1 00:00:01,585 --> 00:00:03,587 [slow jazz music playing] 2 00:00:08,008 --> 00:00:10,552 [Frank] Some of the people in Wyalusing would prefer 3 00:00:10,677 --> 00:00:13,514 not to talk about Jean Stevens. 4 00:00:14,765 --> 00:00:18,100 Those neighbors knew. Nobody ever came forward. 5 00:00:18,101 --> 00:00:19,227 [David] People didn't call the police. 6 00:00:19,228 --> 00:00:20,521 They would handle things on their own. 7 00:00:20,646 --> 00:00:22,939 [Al] But there was always local rumors around. 8 00:00:22,940 --> 00:00:25,526 People would say, "Ah-ha, Jean's wandering the graveyard." 9 00:00:25,651 --> 00:00:29,904 [David] We had rumblings that an old lady was digging up bodies. 10 00:00:29,905 --> 00:00:32,907 My brother Cecil, he's seen her digging again. 11 00:00:32,908 --> 00:00:35,035 What is going on here in Wyalusing? 12 00:00:35,160 --> 00:00:37,037 Everybody has dark secrets. 13 00:00:39,706 --> 00:00:41,708 [theme music playing] 14 00:00:57,683 --> 00:00:59,601 [theme music ends] 15 00:00:59,726 --> 00:01:01,728 [upbeat music playing] 16 00:01:02,938 --> 00:01:06,942 [Mike] Wyalusing, Pennsylvania is part of the Endless Mountains. 17 00:01:07,067 --> 00:01:08,442 It's very rural. 18 00:01:08,443 --> 00:01:11,988 [Kate] Living in this rural community of Wyalusing, 19 00:01:11,989 --> 00:01:14,156 you can accomplish things 20 00:01:14,157 --> 00:01:16,993 that you couldn't do in the big city. 21 00:01:16,994 --> 00:01:18,787 The rural area of Bradford County is beautiful. 22 00:01:18,912 --> 00:01:19,954 It's wide open. 23 00:01:19,955 --> 00:01:21,957 You don't have many neighbors around. 24 00:01:22,082 --> 00:01:23,624 A lot of activities go on up here 25 00:01:23,625 --> 00:01:25,669 that you would never know existed. 26 00:01:27,462 --> 00:01:30,006 We were hearing these things periodically. 27 00:01:30,007 --> 00:01:31,925 Naturally, we just thought, 28 00:01:32,050 --> 00:01:33,719 "Eh, welcome to Bradford County." 29 00:01:35,512 --> 00:01:38,015 But the truth is, it was true. 30 00:01:39,433 --> 00:01:43,437 And the truth is, there were people in Wyalusing that knew. 31 00:01:44,896 --> 00:01:46,814 They knew about this. 32 00:01:46,815 --> 00:01:49,108 And nobody came forward. 33 00:01:49,109 --> 00:01:50,611 [waitress speaking] 34 00:01:52,571 --> 00:01:56,657 I would love a piece of your pumpkin cheesecake. 35 00:01:56,658 --> 00:01:57,993 It looks fabulous. 36 00:02:00,454 --> 00:02:02,998 Good, yeah. I'm full of [bleep]. 37 00:02:03,123 --> 00:02:05,207 But, yeah, it's going, yeah, you know, 38 00:02:05,208 --> 00:02:06,460 it's going great. 39 00:02:09,296 --> 00:02:10,379 My name's Tom Carman, 40 00:02:10,380 --> 00:02:13,549 and I was a former Bradford County coroner. 41 00:02:13,550 --> 00:02:17,136 Jean Stevens and the friendship that we developed. 42 00:02:17,137 --> 00:02:20,848 View her how you want, but Jean Stevens, 43 00:02:20,849 --> 00:02:24,810 I'm telling you, was witty, creative, 44 00:02:24,811 --> 00:02:29,232 manipulative, crafty, charming. 45 00:02:30,359 --> 00:02:32,027 It was very-- thank you so much. 46 00:02:32,152 --> 00:02:34,362 I really appreciate it. That looks delicious. 47 00:02:34,363 --> 00:02:35,529 Thank you. 48 00:02:35,530 --> 00:02:37,531 Jean had a twin sister, June. 49 00:02:37,532 --> 00:02:42,078 Jean had this sweet grandma persona. 50 00:02:42,079 --> 00:02:44,580 She was more reserved. 51 00:02:44,581 --> 00:02:48,877 June, she was more classy. 52 00:02:49,002 --> 00:02:50,336 So they're very different people, 53 00:02:50,337 --> 00:02:53,172 but they were very close, as twins are. 54 00:02:53,173 --> 00:02:54,715 Jean had made a promise to her sister 55 00:02:54,716 --> 00:02:56,842 that she would never, ever leave her. 56 00:02:56,843 --> 00:02:59,720 Jean and June, they married brothers. 57 00:02:59,721 --> 00:03:03,349 Jean and Jimmy were very young sweethearts. 58 00:03:03,350 --> 00:03:06,268 Two twins marrying brothers, 59 00:03:06,269 --> 00:03:08,396 none of which could have children. 60 00:03:08,397 --> 00:03:09,689 There was this bond. 61 00:03:09,690 --> 00:03:12,693 "Last of the Mohicans," so to speak. 62 00:03:12,818 --> 00:03:16,195 [Kate] This is the old Stevens family farmhouse 63 00:03:16,196 --> 00:03:18,907 What a happy place this was for the family. 64 00:03:19,032 --> 00:03:22,410 They had many happy memories there. 65 00:03:22,411 --> 00:03:23,869 [Beth] Let me give you the layout of the property 66 00:03:23,870 --> 00:03:26,539 that Jean and June had in Wyalusing. 67 00:03:26,540 --> 00:03:30,710 Jean lived in a more humble home than June's summer home, 68 00:03:30,711 --> 00:03:32,753 which was less than a mile down the street. 69 00:03:32,754 --> 00:03:35,215 And 120 acres of property. 70 00:03:35,340 --> 00:03:38,300 From the outside, these two sisters appear to be 71 00:03:38,301 --> 00:03:40,219 as normal as can be. 72 00:03:40,220 --> 00:03:42,723 But it seems that Jean was a bit peculiar. 73 00:03:43,724 --> 00:03:45,391 [Tom] Jean was weird. 74 00:03:45,392 --> 00:03:48,728 Jean and her husband, Jimmy, were going on vacation. 75 00:03:48,729 --> 00:03:51,814 But before she would go to Florida, 76 00:03:51,815 --> 00:03:53,774 she wanted to see her mother. 77 00:03:53,775 --> 00:03:54,735 Sounds good, right? 78 00:03:54,860 --> 00:03:57,070 Only one problem. Her mother's dead. 79 00:03:57,195 --> 00:03:58,947 In the ground, buried. 80 00:03:59,072 --> 00:04:04,118 Jean told me they actually dug up and saw her mother. 81 00:04:04,119 --> 00:04:08,790 So then, after literally seeing her mother in the grave, 82 00:04:08,915 --> 00:04:12,711 they take off for Florida, and they go on their vacation. 83 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:17,965 [David] We had rumblings through the grapevine 84 00:04:17,966 --> 00:04:21,135 and the rumor mills that there was an old lady 85 00:04:21,136 --> 00:04:25,056 that was digging up bodies up in the Wyalusing Township area. 86 00:04:27,058 --> 00:04:28,184 My name's David Pelachick. 87 00:04:28,185 --> 00:04:29,477 I was a criminal investigator 88 00:04:29,478 --> 00:04:31,980 with the Pennsylvania State Police in Towanda. 89 00:04:32,105 --> 00:04:34,566 No one came forward to give us any additional information. 90 00:04:35,901 --> 00:04:36,984 People didn't call the police. 91 00:04:36,985 --> 00:04:38,153 They would handle things on their own, 92 00:04:38,278 --> 00:04:39,988 or things went unnoticed. 93 00:04:41,740 --> 00:04:44,826 About a year before the case actually broke open, 94 00:04:44,951 --> 00:04:47,204 we thought it was just someone making up stories at that time. 95 00:04:48,830 --> 00:04:51,665 And sure enough, we get the call. 96 00:04:51,666 --> 00:04:55,211 It says, "There's someone by the name of Jean Stevens. 97 00:04:55,212 --> 00:04:57,005 Check on her." 98 00:04:57,130 --> 00:05:00,675 So I got in the car and came up to her house. 99 00:05:00,801 --> 00:05:02,176 A little old lady came to the door 100 00:05:02,177 --> 00:05:03,803 and asked if she could help us. 101 00:05:03,804 --> 00:05:05,888 I said, "Mrs. Stevens, I'm Trooper Pelachick. 102 00:05:05,889 --> 00:05:08,974 We're just here to check on you, say, make sure things are OK." 103 00:05:08,975 --> 00:05:11,143 And she said, "Well, sure they're OK." 104 00:05:11,144 --> 00:05:13,854 Offered us something to eat and drink, and we're like, 105 00:05:13,855 --> 00:05:16,149 "Well, I think we're gonna pass on that, no offense--" 106 00:05:16,274 --> 00:05:17,317 "Well, I know why." 107 00:05:17,442 --> 00:05:18,734 I'm like, "OK." 108 00:05:18,735 --> 00:05:20,861 I said, "Does anyone live here with you?" 109 00:05:20,862 --> 00:05:23,198 And she goes, "Live here? No." 110 00:05:24,533 --> 00:05:27,034 All right, here comes the follow up. 111 00:05:27,035 --> 00:05:29,037 "Is anyone staying with you?" 112 00:05:29,162 --> 00:05:31,413 She goes, "Oh, yes, my sister 113 00:05:31,414 --> 00:05:33,875 "is, uh, in the living room right now. 114 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:35,210 She's on the couch." 