Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 4, Episode 14 - Full Episode

[@jeremycoffman66]

Just kind of curious in the first story why wasn't there a radio or some sort of CB on the boat that way they could call for trouble if they were in trouble

[@cynthia9235]

SUS

[@drinkingpoolwater]

not every boat has a CB lol. this ain’t the movies.

[@puppiesarepower3682]

I say the guy did it.

[@andrewnajarian5994]

@@drinkingpoolwaterno but every boat should have at least one marine radio. I never leave the dock without a second handheld as backup. Granted in 1980 they didn’t have waterproof floating handhelds available for dirt cheap like they do now. It should have had A marine radio though.

[@ullgeologist]

Update on Jeanne Tovrea: Unresolved. In January 1994, an anonymous caller contacted police and identified the voice of Phillips as forty-year-old James Cornell "Butch" Harrod. He had been questioned shortly after Jeanne's murder after it was discovered that there had been over 1,000 calls made between him and Ed's son, Ed "Hap" Tovrea Jr., in the months prior to Jeanne's murder. Fifty-two calls were made between them on the day prior to it. Harrod's brother-in-law, Curt, viewed the broadcast and also recognized his voice as being that of Phillips. He sent copies of the broadcast to his siblings and a friend; they agreed that Harrod's voice matched Phillips'. For reasons unknown, no one contacted police until the friend made the anonymous call.
Later in 1994, Harrod's ex-wife, Anne, came forward and told police that he had confessed to her that he "facilitated" the murder for Hap. He told her that he had posed as Phillips in order to get a better look of the house and more information on Jeanne. He also told her that he had hired two men named Tommy and Michael to commit her murder. Also, he told her that he was paid $100,000 to do so. Records showed that Hap had paid him $25,000. Tommy and Michael suddenly had large sums of money after Jeanne's murder and made several purchases.
Anne also told police that when Harrod left the night before Jeanne murder, she asked, "Are you going to do this now?" and he said, "Yes, I'm leaving." When he returned the next morning, he said, "It is done." He then called Hap, apparently to tell him that it had occurred. He apparently kept Jeanne's jewelry and credit cards in their house for some time before burying them in the desert.
Police matched the fingerprints found at the scene to Harrod. Some of his prints were found on the outside and inside of the kitchen window, which was Jeanne's killer's entry point. Others belonging to him were found on the kitchen counter and on an outside gate. His palmprint was found on the weather stripping removed from the window.
In September 1995, after a seven-year investigation, Phoenix police arrested Harrod and charged him with burglary and Jeanne's murder. In 1996, her daughter, who had previously met Phillips, identified Harrod as him in a live lineup. In 1997, he was tried and convicted of first-degree murder. In May 1998, he was sentenced to death; in 2005, he was resentenced to death.
Although prosecutors claimed at trial that Hap had hired Harrod to commit Jeanne's murder, he never named Hap at the trial. In fact, he continued to maintain his innocence. He claimed that the money he received from Hap was regarding an aborted mining contract in China. He also claimed that the phone calls were related to the contract and other business dealings. He claimed he was buying cocaine on the night of the murder. He also claimed that the "real" killer planted his fingerprints at the scene using a "prosthetic fingerprint glove". On January 28, 2019, he died in prison; he was sixty-five.
Police still suspect that Hap (and possibly his siblings) were involved in Jeanne's murder. They did not get along with her, and police believe that they may have hired Harrod because she received most of his money, about $4 million, after his death. When she died, the money went to them. They also believed that she "squandered" their inheritance. However, neither Hap nor his siblings were ever charged. He has since passed away.
On November 23, 2020, Jeanne’s sister Sandra passed away at the age of eighty-two.

[@jasonm950]

Hey, thanks for the update.

[@toddaulner5393]

That Burnside reenactment was dead on real#!! Great work!

