America's 60 Greatest Unsolved Mysteries & Crimes (E3,S1)

[Music] America has been plagued with unspeakable crimes and unexplained phenomena that have captured nationwide attention and intrigue demanding answers and retribution however many of these mysteries never get explained mysteries to this day that are still thwarting the best efforts of countless law enforcement and investigative teams serial killers never identified treasures lost murderers never caught and conspiracy upon conspiracy spinning into tangled webs of inconclusive evidence and unresolved truths this compelling documentary series presents a countdown of America's 60 most notorious unsolved mysteries and crimes in a dramatic compilation revealing these unanswered questions in ten fascinating episodes [Music] [Applause] [Music] with 46 to 40 Americas unsolved mysteries and crimes continue to confound animes with tales of the death of America's first man of magic Houdini of a roaring 20s bootleggers lost treasure and perhaps the strangest tale of all NASA's great moon hoax [Music] [Music] the greatest most incredible achievement humanity has ever made sending a man to the moon and bringing him back home safely a feat unequaled a feat recorded every step of the way the most documented accomplishment in the history of mankind on July 20th 1969 billions around the globe saw Neil Armstrong's first step heard his immortal words after a decade of unstinting work after billions of dollars the United States fulfilled its commitment to land a man on the moon by the end of the sixties and the government had the pictures to prove it but was the government lying did this historic triumph really happen but I think at the time the theory circulated it was popular in certain elements of society who thought that in the post Watergate era government was lying about literally everything and that all the money was being siphoned off into somebody's pocket the idea of putting a man on the moon was mind-boggling to be sure in 1961 we hadn't even put a man in space how could we possibly get to the moon eight years later it all started with a speech by President John F Kennedy I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before this decade is out of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth no single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind or more important for the long-range exploration of space and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish the space race was on the race to be the first country to put a man on the moon it began with Alan Shepards 1961 historic flight the first American in space less than a year later John Glenn's circled the earth three times on February 12 after astronaut Edward white became the first American to take a walk in space in 1965 the final push came with the Apollo series culminating in the historic flight of Apollo 11 the images of men walking on the moon the American flag planted in the lunar soil flashed across the world proof we'd made it or did we but here it is 40 years later and it seems like we can't do a moon program anymore it seems like even now 40 years later we don't seem to quite be able to manage the technology to make a within any reasonable amount of money make a rocket that'll put people on the moon and bring it back and so I think that people sort of kind of feel like well if we can do it now how they possibly do it then and I do think there's a you know you look back on the Apollo program and it's sort of like looking back on Christopher Columbus and the the technology seems about that remote I mean it's often pointed out that uh that the computing power in the Apollo 11 capsule and the landing craft is about the equivalent to the computer power in a chip in the head of a doll that you buy in the store in a toy and they had virtually no computing power they had by modern standards forty years later pretty primitive means and that they were able to put this rocket on such a pinpoint course to be able to get it to the moon without it flying off into outer space and the astronauts you know dying a horrible deaths as they as they whip off into the vast reaches of space so I think that you know III guess that there's a certain mind-boggling aspect of this although some of the arguments if you take them individually at face value they sound sort of intriguing like they claim that the camera angle coming down out of the the landing module shows the footprint before Armstrong stepped into the dust a lot of people have always pointed to that picture of the flag there's a famous picture where the flag is up and it looks like it's out being blown out by the wind and this is in a still picture and so it looks like the wind is blowing it well that couldn't happen on the moon because there's no wind why does the idea the moon landing was a hoax persist anytime the government is involved it increases the number of people who believe a conspiracy is possible because a lot of people are very suspicious and skeptical of the government and skeptical of politicians today nearly 20% of Americans believe that the moon landings were a twenty billion dollar hoax to put money in the pockets of the military-industrial complex now that could never happen [Music] [Music] in this grave in Boulder Colorado rests or at least lies the baddest the most prolific of the old West's gunslingers Tom Horn is claimed to have killed more people than Billy the Kid Wyatt Earp Wild Bill Hickok and Jesse James combined but was he hanged in Cheyenne Wyoming one day before his 43rd birthday for an assassination he did not commit Tom Horne was a badass let's just start right there this is a guy who was a lawman and an outlaw and a lawman and an outlaw he was both and he seemed to go kind of back and forth across the line and another very famous Western lawman Charlie Siringo who founded the New Mexico Rangers said of Tom Horn that he was one of the best trackers one of the best law enforcement people he'd ever seen but that he was touched with evil and that's kind of the case he works