115 00:05:35,335 --> 00:05:39,713 Um, sure enough, there was a couch, and her sister, June, 116 00:05:39,714 --> 00:05:42,550 was laying on the couch, looked like she had a wig on. 117 00:05:42,551 --> 00:05:45,094 I remember lipstick being on her. 118 00:05:45,095 --> 00:05:47,889 I said, "Can you tell me why she's here?" 119 00:05:48,014 --> 00:05:50,684 And she goes, "Well, listen, I like talking to her. 120 00:05:50,809 --> 00:05:52,226 "She's my twin sister. 121 00:05:52,227 --> 00:05:54,062 I've been with her my entire life." 122 00:05:54,187 --> 00:05:58,692 And I said, "OK, I can kind of understand this." 123 00:06:00,819 --> 00:06:03,445 [Beth] There's a reason he's asking a lot of questions. 124 00:06:03,446 --> 00:06:06,198 At first glance, it may not seem odd that Jean is 125 00:06:06,199 --> 00:06:09,118 entertaining her sister, until you realize 126 00:06:09,119 --> 00:06:13,248 that her sister has been dead for several months. 127 00:06:13,373 --> 00:06:15,708 When we went back to the car, we called back the station, 128 00:06:15,709 --> 00:06:17,084 said that we were gonna need the coroner, 129 00:06:17,085 --> 00:06:20,212 and the crime supervisor, Corporal Ogden, to come up, 130 00:06:20,213 --> 00:06:24,592 that we had a situation that needs to be addressed. 131 00:06:24,593 --> 00:06:26,595 [tense violin music playing] 132 00:06:30,223 --> 00:06:33,435 [Al] I had always heard, truth is stranger than fiction. 133 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:35,978 And here was the case 134 00:06:35,979 --> 00:06:38,230 that truth is stranger than fiction. 135 00:06:38,231 --> 00:06:41,484 I don't think we ever had an incident like this. 136 00:06:43,904 --> 00:06:45,071 My name is Al Ogden. 137 00:06:45,196 --> 00:06:48,241 I'm a retired Pennsylvania State Police Criminal Investigator. 138 00:06:49,701 --> 00:06:50,827 Working in this area, 139 00:06:51,995 --> 00:06:53,245 there's some crazy stories 140 00:06:53,246 --> 00:06:54,456 and conspiracy theories, 141 00:06:54,581 --> 00:06:56,249 you know, running around locally. 142 00:06:56,374 --> 00:06:58,126 Ah-ha, Jean, somebody saw her with a shovel. 143 00:06:58,251 --> 00:07:02,129 It had been years that we'd been hearing rumors like that. 144 00:07:02,130 --> 00:07:04,466 Yeah, this was-- this was the bizarre one. 145 00:07:07,135 --> 00:07:09,094 Tom Carman, who was the coroner at the time, 146 00:07:09,095 --> 00:07:12,140 and I went down to Jean's house. 147 00:07:12,265 --> 00:07:14,850 The interior of the house was immaculate. 148 00:07:14,851 --> 00:07:15,769 It was spotless. 149 00:07:15,894 --> 00:07:18,520 It was like it got to the '50s and stopped. 150 00:07:18,521 --> 00:07:21,775 You know, the ceramic top tables and the counters 151 00:07:21,900 --> 00:07:23,943 and the old appliances, and then, like I said, 152 00:07:23,944 --> 00:07:25,946 the way she was dressed and everything. 153 00:07:26,071 --> 00:07:27,822 She says, "Hi, guys, how you doing? Come on in." 154 00:07:27,948 --> 00:07:30,032 Just as friendly as anything. 155 00:07:30,033 --> 00:07:31,200 And there's a plate of fresh-baked 156 00:07:31,201 --> 00:07:32,661 chocolate chip cookies on the counter. 157 00:07:32,786 --> 00:07:35,997 "Help yourself to some cookies, come over, have a seat." 158 00:07:36,122 --> 00:07:38,207 When I went out there, I'm thinking, 159 00:07:38,208 --> 00:07:40,460 "This poor lady, she is crazy." 160 00:07:40,585 --> 00:07:44,129 Within two minutes, I knew this lady was just sharp, 161 00:07:44,130 --> 00:07:46,507 if not sharper than me. 162 00:07:46,508 --> 00:07:50,678 Jean, there wasn't anything else she was exhibiting 163 00:07:50,679 --> 00:07:53,348 that showed she was slipping mentally. 164 00:07:56,685 --> 00:07:59,895 Al, he poses the question, 165 00:07:59,896 --> 00:08:04,066 "And Jean, is it true that your sister is-- is here?" 166 00:08:04,067 --> 00:08:05,985 And Jean says, 167 00:08:05,986 --> 00:08:08,446 "Well, yes. Would you like to meet her?" 168 00:08:10,156 --> 00:08:11,825 Al says-- I'll never forget it. 169 00:08:11,950 --> 00:08:14,660 Classic Al. I'll never forget it, he says, 170 00:08:14,661 --> 00:08:15,996 "As a matter of fact, I would." 171 00:08:18,415 --> 00:08:19,666 She jumped up from the table, 172 00:08:21,001 --> 00:08:22,584 led us back through the house, 173 00:08:22,585 --> 00:08:25,671 and there was her sister laying on the couch. 174 00:08:25,672 --> 00:08:27,089 "Here she is." 175 00:08:27,090 --> 00:08:28,716 Just, matter of fact. 176 00:08:28,717 --> 00:08:30,176 [ominous tones playing] 177 00:08:31,678 --> 00:08:33,221 [Tom] And the reality is... 178 00:08:35,890 --> 00:08:37,517 she got a dead body in the house. 179 00:08:37,642 --> 00:08:39,686 [tense music builds] 180 00:08:41,896 --> 00:08:44,691 I mean, who the hell keeps a dead body in their house? 181 00:08:45,984 --> 00:08:47,402 Holy [bleep]! 182 00:08:47,527 --> 00:08:49,320 We ain't in Kansas no more, buddy. 183 00:08:51,698 --> 00:08:55,367 June's a hot mess. June passed away in 2009. 184 00:08:55,368 --> 00:08:58,704 You're talking a body that would recently been embalmed. 185 00:08:58,705 --> 00:09:01,540 She's leaking embalming fluid. 186 00:09:01,541 --> 00:09:03,710 The aroma alone, you know, I don't give a crap 187 00:09:03,835 --> 00:09:06,295 how much perfume you put on that thing. 188 00:09:06,296 --> 00:09:08,255 I mean, I'm around bodies all the time, 189 00:09:08,256 --> 00:09:10,883 but, you know, I'm almost gagged. 190 00:09:10,884 --> 00:09:14,553 I gotta tell you, I know we're talking about death, 191 00:09:14,554 --> 00:09:16,890 but this pie is delicious. 192 00:09:17,015 --> 00:09:18,308 Primo, Primo. 193 00:09:20,727 --> 00:09:22,062 We've got June there, 194 00:09:22,187 --> 00:09:23,730 and we're back at the table talking. 195 00:09:23,855 --> 00:09:25,565 I said, "Jean..." I said, 196 00:09:25,690 --> 00:09:27,900 "I've been hearing for years that Jimmy's here." 197 00:09:27,901 --> 00:09:29,110 "Oh, yeah, he's here, too." 198 00:09:30,695 --> 00:09:33,238 You know, knock you over with a feather. 199 00:09:33,239 --> 00:09:34,323 "Oh, is he here in the house?" 200 00:09:34,324 --> 00:09:36,325 "Oh, no, he's across the road in the garage." 201 00:09:36,326 --> 00:09:38,745 I said, "Well, can we go see him too?" 202 00:09:38,870 --> 00:09:40,621 She's like, "Yeah, come on!" 203 00:09:40,622 --> 00:09:43,291 And she grabbed a remote for the garage door opener, 204 00:09:43,416 --> 00:09:45,502 and out we went across the street. 205 00:09:49,255 --> 00:09:51,840 Jean's garage is just on the opposite side 206 00:09:51,841 --> 00:09:54,009 of the dirt township road that kind of splits 207 00:09:54,010 --> 00:09:55,260 her property there. 208 00:09:55,261 --> 00:09:59,598 We go out of the garage. Jean lifts the garage door. 209 00:09:59,599 --> 00:10:02,102 Here's this rolled-up carpet on the left. 210 00:10:04,562 --> 00:10:06,106 [Al] Tom and I are like, "Can you believe this?" 211 00:10:08,066 --> 00:10:09,983 "You ever seen this before?" "No, have you?" 212 00:10:09,984 --> 00:10:12,278 "No." This is a first for both of us. 213 00:10:14,531 --> 00:10:17,492 And there was quite a bit of stuff stacked on top of him. 214 00:10:17,617 --> 00:10:20,119 And we dug down until we got to his body. 215 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:22,330 [Tom] Jimmy died in 1999. 