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00:00:03 There's a re-unit for a missing person.
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00:00:24 [RADIO CHATTER]
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00:00:31 Something or other had long hair and a beard.
00:00:34 He was alone.
00:00:37 License number, St. Vincent Soch.
00:00:40 Class D, David.
00:00:41 90, what's going on there?
00:00:47 No, I just made--
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00:00:52 735 John, any other units?
00:00:57 10-52, channel one at 23-08.
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00:01:04 On March 4, 1996, a missing persons report
00:01:15 was filed with the Jackson County Police Department
00:01:17 by a Miss Judy Dixon.
00:01:19 Miss Dixon reported that her son, a Mr. Baron Dixon,
00:01:24 had left a panic-stricken message
00:01:25 on her answering machine, stating
00:01:27 that Mr. Dixon would be leaving and never coming back.
00:01:31 His vehicle and his belongings were found by the County
00:01:34 Sheriff's Department.
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00:01:39 Mr. Dixon had arranged to meet with two friends
00:01:46 at a designated campsite that the trio was familiar with.
00:01:50 Mr. Dixon's vehicle was discovered about five
00:01:53 miles south of that campsite.
00:01:56 The two friends Mr. Dixon had arranged to meet
00:01:59 were a Mr. Randy Kenneth Sloan and a Mr. Edward T. Tackett.
00:02:05 So right here is where it happened.
00:02:18 We had the fire going here.
00:02:20 And then it was that ridge right there
00:02:22 that this shape, or like a light bubble thing,
00:02:26 floated right on down this way.
00:02:29 It's crazy.
00:02:33 Mr. Sloan and Mr. Tackett had admitted
00:02:39 to using hallucinogenics on the night in question.
00:02:44 It was the biggest spaceship I had ever seen.
00:02:46 Mr. Sloan and Mr. Tackett had outstanding warrants
00:02:52 for their arrest.
00:02:55 I had an unpaid speeding ticket.
00:02:58 And I just had some problems with neighbors
00:03:01 about some noises coming from my garages.
00:03:04 That's all.
00:03:04 Mr. Sloan and Mr. Tackett were questioned and later
00:03:12 booked into county jail for their outstanding warrants.
00:03:16 Well, you know, it sounds insane.
00:03:19 I'd call me insane too if I was me.
00:03:21 But it was like a light or like a vessel.
00:03:25 And it just floated real graceful like down there.
00:03:29 No jerking at all.
00:03:30 No, and it was no lights.
00:03:32 And there were no lights.
00:03:35 And like, it was about this big.
00:03:38 Investigating officers described the witnesses
00:03:44 as excitable and incoherent.
00:03:48 And when I put-- it was about this big
00:03:50 when I put my hand up, it was about that big.
00:03:54 How close was it?
00:03:57 If I'd had a rock, I could have hit it.
00:04:01 And then just one second, it was gone.
00:04:03 Mr. Dixon's vehicle was subsequently impounded.
00:04:10 And his belongings were entrusted to his mother,
00:04:12 Mrs. Judy Dixon.
00:04:15 Baron is my only child.
00:04:17 Baron was always fascinated with spaceships.
00:04:21 He loved spaceships ever since he was a little baby.
00:04:26 I thought he'd be a football player when he grew up.
00:04:29 But he never got interested in sports at all.
00:04:33 His only interest was outer space things.
00:04:36 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:04:44 That was-- what's a year?
00:04:47 I think about a year.
00:04:48 I think he worked here for about a year.
00:04:50 I don't know.
00:04:50 I worked here maybe last year, actually.
00:04:52 I hated that guy.
00:04:53 Yeah, we all hated him.
00:04:54 I hated that guy.
00:04:55 All he did was talk about fucking spaceships.
00:04:57 It was aliens in the beginning.
00:04:58 All he did was talk about spaceships.
00:04:59 Spaceships.
00:05:00 All the fucking time.
00:05:01 All the time.
00:05:01 He got a little sick of hearing that all the time.
00:05:03 Remember that one thing we used to say?
00:05:04 Yeah, he used to say that.
00:05:05 He used to go, spaceships are going to take me away.
00:05:07 We'd all fucking--
00:05:08 You started crying.
00:05:09 Oh, man.
00:05:10 It was a little bit.
00:05:11 It was a shame he'd--
00:05:12 I fucking hated him, too.
00:05:13 Oh, yeah.
00:05:14 God, he was an idiot.
00:05:15 He just didn't fit in.
00:05:19 His only friends were Ed and Randy.
00:05:24 And I don't think they were a very good influence on him.
00:05:28 Did you take hallucinogenics on the night
00:05:31 that Baron disappeared?
00:05:34 I took four hits of acid.
00:05:38 Well, I had 12 originally.
00:05:39 But I took one of Ed's.
00:05:42 So maybe I had five hits.
00:05:44 And I had some of Baron's, too.
00:05:46 So that was probably--
00:05:48 So Ed probably had seven or eight of them.
00:05:53 I tried to keep Baron away from him.
00:05:56 We were pretty fucked up, because we took all of Baron's
00:06:02 acid when he didn't show up.
00:06:05 Yeah, we'd been waiting around the fire pit for him.
00:06:08 He didn't show up.
00:06:10 But he had called me at 5 PM.
00:06:13 And he had told me that that was the night.
00:06:17 And he'd been--
00:06:18 He knew they were coming.
00:06:19 Yeah, he knew it.
00:06:20 Because he'd been talking about aliens all his life.
00:06:23 He said they were coming.
00:06:24 But he never said that--
00:06:25 but they were coming that night.
00:06:28 And he was serious.
00:06:31 He never said that before.
00:06:32 In all the 20 years, I knew him.
00:06:34 He never had any false alarms or anything.
00:06:38 No, that was the night.
00:06:41 He knew it.
00:06:42 The two witnesses claim that while on their hallucinogenic
00:06:48 experience, they did not see a space ship.
00:06:52 But what they did see, and I quote, is a
00:06:55 space-traveling vessel.
00:06:58 What?
00:06:59 The police feel that because you took hallucinogens, that
00:07:04 maybe you hallucinated the spacecraft, that you didn't
00:07:08 see a spacecraft.
00:07:09 I might have been fucked up.
00:07:11 But I know when I see a space ship.
00:07:13 I told him it wasn't a space ship.
00:07:16 It was a space vessel.
00:07:17 I suspected that they were trying to get Barron to do
00:07:27 something with drugs the same as they were.
00:07:29 See, what I was saying before was about how the scope you
00:07:38 can shoot for a mile away.