for the Pinkertons he works as a deputy marshal but then he kind of goes freelance he says he's a range detective but what he really is is a hired gun in these range wars between the cattle ranchers and in some cases farmers in some cases sheep herders after a stint in the United States Army fighting in the spanish-american war Horn returned to the only place where the Old West was still alive Wyoming territory here in 1901 Horne began working for a wealthy cattle baron Jhansi Coble as an enforcer it's hard to believe that in the 20th century cattle range Wars were still being waged but they were curiously at this time horn seems to have found love with Gwendoline em Kimmel a schoolteacher a schoolteacher who just happened to be teaching the children of two feuding ranch families the cattle ranching Millers and the sheep herding nickels on July 18th 1901 Willie nickel the 14 year old son of the sheep herding rancher was murdered in cold blood by a distant assassin the mo fit horn perfectly and he immediately became the prime suspect the individual that he supposedly killed the 14 year old boy had been involved the boy hadn't been involved but his father had been involved in a rancorous dispute with neighbors who were also named as alternate suspects in the shooting it was rather strange that Tom Horn was seen in the area but his confession in jail was obtained by a Pinkerton agent another shady organization at that time in my opinion labor strikebreakers and some of more virtual assassins he supposedly confesses there there is an actual confession he's apparently drunk at the time and it's a pretty vague sketchy confession interestingly enough the confession is made to a u.s. marshal named Joe Lefors now Joe Lefors might be a familiar name to you if you ever saw the Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid movie he's the guy leading that super posse that is supposedly is chasing Butch and Sundance in the movie so Joe Lefors is a pretty legendary lawman here's Tom Horn who's a pretty legendary lawman and outlaw he gets a confession out of horn and eventually they get a conviction out of him and they hang him I think Horne might have become an embarrassment sometimes hired guns of that nature or done away with later by the people who've employed them if they think the they've outlived their usefulness sometimes frame-up can be useful if you can't kill them off in some other way it's certainly not unprecedented in history that mercenary types will be set up to be eliminated if they know too much or if they can no longer be controlled I think the the best sense that I have of it looking back after all these years Tom Horne may not have committed this murder but he was definitely a guy with blood on his hands this is not some innocent who ran across the law and and was hung even though he hadn't done anything I think that largely he was convicted on his reputation not from the evidence in that trial in 1993 a new trial in Cheyenne Wyoming was held in this mock trial Tom Horne was acquitted but will we ever really know if an innocent man rests in this grave what we do know for sure is that the role of Tom Horne carried actor Steve McQueen to his grave [Music] [Music] [Music] every year folks traveled to the Catskills in upstate New York what are they looking for seven million dollars in cash seven million dollars buried in a hole by the mobs most vicious psychopath Dutch Schultz organized crime is a cash business no receipts checks credit cards expense accounts it's strictly cash and carry and for the past 80 years the leaders of the Mafia the Godfather's of America's organized crime syndicate have been raking in billions in cash billions from every illegal activity possible from gambling drugs booze from loan sharking extortion prostitution the Godfather's have been raking in cash money that is untraceable that is UNTAC scible money that flows into their pockets and disappears disappears without a trace all of the mobsters had money set aside money hidden in case they needed it quickly buried treasure so where is it where did it go nobody tells except maybe on their deathbed was such was the case with Dutch Schultz Dutch Schultz the mobster supposedly before he died buried millions of dollars of treasure in upstate New York and a lot of people still look forward today thousands and thousands of people have looked for this treasure want to find the treasure would like to enrich themselves by it but nobody even really knows if that treasure is real Arthur flegenheimer aka Dutch Schultz a Jewish mobster was the most vicious of the roaring 20s bootleggers the other mob leaders hated and feared him Schultz got his start in 1928 with gangster Joey know who owned a speakeasy in the Bronx through threats torture and murder Schultz built an empire that supplied booze to all of New York City when Prohibition ended in 1933 he switched to the numbers rackets and extortion and in the process Schultz became fabulously wealthy he was a notorious penny-pincher made millions per year I think one time is estimated he was making twenty million dollars a year from bootlegging and from the number rackets in Harlem apparently after he was shot in the palace Chop House in Newark in October 1935 was lying in his hospital bed delirious he made some sort of reference to seven million dollars or something that was hidden somewhere in upstate New York and people have been wishing they could find it ever since Shultz was indeed assassinated and here's what happened Thomas Dewey New York's most famous prosecutor was after Schultz Schultz told Lucky Luciano and the other syndicate crime bosses he wanted his arch enemy dead that's when Schultz made his famous remark Dewey's going to be dead in two days instead Schultz was hit also eliminated was every member of Schultz's gang everyone else who might have known where the money was buried Otto Berman Schultz's accountant Abe Landau choses chief henchmen and choses bodyguard bernard lulu rosenkranz she lingered for several hours and police brought in a stenographer