216 00:10:22,455 --> 00:10:25,165 I posed the question to Jean. 217 00:10:25,166 --> 00:10:29,628 June's in the house. She's on the sofa, all comfy. 218 00:10:29,629 --> 00:10:31,840 Jimmy's all rolled-up on a piece of carpet 219 00:10:31,965 --> 00:10:33,675 for crying out loud, out in the garage, 220 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:35,301 what's up with that? 221 00:10:35,426 --> 00:10:36,885 She said... 222 00:10:36,886 --> 00:10:40,472 "Well, I love June more." 223 00:10:40,473 --> 00:10:42,600 Man! Wow! 224 00:10:43,643 --> 00:10:45,561 I mean, and he's been dead a long time, 225 00:10:45,562 --> 00:10:48,021 so he's mummified, so to speak. 226 00:10:48,022 --> 00:10:49,023 I mean, yeah. 227 00:10:50,024 --> 00:10:51,693 But much better than June. 228 00:10:53,069 --> 00:10:54,987 Now, I don't know whether to laugh, cry, 229 00:10:54,988 --> 00:10:57,072 [bleep] myself, or what to do, you know what I mean? 230 00:10:57,073 --> 00:11:01,201 I mean, now we got two bodies, and I'm immediately thinking, 231 00:11:01,202 --> 00:11:03,329 "How many bodies has this lady got here?" 232 00:11:10,336 --> 00:11:13,298 [tense music playing] 233 00:11:13,423 --> 00:11:16,175 [Bob] My brother Cecil, he lives right next to me. 234 00:11:16,176 --> 00:11:19,803 He was coming home from work when he seen her digging again. 235 00:11:19,804 --> 00:11:23,140 She dug him up one time, put a new sweater on him, and... 236 00:11:23,141 --> 00:11:26,728 always something going on, so easy just to ignore 'em. 237 00:11:28,229 --> 00:11:29,814 [Mike] People are hiding deep, dark secrets up there, 238 00:11:29,939 --> 00:11:32,025 I think it's just the way of life. 239 00:11:32,150 --> 00:11:34,485 [ominous violin tones playing] 240 00:11:34,611 --> 00:11:39,406 There was a man that was dead, and he sat in this chair. 241 00:11:39,407 --> 00:11:43,244 He had his own chair, just sat there watching TV. 242 00:11:44,537 --> 00:11:45,622 [laughs] 243 00:11:46,789 --> 00:11:49,499 Everyone knew. This wasn't a rumor. 244 00:11:49,500 --> 00:11:51,585 They knew it. It was a fact. 245 00:11:51,586 --> 00:11:56,089 And no one was doing anything. Why not? 246 00:11:56,090 --> 00:11:57,550 I don't know what is going on here 247 00:11:57,675 --> 00:12:00,177 in Wyalusing, Pennsylvania. 248 00:12:00,178 --> 00:12:03,513 And why on earth did she want those bodies in the first place? 249 00:12:03,514 --> 00:12:06,683 And what did she do with them while they were there? 250 00:12:06,684 --> 00:12:08,519 I've never seen anything like this case. 251 00:12:10,104 --> 00:12:13,690 Jean told me, leaving that garage, that she created 252 00:12:13,691 --> 00:12:16,069 her own private supper club. 253 00:12:16,194 --> 00:12:18,612 [happy violin music playing] 254 00:12:18,613 --> 00:12:22,408 There was a sofa, which is where June laid. 255 00:12:22,533 --> 00:12:25,411 Jean, she would go in, hourly, 256 00:12:25,536 --> 00:12:26,871 and speak with June. 257 00:12:28,081 --> 00:12:32,417 Caring for her. She had placed a wig on June. 258 00:12:32,418 --> 00:12:37,589 She would spray June with high-end cologne. 259 00:12:37,590 --> 00:12:40,927 She's drinking tea. She's drinking coffee. 260 00:12:41,052 --> 00:12:42,719 You know, "Here's some donuts." 261 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:44,806 "Did you see today's paper, June?" 262 00:12:47,558 --> 00:12:50,103 You cannot live with a corpse in your house. 263 00:12:50,228 --> 00:12:51,311 I'm sorry. 264 00:12:51,312 --> 00:12:53,939 You've got relatives who sat there and had dinner 265 00:12:53,940 --> 00:12:55,441 with two corpses, right? 266 00:12:55,566 --> 00:12:57,067 This is a fact. 267 00:12:57,068 --> 00:12:58,944 My name is Kate Prager, 268 00:12:58,945 --> 00:13:01,738 and I was a life partner 269 00:13:01,739 --> 00:13:06,118 with Doron Antrim, and Jean is Doron's aunt. 270 00:13:06,119 --> 00:13:09,288 This is a photograph of the farmhouse 271 00:13:09,289 --> 00:13:10,789 that Doron loved so much. 272 00:13:10,790 --> 00:13:15,002 A short distance from where Jean's little cottage was. 273 00:13:15,003 --> 00:13:17,630 Jean must have invited us for a visit. 274 00:13:17,755 --> 00:13:20,133 She said, "Do you want to see June?" 275 00:13:21,134 --> 00:13:24,387 We looked at each other and... "Sure." 276 00:13:26,389 --> 00:13:30,976 She fixed us tea, and we went through the house, 277 00:13:30,977 --> 00:13:36,149 and there was Jimmy and June looking beautiful, 278 00:13:36,274 --> 00:13:37,483 as best she could. 279 00:13:38,609 --> 00:13:43,113 Her skin was still intact, and she had makeup on 280 00:13:43,114 --> 00:13:45,950 and was still wearing her dress 281 00:13:46,075 --> 00:13:49,369 that she had been laid out in the viewing. 282 00:13:49,370 --> 00:13:52,165 Jean was quite forthcoming about Jimmy, 283 00:13:52,290 --> 00:13:55,167 that his ears were starting to come off. 284 00:13:55,168 --> 00:13:58,462 But, [chuckles], you know, that part of the memory 285 00:13:58,463 --> 00:14:01,048 is still pretty vivid about sitting around 286 00:14:01,049 --> 00:14:05,302 her little table drinking tea that afternoon. 287 00:14:05,303 --> 00:14:08,305 This was our dear Aunt Jean, 288 00:14:08,306 --> 00:14:11,309 and, um, she's a little unusual. 289 00:14:14,812 --> 00:14:16,897 Why would somebody tolerate this? 290 00:14:16,898 --> 00:14:21,860 "Oh, it's my old Aunt Jean. She's a little eccentric." 291 00:14:21,861 --> 00:14:24,321 Eccentric? Are you kidding me? 292 00:14:24,322 --> 00:14:27,033 If there was a corpse or two inside a house 293 00:14:27,158 --> 00:14:29,660 anywhere near me, I am not gonna sit back 294 00:14:29,786 --> 00:14:31,037 and have a cup of tea. 295 00:14:31,162 --> 00:14:32,412 I mean, this is not healthy. 296 00:14:32,413 --> 00:14:35,582 You have decomposing bodies in close proximity to you. 297 00:14:35,583 --> 00:14:38,252 I don't think you could get away with this in my town. 298 00:14:39,837 --> 00:14:41,839 [upbeat classical music playing] 299 00:14:44,258 --> 00:14:46,551 So ultimately, June and Jimmy, 300 00:14:46,552 --> 00:14:48,595 they're taken from Jean's property. 301 00:14:48,596 --> 00:14:51,723 I transport them to my office 302 00:14:51,724 --> 00:14:54,352 and put them in refrigeration at the morgue. 303 00:14:54,477 --> 00:14:57,396 She had asked, "Well, can they stay home?" 304 00:14:57,397 --> 00:14:59,940 And Tom's like, "No, Jean, they're with me at least 305 00:14:59,941 --> 00:15:03,027 for a while till we figure out what's going on." 306 00:15:03,152 --> 00:15:05,530 And she kind of got a little quiver in her lip 307 00:15:05,655 --> 00:15:07,906 and maybe started to tear up just a bit. 308 00:15:07,907 --> 00:15:09,032 You could tell Jean "No," 309 00:15:09,033 --> 00:15:12,203 but she was not gonna accept no as an answer. 310 00:15:12,328 --> 00:15:15,540 And she just had a manipulative side to her, 311 00:15:15,665 --> 00:15:16,707 you could almost say. 312 00:15:19,710 --> 00:15:21,921 Tom Carman, as he is holding onto the bodies, 313 00:15:22,046 --> 00:15:23,630 and the prosecutors are deciding, 314 00:15:23,631 --> 00:15:24,882 what do we do with this? 315 00:15:25,007 --> 00:15:27,802 What do we charge a 91-year-old woman with? 316 00:15:29,345 --> 00:15:30,430 I'm Daniel Barrett. 317 00:15:30,555 --> 00:15:33,933 I was district attorney of Bradford County in 2010. 