00:07:39 But when you're shooting them close, like this we are, you
00:07:43 shoot underneath the scope with the--
00:07:46 That's a good setup.
00:07:48 But if he was a mile away, I'd just look in the scope.
00:07:52 And then I could hit him.
00:07:53 Well, OK.
00:07:54 I'm going to shoot the dog in the face.
00:07:56 [GUNSHOT]
00:08:00 Make that 100 Dalmatians.
00:08:06 When you're shooting at him, you should shoot for him like
00:08:09 it's real, like you should shoot him in the heart, or in
00:08:12 the face, or in the belly, or in the groin.
00:08:18 You could shoot him in the neck.
00:08:21 Neck shot's pretty good.
00:08:23 A neck shot will always take him out.
00:08:25 So I'm going to probably shoot this one in the neck.
00:08:30 Or I'll try to pop one of his eyes off.
00:08:32 [GUNSHOTS]
00:08:38 There goes that pile of cow shit.
00:08:42 [GUNSHOT]
00:08:45 I'm going to shoot them dogs that are fucking.
00:08:48 [GUNSHOTS]
00:08:51 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:09:18 Ever since he was little, he was fascinated by spaceships.
00:09:22 And he talked about aliens and spaceships.
00:09:25 Only he called them skyboats.
00:09:28 Skyboats?
00:09:29 Yes, skyboats.
00:09:32 And there were sky mommies and sky daddies.
00:09:34 We've got a home movie of him running around, holding a
00:09:41 football over his head, and saying, skyboat, skyboat,
00:09:46 skyboat.
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00:10:29 Tell me how you knew Judy and Baron.
00:10:31 Oh, I live next door to Judy and Baron.
00:10:34 Let's see, until Baron was 12 or 13, make it about 20 years.
00:10:39 Did he talk to you about aliens much, or space stuff?
00:10:44 That's all he ever talked about, over and over again.
00:10:48 Over again.
00:10:49 It was just too much.
00:10:52 So do you believe he was taken away by aliens?
00:10:56 Yeah, I would say he was.
00:10:59 He had just started school, maybe the first grade, when he
00:11:04 told me that people from another planet were going to
00:11:07 come and take him to another planet.
00:11:11 I told him they weren't going to do that.
00:11:14 But he said, oh, yes, they are.
00:11:17 He was determined on it ever since then.
00:11:20 You couldn't tell him any different.
00:11:23 Hello, my name is Ruth Seiferlein, and I was Baron's
00:11:27 third grade teacher.
00:11:29 Baron was a very memorable child, to say the least.
00:11:33 He was very creative, always making things, or wanting to
00:11:37 make things, or building, or painting,
00:11:39 or anything like that.
00:11:41 He loved model airplanes.
00:11:44 And he was very active.
00:11:47 He did talk about aliens and spaceships quite a bit.
00:11:51 This is some of the artwork Baron did as a boy.
00:11:55 His teachers gave him busy work so that to keep his mind
00:12:00 occupied, he was just too much for a lot of his teachers.
00:12:04 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:12:23 Oh, yes, he also had a habit of keeping his hands in the
00:12:26 front of his pants, like down his pants, a lot.
00:12:30 I'd pull him aside, and I'd say, Baron, you've got to keep
00:12:34 your hands out of your pants.
00:12:36 Well, he'd take them out, and he would never
00:12:38 give me any trouble.
00:12:39 But two minutes later, he'd have his hands right back down
00:12:42 his pants.
00:12:44 I couldn't get him to stop.
00:12:46 And it was just one more thing for the kids to pick on him
00:12:49 for.
00:12:50 He didn't finish high school.
00:12:56 The kids were picking on him too much, and
00:12:59 he got tired of it.
00:13:01 Baron wet his pants a couple of times during class, and
00:13:04 that was hard for the kids to accept.
00:13:06 It seemed to compound his problems a lot.
00:13:10 One time in high school, Baron read a paper about how he
00:13:14 wished that aliens would come for him right in the middle of
00:13:17 class so he wouldn't have to go to school or work or do
00:13:21 anything he didn't want to do.
00:13:24 But the teachers thought he was just nuts.
00:13:29 I'm Dr. Matthews.
00:13:30 At one time, I was a psychiatrist for the Jackson
00:13:32 County Public School System.
00:13:35 Baron Dixon was referred to me by Mrs. Bailey, an English
00:13:40 teacher at the time.
00:13:42 Baron had written a paper in which he wished that aliens
00:13:46 would come and remove him from the classroom so that he
00:13:50 could prove to his peers that the stories he had told them
00:13:53 in the past were true.
00:13:58 I began meeting with Baron twice a week, and we talked a
00:14:04 great deal about aliens and his wish to disappear.
00:14:09 Baron had convinced himself that one day, a date he was
00:14:13 not certain of, he would be picked up by a traveling
00:14:17 spacecraft and taken to another planet.
00:14:21 On this planet, he would be what he referred to as the
00:14:25 captain of the workers, or the laborers of that planet.
00:14:30 A rather common fantasy, actually.
00:14:33 Did he ever talk to you about taking other people to another
00:14:38 planet as well?
00:14:39 I'm not at liberty to talk to you about anything that his
00:14:43 mother did not already make public by publishing his now
00:14:47 famous summer vacation report.
00:14:51 The school psychiatrist told me that Baron needed a lot of
00:14:55 attention.
00:14:57 He didn't trust the real world because of all the lies
00:15:01 his father had told him.
00:15:03 His father was a traveling salesman.
00:15:07 See, Baron had caught his father in a motel room with
00:15:12 another woman.
00:15:13 And it wasn't his mom.
00:15:15 It wasn't his mom.
00:15:17 And it was shortly after that, he went down to find out who
00:15:22 his real parents were.
00:15:25 So he went down to the adoption agency and tried to
00:15:29 look up the records and everything.
00:15:31 And they couldn't find any records on him.
00:15:33 And according to their offices, Baron never, ever
00:15:39 even really existed.
00:15:40 So no one knows where Baron came from?
00:15:44 Nobody.
00:15:48 It is true that Baron was adopted.
00:15:53 And it's true that the agency didn't have any record of his
00:15:56 existence.
00:15:58 We tried to have a baby.
00:16:01 But Baron's dad's sperm was crooked.
00:16:06 Its tail was bent.
00:16:08 And it would just swim in circles.
00:16:11 It'd never go to the egg.