who took down his last words words that sounded at times like beat poetry a boy is never wept nor - mm Kim and at other times like insane babbling you can play jacks and girls do that with a softball and do tricks with it Oh dog biscuit and when he's happy he doesn't get snappy during the same remarks he also made references to Hitler and a Chinaman and so forth and various things calling for his mother and whatnot and some remarks about onions get the onions up and so forth I'm not sure that he was really even in his right mind delusional ramblings of a man on his deathbed poetry or a code to his wife and mother where to find his money well I think it's always possible that someone in that position could have buried some loot I know that it was it was and remains for many mobsters a cash business in those days Schultz had already survived two tax evasion trials he got away with it where Al Capone hadn't managed to hiding money would be to his great advantage particularly if he thought he was going to have to go on the run and if you could literally bury your loot somewhere especially when he was in the mid-1930s sort of being squeezed out of the syndicate by rivals who didn't appreciate him who were upset about his plans to assassinate special prosecutor Tom Dewey and so forth it would have been nice to have a getaway fund she'll certainly had his ability to lay his hands on 7 million dollars I think if he wanted to and he could have been stashing the money for years where it would be now or in what form course is impossible to say I think that if Dutch Schultz did bury some treasure with somebody else that the somebody else probably found it very quickly after Dutch Schultz died and took it and I don't think Dutch was able to go up and sort of do it by himself so there whether there was ever a treasure there I don't think it's there anymore but that does not discourage many many people from looking forward to this day [Music] [Music] to their supporters Sacco and Vanzetti were in Vanzetti swards a good shoemaker and a poor fish peddler they were prosecuted and they were executed because they were radicals and immigrants in a society that would tolerate neither indeed the trial and conviction of Sacco and Vanzetti is to this day the most controversial of all the high-profile murder trials in America Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrants who were accused and convicted of murdering two men during a 1920 armed robbery in Massachusetts after a controversial trial and a series of Appeals the men were executed on August 23rd 1927 those are the facts here are the questions were the men actually guilty for the trials fair was their blatant disregard for the political civil liberties of these two men did the American government execute Sacco and Vanzetti as a warning to the anarchists to the Gallienus to put a stop to their militant activities or was it Boston's Irish mafia exercising revenge against the upstart Italian mob both men right up until their deaths proclaimed their innocence it started with a 15,000 776 dollar heist a payroll robbery of the Slater Morel shoe company in south Braintree Massachusetts it happened on the afternoon of April 15th 1920 during the robbery Frederick Parmenter a paymaster and Alessandro bura deli a security guard was shot dead on May 5th Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested for the crime and put on trial the physical evidence presented at the trial appeared damning when he was arrested manzetti was carrying a gun that was the same kind of gun as the guard had at the factory where the robbery and murder took place prosecutors argued that Vanzetti had taken the gun from the guard during the murder or after the murder for Sokka the situation was even worse two expert witnesses testified that the bullet that went through the guards body came from Sakas gun Sacco and Vanzetti were a pair of outspoken anarchists immigrant radicals which at this time in 1919 1920 was the worst thing to be in the United States federal agents and local police very anxious to dispose of any radicals they could get their hands on the judge in their trial was outrageously biased against the defense and supposedly after he sentence Sacco and Vanzetti to death at a dinner party remarked to the other laughing guests and to see what I did to those anarchist bastards ironically their background as Anika's may attest to their innocence Sacco and Vanzetti may both have been involved in bombings that led to the Red Scare they were certainly both involved radical organizations they were both committed to violent insurrection but they were committed to violence for the sake of revolution not for the sake of robbery and there is no evidence that the robbery that led to the murder that led to their execution was motivated by anything other than greed following their conviction the years leading up to their execution spawned the phenomena of widespread protests mass movements and celebrity causes celebrity causes that tried to win the release of many others supposedly unjustly convicted citizens but the Sacco and Vanzetti case was the first after their execution the case became even more interesting this is another case where the FBI had files that have since been released where jr. Hoover and others were commenting that some of the ballistics evidence appeared to be fabricated that's the other thing that swings me against their guilt but the confession from one of the known Sicilian American bandits who was robbing stores and factories all over the area having actually confessed when it could no longer do him any harm and then clinch the deal for me Sacco and Vanzetti were executed in 1927 but the case would not die the defenders were especially prolific they tended to emphasize the prejudices of the jury and the judge and and of America at the time this was during the Red Scare in the 1980s the Massachusetts State Police released an enormous file with every with new evidence that indicated that Ben's Edie's gun was not the same gun that the guard had