318 00:15:34,058 --> 00:15:37,310 In terms of a health code violation, it was there. 319 00:15:37,311 --> 00:15:39,646 It just didn't seem to be something where taking money 320 00:15:39,647 --> 00:15:42,065 from Mrs. Stevens was gonna solve anything 321 00:15:42,066 --> 00:15:43,316 or make anything better. 322 00:15:43,317 --> 00:15:46,028 So we decided no prosecution would be done. 323 00:15:47,363 --> 00:15:48,573 [Al] They decided it's just-- 324 00:15:48,698 --> 00:15:50,283 the juice wouldn't be worth the squeeze. 325 00:15:52,410 --> 00:15:53,618 [Beth] But here's the thing. 326 00:15:53,619 --> 00:15:56,079 People not only knew about the bodies in the house 327 00:15:56,080 --> 00:16:01,294 with Jean and didn't report it, some also participated. 328 00:16:01,419 --> 00:16:05,964 And she'd been trying to get at bodies for more than a decade. 329 00:16:05,965 --> 00:16:09,593 [Tom] In 1999, Jean's husband Jimmy died, 330 00:16:09,594 --> 00:16:14,599 and he's buried in the Lime Hill Cemetery. 331 00:16:14,724 --> 00:16:19,019 Jean decided that that was not a good place for Jimmy, 332 00:16:19,020 --> 00:16:24,609 that he should be home. Jean, she is claustrophobic. 333 00:16:24,734 --> 00:16:29,154 When it comes to being buried, closed spaces, no, no, no, 334 00:16:29,155 --> 00:16:30,697 Jean didn't like that. 335 00:16:30,698 --> 00:16:35,035 So Jean, she starts talking to people. 336 00:16:35,036 --> 00:16:36,954 So she actually went through the legal process, 337 00:16:37,079 --> 00:16:38,830 got an exhumation order. 338 00:16:38,831 --> 00:16:41,958 [Beth] Generally in Pennsylvania, a family member can petition 339 00:16:41,959 --> 00:16:45,545 the court for an order to exhume a relative. 340 00:16:45,546 --> 00:16:48,048 [Tom] But here's where it gets more interesting. 341 00:16:48,049 --> 00:16:50,468 Now Jean wants to open the casket. 342 00:16:51,677 --> 00:16:55,889 Jean puts a beanie on Jimmy's head 343 00:16:55,890 --> 00:16:58,518 and puts slippers on his feet 344 00:16:58,643 --> 00:17:00,519 to keep him warm. 345 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:03,813 [Mike] That tells me that she had this level of shrewdness 346 00:17:03,814 --> 00:17:08,068 about her, that she was able to come up with this bizarre, 347 00:17:08,069 --> 00:17:10,863 crazy plan and execute on the plan, 348 00:17:10,988 --> 00:17:12,239 especially at her age. 349 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:13,699 It was just amazing to me. 350 00:17:13,824 --> 00:17:15,867 You know, they finally got her away from the casket 351 00:17:15,868 --> 00:17:17,203 and then reinterred him. 352 00:17:17,328 --> 00:17:19,746 Put nothing but dirt over top of him. 353 00:17:19,747 --> 00:17:21,873 [Tom] At that very moment, in Jean's head, 354 00:17:21,874 --> 00:17:25,210 she knew exactly what she was gonna do, right? 355 00:17:25,211 --> 00:17:27,046 All the heavy rocks are gone. 356 00:17:27,171 --> 00:17:31,550 Now it's an easy dig, an easy removal. 357 00:17:31,551 --> 00:17:34,052 [Beth] Look, she's a 91-year-old woman. 358 00:17:34,053 --> 00:17:36,847 People say, "Oh, she's just a sweet, old lady 359 00:17:36,973 --> 00:17:38,014 who was lonely." 360 00:17:38,015 --> 00:17:39,933 But you could also be manipulative, 361 00:17:39,934 --> 00:17:41,227 because she didn't get those bodies 362 00:17:41,352 --> 00:17:43,103 into her house by herself. 363 00:17:43,104 --> 00:17:48,858 [Tom] So, days later, Jean and a group of individuals, 364 00:17:48,859 --> 00:17:49,986 they dig him up. 365 00:17:51,153 --> 00:17:53,238 [Al] They got him up out of the grave site, 366 00:17:53,239 --> 00:17:55,575 loaded him in the back of Jean's station wagon. 367 00:17:57,285 --> 00:17:59,579 You know, "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation," 368 00:17:59,704 --> 00:18:01,414 that's what she had. 369 00:18:01,539 --> 00:18:03,749 Drove home, got him out of the station wagon, 370 00:18:03,874 --> 00:18:04,875 and there he was. 371 00:18:07,169 --> 00:18:09,546 And when I asked, "Jean, who were these people?" 372 00:18:09,547 --> 00:18:10,714 "Ah, don't worry about it, 373 00:18:10,715 --> 00:18:12,258 they're all dead now," she says. 374 00:18:14,552 --> 00:18:16,886 I mean, it is illegal conduct. 375 00:18:16,887 --> 00:18:21,892 The laws on the book say you have to deal with a corpse 376 00:18:22,018 --> 00:18:23,393 in a certain way. 377 00:18:23,394 --> 00:18:25,104 Why are these people helping her? 378 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:30,942 And then ten years later, she buried her sister 379 00:18:30,943 --> 00:18:33,779 on her own property, which is allowed in Pennsylvania. 380 00:18:33,904 --> 00:18:38,075 [Kate] I'm pretty sure she wanted her not in a public cemetery, 381 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:41,911 but a private place so she could get at the coffin 382 00:18:41,912 --> 00:18:47,084 underground and retrieve June and keep her in her house. 383 00:18:48,586 --> 00:18:53,965 Doron helped with the local regulations to get her property 384 00:18:53,966 --> 00:18:56,636 designated as a cemetery 385 00:18:56,761 --> 00:19:00,765 so that she could be placed on her property. 386 00:19:00,890 --> 00:19:07,605 I'm pretty sure that Doron was cognizant of Jean's intentions. 387 00:19:08,898 --> 00:19:14,737 So, October 2009, Jean started to dig June up. 388 00:19:16,280 --> 00:19:19,157 A neighbor saw what she was doing. 389 00:19:19,158 --> 00:19:21,619 He naturally pitches in to help. 390 00:19:21,744 --> 00:19:24,163 They took June into the house on a sled, 391 00:19:24,288 --> 00:19:27,375 where then she was placed on the sofa. 392 00:19:29,418 --> 00:19:32,129 [Beth] She convinced her neighbor, Jim Flanagan, 393 00:19:32,254 --> 00:19:34,714 to carry her inside. 394 00:19:34,715 --> 00:19:36,716 You can't make this stuff up. 395 00:19:36,717 --> 00:19:38,802 I mean, he could have told the police, right? 396 00:19:38,803 --> 00:19:40,638 He said, "Oh"-- he didn't want her to get hurt. 397 00:19:40,763 --> 00:19:42,181 "I'm gonna help her." 398 00:19:42,306 --> 00:19:45,142 You're gonna help her disinter her sister's body 399 00:19:45,267 --> 00:19:46,559 and bring her body in the house? 400 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:49,479 Like, what makes you think that is OK to do 401 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:52,232 and not get this woman some help, maybe? 402 00:19:52,233 --> 00:19:53,817 [Al] We talked to Jim. 403 00:19:53,818 --> 00:19:54,985 He was like, "I know it's wrong. 404 00:19:55,111 --> 00:19:56,569 "I didn't want to do it. 405 00:19:56,570 --> 00:19:59,197 "I put Jean off, and she kept asking and kept asking 406 00:19:59,198 --> 00:20:01,867 "and kept asking and kept asking and kept after me... 407 00:20:02,910 --> 00:20:07,164 till I finally just gave up. OK, Jean, I'll help you." 408 00:20:09,208 --> 00:20:12,168 [David] Regarding Mr. Flanagan's involvement in it, 409 00:20:12,169 --> 00:20:14,505 it was quite clear it was out of not just sympathy, 410 00:20:14,630 --> 00:20:17,215 but out of protection for Mrs. Stevens. 411 00:20:17,216 --> 00:20:20,009 It didn't seem appropriate or useful to prosecute 412 00:20:20,010 --> 00:20:22,179 Mr. Flanagan in this situation. 413 00:20:28,602 --> 00:20:31,355 [Mary Ann] Jim, the man who did the grave digging, 414 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:33,273 he was my neighbor. 415 00:20:33,274 --> 00:20:37,360 - I am Mary Ann Raffin. - And I am Jeff Smith. 