00:16:13 [BELL RINGING]
00:16:14 [BIRDS CHIRPING]
00:16:27 Well, he'd gone down to that motel because his dad was
00:16:31 traveling, you know, sales.
00:16:33 Baron didn't get to see his father very much.
00:16:37 Well, and the thing was that his dad-- it was a surprise
00:16:40 visit, and his dad didn't know that he
00:16:41 was coming down there.
00:16:43 Baron had just gotten his driver's license.
00:16:47 And he decided to drive up to the city to surprise his dad.
00:16:52 And Baron just walks in the room.
00:16:53 And there was his dad.
00:16:55 And there was this naked woman bouncing
00:16:57 around in the hotel bed.
00:16:59 And it wasn't his mom.
00:17:00 And it wasn't his mom.
00:17:04 He told Baron that the woman in the room had locked herself
00:17:07 out of her room.
00:17:09 And he was just letting her use his.
00:17:12 All right, I got the sound rolling.
00:17:14 You got it?
00:17:14 You got everything else rolling?
00:17:15 Start rolling?
00:17:16 Yeah, yeah, you got it rolling.
00:17:17 OK.
00:17:18 [LAUGHTER]
00:17:18 I'm going to start with everybody.
00:17:20 OK, good.
00:17:20 [ENGINE STARTS]
00:17:33 My six, then, right?
00:17:35 Yeah.
00:17:36 OK.
00:17:36 You found a place, yeah?
00:17:37 Yeah, we found it.
00:17:38 I'm Aaron Flackard.
00:17:40 I'm the production manager.
00:17:42 This is Suzy Falk.
00:17:43 She's the production assistant.
00:17:45 Ryan Ferguson on sound.
00:17:46 He's our sound man.
00:17:48 Behind the camera is Jeff Cochran.
00:17:49 Hey, how you doing?
00:17:50 Good to meet you.
00:17:51 Aaron, let me get this water off.
00:17:53 OK.
00:17:54 I was just hosing the dog down.
00:17:55 That's good.
00:17:57 Nobody want to shut the water off?
00:17:58 And--
00:18:04 You found a place, huh?
00:18:05 We found it.
00:18:06 And it's nice to meet you.
00:18:08 Very nice to meet you.
00:18:09 Well, where do you want to do this?
00:18:11 We can do it inside, out here, probably inside.
00:18:15 How about in the kitchen?
00:18:16 Keep it cool.
00:18:17 Yeah.
00:18:17 OK.
00:18:18 Come on in.
00:18:18 Come on in.
00:18:19 Come on back.
00:18:22 All right, you kids behave.
00:18:23 Dad's getting an interview today.
00:18:25 [INAUDIBLE]
00:18:30 Go ahead and tell me your name.
00:18:32 Yeah, my name is Daniel Edgar Dixon.
00:18:35 But nobody calls me that.
00:18:37 They call me Muff.
00:18:38 Muff?
00:18:39 Yeah, Muff, M-U-F-F. I'm Barron's dad.
00:18:45 Barron was very upset when he found out that his father had
00:18:48 been unfaithful to me.
00:18:52 He had very little to do with his father after that.
00:18:55 Well, I'm sure you've been told about Barron's imagination.
00:18:59 Boy gets a thought in his mind, there's no change in it.
00:19:03 I was up in Kingman, Arizona, a hotel room on a road trip.
00:19:08 Barron surprised me one day by knocking on the door.
00:19:12 I let him in.
00:19:13 Just as he came in, a lady come walking out of the shower.
00:19:19 She left a couple of rooms down.
00:19:20 The shower wasn't working.
00:19:22 So me being a nice guy, I said, come on and take a shower here.
00:19:27 Well, Barron took one look at her and one look at me.
00:19:32 And I don't know what he was thinking.
00:19:33 Barron couldn't believe his father lied to him like that.
00:19:41 And he asked me, what else had his father
00:19:45 been lying to him about?
00:19:47 Yeah, I remember I used to tell Barron stories
00:19:50 about how Japanese cars are made,
00:19:52 what the moon is made of, and who lives on a big house
00:19:56 on the hill.
00:19:57 And that boy was never sure of the questions.
00:20:01 He wanted to know about everything and everybody.
00:20:03 He was a smart kid.
00:20:08 I never had to explain things to him more than once.
00:20:11 And many things he seemed to already know.
00:20:14 Yeah, I loved Barron a lot.
00:20:18 He was my boy.
00:20:20 We did quite a bit together.
00:20:22 I wish we could have done more.
00:20:23 But I think he was a mama's boy.
00:20:26 [MUSIC - B.I.G., "BITCH"]
00:20:27 Yeah, bitch.
00:20:29 Fuck you, stank ass hoe.
00:20:32 He was a big fucking liar.
00:20:34 He talked--
00:20:35 Always making shit up.
00:20:36 Always lying.
00:20:37 Always lying and he just made shit out of his ass.
00:20:39 It didn't even matter.
00:20:40 He brought in these paintings.
00:20:42 I remember every time he had the paintings,
00:20:44 he told me, those paintings, they all-- because he said,
00:20:47 one day, I'm going to quit.
00:20:48 He goes, I'm going to keep coming to work.
00:20:49 I'm going to quit.
00:20:50 I'm going to make my paintings.
00:20:51 What?
00:20:51 Who's trying to say it's a barricade?
00:20:53 What, he might superior?
00:20:54 He's going to quit and paint these paintings of spaceships
00:20:57 because he has this art dealer gallery
00:20:59 guy that's going to sell these paintings of spaceships.
00:21:01 He brought these pictures in, all these fucking pictures
00:21:02 that he did.
00:21:03 And they were fucking stupid.
00:21:04 He got them.
00:21:05 They looked like a fucking retard did them.
00:21:07 Retard did them.
00:21:07 Hello, I'm Richard Stoneman.
00:21:09 I'm Baron Dixon's art dealer.
00:21:14 Baron came into my gallery in 1992.
00:21:18 He had six paintings.
00:21:20 They were very simple, very childlike paintings
00:21:24 of spaceships.
00:21:25 They were done in very bright colors, very playful.
00:21:29 These three were on loan from clients.
00:21:31 As you can see, they're very fun, playful paintings,
00:21:36 childlike, very childlike.
00:21:39 One might even say disturbingly childlike.
00:21:41 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:21:45,
00:22:05 Hi, I'm Rasta Sinevi.
00:22:07 This is my home.
00:22:09 As you see, I'm a collector of modern art.
00:22:11 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:22:22 This piece is TIA, that's Trans Interdimensional Airwave
00:22:28 Service.