more shocking that prosecutors knew this and concealed this evidence from the defense as for the bullet from sockos gun the new evidence indicated that it may have been substituted it was the same bullet but it may have been substituted later in short that Sacco and Vanzetti were framed the new evidence made it very difficult to trust the state's evidence and at the very least made clear that was reasonable doubt Ric buyer who grew up and lives in the Boston area has written on the case and has a different take on it we could write ten books on Sacco and Vanzetti and still not get to the bottom of it they I believe were certainly connected with the people who did the armored car robbery whether they were involved themselves or not they certainly knew a lot more than they let on that they knew and I don't believe that they were completely innocent were the men actually guilty probably not with the trials fair certainly not was their blatant disregard for political civil liberties of the two men of course did the American government execute Sacco and Vanzetti as a warning to the anarchists to the galley honest to put a stop to their militant activities we'll never know or was Boston's Irish mafia exercising revenge against the upstart Italian mob that's looking more and more probable [Music] murder most foul seven people took one of their favorite painkillers laid down and died died at the hands of the tylenol killer the most bizarre serial killer in American history it appears to me that it was just an individual much like a serial arsonist in some ways who enjoys the publicity surrounding the crimes perhaps had some kind of sadistic kick out of knowing that people were suffering and dying and he was able to he or she was able to observe it from a distance and if still alive probably sitting around gloating about it today in the Greater Chicago area on Wednesday September 29 1982 12 year old Mary Kellerman passed away after taking a capsule of extra strength tylenol Adam Janis died in the hospital a short time later after consuming extra strength tylenol tragically after taking pills from Adams tylenol bottle his brother Stanley and sister-in-law Teresa died while mourning his death soon afterward three more people died in similar incidents investigators soon discovered the tylenol linked urgent warnings were broadcast and police drove through Chicago neighborhoods issuing warnings over loudspeakers the tylenol murders are such a mystery because you would have to go to a lot of effort to put this potassium cyanide I think it was in these tylenol bottles in different stories have to go to the stores get the tylenol put the poison in it put them back on the shelves so you're engaging in this tremendous effort for what to kill people you don't even know for what purpose I can remember living in Chicago in the 80s the fear that gripped people when it seemed like all sorts of people in all sorts of places around the town we're dying and oh my god it's from Tylenol and it's you know people did want to take any pills at all and people wonder what else might be poisoned and there was real real fear about it and you know the fact that it remains unsolved is unsettling in a way to think that that person who did that might still be out there to this day the case remains unsolved and no suspects have been charged a [Music] $100,000 reward is still offered by Johnson & Johnson for the capture and conviction of the tylenol killer one thing this tragic event did was to change how pill peddlers packaged their wares well of course they gave us all of the childproof and tamper proof packaging that we have today and the old days you could just walk in and pick a bottle of pills off the shelf and take the capsule apart and insert whatever you want and then smuggle the pill back in [Music] [Music] diamonds the mere mention fills the mind with tales of death power and of course mystery the diamond is the peerless King of gems it glitters dazzles the eyes and symbolizes purity and strength a diamond is indomitable the hardest surface known it is exotic formed deep in the Earth's interior then shot to the surface by extraordinary volcanoes a diamond is likely the oldest thing you will ever own probably three billion years fully two-thirds the age of the earth America has been blessed with natural resources minerals of all kinds but rarely with diamonds so it was a great shock when two of the largest diamonds ever found in the United States showed up in southeastern Wisconsin in gravel that looks like this in 1876 a poor farmer Charles wood was digging a well near Eagle Wisconsin when his shovel unearthed an unusually hard stone among the gravel didn't look like much his wife Clarissa took this peculiar pebble to a jeweler in Milwaukee who identified the stone as topaz and gave her a dollar for it [Music] once the true identity of the diamond was disclosed he sold the stone to Tiffany's for eight hundred and fifty dollars today it would have been worth half a million the crystal originally known as the Waukesha diamond and later the Eagle diamond was a warm yellow color and weighed 16.25 carats JP Morgan one of the greatest of the 19th centuries robber barons purchased the Eagle diamond from Tiffany's and ultimately donated the gem to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City the stone was on public display at the museum until the evening of October 29th 1964 that night after bypassing all the alarms America's most infamous jewel thief Murph the surf walked out of the museum with the Eagle diamond and other gems eventually all the stones were recovered except the celebrated Eagle diamond what happened to it no one knows but the even greater mystery has always been where did the diamond come from in the first place the Eagle diamond wasn't alone others have been found in the same gravels including the fabulous Teresa diamond unearthed in 1888 weighing 21.5 carats and the fifth largest diamond ever discovered in the United States by the end of World War two geologists knew that the diamonds had to