[@MissMcD]

Hell yea!! To this day every time I watch this one it gives me chills. Worst nightmare come to life. Sheesh. I've been in an abusive relationship and know so many other women that were. Thank God we made it out but watching this just shows the sheer terror one would certainly feel🥺

[@davidh943]

Would like to see the Burnside original

[@michaelbock2424]

Im a 30 year marine mechanic Alternators have nothing to do with boats taking on water unless the batteries cant keep the buildge pumps running

[@cplmpcocptcl6306]

I am looking at Superior right now. Not a way in hell would I get on a flimsy life raft on this lake. This byotch doesn’t give up her dead.

[@drinkingpoolwater]

i agree. that lake is a savage mf’er. it’s so cold that even in the dog days of summer it’s ice cold. no way would i get on a boat at night. maybe a ferry but a little ski boat?? hell no.

[@toddaulner5393]

All I have to say is, I am and have always been in good shape and I have nearly died while working in severe cold. If you are not in good shape, you could easily die in severe cold especially in water.

[@andrewnajarian5994]

Absolutely. You can become hypothermic in no time in ice cold water.

[@lollipop6311]

how else can anyone explain the cuts in the bottom of raft but man made ?

[@glennabate1708]

Why didn’t she stay on the boat until it sank then use the life raft. The boat started back up didn’t sink and the lights didn’t even stop working. She jumped from that for a flimsy raft.

[@larrywakeman4371]

AND: go on a boat when it is getting dark if you are afraid of the water, swimming, and the boat had recent problems? NO WAY! I can swim and I wouldn't go out on a boat if it was getting dark!!!! Especially if my husband had numerous affairs on me! NOW WAY! Kim

[@drinkingpoolwater]

i agree. that whole story seems fishy. i think jerry planned it out. he wanted to eliminate her.

[@mattkaustickomments]

Larry’s story sounds pretty sus.

[@camjohnson4094]

Forreal, not sure if I believe him

[@ashleelarsen5002]

@@camjohnson4094 Hummmm

[@drinkingpoolwater]

i think he planned it out. no way was that just an accident.

[@ohhkayy0919]

It definitely is but I couldn't have convicted him on the evidence they had

[@thisravenhasflown010]

Guy blaming her throughout the story. Yep very hinky

[@jackschmidt2911]

Who else wanted to see the Helen Rose and Myron clan television reunion?

[@09rja]

Let me see if I have this straight....the prosecution claims he pushed her out onto the water.....then swam back to the boat and put on his scuba gear, then swam back to her and knifed the raft.....and then (I assume) he swims back to the boat? That's one bizarre theory.

[@kieranhart5776]

They should never of shut the engine off the boat (the Jenny Lee). They should of immediately raced in to shore. A boat won’t sink if it’s moving quick.

[@DMalltheway]

That’s why I’m suspicious of Larry

[@drinkingpoolwater]

i think larry planned it all out. sorry but no way was this just an accident.

[@BrokenConnected]

What does that license plate in the background at 41:16 say? Am I seeing things? lol.

[@virgilstarkwell8383]

Reminds me a bit of the old movie A Place in the Sun.

[@drinkingpoolwater]

it reminded me of titanic lol.

[@aluvrianne]

It does, doesn't it? That murder is profiled on an episode of UM about the drowned girl's ghost.

[@overcomerbtboj]

@@drinkingpoolwater”jack this is the same spot we met” 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@drinkingpoolwater]

@@overcomerbtboj lol

[@efw9060]

Hint- don't start a gunfight in Alabama. Especially at a Flea Market. Everybody and their brother ( and most of their sisters) carries a gun.

[@repubseatdick]

Better hint : Stay tf out of Alabama,it's a big shit hole

[@glennabate1708]

Why didn’t they stay on the boat till it actually sank. Why would anybody feel safer in that raft rather than a boat that the engine just stoped that makes no sense. If the boat never sank why did you get off of it.

[@toddaulner5393]

Sadly somebody bought the Jenny Lee in a police action. Wonder how it worked out?