00:22:29 They started out as Trans International Airlines,
00:22:32 but through the technology, managed to come out
00:22:36 with this wonderful spaceship type lamp.
00:22:40 It actually goes-- it's interdimensional.
00:22:42 It travels.
00:22:43 You see, you charge it up like that.
00:22:45 When you get enough of a charge, it takes off.
00:22:50 This is my spaceship to honor that piece.
00:22:54 It's called We Come in Peace.
00:22:55 And of course, when the aliens do come,
00:22:57 you just know they're not going to come in peace.
00:22:59 They're going to come loaded with guns and weapons,
00:23:02 and they're going to annihilate us all.
00:23:04 But such is life.
00:23:06 I like the paintings, and I felt good about them.
00:23:11 I told him I would show his paintings in my gallery.
00:23:14 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:23:19 The gallery, Richard Stoneman of the Richard Stoneman Gallery,
00:23:24 he was selling me a line of crap when he sold me the piece.
00:23:27 I saw it.
00:23:28 I fell in love with it.
00:23:30 It's so modern.
00:23:33 It's like a throwback to the modern art of the '60s,
00:23:37 when all its super serious hoity-toity-ness, you know?
00:23:43 I had to have it.
00:23:44 It was hilarious.
00:23:45 My friends all love it.
00:23:47 You know, I have parties, and people come,
00:23:49 and they gather around the painting, and they ignore me.
00:23:52 They ignored everything else in the room.
00:23:54 And believe me, I have some lovely things here.
00:23:57 People are just drawn to this painting.
00:23:59 It's magical.
00:24:01 I feel blessed to have had the wisdom to acquire it.
00:24:05 That's what primarily it does for me.
00:24:07 It moves me.
00:24:08 It makes me giggle.
00:24:09 I sit.
00:24:10 I admire it.
00:24:12 The little puppy flying up to his mommy or daddy
00:24:14 or whatever the creature is up there, it's hard to tell.
00:24:19 I guess it's a sexless being.
00:24:21 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:24:26 I did not see Barron for about a year
00:24:31 after he brought in the spaceship paintings.
00:24:34 When he did come back, he brought
00:24:36 in these rather large paintings that
00:24:41 were so disturbing and violent that I
00:24:44 was tempted to call the police.
00:24:47 They were the most gruesome paintings I had ever seen.
00:24:50 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:24:55 [SIZZLING]
00:25:02 This is my bedroom.
00:25:04 And this is where I live.
00:25:08 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:25:22 Barron gave me this painting because a lot of them
00:25:26 he couldn't sell.
00:25:27 But I like this one the best because--
00:25:32 I don't know.
00:25:36 I just like to look at it and think about where I am in life
00:25:39 and how big the world is and how big the galaxy is
00:25:44 and how there's so many different kinds of people
00:25:48 and different kinds of plants.
00:25:51 I like to think what people on other planets
00:25:53 might be like because, see, we only
00:25:56 know a little bit about the planets that surround us.
00:26:00 But there's millions of planets.
00:26:03 And there's millions of stars.
00:26:07 And I just like to look at it and think
00:26:13 about what people on other planets might be like.
00:26:17 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:26:22 I like things because they speak to me.
00:26:24 They tug on my heart or something.
00:26:28 And I just have to have them.
00:26:30 That's how I acquired that lovely painting over there.
00:26:33 Just had to have it.
00:26:34 It was hilarious.
00:26:36 This little fella in a bubble and his dog flying up to him.
00:26:40 I mean, that's great.
00:26:41 You would expect a dog to have a bubble on his head.
00:26:43 And he's not.
00:26:44 And that means he's truly an alien dog.
00:26:46 I kind of have an alien dog myself.
00:26:49 So I know about that.
00:26:50 Baron requires a great deal of attention.
00:26:55 And one way people get attention is by running away or staging
00:26:59 their disappearance.
00:27:02 Baron was able to disappear and validate his entire life
00:27:08 and get the attention that he needs.
00:27:11 He got his name in the paper, his picture in the news,
00:27:15 a documentary.
00:27:16 This is the journey.
00:27:19 This one over here is the adventure.
00:27:23 And this last one is the day the aliens came and took me
00:27:27 to another planet.
00:27:29 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:27:32 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:27:36 Baron was pretty upset when he couldn't
00:27:51 make a living as an artist.
00:27:52 He didn't like work.
00:27:57 It was too much like school.
00:27:59 People kept picking on him.
00:28:01 Cherry boy had a red face, big guy with a red face
00:28:04 and a big fro.
00:28:05 He was lazy.
00:28:06 You couldn't even get him to do a fucking thing around here.
00:28:08 His little space--
00:28:09 I couldn't believe he liked it.
00:28:10 He used to call him ET.
00:28:11 He used to call him ET, remember?
00:28:13 Hey, ET.
00:28:15 ET bonehole, motherfucker.
00:28:16 I go, where's your fucking spaceship?
00:28:18 Hey, bitch boy, where's your spaceship?
00:28:20 This is Baron's dog.
00:28:23 Her name is Bobo.
00:28:25 Baron got her when he was, oh, 28, 29, maybe 30.
00:28:32 She was a little tiny thing, no bigger than a shoe.
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00:28:39 He was fucking dank.
00:28:41 He was the king of the homeless, red face, big fro,
00:28:45 stinky fish looking spaceship.
00:28:46 Oh, fuck.
00:28:46 She had to work with a mother to the time.
00:28:50 Baron used to get down and hug her.
00:28:53 And he'd say, you're the only friend I've got, aren't you,
00:28:56 Bobo?
00:28:57 And she'd lick his face.
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00:29:02 Remember that fish we brought?
00:29:04 He got-- that big fish was this big.
00:29:06 It was a big ass, a big sea bass, I guess.
00:29:09 It was pretty big.
00:29:10 Well, it was like that.
00:29:12 I used to take that fish, and I'd just take that fish
00:29:15 and slap him right on top of the head, man.
00:29:16 He didn't care.
00:29:17 He didn't care.
00:29:18 He had juices in his hair and everything.
00:29:20 He didn't care.
00:29:22 Bobo gets up with me in the morning.
00:29:25 And then I give her breakfast, and then let her out.
00:29:29 And she goes out to the end of the driveway,
00:29:32 lays there all day looking up at the sky.
00:29:36 It's as though she's waiting for Baron to come back home.
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00:30:17 What I don't get is that dog of his.
00:30:19 Every day it sits at the end of the driveway,
00:30:22 stares up at the sky all day long, every day.