416 00:20:37,361 --> 00:20:40,531 So I was really shocked to hear that Jim would do that, 417 00:20:40,656 --> 00:20:42,615 but he was such a nice guy, I could understand 418 00:20:42,616 --> 00:20:45,618 why he would do it for her. - It didn't hurt anyone. 419 00:20:45,619 --> 00:20:48,705 I actually wish they just could have left her alone. 420 00:20:48,706 --> 00:20:51,249 I knew her husband was dead. 421 00:20:51,250 --> 00:20:54,627 I don't see anything wrong with having somebody in your house. 422 00:20:54,628 --> 00:20:56,505 Everybody has dark secrets. 423 00:21:00,593 --> 00:21:02,719 In Bradford County, 424 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:05,473 a lot of us feel as if we can do what we want. 425 00:21:06,891 --> 00:21:08,558 [Beth] We know a lot of people in town knew 426 00:21:08,559 --> 00:21:09,769 there were two corpses. 427 00:21:09,894 --> 00:21:11,562 They also participated. 428 00:21:11,687 --> 00:21:13,480 So nothing really makes sense to me 429 00:21:13,481 --> 00:21:16,233 unless there is some ulterior motive. 430 00:21:17,485 --> 00:21:19,153 [tense tones playing] 431 00:21:23,824 --> 00:21:26,367 [Mike] It's very possible that other than Jean 432 00:21:26,368 --> 00:21:30,288 and the person who dug up the bodies, nobody knew. 433 00:21:30,289 --> 00:21:33,750 But it's also possible that the neighbors 434 00:21:33,751 --> 00:21:36,586 who cared for her did know. 435 00:21:36,587 --> 00:21:39,548 [Beth] How was Jean able to pull this off for so long? 436 00:21:39,673 --> 00:21:41,216 There are people who helped her 437 00:21:41,217 --> 00:21:43,260 with the bodies in the community. 438 00:21:43,385 --> 00:21:45,720 They knew she had corpses in her house. 439 00:21:45,721 --> 00:21:48,516 So she had her supporters, but why? 440 00:21:50,768 --> 00:21:52,894 My name's Bob Johnson. 441 00:21:52,895 --> 00:21:54,646 You can't make this [bleep] up, you know. 442 00:21:54,647 --> 00:21:56,273 It's-- it's there. 443 00:21:56,398 --> 00:21:58,733 What's real weird is thinking you could find 444 00:21:58,734 --> 00:22:00,444 somebody to help you. 445 00:22:02,822 --> 00:22:05,073 Jean's across-the-street neighbors, 446 00:22:05,074 --> 00:22:08,952 they had been longtime friends with Jean. 447 00:22:08,953 --> 00:22:10,746 [Bob] He runs the township, 448 00:22:10,871 --> 00:22:12,580 and his wife was secretary. 449 00:22:12,581 --> 00:22:14,458 They've done one hell of a good job. 450 00:22:14,583 --> 00:22:17,545 They put a lot of their time into it, you know. 451 00:22:20,339 --> 00:22:22,465 Her neighbors across the street, they were 452 00:22:22,466 --> 00:22:25,802 taking care of her, helping her with her lawn work, 453 00:22:25,803 --> 00:22:27,804 maybe doing errands for her. 454 00:22:27,805 --> 00:22:29,138 I mean, what does that tell you? 455 00:22:29,139 --> 00:22:32,308 Possibly? They knew it. 456 00:22:32,309 --> 00:22:35,520 Who wouldn't report that a little old lady 457 00:22:35,521 --> 00:22:36,771 has corpses in her house? 458 00:22:36,772 --> 00:22:39,524 Maybe did they say, "I'm gonna call the police. 459 00:22:39,525 --> 00:22:41,192 This is not right." 460 00:22:41,193 --> 00:22:43,737 And she's like, "Hang on. Hang on, I'll make you a deal." 461 00:22:46,156 --> 00:22:48,658 June and Jimmy are now at the morgue, OK? 462 00:22:48,659 --> 00:22:50,952 And she kept wanting to come 463 00:22:50,953 --> 00:22:53,288 to the coroner's office to see them. 464 00:22:53,289 --> 00:22:56,499 And I kept on explaining to her, I can't do that, Jean. 465 00:22:56,500 --> 00:23:02,213 Then it became, "I'm going to bring you some clothes. 466 00:23:02,214 --> 00:23:05,593 Can you please make sure Jimmy and June are dressed in them?" 467 00:23:06,719 --> 00:23:09,304 So, sure enough, here's two duffel bags. 468 00:23:09,305 --> 00:23:14,392 So in keeping my word to Jean, I had dressed Jimmy 469 00:23:14,393 --> 00:23:17,479 in the pajamas that Jean had provided. 470 00:23:17,605 --> 00:23:19,564 A horrific job. Huh! 471 00:23:19,565 --> 00:23:21,191 The aroma was horrible. 472 00:23:21,317 --> 00:23:23,986 With June, it was the same thing. 473 00:23:24,111 --> 00:23:26,030 I put a fresh nightgown. 474 00:23:26,155 --> 00:23:29,158 She says, "Will you talk to them?" 475 00:23:29,283 --> 00:23:32,995 I said, "Jean, I promise you I will talk to them." 476 00:23:34,705 --> 00:23:37,333 [Beth] Tom Carman is putting his job at risk, right? 477 00:23:37,458 --> 00:23:39,542 And why would he do that? He's a civil servant. 478 00:23:39,543 --> 00:23:41,253 He's got to obey the law. 479 00:23:42,463 --> 00:23:44,839 I'd bring somebody in off the streets, right? 480 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:46,883 Car crash, home, whatever. 481 00:23:46,884 --> 00:23:49,803 Bring them in off the streets and put them into the morgue. 482 00:23:50,930 --> 00:23:53,556 It got to the point where I would say, 483 00:23:53,557 --> 00:23:56,727 "Hey, June, Jimmy, this is so and so. 484 00:23:56,852 --> 00:24:00,730 So and so, June and Jimmy." I thought I was going crazy. 485 00:24:00,731 --> 00:24:02,774 Maybe I am, I don't know. 486 00:24:02,775 --> 00:24:07,612 I felt an obligation to Jean to honor all her wishes. 487 00:24:07,613 --> 00:24:11,533 I cared about her as a now-friend, and... 488 00:24:13,452 --> 00:24:15,120 I didn't want her haunting me. 489 00:24:19,041 --> 00:24:23,252 Imagine being the spouse of this crash victim who died 490 00:24:23,253 --> 00:24:25,255 and whose body's in the coroner's office. 491 00:24:26,799 --> 00:24:29,300 And he calls up the spouse of the crash victim and says, 492 00:24:29,301 --> 00:24:30,427 "Well, I'm gonna have a party 493 00:24:30,552 --> 00:24:31,719 "with a couple other corpses here. 494 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:34,056 "Can I use your husband's corpse too? 495 00:24:34,181 --> 00:24:36,225 Can he come to the party?" 496 00:24:36,350 --> 00:24:38,226 I don't care what kind of influence 497 00:24:38,227 --> 00:24:39,395 this woman has on you. 498 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:44,358 You do not do that. Unless it's a big "influence." 499 00:24:46,276 --> 00:24:49,070 [Mike] Starting in around 2007, the natural gas industry 500 00:24:49,071 --> 00:24:52,908 had discovered this part of Pennsylvania has an enormous 501 00:24:53,033 --> 00:24:54,785 reserve of natural gas. 502 00:24:54,910 --> 00:24:57,453 It's like the Saudi Arabia of natural gases. 503 00:24:57,454 --> 00:24:59,748 And so the gas industry, they were approaching 504 00:24:59,873 --> 00:25:02,959 landowners and having them sign leases, 505 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:06,170 giving the gas industry permission to drill 506 00:25:06,171 --> 00:25:09,298 underneath their land and get the gas out. 507 00:25:09,299 --> 00:25:11,342 The house that Jean Stevens lived in 508 00:25:11,343 --> 00:25:14,303 was on a larger piece of ground, and... 509 00:25:14,304 --> 00:25:16,597 You know, if you had ten acres and they wanted to put 510 00:25:16,598 --> 00:25:18,809 a well pad on it, 511 00:25:18,934 --> 00:25:21,352 your ten acres is worth a gold mine. 512 00:25:21,353 --> 00:25:27,817 We came to learn that Jean's property was undergirded. 513 00:25:27,818 --> 00:25:31,487 With mineral rights, there was this oil deposit there, 514 00:25:31,488 --> 00:25:34,449 so that's quite valuable property 515 00:25:34,450 --> 00:25:37,535 that this farmhouse sits on. 516 00:25:37,536 --> 00:25:40,289 It is a gold mine. It was. 517 00:25:40,414 --> 00:25:41,956 [David] She had made a comment when we were there 518 00:25:41,957 --> 00:25:43,499 that she was getting some phone calls 519 00:25:43,500 --> 00:25:45,335 from people that she didn't know, 520 00:25:45,461 --> 00:25:47,629 and they wanted to buy land off of her. 521 00:25:48,714 --> 00:25:50,632 Very elderly woman, lives by herself, 522 00:25:50,758 --> 00:25:53,635 has no one else, is sitting on a gold mine, 523 00:25:53,761 --> 00:25:56,513 and it seems like people know that, 524 00:25:56,638 --> 00:25:59,057 and they're trying to get their claws into it somehow. 