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[Earl Narrating]
A week ago, the show Inside Probe...
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aired part one of an investigation
they shot eight years back...
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about the disappearance
of Crab Shack owner Ernie Belcher.
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It's on! The second part is really on!
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Hmm. I guess we are in the central time zone.
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Sorry for doubting you, Sam.
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Last week's episode of Inside Probe
was our highest rated ever.
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It seems all of America wanted to know...
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what happened to this man eight years ago-
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Camden's popular restaurant owner
Ernie Belcher.
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It seemed like everyone we talked to
in the small town of Camden loved Ernie...
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- from dirtbags-
- Everyone loved Ernie. He was funny.
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- to the mentally disabled-
- Ernie taught me how to tie my shoes.
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I've known him for a long time.
Almost two years.
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- to coworkers-
- Ernie was a genius.
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- to hot women-
- Ernie was cool.
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To NASCARdrivers-
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I met Ernie at a autograph signing,
and we just hit it off.
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- and even a so-called celebrity.
- I liked Ernie.
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Ernie was a respected businessman
and beloved member of the community.
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Or was he?
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Because on the warm summer night
of April 9, 2001...
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Ernie Belcher vanished.
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But how could hejust evaporate
into thin air?
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Was he murdered?
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The Camden police sure thought so.
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And their investigation
led them to these two men.
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Angry letters from Randy Hickey
found in Ernie's office...
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uncovered a motive for murder.
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[Randy's Voice]
How dare you stop providing free toothpicks?
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How dare you only serve my favorite item-
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fish wings- on "Wenedsdays"?
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[Geraldo Narrating] Had Randy Hickey
murdered Ernie in his outrage...
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over the lack of toothpicks
and fish wings in the Crab Shack?
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- The Camden police sure thought so.
- [Squealing]
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And after 24 hours of interrogation...
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they had a forced confession to prove it.
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Then we did it! We killed Ernie!
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[Geraldo Narrating]
Randy Hickey, town simpleton, had confessed.
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He and his brother, Earl,
were notorious lowlifes in Camden.
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And the arrest sent the town of Camden
into virtual chaos.
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I'm freaking out.
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I've seen those boys.
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The dancers at the club
call them "Mustache" and "B.O."
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I call them "B.O. One" and "B.O. Two."
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The fact that they murdered someone
is the least of their problems.
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I hope those Hickey boys fry for what they did.
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I'm gonna miss Ernie. He was a gentleman.
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I remember one time...
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I was performing a sexual act on him,
and it started to rain...
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and he held his shirt out over my head
so my hair wouldn't get wet.
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[Chuckles] Oh, made me feel
a little bit like a princess.
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[Geraldo Narrating] And with the cheapest
lawyer in town at their side...
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- it wasn't looking good for the Hickey brothers.
- Oh.
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But the Hickey brothers were provided
with an alibi from a reliable witness...
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two-time Daytona 500 winner
Michael Waltrip...
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whose testimony counts for as much
as three regular Americans.
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Fortunately for those guys, I'm a bit of
a shutterbug, and I had my camera with me.
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I got a pretty complete record
of what happened that night.
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The police were stymied
and gave up their case.
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How is it possible that Ernie Belcher
could simply disappear?
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Inside Probe decided to dig...
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a little deeper... into the Earth...
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to find the treasure chest...
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of the truth... of this mystery.
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Tonight on Inside Probe.
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## [Theme]
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My name is Earl.
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I can't wait to find out who killed Ernie.
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I'm just glad it wasn't me. Although that
would've been an awesome twist...
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'cause I've always thought
I was such a nice guy.
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I bet it was the Cheese Grater Killer that got Ernie.
Remember that time in the parking lot...
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we found that big pile of ground beef
with the sock in it?
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I hope that wasn't Ernie, 'cause I ate that.
And I'm wearing that sock.
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[Darnell]
We don't even know if he's dead.
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It could be a perfectly normal thing, like
the government forced him to leave town...
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change his identity, marry a hot blonde.
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Who marries a hot blonde
and doesn't brag about it?
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I mean, you get a trophy,
you put it on a shelf.
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Ernie was our friend.
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If he was still alive, he would've found
a way to get in touch with us.