[@glennabate1708]

Larry lied said he had 2 rafts bc he knew what his plan was he was just covering his tracts and it dosnt matter if the boat had a starter problem you don’t jump off a boat to your death bc a boat has a starter problem you just try to start it again. Lol how could anyone doubt this guy was guilty he is guilty guilty guilty.

[@maramarxx2431]

Yes..

[@milesaway3699]

Lake Superior is cold year round. In May you’re probably talking 55 degrees, if that. So he puts his wife in a raft with no paddle. So is she supposed to just drift towards help? Ridiculous. A mile off shore is a long way even in warm water. I live within a 2 hr drive from Lake Superior and I can tell you even in the middle of July it’s cold. The surface can be warmer but it’s always cold at your feet when you’re standing up to your chin. And that’s if we have a hot summer which isn’t a given up here. In May any length of time in the water without a dry suit would not be survivable. His story about his idea of pushing her to shore from a mile out is ludicrous. He is right where he belongs.

[@mogbaba]

But one expert said she couldn't get that long without a raft.

[@kieranhart5776]

People got married too quick in the 20th Century and prior. If they dated for a while first they would see the flaws in the other and not get married if they were jealous and belligerent drunks. They are almost as responsible for the problems they endured.

[@saratammaro3505]

Wat a loyal hit man he didn’t even drop a name on who hired him

[@saratammaro3505]

And he was sentenced to death

[@joanodom2104]

No doubt it was the stepson. Ironically, he was a former "business partner" with the HIT MAN!

[@Jolenesmart1980]

And the knife is at the bottom of that sea bed

[@thomasd.maybank272]

Debbie's character is obnoxious.

[@joedirte716]

Just like the typical democrat

[@janiephillips4842]

Why are you bringing up politics, we are talking about mysterys I would like to enjoy the show and the comments Joe.😊

[@Jolenesmart1980]

@@janiephillips4842 I know I hate the idiots who bring up politics like who cares I don’t give a f untill it affects me which in 41 years nothing they have done in the uk had affected my money my family or my housing Etc

[@jessestewart169]

What a strange thing to say.

[@Jolenesmart1980]

Knife cuts on the raft CMONNNNNN this is bukkshit he did it really well to make sure it sank

[@shaunreinert5202]

"Larry, there's water! Where's it coming from?" Uhhh.... the lake your boat is on? Jesus Christ.

[@timrobinson6573]

Oh yea, Larry definitively killed his wife.

[@jessestewart169]

Absolutely

[@andrewnajarian5994]

For sure. For one, the alternator has nothing to do with water coming in, so that makes no sense to begin with. Where was the bilge pump? The boat should’ve had an automatic bilge pump capable of moving way more water than that tiny leak that he managed to repair with 6” of electrical tape. Why does he have Walmart pool floats for rafts instead of a legitimate life raft? Why would you abandon your boat for a life raft and not take the flares with you in the raft? He didn’t have to swim back with scuba gear, he could’ve just slashed the raft before he swam back to the boat.

[@phugoid]

It's at once strange and noble for a dead lady's parents to exonerate the convicted son-in-law. Kudos!

[@MissMcD]

Right!!! 🤔🤔🤔

[@patttyannhudson]

We're the people responsible so rich that they can't ever be prosecuted that part doesn't make sense, for the case of Jeannie

[@ullgeologist]

Update on Jim Burnside: In February 1992, Jim was convicted of assaulting a federal officer and sentenced to eight years in prison. In November, he was returned to Florida to face charges there. In 1994, he pleaded no contest to first-degree murder and attempted murder. In June, he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for twenty-five years. He died there on November 27, 2015 at age seventy-eight. On August 29, 2022, Annette's father, Roy Schappacher, died at the age of 85. He was buried alongside her.

[@GinaFerri-r6z]

Thanks for that info.

[@glennabate1708]

He said there’s nothing wrong with her like Mabey there something wrong with her.

[@swtgrl4321]

He also kept blaming her panic for his "poor decisions". He's super suspicious.