525 00:25:59,058 --> 00:26:01,476 [Beth] It doesn't take a rocket scientist to make the leap 526 00:26:01,477 --> 00:26:03,394 that, you know, maybe somebody has thought, 527 00:26:03,395 --> 00:26:05,647 "Well, you know, I'd like those mineral rights, 528 00:26:05,773 --> 00:26:07,565 I'd like those houses." 529 00:26:07,566 --> 00:26:09,901 And work their way into her life. 530 00:26:09,902 --> 00:26:11,403 It happens all the time. 531 00:26:12,654 --> 00:26:15,323 [Al] There was no relatives. She was the last one. 532 00:26:15,324 --> 00:26:18,242 Then what happened with that property if she didn't have it 533 00:26:18,243 --> 00:26:20,536 willed or deeded somehow to somebody? 534 00:26:20,537 --> 00:26:22,872 It could be very much like vultures circling. 535 00:26:22,873 --> 00:26:24,917 The predators are circling the prey. 536 00:26:32,174 --> 00:26:33,716 [Beth] Oh, my God. I get it now. 537 00:26:33,717 --> 00:26:35,177 And let me explain. 538 00:26:35,302 --> 00:26:37,346 Jean and June didn't have children. 539 00:26:37,471 --> 00:26:40,056 Jean is gonna die soon, and she doesn't have 540 00:26:40,057 --> 00:26:44,061 a direct descendant who would inherit her estate, 541 00:26:44,186 --> 00:26:47,105 which is probably worth at least $2 million. 542 00:26:47,106 --> 00:26:48,564 We're talking about her personal property, 543 00:26:48,565 --> 00:26:50,775 mineral rights on the property. 544 00:26:50,776 --> 00:26:53,945 I mean, that's what is probably motivating these people 545 00:26:53,946 --> 00:26:57,740 to tolerate her eccentric, illegal behavior 546 00:26:57,741 --> 00:26:59,535 because they can get something out of that. 547 00:27:00,869 --> 00:27:03,205 OK, so let's break it down-- one... 548 00:27:05,249 --> 00:27:07,708 Kate and her partner, Jean's nephew, 549 00:27:07,709 --> 00:27:10,545 knew about the bodies and even had tea 550 00:27:10,546 --> 00:27:12,547 while June was in the room. 551 00:27:12,548 --> 00:27:15,217 [Kate] Jean was the last of the Stevens, 552 00:27:15,342 --> 00:27:19,720 and Doron would have loved to keep the farm in the family. 553 00:27:19,721 --> 00:27:22,140 He wanted to claim that house. 554 00:27:22,141 --> 00:27:25,394 I remember him talking with this one attorney 555 00:27:25,519 --> 00:27:29,064 that would allow us to keep Jean's house, but he said, 556 00:27:29,189 --> 00:27:31,775 "I'm kind of concerned that she's just gonna 557 00:27:31,900 --> 00:27:33,651 give it away to a neighbor." 558 00:27:33,652 --> 00:27:37,822 [Beth] So the nephew wanted to inherit her estate. 559 00:27:37,823 --> 00:27:40,117 So maybe that's why there's this tolerance 560 00:27:40,242 --> 00:27:43,244 for auntie's eccentric conduct. 561 00:27:43,245 --> 00:27:46,831 [Kate] And in this discussion with this attorney, he said, 562 00:27:46,832 --> 00:27:48,292 "She is kind of quirky. 563 00:27:48,417 --> 00:27:51,669 "She has her husband in the garage, 564 00:27:51,670 --> 00:27:53,296 rolled up in a blanket." 565 00:27:53,297 --> 00:27:59,177 That's how we suspect that the authorities got wind of it. 566 00:27:59,178 --> 00:28:02,763 [Mike] Jean was very upset at how all of this went down. 567 00:28:02,764 --> 00:28:06,810 She says it was a relative of her husband 568 00:28:06,935 --> 00:28:08,686 who called the authorities. 569 00:28:08,687 --> 00:28:11,273 She told me it was dirty and rotten. 570 00:28:11,398 --> 00:28:14,775 [Beth] If the nephew was in the will before, he's not in it now, 571 00:28:14,776 --> 00:28:18,113 because he's the one who ended up getting Jean reported 572 00:28:18,238 --> 00:28:20,490 to the police, right, by talking to a lawyer? 573 00:28:20,616 --> 00:28:23,660 Jean's like, "Sayonara, nephew." 574 00:28:23,785 --> 00:28:25,036 That makes a lot more sense. 575 00:28:25,037 --> 00:28:27,371 Maybe that's why her neighbors are bringing her groceries 576 00:28:27,372 --> 00:28:29,333 and not saying anything, 'cause maybe 577 00:28:29,458 --> 00:28:31,960 they've got their sights on her estates as well. 578 00:28:35,923 --> 00:28:37,298 Nothing I can prove. 579 00:28:37,299 --> 00:28:39,301 I really don't wanna say too much. 580 00:28:41,011 --> 00:28:45,974 I believe those neighbors knew at least Jimmy 581 00:28:46,099 --> 00:28:48,017 was on that property. 582 00:28:48,018 --> 00:28:49,811 Nobody ever came forward. 583 00:28:49,937 --> 00:28:53,982 [Kate] When June died, the neighbors hosted a luncheon 584 00:28:54,107 --> 00:28:55,692 for us after the funeral. 585 00:28:55,817 --> 00:28:59,363 They were so cordial and gracious, and we thought, 586 00:28:59,488 --> 00:29:02,740 in our naivete, they will surely work with us 587 00:29:02,741 --> 00:29:05,910 and let us keep the farm in the family. 588 00:29:05,911 --> 00:29:11,124 But I think in retrospect, they had another idea. 589 00:29:12,709 --> 00:29:17,004 [Beth] Were Jean's neighbors trying to get in Jean's good graces 590 00:29:17,005 --> 00:29:19,924 because they wanted something out of her, her property? 591 00:29:19,925 --> 00:29:21,885 Then we have Tom Carman, who is going along 592 00:29:22,010 --> 00:29:23,679 with whatever Jean asked of him. 593 00:29:25,222 --> 00:29:26,847 From what I know of Tom Carman, 594 00:29:26,848 --> 00:29:28,725 I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him. 595 00:29:28,850 --> 00:29:31,269 If he saw an opportunity to make money 596 00:29:31,270 --> 00:29:33,647 to better himself, he'd do anything. 597 00:29:34,815 --> 00:29:39,194 So Western Alliance, which is a nonprofit EMT agency, 598 00:29:39,319 --> 00:29:42,405 Tom Carman was one of the top people there. 599 00:29:42,406 --> 00:29:45,074 There were allegations that Tom had been taking money 600 00:29:45,075 --> 00:29:46,076 from Western Alliance. 601 00:29:47,828 --> 00:29:50,037 [Beth] The Attorney General's office 602 00:29:50,038 --> 00:29:55,752 concluded Tom Carman had made about $356,000 603 00:29:55,877 --> 00:29:58,296 worth of unauthorized purchases 604 00:29:58,297 --> 00:30:00,256 through his Western Alliance company, 605 00:30:00,257 --> 00:30:02,258 the ambulance company that he was CEO of. 606 00:30:02,259 --> 00:30:06,388 So, you know, you got to wonder if he wasn't willing to bend 607 00:30:06,513 --> 00:30:08,889 the rules a little bit when it came to Jean. 608 00:30:08,890 --> 00:30:10,808 [David] Money talks, [laughs]. 609 00:30:10,809 --> 00:30:13,477 It's the root of all evil. People do anything. 610 00:30:13,478 --> 00:30:16,732 She made me promise her I'd write a book about her. 611 00:30:16,857 --> 00:30:18,149 What do I know about writing. 612 00:30:18,150 --> 00:30:21,236 I never took a literacy class in my life, right? 613 00:30:21,361 --> 00:30:23,864 I just barely got through high school. 614 00:30:25,699 --> 00:30:27,908 [Beth] So this is Tom Carman's book. 615 00:30:27,909 --> 00:30:30,454 It's called "My Illusion of Normal: The Peculiar Case 616 00:30:30,579 --> 00:30:31,662 of Jean Stevens." 617 00:30:31,663 --> 00:30:33,290 He says, "This book is dedicated to the memory 618 00:30:33,415 --> 00:30:36,834 "of Jean Lucille Stevens, a loving sister, a good wife, 619 00:30:36,835 --> 00:30:38,337 and a dear friend." 620 00:30:39,671 --> 00:30:42,506 OK, so we possibly know what everybody wanted, right? 