00:30:26 And it does it every day.
00:30:29 Weird.
00:30:29 That is creepy.
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00:30:37 Tell me your name and your relationship to Baron.
00:30:51 My name is Kathy Bell.
00:30:55 You know, people tease me a lot about my name.
00:30:58 OK.
00:31:00 What relationship--
00:31:00 Oh, yeah.
00:31:01 My name is Kathy Bell, and I'm Baron Dixon's ex-girlfriend.
00:31:05 Oh, OK.
00:31:05 How did the two of you meet?
00:31:07 We met at a Dead show when I was 21.
00:31:10 Or no, I was 22.
00:31:11 At a Grateful Dead concert, we met when I was 22.
00:31:14 And how old was Baron?
00:31:15 He was 38.
00:31:16 Oh, wow.
00:31:17 Yeah.
00:31:18 Well, my parents didn't like that a lot either.
00:31:20 But, you know, he was a lot of fun.
00:31:22 And he'd tell me these weird stories, but it was a blast.
00:31:26 He'd tell me stories about other planets,
00:31:28 and people on the other planets.
00:31:31 And I don't know, I would just totally get sucked up
00:31:34 into his stories about secret societies,
00:31:38 and how there is a secret society that's
00:31:40 going to be shipping people from this planet
00:31:44 to another planet, a new planet that they have.
00:31:46 And it's a better planet.
00:31:47 It's cleaner.
00:31:49 There's no pollution.
00:31:51 It's a better planet.
00:31:53 And Baron said that he was going to be
00:31:55 in charge of a group of workers at the new planet,
00:31:59 and that they were going to be building this thing that's
00:32:02 going to be connected to the Washington
00:32:03 Monument and some church in Rome or something.
00:32:06 I don't know.
00:32:07 I mean, I would believe it, but I don't know if I really
00:32:11 believed it or if it was just fun believing it.
00:32:13 But it was-- I don't know.
00:32:15 He was a blast.
00:32:17 It was like a game.
00:32:19 It was fun.
00:32:20 Oh, and then we had this great spaceship
00:32:22 that he made in his backyard.
00:32:24 He made it out of cardboard and one-by-twos.
00:32:27 And we'd mess around in that all night long and camp,
00:32:31 look at the stars.
00:32:32 And it was just like a clubhouse.
00:32:34 And we'd sit around eating Twinkies and drinking wine
00:32:37 coolers all night.
00:32:38 It was great.
00:32:39 It was just like a clubhouse.
00:32:40 This is the spaceship Kathy and Baron built.
00:32:52 He used to do a lot of them as a kid.
00:32:55 They have refrigerator boxes.
00:32:58 I'll open that for you.
00:33:00 You can feel free to look inside.
00:33:07 Let me get the lights.
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00:33:12 [HUMMING]
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00:33:27 It was peaceful.
00:33:52 And it was like I could see through it.
00:33:55 It was a light.
00:33:56 But I don't think I could.
00:33:58 It was like a light in it or around it.
00:34:00 It was like a beautiful angel.
00:34:02 It was heavenly.
00:34:05 And you know, I was like, whoa.
00:34:09 We were freaking out for like two hours.
00:34:12 I mean, a fucking spaceship.
00:34:14 Where's Baron?
00:34:15 We kept yelling, where's Baron?
00:34:17 It was his own--
00:34:18 For like two hours, we were--
00:34:19 Should have been Baron's day.
00:34:21 We'd been talking about it forever.
00:34:22 And it was--
00:34:23 Yeah.
00:34:23 And then--
00:34:24 Baron's late for his own abduction.
00:34:26 It was kind of--
00:34:27 And we didn't know.
00:34:29 You know, what had happened to him?
00:34:30 We didn't know where he was.
00:34:31 Or anything.
00:34:32 You know, we were just so freaked out.
00:34:34 Then we found out.
00:34:35 And we never got to say goodbye.
00:34:38 We found out he's gone.
00:34:40 And we never got to--
00:34:42 He never even got to say goodbye to us or--
00:34:45 No one did.
00:34:45 His mom.
00:34:46 Kathy.
00:34:48 He told Kathy a bunch of stuff.
00:34:51 He never said goodbye to his mom.
00:34:53 Just a message on his mom's answering machine.
00:34:56 He loved his mom.
00:34:58 He really took good care of his mom.
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00:44:19 I know he really liked my sister.
00:44:21 I mean, you could tell I was totally in love with her,
00:44:23 but I don't know.
00:44:25 He was just weird.
00:44:27 Well, none of my friends liked him,
00:44:30 so it was mostly just Barron and I.
00:44:33 But sometimes we'd hang out with Randy.
00:44:37 We won't use everything.
00:44:39 Just, you know, some of the stuff.
00:44:41 We just keep it random.
00:44:43 Yeah, but it's illegal.
00:44:47 It's a smoke-- whoa!
00:44:49 It's a smoke bomb.
00:44:50 Jeez!
00:44:51 Come on.
00:44:53 There we are.
00:44:59 Hey, where we going, guys?
00:45:01 I thought we were going to do some donuts.
00:45:03 [SCREAMING]
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00:46:22 Well, the night that he disappeared, he called me.
00:46:25 He did call me.
00:46:27 He told me that he was going to go to the new planet
00:46:31 that he was talking about.
00:46:33 And he said that he wasn't coming back.
00:46:38 I could hear that he was scared.
00:46:47 He was really scared.
00:46:49 I'm afraid that he's in hiding somewhere, stalking my sister.
00:46:53 And one night, he's going to come out of hiding
00:46:56 and do something awful to her.
00:46:58 I mean, he used to call me all the time.
00:47:01 He doesn't call me anymore at all, not even--
00:47:04 I don't know.
00:47:05 Where is he?
00:47:07 I mean, I'm not saying he used to stalk me or anything,
00:47:10 but I would see him everywhere I went, every single day.
00:47:15 I talked to him on the phone every day.
00:47:18 And now he's nowhere.
00:47:20 I was right here.
00:47:22 I came out, saw a baron across the street,
00:47:25 donut shop, bag of donuts in his hand.
00:47:28 And I yelled out, hey, baron, I'd like to use an outer space,
00:47:32 you old son of a bitch.
00:47:34 You can't be in outer space and be over there
00:47:40 eating donuts at the same time.
00:47:43 I don't care who you are.
00:47:46 Emmett James.
00:47:49 He wouldn't know his head from a hole in the ground.
00:47:53 My name is Emmett James.