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And if all he did was move away,
he would've said good-bye.
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I'm sticking with the Cheese Grater.
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So once it was established that
the Hickey boys were not responsible...
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which came as a shock
to everyone here at Inside Probe...
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our investigation moved on
to something a little more...
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out of this world.
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Well, Randy's got an interesting hypo- poth-
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uh, hyp- uh-hypo... thesis.
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A-A theory.
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Aliens, from outer space.
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[Geraldo Narrating]
Stories of alien abduction are nothing new.
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Even cavemen recorded
these primitive drawings of the phenomena.
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[Earl]
You can ask my wife all about it.
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She saw some sort of alien thing,
right on that very night.
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That's a great 'stache, by the way.
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Do you put some kind of conditioner on that?
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Yes, but it's very expensive.
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It was this strange whooshing noise,
then a loud boom.
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Then I saw these amazing lights.
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For a minute there, I thought it was Jesus.
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But then why wouldn't he just say, "Hey, Joy.
What's up?" So it must've been aliens.
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Yeah, I was coming out of the Crab Shack...
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fixing to sell Wilfrid Dierkes
some muscle relaxants...
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which were reallyjust
leftover birth control pills...
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when we were both awestruck
by this blinding light from above.
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[Geraldo Narrating] While officially
the police discounted the alien theory...
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there was one officer
who had a different point of view.
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[Stuart]
I remember that night well.
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Earlier, the captain
was giving out assignments...
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and one of us had to go investigate...
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some sort of underground gay
homosexual party at the park.
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And I drew the long straw,
so I was forced to do it.
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Isn't it usually the short straw that loses?
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No. It's the long straw.
The long straw loses.
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- ## [Dance]
- We set up some surveillance cameras
ahead of time.
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And then, to make sure that I would blend in
with the gay-sexuals, I went undercover.
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Nothing criminal seemed to be going on.
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Just a lot of well-built men
letting off some steam.
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And then I ended up being
the meat in a dance sandwich.
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It was terrible.
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Where'd you get that shirt?
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To stay in character was one of the toughest
professional challenges of my career.
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Whoo!
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Then suddenly, there were
these incredibly bright lights in the sky.
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I didn't know what to think.
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One of the guys said
it was like being at a Cher concert...
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but all I could think was... U.F.O.'s.
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[Geraldo Narrating]
Aliens were spotted all over Camden...
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including at the Crab Shack,
the night of Ernie's disappearance.
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I remember that night.
I was working on the Crab Shack bathroom.
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I had just finished pouring
the new cement floor...
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and I was heading out to my truck,
when I saw the flash in the sky.
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It about blinded me, and I was, like, "Whoa!
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I need to get some Radnor 6400
welding goggles."
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You know what I'm saying?
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I saw a U.F.O. Once.
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It was like a big, silver football.
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It was from the planet Goodyear.
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See, I tried to shoot it down...
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but their force field technology
must have been too strong.
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[Geraldo Narrating]
It turns out that in Camden...
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it's harder to find someone
who had not seen a U.F. O...
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- than somebody who had.
- Next!
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Oh, I believe in alien life.
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I've seen some freaky-deaky things in my day.
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And just when you think you've seen it all...
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along comes a guy with a green wiener.
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Explain that.
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[Whispers]
Aliens.
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Listen, don't believe too much
of what you hear around here.
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Forty percent of the town,
including the mayor...
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claim they've seen a leprechaun in the woods.
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Trust me, Ernie wasn't abducted by aliens.
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But I'll tell you what I think
happened to him-
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[Geraldo Narrating]
What was Darnell Turner about to say...
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before we realized this would be
a good dramatic breaking point?
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If it wasn't a U.F.O. That took Ernie,
then where is he?
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Is it possible that Ernie's disappearance
is a result of the Civil War?
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We'll stick the probe even deeper inside...
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when Inside Probe returns.
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What in the hell were you about to say?
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Darnell, what were you
about to say on that TV show?
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[Swallows]
I don't remember what I said.
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Eight years is a long time ago.
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## [Theme]
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The mystery of Ernie Belcher's disappearance
was raising more questions than answers.
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- Was it murder?