[@joanodom2104]

Tovrea's son, Hap, was Jeanne's greedy stepson. He knew the hit man very well. For some stupid reason, cops couldn't (or didn't WANT to) connect Hap to the crime. 😳😠 So, he inherited millions and is living like a prince in San Diego. There are even photos of Hap with his arm around the hit man's shoulder. Enraging!!

[@mogbaba]

By revealing this, the hit man could surely be re sentenced. Maybe he could get some years of imprisonment or at least get away from the death row. Why didn't he do that?

[@mariegoyaa5713]

ok the story about Larry and Debbie, imo I think he was guilty. Why? Because why would you take a woman out on a boat who was deathly afraid of it sinking to celebrate anything? Then all kinds of problems just happen to come up and he said it happened before thats why she was so afraid....Why would she even willingly get in a boat she was so afraid of? Plus the lifeboat had cuts in it? Only 2 people know the truth and one can't tell their story. yes i realize this was many years ago but the daughter saying only circumstantial evidence? He was the last one with her, the lifeboat had cuts not tears but cuts in both air compartments. His story just don't add up to innocent.

[@Hollins23]

I think that he's guilty, too, and just exceptionally believable to his daughter, and in-laws. They seem like good, honest, trusting folk.

[@Jolenesmart1980]

The fact he had affairs should show her family what sort of man this is towards their loved one

[@FarmingCityOne]

She was trying to rekindle and save her marriage, I think of Natalie Wood, that woman was terrified of water and yet she went in a boat out on water. I agree there are a lot of unanswered questions, I just don't believe the case was proven beyond a doubt.

[@nlocnil3602]

Larry's story is a work of fiction... that guy did it

[@TheKrustyKristy]

That guy WITHOUT QUESTION planned his wife's death. There was so many holes in his story. I'm glad he served 22 years though. And his dead wife's family and his kids believing he was INNOCENT??? That poor woman.

[@toddaulner5393]

Hey prosecutor, they nearly sank a year before. I guarantee he got another.

[@ohhkayy0919]

Sweet bloody Mary that actress playing debbie is annoying as hell!! Totally overplaying it

[@overcomerbtboj]

Lollolol 🤣😂🤣

[@swtgrl4321]

You would have thought she was on the Titanic. 🙄

[@ullgeologist]

Exactly. That actress was unbearable.

[@ianwambugu275]

Prosecution makes Larry look like a Navy Seal

[@maramarxx2431]

Hahaha

[@rmx4087]

Let him free and he'll just outfox another brick like Debbie.

[@overcomerbtboj]

@@rmx4087🤣😂🤣

[@SalveRegina8]

Larry’s story is so very convenient… FOR HIM. GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY. Prayers for the repose of Debbie’s soul. She must have been absolutely terrified. Evil man.

[@clueless9245]

I was going to say a cheater does not make a murderer. Then, he told his account of the night's event. - 1 raft with holes? - just got a 2nd raft - almost sank summer prior? - scuba gear on board? - got too cold, but could swim for help? - no radio Stupid me. I rhought he merely pushed her in the water and took off in the boat. Then, he sabotaged the boat.

[@thepanther007]

Come on Larry? Leave her only while you save yourself?

[@ms.g6842]

Why jump n freezing water because ur boat breaks down? Stay on the boat until morning

[@Shelley-xx9kd]

Am I the only person thinking if my partner and I were having problems with a boat that would insist on staying together?? At least then you have a chance of being rescued together or to die with your loved one and not been scared and alone in the dark, cold water?? Maybe I'm weird but I'd much rather have my soul mate with me right to the end rather than not knowing what would happen to them or myself. Just a thought!!! Xx❤🙏

[@ericwoody22]

Angus Merrick is my great grandpa he was a great man. Beautiful that Helen came back to us

[@reneebrown1362]

🤔🤔🤔I believe the murder of jeanne tourvea was a contract hit the question is who did and why I hope that this case will be solved very soon soo heartbreaking and so sad😢🤔

[@joanodom2104]

Hap Tovrea, the greedy stepson.