621 00:30:42,507 --> 00:30:44,301 The nephew wanted the house. 622 00:30:44,426 --> 00:30:46,677 Jean's neighbors wanted everything. 623 00:30:46,678 --> 00:30:51,099 Maybe Tom Carman wanted money. But what did Jean want? 624 00:30:52,476 --> 00:30:55,311 [Tom] So Jean was convinced 625 00:30:55,312 --> 00:30:58,606 that June and Jimmy could hear her, 626 00:30:58,607 --> 00:31:00,649 that they were present. 627 00:31:00,650 --> 00:31:03,694 There was a time when Jean says to me, 628 00:31:03,695 --> 00:31:07,657 "I'll give you $5,000 if you bring me those bodies back." 629 00:31:08,867 --> 00:31:11,828 I'm standing there, and I'm trying not to laugh. 630 00:31:11,953 --> 00:31:15,624 This lady just tried to bribe me for $5,000. 631 00:31:15,749 --> 00:31:17,417 I said, "Jean, that can't happen." 632 00:31:18,585 --> 00:31:20,962 I mean, she's trying to bribe Tom Carman. 633 00:31:21,088 --> 00:31:23,256 I mean, she was a manipulative woman. 634 00:31:33,809 --> 00:31:35,977 [Al] You got a 91-year-old lady. 635 00:31:36,103 --> 00:31:38,605 Without knowing her, she's as pure as a driven snow. 636 00:31:39,648 --> 00:31:41,524 But Tom and I, we go back and she said, 637 00:31:41,525 --> 00:31:44,693 "Oh man, he's something. He's sweet, I like that guy." 638 00:31:44,694 --> 00:31:46,195 She says, "I gotta brush my teeth. 639 00:31:46,196 --> 00:31:48,156 I gotta have fresh breath before, right?" 640 00:31:48,281 --> 00:31:49,657 Away she goes. 641 00:31:49,658 --> 00:31:51,409 She's brushing her teeth and she's coming back out 642 00:31:51,410 --> 00:31:52,701 and actually smacked her lips. 643 00:31:52,702 --> 00:31:54,370 "Oh, I'm nice and fresh now, boy. 644 00:31:54,371 --> 00:31:56,498 I'm ready to plant one on this guy." 645 00:31:56,623 --> 00:32:00,001 So, I said, "Tom, Jean's got something for you. 646 00:32:00,127 --> 00:32:02,003 She thinks you're all that and a cup of coffee." 647 00:32:05,590 --> 00:32:06,591 Jean says... 648 00:32:07,926 --> 00:32:08,927 "You know... 649 00:32:10,429 --> 00:32:13,014 I always wanted to marry a funeral director." 650 00:32:14,683 --> 00:32:17,268 [Beth] Her flirtation is part of her manipulation, 651 00:32:17,269 --> 00:32:19,229 because she wants those bodies back. 652 00:32:20,647 --> 00:32:22,565 [Al] Jean starts putting the moves on him. 653 00:32:22,566 --> 00:32:24,900 [romantic French music plays] 654 00:32:24,901 --> 00:32:27,571 Jean's on the other end of the table. 655 00:32:27,696 --> 00:32:30,114 Now, here's everybody's grandma, right? 656 00:32:30,115 --> 00:32:31,615 She takes her right leg 657 00:32:31,616 --> 00:32:33,451 and she hikes it up over her left leg 658 00:32:33,452 --> 00:32:35,953 and she grabs that skirt and she pulls it up 659 00:32:35,954 --> 00:32:37,538 to about mid-thigh. 660 00:32:37,539 --> 00:32:39,708 And the tears start running down my face. 661 00:32:40,834 --> 00:32:43,252 I am busting inside. 662 00:32:43,253 --> 00:32:44,713 She left me speechless. 663 00:32:46,089 --> 00:32:47,883 [Beth] She wanted to manipulate someone who knew 664 00:32:48,008 --> 00:32:51,595 how to handle dead bodies, like a funeral director. 665 00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:54,263 So that's why she was flirting with Tom Carman. 666 00:32:54,264 --> 00:32:56,891 [Tom] After making my comment to Jean, 667 00:32:56,892 --> 00:32:58,768 "No, this $5,000 can't happen." 668 00:32:58,894 --> 00:33:00,603 She said, "I want you to know I'll come up 669 00:33:00,604 --> 00:33:01,938 "with something that's gonna work. 670 00:33:02,063 --> 00:33:04,815 "I'm just gonna have a garage built. 671 00:33:04,816 --> 00:33:08,819 And in that garage, I'll put June, I'll put Jimmy." 672 00:33:08,820 --> 00:33:12,948 And I said, "Jean, it's not gonna work. 673 00:33:12,949 --> 00:33:16,785 We have to have something that's sealed." 674 00:33:16,786 --> 00:33:18,330 Long story short, 675 00:33:19,372 --> 00:33:20,749 this garage is built. 676 00:33:22,250 --> 00:33:24,627 Jean wants to show me this garage. 677 00:33:24,628 --> 00:33:26,588 It's got a heater in the corner. 678 00:33:26,713 --> 00:33:29,466 And then there's these eight tables laid out. 679 00:33:29,591 --> 00:33:30,800 Boom, boom, boom. 680 00:33:30,926 --> 00:33:32,676 I said, "Jean, good God, what do you-- 681 00:33:32,677 --> 00:33:34,094 what do you do with these tables?" 682 00:33:34,095 --> 00:33:35,971 "Well, this is where June's gonna be. 683 00:33:35,972 --> 00:33:37,974 "This is where Jimmy's gonna be. 684 00:33:38,099 --> 00:33:39,976 "Mom's gonna be here. 685 00:33:40,101 --> 00:33:42,604 "June's husband's gonna be here. 686 00:33:42,729 --> 00:33:45,022 "My grandfather, he's gonna be here. 687 00:33:45,023 --> 00:33:48,817 And, you know, when I die, I'm gonna be here." 688 00:33:48,818 --> 00:33:52,322 She had a master plan that she wanted to reunite 689 00:33:52,447 --> 00:33:55,283 the family all above ground as corpses. 690 00:33:55,408 --> 00:33:57,661 That's what Jean wanted. 691 00:33:57,786 --> 00:33:59,787 [Tom] I'm just standing there. I'm speechless. 692 00:33:59,788 --> 00:34:02,957 Now she's gonna bring the whole gang home, you know? 693 00:34:02,958 --> 00:34:05,544 And I'm like, "Oh, my Lord." 694 00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:17,304 [Tom] This is the most bizarre thing I've ever seen. 695 00:34:17,305 --> 00:34:18,806 We got-- I got eight tables there, 696 00:34:18,807 --> 00:34:21,684 knowing darn well they're intended for dead bodies. 697 00:34:21,685 --> 00:34:24,145 And I said, "Jean, what are you thinking?" 698 00:34:24,271 --> 00:34:25,938 It could be that Jean was just projecting 699 00:34:25,939 --> 00:34:27,315 her own claustrophobia. 700 00:34:28,942 --> 00:34:30,277 She don't wanna be underground. 701 00:34:30,402 --> 00:34:31,527 She doesn't want them underground. 702 00:34:31,528 --> 00:34:33,446 We might as well dig up the rest of the family. 703 00:34:36,866 --> 00:34:39,368 She apparently had this plan dating back 704 00:34:39,369 --> 00:34:41,495 to her young adult years 705 00:34:41,496 --> 00:34:44,039 when she had, like, dug up her mother and visited 706 00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:46,542 with her mother's open casket. 707 00:34:46,543 --> 00:34:48,211 That's what Jean wanted. 708 00:34:50,046 --> 00:34:55,051 Jean had this laid out, the whole plan. 709 00:34:57,512 --> 00:35:02,516 But Jean had fallen at her home 710 00:35:02,517 --> 00:35:04,227 and fractured her hip. 711 00:35:06,062 --> 00:35:09,190 Now, anybody in the medical business knows 712 00:35:09,316 --> 00:35:12,401 that a fractured hip to a geriatric patient, 713 00:35:12,402 --> 00:35:14,486 it's a death sentence, essentially. 714 00:35:14,487 --> 00:35:17,866 I went over to the bedside with Jean, and she says, 715 00:35:17,991 --> 00:35:19,575 "I want to tell you something." 716 00:35:19,576 --> 00:35:22,287 She says, "I'm ready." 717 00:35:23,496 --> 00:35:25,665 "I'm ready to go." 718 00:35:27,626 --> 00:35:29,752 [Beth] Jean Stevens, 2012. 719 00:35:29,753 --> 00:35:31,713 She dies. She's 92 years old. 720 00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:36,592 [Tom] Now, understand, everybody's gone, OK? 721 00:35:36,593 --> 00:35:41,222 I'm left with three dead bodies, June, Jimmy, Jean. 722 00:35:41,348 --> 00:35:43,557 And somehow, I have to come up with some sort 723 00:35:43,558 --> 00:35:46,560 of a logical, legal conclusion. 724 00:35:46,561 --> 00:35:52,274 So, hence came the above-ground "vault"... 725 00:35:52,275 --> 00:35:54,277 [monastic chants] 726 00:35:57,364 --> 00:36:02,868 ...where June, Jimmy, Jean are at peace. 