- [Gunshots]
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Was it alien abduction?
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Or could it have been something
of historic proportion?
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- ## [Banjo]
- History.
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During the Civil War,
Camden County was reluctant...
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to make a commitment
to either the North or the South...
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so they decided to create
a neutral country of their own...
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a tiny nation they would call "the Central."
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Even though it happened
over a hundred years ago...
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Ernie was profoundly loyal to the Central.
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He even flew the Central flag on the roof.
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Central is number one!
Central is number one! Whoo!
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My great-great-great-great-great-
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Wait, that's too many.
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He was my great-great-
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Anyway, he was around during the Civil War...
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and- and he led the Central.
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[Geraldo Narrating] General Jefferson
Washington Hickey, leader of the Central.
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[Man's Voice]
We shall not be forced to pick sides...
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between the North's industrial economy...
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or the South's tradition of slavery.
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We deserve and demand and shall have both.
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[Crowd Cheering]
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It's sad, you know,
'cause my great-great whatever-
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Hejust wanted to get the North and South
to come to an agreement.
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[Geraldo Narrating] And the North and South
did come to an agreement...
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that they needed to massacre the Central.
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The Central was formed
at 3:30 on March 10, 1861.
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By 3:45, it was gone.
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Like I said, Ernie insisted on flying the flag
of the Central on the Crab Shack roof...
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even though some people thought it was
an embarrassment to the town's history.
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It's not an embarrassment.
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When the Civil War II starts,
the Central will rise again.
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Rise again!
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People get pretty worked up.
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If you really wanna talk to somebody
about Central pride, you should talk to Ernie.
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Oh, he-he's missing, isn't he?
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That-That's the whole reason you're here.
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I just got carried away
with all that Central stuff.
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[Man]
Earl Hickey!
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Hey, man. Can't you see
I'm doing an interview with Gerardo?
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Sorry 'bout that.
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So, was it overzealous loyalty
that led to the end of Ernie?
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Or was it something darker?
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Could it have been Ernie's involvement
in the world of underground kinky sex?
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[Gasping]
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I'd bet on the sex.
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He had a Internet business that catered
to clientele of straight-up freaks.
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Just how freaky was Ernie Belcher?
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Pretty freaky. We will be right back.
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All right, everybody.
I got $20 that Ernie was that torso...
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they found floating in the Camden swamp.
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I got 20 that he was torn to shreds
by that half-dog, half-coyote...
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that hangs out behind the truck stop.
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You think Dog-ote did it?
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You can't take bets
on what happened to Ernie.
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Why not? We took bets on what was wrong
with that blue kid we found at the park.
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But this is different. Ernie was a friend.
He was part of our everyday lives.
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L-I don't know about you guys,
but that matters to me.
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Hush up, princess. It's coming back on.
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If Ernie Belcher's mysterious disappearance...
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was not a result of anti-Centralist zealotry...
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could it be because
this pillar of the community...
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had a secret, darker side?
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For anyone out there who is not aware...
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of the vast array of pornography
on the Internet...
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you're about to become far less productive.
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Ernie had a little side business where he shot
fetish videos and sold 'em on his Web site.
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I starred in some.
Made a little money on the side.
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It got a little weird.
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## [Disco]
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- Who's been a bad boy?
- Me. Right-Right here.
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I've- I've been a bad boy.
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Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep...
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yep, yep, yep, yep, yep...
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yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.
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Yeah, I was in some of Ernie's videos.
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He told me I could have
all the free crabs I could eat forever.
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Of course, Ernie's missing now...
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and apparently he never told anyone else
who works here about it!
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So I'm a little pissed about that.
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- ## [Instrumental]
- [Sniffs]
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Oh, man.
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It's a size 11 from, like, 1988.
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And look,
it's filled with macaroni and cheese.
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This is gonna be so good.
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Mmm.
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Wow, this is good.
Do I really get to eat the whole shoe full?
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No, I didn't appear
in any of Ernie's sex videos.
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[Man, Low Voice]
Are you pretty?
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Yes, I'm pretty.
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[Quiet Sobbing]
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Yeah, I did some kinky videos for Ernie.
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I mean, how often is it
that you get to work with a real TV star?