[@reneebrown1362]

@@joanodom2104 🤔🤔Was hap tovera the greedy stepson ever charged in this case🤔🤔

[@jediknightjairinaiki560]

I'd have thrown Debbie overboard if I had to hear her panicking.

[@priscillafuentes8663]

🤣too funny.👍

[@overcomerbtboj]

Omg 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣

[@reneebrown1362]

🤔🤔Debbie race's murder was no accident his story did not make any sense larry cut a hole in the life raft and he allowed his wife to freeze to death in the lake he should have gotten a life sentence period 🤔🤔

[@TGfff-r4f]

Larry just seemed suspicious. Everything that he says does not add up

[@glennabate1708]

That boat should have been inspected. Don’t they make people have there boats inspected?

[@drinkingpoolwater]

maybe an initial inspection but no, theres not a daily inspection for baots. that would cost taxpayers a fortune.

[@DanaHanson-t8x]

Hey do you realize that a boat can sit in a storage or a garage for many years with the same starter, bullshit mister prosecutor I'm sure it's the same damn starter it had in it since it was manufactured from the boat manufacturer, I would look for any repairs and specifically starter replacement in those months years even days surrounding the dates in question, he's innocent

[@Moose1032]

The affairs then the life insurance the story is very suspect. It’s too convenient he probably wanted an out of his marriage. I don’t believe Larry. One thing I learned from unsolved mysteries is the justice system is broken. You can murder somebody and get minimum punishment. I’m stunned at the leniency

[@mariapower6961]

My father was a close friend of Larry’s and said Larry could never do such a thing. Years later, i worked with Larry’s “love interest.” She was/is married, and something else.

[@discopuma]

So what are you saying? He’s guilty?

[@cocob6752]

Is she a he?

[@SalveRegina8]

Huh?

[@drinkingpoolwater]

and what? very confusing comment to leave

[@milesaway3699]

Well, thanks for sharing I guess.

[@lydiacabrera6251]

He is guilty!

[@nishottara777]

Larry you're FOS. NO ONE is buying your story. Poor Debbie-imagine her fear! I used to live on Lake Superior. People die in less than 30 min. The water never gets above 40 degrees.

[@deewah1698]

40? You sure?

[@GinaFerri-r6z]

Not even in the summer?

[@thisravenhasflown010]

Larry doesn't look like he felt guilty about anything. "I went to the boat instead of the shore" He can't even imagine a good enough excuse in his mind. Independent mechanic...😂 and the next Independent mechanic would say something else. As we know how mechanics can be SO HONEST 😂

[@rmx4087]

How do women like Debbie end up in situations like that‽ How? Why? Where's da intuition?

[@cherylcampbell9369]

Helen Rose Myron. Unsolved Mysteries reporting on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) even back then. 💔♥️. And in a manor respectful to family and culture. Boarding schools and the military, two places of danger. And she was succeeding until some p.o.s. targeted her.

[@mogbaba]

Not only the raft, but also the whole story is full of holes. What is specially suspicious is the story that she wanted to leave the boat. Okay, let's accept that. What die he do then? He started the boat and it started. So, why couldn't she seat on the raft and wait to see what he could manage? I mean it can be acceptable that a person gets panic and wish to leave the boat. But, it does not sound logical that the same person decides to travel on a raft without paddles to get help! And that in darkness and alone! Based on this and of course other arguments, I would vote guilty as charged.

[@patttyannhudson]

The Larry guilty or not guilty is about 50/50 I guess Noone will ever know the truth

[@mroy88]

Larry obviously did it

[@FarmingCityOne]

I will agree that the slashes on the raft when found are very suspicious I don't see any evidence showing that this guy caused them. The knife they found did not match the slashes. Could he have dropped the knife in the water that he used yes but he also could not have done it. They said he used scuba gear to go under the boat. Yet where is there any talking in this video of evidence that they found scuba gear. I suppose he could have taken it off and dropped that into the water as well. Just too much is I suppose and a person should be innocent until proven guilty.