00:47:56 I've known Baron ever since he was a little grasshopper.
00:48:00 I knew Baron when he was wearing diapers, like a little baby.
00:48:06 Baron had a hard time making friends.
00:48:11 I think the only friend he ever had was what he had in his imagination.
00:48:18 Baron was a troublemaker ever since he was little.
00:48:23 Young whippersnapper, his mind was gone.
00:48:27 You know, all the people that knew Baron, they thought he was crazy.
00:48:32 They just didn't know.
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00:48:41 My name is Dean McDermott.
00:48:43 I'm the president and chairperson of the IRO.
00:48:48 That's the UFO Information Retrieval Organization.
00:48:53 The IRO is a non-profit organization
00:48:56 that is involved in fundraising as well as lobbying
00:49:00 in order to try and establish a place where alien forces
00:49:05 can land their spacecrafts without any fear of danger.
00:49:11 What we have here is the plan that I've come up with
00:49:19 to establish a space landing area in Scottsdale, Arizona.
00:49:24 This is actually like a large parking lot,
00:49:28 but it has lights for landing at night.
00:49:32 It also will have some bleachers and a modest dwelling
00:49:37 wherein we will have restrooms, telephones, and of course snack machines.
00:49:43 Sort of like a highway rest area.
00:49:47 Let me turn this on and give you the effect.
00:49:51 [buzzing]
00:49:55 Hmm. Hold on just one second.
00:49:59 [buzzing]
00:50:04 Is it on yet?
00:50:06 Uh, no.
00:50:08 Hmm.
00:50:10 Okay, hold on just one more second.
00:50:13 Let me try this over here.
00:50:16 Is it on yet?
00:50:17 Uh, no.
00:50:18 How about now?
00:50:19 Now.
00:50:21 Is it on yet?
00:50:22 Uh, no.
00:50:23 Hmm.
00:50:24 Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's on.
00:50:26 Oh, good.
00:50:28 Ah, there.
00:50:30 As you can see, the lights.
00:50:32 Okay, um, anyway, this area is set up also,
00:50:39 as you can see, with a large antenna.
00:50:43 And this can send out a radio signal both in Morse code and in English,
00:50:48 which says, "Welcome to our planet.
00:50:50 Please stop and introduce yourself.
00:50:53 My name is Dean McDermott.
00:50:55 This place is safe for landing."
00:50:59 And this message, of course, repeats endlessly.
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00:51:06 Uh, do you feel that Baron was taken away by aliens?
00:51:11 No, I do not.
00:51:13 Uh, why don't you believe that?
00:51:15 Because they, they being any aliens,
00:51:18 like to work with humans who are cooperative and peaceful
00:51:22 and, uh, Baron, Baron was just stubborn and rude.
00:51:27 [beeping]
00:51:47 Tell us your name and what it is you do.
00:51:50 My name's Nate Lund.
00:51:51 I maintain a few websites.
00:51:53 NateLund.com is a site for my own artwork.
00:51:57 Uh, RugnarockStudio.com is public 3D artwork, tutorials, et cetera.
00:52:06 And then BaronDixon.com.
00:52:08 Uh, tell us about the Baron Dixon website.
00:52:11 Um, it's a site all about my cousin, Baron, who disappeared somewhere.
00:52:17 Do you think he was taken to another planet?
00:52:19 No, no. I knew you were going to ask that, but no.
00:52:24 There's about 20 people or so that check into the message boards
00:52:27 pretty much every day, not twice a day.
00:52:30 Uh, they post messages about where they think he might be.
00:52:33 They talk about him. Take it way too seriously.
00:52:40 So do you believe in aliens?
00:52:43 I know there's aliens. They took Baron.
00:52:48 Another thing I do with the website is, well, people can report sightings of Baron.
00:52:56 Most of the sightings are along Interstate 25 and 40,
00:53:00 and then there's a few in Winneminnesota and Fort Wayne, Indiana.
00:53:06 We got relatives in both places.
00:53:11 Most of the people I come into contact with think he was abducted,
00:53:15 but they're all a little bit like him.
00:53:19 So you believe that you're going to go to the new planet?
00:53:24 Why else would I be doing all this?
00:53:28 What else do you do with the website?
00:53:31 Um, it's the only one I make money with, because I sell T-shirts to help keep it going.
00:53:37 This one here says, "Where in the galaxy is Baron Dixon?"
00:53:40 Even though I don't believe he's out there, everybody else does, and this is what sells.
00:53:46 It keeps people coming.
00:53:48 The photo I got is from a birthday party for my brother.
00:53:53 I also sell individual photos.
00:53:59 Here's one guy claiming that he knows Baron Dixon's on the third moon of Pluton.
00:54:10 Right.
00:54:20 Did you enjoy being around Baron?
00:54:22 No, no.
00:54:24 Why not?
00:54:25 He was creepy, actually.
00:54:27 What was creepy about him?
00:54:30 Well, he always had this thing where he'd want me to give him a piggyback ride as like a big hello.
00:54:35 I don't know. I don't like that.
00:54:39 How did I meet Baron?
00:54:42 Well, when I joined the engineering faculty here, and that was a while ago now,
00:54:47 I was a model rocket fanatic.
00:54:50 I loved the whole process of designing rockets, gluing them together late at night,
00:54:57 and then the next morning going out on the range, slamming home a big engine, and whoosh, bang.
00:55:06 I loved that.
00:55:08 I wanted to turn other people on to it, and I volunteered to teach a class at the Y.
00:55:14 That's where I met a young Baron.
00:55:18 He impressed me from the start.
00:55:21 He was a smart kid, curious kid.
00:55:23 We learned a lot together.
00:55:26 We designed some big rockets, and we shot them off.
00:55:31 It was great fun.
00:55:33 Do you believe that aliens may have taken him to another planet then?
00:55:40 Well, aliens, I mean, to believe that, you've got to believe in aliens, and I'm a scientist.
00:55:45 I don't believe in aliens.
00:55:47 I don't believe that there are little green or gray or purple fellows swooping around in spacecraft,
00:55:57 grabbing people, taking them up for medical experiments or for travel to other planets or whatever.
00:56:05 What hard evidence is there of that?
00:56:07 No, I don't. I don't believe that.
00:56:09 Then do you believe that he may have staged his disappearance then?
00:56:14 Well, like I said, I don't believe in aliens, but there are facts, a couple of facts, about his disappearance
00:56:23 that I've thought a lot about and that trouble me.
00:56:28 First, his dog.