727 00:36:02,869 --> 00:36:05,121 Brings back a lot of memories being here. 728 00:36:07,207 --> 00:36:09,417 There were four of us here in the cemetery. 729 00:36:09,542 --> 00:36:12,461 There was a funeral director, two of Jean's neighbors, 730 00:36:12,462 --> 00:36:13,712 and myself. 731 00:36:13,713 --> 00:36:15,090 And I'll never forget. 732 00:36:15,215 --> 00:36:17,592 I placed June here, 733 00:36:19,260 --> 00:36:20,261 Jean here, 734 00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:25,766 and Jimmy here, and the three of them laid out 735 00:36:25,767 --> 00:36:29,688 side-by-side. Jean's wishes were met, 736 00:36:31,356 --> 00:36:34,734 and the story ended... 737 00:36:35,944 --> 00:36:37,028 for Jean. 738 00:36:38,154 --> 00:36:39,155 [Beth] So now Jean's dead. 739 00:36:40,699 --> 00:36:44,076 There's no obituary for her in Wyalusing. 740 00:36:44,077 --> 00:36:46,662 According to Tom Carman-- it's Tom, like, somebody 741 00:36:46,663 --> 00:36:49,456 from the funeral home, funeral director, 742 00:36:49,457 --> 00:36:52,127 and Jean's neighbors, and that's it. 743 00:36:52,252 --> 00:36:54,421 Like, that's weird, right? 744 00:36:54,546 --> 00:36:56,422 That is so disrespectful. 745 00:36:56,423 --> 00:37:00,300 She and her twin sister, June, and her husband, 746 00:37:00,301 --> 00:37:03,595 Jimmy, are now supposedly all placed 747 00:37:03,596 --> 00:37:08,435 in this above-ground cement, like, crypt in the cemetery. 748 00:37:10,603 --> 00:37:14,941 Do you really think that Jean, with her severe claustrophobia, 749 00:37:15,066 --> 00:37:17,944 agreed to be in this chamber? 750 00:37:18,069 --> 00:37:21,822 Maybe they didn't put her in this burial chamber, 751 00:37:21,823 --> 00:37:23,408 and they put her somewhere else. 752 00:37:24,784 --> 00:37:26,660 Is this part of the arrangement? 753 00:37:26,661 --> 00:37:30,539 Disposing of Jean the way she wanted to be disposed of 754 00:37:30,540 --> 00:37:34,294 in death to give the beneficiaries her estate? 755 00:37:36,296 --> 00:37:39,841 [David] Knowing what I know now, I would not be shocked or even 756 00:37:39,966 --> 00:37:44,344 mildly surprised if they ever want to open up those vaults 757 00:37:44,345 --> 00:37:46,598 in the cemetery and find that there's no one there. 758 00:37:47,807 --> 00:37:49,725 I assumed she was in that building, 759 00:37:49,726 --> 00:37:52,144 because that was built before she died. 760 00:37:52,145 --> 00:37:55,315 Maybe Jean is someplace else, not in the crypt. 761 00:37:56,524 --> 00:37:58,526 [Al] Is she there? I think so. 762 00:37:58,651 --> 00:38:01,862 Would I be floored, surprised if she wasn't? 763 00:38:01,863 --> 00:38:02,989 No. 764 00:38:03,114 --> 00:38:04,991 Given everything that's going on in this whole scenario, 765 00:38:05,116 --> 00:38:07,827 I don't think anything about Jean would surprise me anymore. 766 00:38:09,454 --> 00:38:11,372 [Beth] There's nothing in Jean's will 767 00:38:11,498 --> 00:38:13,374 about how she wanted to be interred. 768 00:38:13,500 --> 00:38:16,503 So there is, of course, a chance that she is in there, 769 00:38:16,628 --> 00:38:20,714 but I bet you it would be against her wishes. 770 00:38:20,715 --> 00:38:25,177 So what we have here are Jean's neighbors who own the property 771 00:38:25,178 --> 00:38:28,597 where this mausoleum is for all the bodies. 772 00:38:28,598 --> 00:38:32,726 Jean's neighbors become the beneficiaries of the will. 773 00:38:32,727 --> 00:38:34,187 So she gives all her real estate, 774 00:38:34,312 --> 00:38:37,065 we're talking about 121 acres and the houses, right, 775 00:38:37,190 --> 00:38:38,983 to her neighbors across the street. 776 00:38:40,276 --> 00:38:44,112 The neighbors let Doron know that Jean had passed, 777 00:38:44,113 --> 00:38:47,367 but not that she was failing. 778 00:38:47,492 --> 00:38:50,911 By that time, the will would have been established. 779 00:38:50,912 --> 00:38:54,414 The neighbors probably had their eye on that property. 780 00:38:54,415 --> 00:38:59,212 They didn't want any family to get access to Jean 781 00:38:59,337 --> 00:39:02,549 in her last days that would have had any effect 782 00:39:02,674 --> 00:39:07,469 on the will or what would happen to that property. 783 00:39:07,470 --> 00:39:11,390 It's possible that she could have worked out a deal 784 00:39:11,391 --> 00:39:15,561 with the neighbors that, "If you keep me out of the ground 785 00:39:15,562 --> 00:39:17,230 you can have the farm." 786 00:39:19,607 --> 00:39:23,902 And then Tom Carman, who can take care of the bodies 787 00:39:23,903 --> 00:39:25,405 that are being housed. 788 00:39:25,530 --> 00:39:29,408 Well, we know now that he has embezzled money, 789 00:39:29,409 --> 00:39:32,744 so it doesn't seem to be a big stretch to say, 790 00:39:32,745 --> 00:39:34,580 "Hmm, maybe Tom was in it 791 00:39:34,581 --> 00:39:36,749 for a little money from Jean, too." 792 00:39:38,793 --> 00:39:40,628 So, you know, you got to wonder, 793 00:39:40,753 --> 00:39:43,672 did he go even further when it came to Jean 794 00:39:43,673 --> 00:39:46,175 and the disposal of her remains? 795 00:39:48,761 --> 00:39:51,598 Was the funeral director there to be a witness to the final 796 00:39:51,723 --> 00:39:53,849 resting place of the bodies in the crypt? 797 00:39:53,850 --> 00:39:55,684 And according to the funeral director, 798 00:39:55,685 --> 00:39:58,437 there are no records of the burial. 799 00:39:58,438 --> 00:40:00,188 What-- why not? 800 00:40:00,189 --> 00:40:02,984 What does the funeral director stand to benefit? 801 00:40:03,109 --> 00:40:04,109 They don't have any records at all. 802 00:40:04,110 --> 00:40:05,278 OK. 803 00:40:05,403 --> 00:40:06,613 Weird. 804 00:40:08,281 --> 00:40:12,618 [Tom] The neighbors, I cannot explain their actions, 805 00:40:12,619 --> 00:40:13,952 but you know how something 806 00:40:13,953 --> 00:40:16,247 just doesn't settle right with you in your gut. 807 00:40:17,248 --> 00:40:20,460 It all depends on whether I saw that damn lid go on. 808 00:40:24,422 --> 00:40:26,673 [Tom] Now I'm starting to second-guess myself. 809 00:40:26,674 --> 00:40:28,134 I'm not sure I did. 810 00:40:38,561 --> 00:40:41,356 [Tom] I would be highly pissed if those bodies were 811 00:40:41,481 --> 00:40:43,524 inside that garage. 812 00:40:43,650 --> 00:40:45,318 It's the only thing does stand. 813 00:40:49,322 --> 00:40:52,366 [Beth] Why would they raise her house but keep the mausoleum? 814 00:40:52,367 --> 00:40:54,159 Maybe there's something in the mausoleum 815 00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:55,370 that they're protecting. 816 00:40:55,495 --> 00:40:58,497 [Tom] As I'm sitting back here remembering all this, 817 00:40:58,498 --> 00:41:03,001 the day that I went out to look at this structure, 818 00:41:03,002 --> 00:41:08,048 the neighbor's son, he says, "No photographs." 819 00:41:08,049 --> 00:41:10,759 And I just blew off his statement. 820 00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:15,431 But looking back at that now, what an odd comment to make. 821 00:41:16,724 --> 00:41:20,186 [Beth] We went to the town offices to get permission to go 822 00:41:20,311 --> 00:41:23,855 into the cemetery and use a non-invasive technique 823 00:41:23,856 --> 00:41:26,025 to determine if bodies are in that crypt. 824 00:41:26,150 --> 00:41:29,277 But Jean's neighbors at the town offices 825 00:41:29,278 --> 00:41:31,113 are just not returning our calls. 826 00:41:31,114 --> 00:41:34,033 So, if anybody has any ideas how we can get this done, 827 00:41:34,158 --> 00:41:35,660 we are all ears.