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[Gurgling]
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[Grunting]
Nice.
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I don't remember doing any fetish videos.
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Of course, I'm told I was on a show called
Parker Lewis Can't Lose for three years...
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and I don't remember that either.
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Can you think of anyone involved in this
who might have wanted Ernie gone?
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Oh, hell. Anybody who might've found out
about his hidden cameras in the bathroom.
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- What?
- He had secret hidden cameras
all over the women's bathroom.
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When I found out,
I almost killed him my own self.
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Why didn't you say anything
about this before?
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He paid me off not to tell the other girls.
That's why I always peed in the alley.
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- Can you show me?
- Well, I don't really have to go right now.
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But if you buy me a beer,
I'll see what I can work up.
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- I meant, can you show me the hidden cameras?
- Oh.
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Well, buy me a beer, and I'll show you.
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Inside Probe went to work
and found all of Ernie's hidden cameras.
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Yep. They're all still here.
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There's overheads one, two, three.
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Then there's the behind-the-mirror cam.
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And the pee-pee cam.
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And we probed a little deeper
and found something else.
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- [Beeps]
- [Mechanism Whirring]
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A videotape, just as I suspected.
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Could Ernie's sick, perverted,
hidden bathroom tapes...
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finally shed some light on his disappearance?
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Sure, there were innocent things...
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like a drunken Randy Hickey
stealing tampons and sanitary napkins.
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[Giggling]
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A local stripper trying to hide
the shame ofher secret eating.
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A daytime prostitute having a working lunch.
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Earl Hickey hiding in the bathroom...
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after snatching a bottle ofbooze
from behind the bar.
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The hidden cameras even caught
an icon of American television...
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putting on his game face.
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Never show weakness. Never show weakness.
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You're a rock star. You're Geraldo Rivera.
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This is what they pay you,
because you're worth it.
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[Woman]
Someone's in here.
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[High-pitched Voice]
It's not Geraldo.
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Hidden cameras,
historical grudges, lights in the sky...
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a bathroom that was being remodeled.
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Four seemingly random events...
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until we revisited an interview we had done
with the black coworker...
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who, at the time, we assumed
was giving us a fake alibi.
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[Darnell] Every night at closing time,
I had to go up on the roof...
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to take down the flag of the Central...
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or else someone would snatch it
and destroy it.
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I saw some malcontent trying
to pull down the flag...
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and while I agreed with his sentiment,
it was my duty to protect Ernie's property.
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So I attacked him with lethal precision.
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He was a worthy opponent, and our fight
caused us to fall into the flagpole.
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The flagpole hit the power line,
and there was a pretty big explosion.
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[Geraldo Narrating] This would explain
the U.F.O. That several people saw that night.
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And you might be asking,
what does any of this have to do with Ernie?
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Well, we're about to show you.
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These were victim Ernie Belcher's
final moments.
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Here you see Ernie enter the bathroom.
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It's awkward
because he's avoiding the wet cement.
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He's presumably going to change
the tape in his hidden VCR...
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when suddenly he is startled
by a commotion on the roof.
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As the battle on the roof raged on,
the power went out...
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and, unable to see, Ernie lost his footing.
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And for the semiconscious Ernie Belcher...
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the harsh reality was sinking in.
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As was his body.
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[Crowd Murmuring]
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Wow. I always thought
that was a nose-shaped doorstop.
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[Earl]
I can't believe it.
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Ernie's been right here in the Crab Shack
for eight years, and nobody knew it.
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You know what's so funny?
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For years I've been using that thing
to clean gum off the bottom of my shoes.
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Well, Ernie, the Crab Shack
was always a part of you.
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Now you will always be
a part of the Crab Shack.
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We can finally give you a real good-bye.
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Good-bye, friend.
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You got a little-
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I got it.
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Well, boss...
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you died like a hero from the Central-
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quickly and in the bathroom.
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Later, Ernie.
Say hey to Grandma Nancy for me.
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Unless, by some miracle,
you ended up in heaven.
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Good-bye, pal.
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Just in case there's some chance that you're
alive down there, breathing through your nose...
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I want you to know
that I forgive you for the toothpicks...
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but I will never forgive you
for the fish wings.
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Shh.