00:56:31 He loved his dog, and he loved his dog, and he really loved his dog.
00:56:37 It just didn't seem to me to be like him just to abandon his dog.
00:56:42 I mean, if he wanted to stage his disappearance and to start a new life,
00:56:47 why didn't he just stage the abduction of his dog?
00:56:50 I mean, aliens are supposed to swoop down and abduct cattle, right?
00:56:57 So why not a dog? I mean, it would have seemed credible.
00:57:02 The second thing is his car.
00:57:05 His car was found in the middle of nowhere, 30 miles from the nearest bus stop.
00:57:12 If he staged his abduction, he left himself an awful long walk.
00:57:17 Why wouldn't he have just staged an abduction from a vacant lot or from behind a restaurant?
00:57:26 It would have been far more convenient.
00:57:29 So there are a couple of facts that trouble me about his disappearance.
00:57:34 It seemed strange to me, but I'm not saying he was abducted by aliens.
00:57:41 It just bothered me.
00:57:43 Do you think that Randy and Ed may have had something to do with his disappearance
00:57:48 or are in with his disappearance?
00:57:50 Randy and Ed. Randy and Ed. They're such burnouts.
00:57:54 I doubt that those guys could have concocted a story and a scheme that was coherent enough to fool the police.
00:58:02 They would have broken down. They would have gotten confused under interrogation.
00:58:06 Those guys, between their interest in explosives and recreational chemicals,
00:58:12 they've burned so many brain cells.
00:58:15 I doubt they could get it together to help out Barrett.
00:58:18 Well, we got it all set here now.
00:58:23 My fish burritos.
00:58:25 No, actually it's a...
00:58:26 Two bean burritos.
00:58:28 Two fish burritos.
00:58:31 And a pint of beans.
00:58:33 And a pint of beans. That's all we need.
00:58:36 Two fish burritos and three beans.
00:58:38 That's good.
00:58:39 Thank you.
00:58:40 Excellent, amigo.
00:58:43 [Baron's Apartment]
00:58:45 This is Baron's apartment.
00:58:55 My sister has several rentals in the area, so she's letting me keep the apartment
00:59:05 so that when he... if he comes back, he'll have his own stuff and his own place.
00:59:14 I kept everything just the way it was.
00:59:19 Baron was a big fan of Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter.
00:59:30 He felt that they were about to announce alien contact.
00:59:35 But he kept records, and Ronald Reagan made five separate speeches referring to aliens.
00:59:44 Jimmy Carter made three.
00:59:47 I think Baron felt that if they made reference to alien contact,
00:59:55 people would accept him more and maybe not be so mean to him.
01:00:03 Do you mind if we take a look around the place? Would that be all right?
01:00:07 No, I don't mind at all.
01:00:10 Okay.
01:00:11 You go right ahead.
01:00:13 It makes me a little sad being in here.
01:00:15 Oh, okay.
01:00:16 If you don't mind, I'm going outside. Just take your time.
01:00:20 Oh, thank you.
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01:03:14 Baron Dixon's apartment was searched.
01:03:21 Smoking paraphernalia was found that was coated with a marijuana residue.
01:03:25 A small amount of marijuana was also found.
01:03:28 Um, there is a concern.
01:03:31 A great deal of information regarding serial killers was found in Baron's apartment.
01:03:36 I'm afraid that he's going to kidnap my sister and kill her.
01:03:40 He could do it. He's a psycho.
01:03:43 We were also made aware that Mr. Dixon was making frequent contact with an ex-girlfriend.
01:03:49 We were also told that he had said, before his disappearance,
01:03:54 that he would be coming back to take his girlfriend with him.
01:03:58 This department takes threats from ex-boyfriends very seriously,
01:04:02 especially those that collect information on serial killers.
01:04:07 Baron was not a violent person.
01:04:11 I mean, I know all the police are freaked out because of all the serial killer books that he has,
01:04:16 but he has all kinds of books. He has books on Buddhism and gardening,
01:04:20 and he has the Bible, and he has medicinal herb books,
01:04:23 and he has books on fishing and healing.
01:04:26 I mean, why didn't they call him a great fisherman or a healer or something?
01:04:30 I remember one time when Baron beat up his dad and his dad had to go to the hospital
01:04:35 because Baron broke both his dad's feet.
01:04:41 Well, Randy claims that Baron broke both your feet.
01:04:46 Broke my feet? No.
01:04:49 I tripped, twisted my ankle or something, tripping over a damn dog or a toy or something.
01:04:55 My name is Cynthia Lynn Bell.
01:04:58 My daughter dated Baron Dixon.
01:05:01 I didn't like Baron from the first moment that I met him,
01:05:05 and my distrust of him only served to fuel Kathy's interest.
01:05:11 She dated him just to rebel against me.
01:05:15 My mom hated Baron more than I did.
01:05:17 I'm not saying something because I really hated him.
01:05:21 He went on and on about aliens and spaceships.
01:05:26 He even went on to intimate to me that he had been chosen to help populate another world,
01:05:35 to manage some workers or something.
01:05:38 He was very scary. He frightened me.
01:05:42 My mom used to ask me if Baron ever hit me.
01:05:45 Baron would never hit me.
01:05:48 He was always the hero.
01:05:50 He would have protected me at all costs.
01:05:52 He would have saved me no matter what.
01:05:55 Or organize workers to move everybody to another planet.
01:06:02 This is a grown man, and he's dating my daughter.
01:06:08 Baron surprised me one day.
01:06:11 He just almost ran up to me.
01:06:13 He was very excited that he wanted to show me something.
01:06:17 So he took out his wallet, and he flipped out a picture.
01:06:20 And the picture was of a lovely, really beautiful young woman.
01:06:24 He told me it was his girlfriend.
01:06:27 We talked a little bit, and he seemed very excited and very in love.
01:06:34 The whole incident kind of took me aback,
01:06:37 because I hadn't seen Baron with a girl really ever before.
01:06:42 I think this girl was perhaps his first love.
01:06:46 Maybe he was in love for the first time in his life.
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01:08:06 He's a stalker.
01:08:08 He's stalking my daughter.
01:08:11 He was stalking her before the alleged abduction.
01:08:14 And he's stalking her now, I'm sure of it.
01:08:17 Well, he just looked like a complete psychopath.
01:08:20 I mean, all of my friends were afraid of him, even the guys.
01:08:25 It was nice when Baron got his own apartment,
01:08:28 because we could finally be together, I mean,
01:08:32 really together.
01:08:34 It was nice to be secretive, being away from everybody
01:08:38 and all their opinions.
