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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20111211:17:23:00

Mead, nevada. it s a place that embraces strangers. in the spring of 1995, the town opened its arms to a newcomer named joseph benson. benson and his family lived in a tiny house on the outskirts of town. he told neighbors he was a private detective who had recently retired from the marine corps. but there were things about his past he did not tell anyone, things no one in town had any way of knowing. the man they knew as joseph benson was really marine corps staff sergeant arthur bennett. and back in yuma, arizona, where he had been indicted for raping a 13-year-old girl, everyone thought he was dead. well, almost everyone. i never stopped loving him. incredibly, three months after crying over his casket at a military funeral, amelia bennett and her three children had reunited with arthur. but now he had a different name. joe benson. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20111211:17:03:00

Assignments in asia, and nearly a dozen medals and letters of appreciation from the corps. he even found a bride on duty, a dancer from the philippines named amelia. he s very good-hearted man. very affectionate. all you re looking for a man was in him at that time. and you found it very easy to fall in love with him. i did. i fall in love with him and i marry him. together, they had three beautiful daughters. but three years before that trailer fire, a happy family portrait was beginning to disintegrate. the trouble began when the bennett family was transferred to a military base in okinawa, japan. former navy petty officer lynn brisco was arthur bennett s neighbor in okinawa and for a time his friend. we had similar interests, the possibility of a long-term friendship was there. but the friendship ended as quickly as it had begun, he says, when his 8-year-old daughter came to him with a disturbing story about a slumber party she attended at bennett s home. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20111211:17:29:00

But arthur bennett it turns out has risen from the ashes to escape his past and start a new life. his ex-wife amelia knows that he s alive, and now the entire family is living a lie. while amelia bennett is prepared to keep his secret, she can t imagine the consequences. we had a couple of girls come up to the police department, contact me and say that they believed there was some sexual abuse going on with joe benson and some other victims. the girls said the victims were joseph benson s 13 and 15-year-old stepdaughters. of course, copeland had no way of knowing they were the man s biological children. i said, it s not true. because deep inside me he was a real father of my daughters. so maybe they re only accusing him because they thought every stepfather does something bad to their stepdaughters, you know. every stepfather? remember, this is the same ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20111211:17:30:00

Amelia bennett who had forgiven her husband many times before, who admits she lived for years in denial. who knew about okinawa and yuma and a faked death and still came back to him. amelia bennett claimed that at first she couldn t believe her husband would molest their own daughters until she confronted the eldest and her worst fears were confirmed. i said you re not a virgin anymore? she said yes. so we both hugged each other and we were crying. she told me that she didn t want joe in the house anymore. that s how you knew for sure it was him. yes. finally, on halloween 1997, six years after the accusations in okinawa, three years after his phony death at lake mead and after two years of secrets and lies in hurricane, arthur s daughters ran away from home and talked. the story was that their ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20111211:17:06:00

Protect this country from enemies, both foreign and domestic. but i need to know that if my country sends me across the ocean, that my family is going to be taken care of. they let me down on that. finally, a year after the briscos filed their molestation complaint arthur bennett s tour in okinawa ended. there would be no court-martial, no jail time. instead, the staff sergeant was awarded another service medal and was transferred. he got away. arthur bennett returned to the states a single father. amelia had discovered an affair with a 17-year-old and was divorcing him. amelia feared she couldn t support herself and the three girls on her own in the states so she stayed behind in okinawa. and in a move she would come to deeply regret, she let arthur have custody of their 7, 8 and 10-year-old daughters. ....

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