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Missouri Psychiatrist Says Elvis is His Patient

Aired February 13, 2002 - 06:56   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: There was the '68 comeback special. Could Elvis be making another comeback this year? A psychiatrist in Independence, Missouri says Elvis is alive, and as Maria Antonio from CNN affiliate KMBC reports, this doc claims to be in regular contact with the king.

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ELVIS PRESLEY: I am going to straighten this thing out once and for all.

MARIA ANTONIO, CNN AFFILIATE KMBC REPORTER (voice-over): This thing about Elvis living and secretly traveling the country...

PRESLEY (singing): I've been from Maine to Tennessee, Mexico from Waikiki.

ANTONIO: Is it just a song and dance?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE ACTRESS: I can't believe this is happening.

PRESLEY: I can't believe it either.

ANTONIO: Or would you believe he still walks and talks...

PRESLEY: That's what you think.

ANTONIO: ... if the one saying they speak in person and by phone...

PRESLEY: Goodbye.

ANTONIO: ... is this Kansas City psychiatrist.

DR. DONALD HINTON, PSYCHIASTRIST: I just heard from him on Sunday, twice on Friday. I hear from him on a regular basis.

ANTONIO (on camera): You hear from him how?

HINTON: On Sunday, it was by phone.

PRESLEY (singing): Twist the pretty things in your hair...

HINTON: I am speaking to Elvis Aaron Presley, the entertainer, which everybody believes died in 1977.

ANTONIO: This photo in a book supposedly shows Elvis after all the years and some plastic surgery.

HINTON: He has white hair now. He is 67 years old. He has given me things that can be tested that actually would have his DNA on them. For example, the good tooth, which is pictured in the book.

ANTONIO (voice-over): A book the doctor says he co-wrote with Elvis. He goes by Jesse, the name of his twin brother who died at birth.

HINTON: I have been treating Elvis Presley for the several years.

ANTONIO: Hinton now speaks to groups about his once secret patient and about the book that explains how friends helped Elvis hide.

HINTON: This is all part of his plan for 2002.

ANTONIO: He means Elvis' plan to bring grieving fans out of the dark this year and tell them he faked dying to get away and get healthy.

HINTON: And people will think I am crazy or think that I have been tricked by someone.

ANTONIO: But Hinton's medical degree from the University of Kansas is no trick. He is a board certified practicing physician. Here is what Missouri's Board of Healing Arts told us by phone.

"He is a currently licensed, is an M.D. His license was issued in Missouri 8/19 of 1993. It is current, active with no discipline."

ANTONIO: In other words, the Elvis story has not shaken Hinton's record. It is clear even if its timing isn't. Here is what he first told us in December.

HINTON: At the beginning of January, things will be happening and the truth will be coming out.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE ACTOR: And I think it's high time we met.

PRESLEY: I agree.

ANTONIO: Now, it's past January, so we asked: Isn't Elvis going to show up?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE ACTOR: Around two-ish?

PRESLEY: Around two-ish.

HINTON: He is not going to change his mind. I haven't had any inkling that he is going to change his mind, but there is some very powerful people that are still influencing him that, for reasons related to money, don't want him ever coming forward and telling the truth.

PRESLEY (singing): I've got double trouble, Christ as much as anybody else, oh, yeah.

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COSTELLO: Well, if that guy is your psychiatrist, I hope you were taking notes.

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