle our hearts a little,

give us a little ease in our
heart, [inaudible] to the fact

that we can't
bring our son back,

but it'll put him
where he belongs.

And that's what we need.

That's what we need.

I think, you know,
if there's some way

that this contribution can
help bring some peace to them,

then I would--

I would be delighted.

You know, you just want
to do whatever you can do,

and this is all I can do.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): In all,

Jeanne drew three portraits
of the man known as Jason.

Authorities believe he
has relatives in Pinetop

or Payson, Arizona
and Dallas, Texas.

Jason is described as 5'10,
mid 20's, medium build.

He smokes, chews tobacco, and
wears Western-style clothes,

including a horsehair belt.

The man calling
himself Jason has

also used other first names.

He supposedly frequents Las
Vegas and homeless shelters

in Laughlin, Nevada.

Jason should be regarded
as extremely dangerous.

[theme music]

On our next "Unsolved
Mysteries," in Chicago,

a mysterious young woman has
charmed eligible bachelors,

bewitched cab drivers,
and haunted taverns

and dance halls for decades.

But there is something
very different

about this pale,
alluring beauty.

Can you guess what it is?

Also, one of our most
poignant updates.

Years ago, two strangers
rescued a young mother

from a fiery car crash.

Your calls led to their
heartwarming reunion.

Join me next time
for another hour

of fascinating and
intriguing mysteries.

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