01:08:39 And it was just really nice.
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01:09:01 On December 7, 1997, a missing persons report
01:09:05 was filed on Miss Catherine Bell.
01:09:08 The last person to have seen Miss Bell
01:09:13 was her sister, a Miss Kristen Bell.
01:09:18 I saw my sister drive off.
01:09:20 She was by herself.
01:09:21 She was perfectly happy, probably the happiest
01:09:24 I'd ever seen her.
01:09:25 She told me that she loved me, that she was going to miss me.
01:09:29 And then she drove off, and she never came back.
01:09:33 So you believe that she's with Baron,
01:09:35 and she's alive and well?
01:09:38 Yes, I do.
01:09:40 When interviewed, Kristen said that her sister seemed
01:09:43 to be in very good spirits, and that she spoke
01:09:46 to her for several minutes.
01:09:49 Catherine then told her sister she
01:09:51 was going to another planet to live with her boyfriend,
01:09:54 Mr. Baron Dixon.
01:09:58 Miss Bell then got into her own vehicle by herself
01:10:05 and drove away under her own free will.
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01:10:15 How do you account for Kristen's sudden change of mind
01:10:26 and now believing that her sister is with Baron
01:10:29 and that she's fine?
01:10:32 She's a little kid.
01:10:33 She'll believe anything.
01:10:34 Mr. Sloan and Mr. Tackett were questioned that evening
01:10:41 and later released.
01:10:42 What happened to you guys once Kathy disappeared?
01:10:49 Well, I'll give you three fucking guesses.
01:10:52 Here come the cops.
01:10:53 First thing they did is rise our ass up.
01:10:56 Crawling all over--
01:10:57 As if we know what happened.
01:10:58 We told them Baron's in space.
01:11:02 What do you want from us?
01:11:04 So what do you believe happened to your friend Kathy Bell?
01:11:11 Oh, Baron probably kidnapped her,
01:11:14 and God knows what he did with her after that.
01:11:18 He's a disgusting pervert.
01:11:22 Well, see, the good thing is if they came back for Kathy,
01:11:28 like Baron said, then they should be coming back for us.
01:11:33 They just have to come back, I guess,
01:11:36 get people one at a time.
01:11:39 That's what I figured.
01:11:41 I can't wait.
01:11:42 They can't get here soon enough.
01:11:44 I'll leave all this shit behind.
01:11:46 What is it?
01:11:47 Some sort of picnic.
01:11:50 Baron's involvement with Randy and Ed concerned me.
01:11:54 He brought them over to the house a few times,
01:11:56 and I could see those boys were into the wrong kinds of things.
01:12:01 As soon as they saw this lab equipment around here,
01:12:05 well, their eyes lit up, and they were asking me,
01:12:08 well, how can we make this explosive or that explosive?
01:12:11 And I was just saying, no, no, we
01:12:15 don't want to get into that.
01:12:18 Doesn't look good for us.
01:12:21 They're just going to believe what they want to believe,
01:12:23 and there's not much we can do.
01:12:25 Probably try to pin it on us.
01:12:27 Why not?
01:12:28 Someone's got to take the fall.
01:12:32 They seemed morbidly interested in that kind of thing.
01:12:34 And then, then, when I said, no, no,
01:12:38 there would be no creation of explosives in my house,
01:12:40 they wanted to cook up some drugs.
01:12:42 And then that evening, too, they wanted
01:12:46 to cook up some acid speed.
01:12:49 And I just said, hey, no, don't talk about this.
01:12:53 They'll be coming back for us.
01:12:55 They can't get here soon enough for me.
01:12:58 I'm right up to here with this bullshit.
01:12:59 I'd leave all this behind in a second.
01:13:03 Move on with my life.
01:13:04 Every time they came over, they seemed excited.
01:13:10 They'd been like children and wanted
01:13:12 me to come out to their souped up car and look in the trunk,
01:13:15 and they'd have more guns.
01:13:17 And some types, I thought, were probably
01:13:19 illegal, and automatic weapons, ammunition, and so on.
01:13:23 So I was concerned and uncomfortable
01:13:26 about his association with these two.
01:13:29 It just seemed like they were into bad stuff.
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01:14:17 Do you think you'll ever see Kathy again?
01:14:24 No.
01:14:30 No one listens to us.
01:14:31 No one listens to me.
01:14:33 Fuckers.
01:14:34 I don't give a shit.
01:14:35 I'd sooner take my chances with the aliens--
01:14:37 I hope the aliens come back before the cops come back.
01:14:39 That's what I mean.
01:14:40 I'd rather be with the fucking aliens.
01:14:42 My whole life's been in the shit van for months now.
01:14:48 And then they still come back at us.
01:14:51 I'll tell you what.
01:14:52 It don't look good for me and Randy here.
01:14:54 This is probably the end for me and Ed.
01:14:57 My sister came home and told me she was going away,
01:15:02 that two people had come up to her in the parking lot
01:15:04 and asked if she wanted to go to the new planet
01:15:07 to live with Barron.
01:15:08 And of course she said yes.
01:15:10 She was incredibly happy.
01:15:13 She came home, gave me a hug, gave me this letter,
01:15:17 and then she drove off.
01:15:20 I'll read the letter.
01:15:21 Dear Mom and Sis, I don't know how
01:15:26 to say this so that you'll believe me,
01:15:28 so I'll just be blunt.
01:15:30 I'm going to go to another planet to live with Barron.
01:15:33 We're going to live in a community
01:15:34 with other people from Earth.
01:15:37 The new planet is very clean and is unexplored.
01:15:40 There are no businesses and no government and no money.
01:15:43 Everyone is working together to build big gardens
01:15:46 with sculptures, murals, and paintings.
01:15:48 I know it sounds crazy and I know it sounds impossible,
01:15:51 but I want you to believe me.
01:15:53 The new planet is beautiful.
01:15:55 I love you guys.
01:15:57 I'll miss you.
01:15:59 Love, Kathy.
01:16:02 P.S. Sis, you're young and you're smart.
01:16:07 Don't listen to what they tell you.
01:16:10 Believe in yourself.
01:16:12 Believe in a new planet.
01:16:13 I believe.
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01:16:57 Barron, Barron, the hell did you go?
01:17:01 We looked all for you, but you were never at the show.
01:17:04 Barron, Barron, the hell did you go?
01:17:20 Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh,
01:17:25 Barron, Barron, the hell did you go?
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01:20:04 Can we go back to Earth someday, Daddy?
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