have been carried in the gravels brought down by the glaciers 10,000 years ago they had to have come from one of the richest sources of diamonds in the world an unknown kimberlite pipe somewhere in the darkly wooded Upper Peninsula of Michigan or southern Canada many have searched decades for what would most likely be the richest diamond mine in the world to date at least four major corporations have acquired leases from the state of Michigan to search for diamonds but their results have been shrouded in secrecy representatives from South Africa have bought the mineral rights to extensive sections of the Upper Peninsula but the exact location of the lands they now own remains a mystery have they found the source of the Eagle diamond had they been surreptitiously removing a treasure trove of the world's most precious and enigmatic stone [Music] [Music] Harry Houdini even today America indeed the whole world is waiting more than 80 years after his death still waiting for his final escape back into this world there have been a lot of people who have pointed to Houdini and said that the reason that he went after the spiritualists in the way that he did was because he was a some sort of psychic himself there were a lot of claims that that the only way he could have carried out some of his spectacular escapes was that he was able to dematerialize and appear again on the outside of these locked trunks and milk cans a lot of people said he tried to do that to cover things up Houdini of course claimed this wasn't true but he was as open-minded as the next person he claimed in fact made a pact with a number of his friends that if it was possible to communicate from the other side after death that he would do so for that reason there have been since his death in 1926 every year Houdini seances on Halloween night people who have tried to contact Houdini [Music] we greet thee it is a spirit of Houdini we wish to contact are you here Houdini please manifest yourself in any way possible Harry Houdini is a man whose name is synonymous with magic the occult the supernatural he remains as popular now as he was in his heyday the place of his birth is as shrouded in mystery as Houdini's own powers of magic all that is known is that he grew up in Appleton Wisconsin at age nine he debuted as a trapeze artist billing himself as the Prince of the air but magic and illusion were in his blood and by 1899 he was on the vaudeville circuit performing magic and escaping from handcuffs Houdini boasted that no handcuffs or jail could ever hold him a boast that was never bested by any police force anywhere in the world he toured Europe and America his spellbinding escapes mesmerizing audiences his daring feats of escape became more elaborate straitjackets sealed milk cans coffins each grander and more death-defying than the last in 1912 he unveiled his supreme escape a deadly escape that only the master of the supernatural the great Houdini could perform he called it the Chinese water torture cell [Music] the trick was so dangerous so difficult that over the years that added to the mystery surrounding Houdini's final days legend states he died while trying to escape from the water box Houdini's death was bizarre so strange so inexplicable that doubts linger eight decades later over what killed him another miraculous Houdini feat was to take terrific blows to his stomach blows that would kill an ox did no harm to this master of illusion but one night in October 1926 a young man attacked Houdini without warning punching him several times in the stomach a week later the famous magician was dead end of story no way [Music] tradition had it for many many years that that Houdini died because he had been punched by a young student who'd come to visit him in his dressing room and had caught him unaware one of the tricks that Houdini could do was to be able to tighten his stomach muscles in such a way that he could withstand really strong punches to the to the stomach this student had come to visit him and had asked him he was very distracted with his mail the story went I asked him if he could do this he said he could the boy then turn around and hit him three times felt terrible about it but interestingly even though tradition claimed that this is what caused Houdini's appendix to burst and then to die short time later no charges were ever filed against this boy no investigation was ever done it was all an accident and a misunderstanding yet the stories claimed that that's what killed Houdini others claimed that he drowned in his one of his water torture tank all kinds of stories got started Houdini did have a burst appendix but was probably already sick before this even happened he had it about two weeks before had broken an ankle and had been hobbling around anyway so chances are his rundown condition could have caused him to become sick with something else which maybe led to an infection which causes the appendicitis in the first place but you can't die from being you know or you can't burst an appendix by being it just can't happen so there have been other stories that have circulated that perhaps Houdini was poisoned that he had that he had to actually create a lot of enemies in the spiritualist movement which he had for a number of years he had been working to expose fake mediums and there were enough and the spiritualist movement that were questionable say that to say the least that were pretty angry at Houdini and there were stories that claimed that he had been poisoned had been given some sort of stomach medicine for or given some sort of medicine perhaps for his broken ankle or something that may have been poisoned was the story of the blow to the stomach a cover-up for more nefarious deeds whatever the case Houdini ended up in a hospital riddled with infection but as only the great Houdini could do he held on for two days so he could die on Halloween [Music] [Music] you you

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Length: 45min 53sec (2753 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 25 2018