[@overcomerbtboj]

These comments about larry and the first case 🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂🤣🤣

[@andrewnajarian5994]

Larry’s story is as watertight as his boat.

[@mimiescape2023]

Good grief....if she was that whiny....

[@sweetelle818]

Like how TV called residential school, FRICKEN BOARDING SCHOOL! My momma spent her life in residential school until she was 18. Only seeing her family around Christmas. For 2wks, sometimes only a week. Summers she was assigned to a Dutch family. Same ones always. Which she’d have to take care of those peoples kids, She never said anything awful about them, saying it was a vacation from the school. I said “but u were still a servant, momma?” She said “where I went was a vacation compared to what other kids went threw. (Forced to be great full) & Still not knowing what happened to some kids/friends while she was away. And she never found out. My dads Ojibwa spent time in residential school too! He was lucky as he had a white dad. French. Fought to get him out. But the impact from both my parents, growing up was damn hard as they did take to drinking to try forget their time, when stolen from their family’s. My grandma(moms mom) died sad, alone & yearning for her children. My moms Nisga’a from BC.

[@aluvrianne]

Calling them schools is far far too nice. These places were genocide factories.

[@suziedilly5169]

Guilty

[@amaliasafaryan4256]

Larry is very sus

[@gez14788]

Cool story bro

[@kieranhart5776]

I think Larry is guilty. He killed his wife

[@ottomattix86]

.... I was just looking for content about Winnipeg. Gave up. The chose this. WEIRD.

[@CursoryMercenary]

'Hap' Tovera was responsible for the murder of Jeanne . He hired Harrod as she received most of the inheritance left by Ed.

[@TG-ch8gu]

Sounds like the prosecutor is operating on a guilty til proven innocent basis. Do I know if Larry is innocent? No. But it seems like an extremely circumstantial case nonetheless.

[@tazclnsts7093]

Guilty til proven innocent is in the court, prosecutors always assume guilt. That's how it works.

[@elziewilson9279]

Larrys a con and liar

[@wildyblissjazz]

Why is a murderer on unsolved mysteries? It's so obvious he did it

[@deewah1698]

Dang, Anette looked 50 at age 18.

[@CursoryMercenary]

Man Debbie was annoying no wonder Larry did her in.

[@stephaniecoggins733]

LoL 😂😂

[@jenniferr9624]

🤣😂

[@overcomerbtboj]

🤣😂🤣🤣

[@TF80s]

How did Larry convince any woman to have an affair with him?

[@trinigrl09]

If a woman were having affairs left and right people would have no problem believing it was a motive for murder but because he's a man people are like, "oh, he was an adulterer but that doesn't add up tp a motive for murder"........I can't believe her parents and children were so disloyal to her......at least he served 22 years.......I can't believe this guy, actually said, gee.....I have a wonderful woman here there's nothing wrong with HER.......typical narcissistic person expecting everyone to be great and wonderful for them when they abuse that and are horrible to others........

[@deewah1698]

So do you think women are treated unfairly in the justice system?

[@mindfuless674]

Larry lying

[@n.l.vannstallings4664]

I was hoping at the end of the episode about the Native American Girl that there would be an update but then again I am not surprised. There's so many Native women that turn up missing and simply little to no interest or resources put towards finding them. I really hope this gets better with public awareness and genuine concern. If anyone is interested they can Google the phrase, no more Stolen Sisters

[@stephaniecoggins733]

Larry killed her 😡🔥 he was a player Jim was way too old for her freek

[@Jolenesmart1980]

Larry seems a bit feminine speaking wonder if he’s cheated with men?!

[@mariapower6961]

Bite me

[@joanodom2104]

What difference could that possibly make? He dated females. A previous commenter knew one of them.

[@shaunreinert5202]

He was drowning in pussy while his wife just drowned. (I know she didn't actually drown, but it works for this joke...)

[@joshuahull9982]

Maybe if Larry's wife wasn't a cow the raft wouldn't have sunk and he probably wouldn't have cheated on her in the first place.

[@rosajennings7377]

This attorney should be disbared