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  • I think she killed herself. You see her standing with his scarf around her neck and looking down. The video just made us think its sheriff..

    Anyway amazing song and amazing video. It makes you believe everything's real.

  • This song will never die.A lot of future generations will sing this son.

  • VI PREGO AIUTATEMI A RICORDARE QUALE E IL NOME DI QUESTO FILM... SONO PASATI TANTISSIMMI ANNI ... E TROPPO BELLO E RICHARD MARX E UN DELIZIOSO . LA SUA VOCE È COSI CALDA CHE TI PASSANO TUTTI BRIVIDI.

    DAL VIDEOCLIP SONO POCCHI INDICI PER DIRE CHI HA AMAZATO MARY...

    IO PENSO CHE IL SHERIFO! PERCHE HA FATO LA FOTO SOLO A MARY QUANDO ERA AL FIUME? PERCHE LO SEGUIVA....

    MARY DI CHI AVEVA PAURA DI RICHARD O DEL POLIZIOTO?

  • something important I might add, as a clue to who killed Mary, seems to come around the point 3:47 seconds where we see Mary running from a car, in a way that would suggest she was running from her killer, and we notice on the side of the car a passenger door spot light, which is a big red light going off showing that the SHERIFF is chasing Mary down...

    why would he be doing that, and would she be running scared?

    Case closed, to me I think it show it clearly what happened!

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  • I'd like to know who his mom was making out with? Sasquatch? What is with that hair do dude??? Seriously!!!

  • professor plum, study, dagger

  • Sheriff did it!

  • the butler did it....

  • desde que escuche esta cancion me encanto, y el video ... triste, pienso que el asesino de Mary fue el Sheriff, tiene cara de depravado... :(

  • These cops are acting more like the FBI. Oh wait a minute if it was the FBI they would have shot the kid and his mother before they burnt down the trailer.

  • his voice is brilliant, proper vocals, non of the crap we have these days

  • This is just a timeless video / song- I still love it after 10+ years...

    They don't write songs like this anymore!

  • I'd kill that sheriff and rip him to shreds with a smile on my face :)

  • This might sound stupid, but was his mother a hooker or something?

  • I got chills with this video, I was passing by a small town going to Ohio and needs a gas, the folks outside looks like they will grab and hang me, so I just left without putting a gas, until now I can't forget how those eyes stared.

  • Great Track!

  • I LOVE Richard Marx! He's a babe! MMMM MMMMMM!

  • great song,richard has a great voice.

    this is a real song its not like all the crap that the record companies are producing these days

  • this bringz back memoryz

  • beautiful song

  • I feel a strong connection with this song. I feel my life has a similar story and I get deeply touched when I listen to this song. I love the innocence in Mary & then what happens to her breaks me down and takes me to the harsh real world... Its really painful

  • @itssid me, too...I'm sure our stories are very different...but I was connected to a small town murder...no one ever even questioned me...they should have...I knew things about the girl's bf no one else did, I had a child by him...I'll never know who did it...and have to wonder for the rest of my life if my child's father is a murderer...

  • @RandomConcepts The Shunning from what I believe is when he sees his dad leaving only he doesn't see the other woman waiting for him behind the sheet, when he sees his mom intimate with another man later; he blames her for his father leaving and burns the house down in spite; never knowing his father left the family for another woman.

  • I know it's not real, but I still want to stab the prejudiced eyed bastards who would call a child 'not right'. Even if some of them aren't...

  • The sheriff is "pappy" from Baa Baa Blacksheep" an old show on tv from the late 70's early 80's. Also did the copper top battery commercial (duracell) "GO AHEAD AND KNOCK IT OFF...I DARE YOU!

  • Love Richard Marx...! ................ the song is reminescent of Moody-River by Andy Williams of a generation ago. One of my favorite Richard Marx songs....!

  • lv dis vid so top

  • I think the FBI need to be called in to solve the mystery of what happened to young Mary. It's quite clear the police enforment of Hazard are unable to solve this heinous crime!!

  • I hope the Sheriff has a good alibi!!! He is banged to rights!!!

  • This song will forever be linked in my mind to hot, sweltering summers, filled with heady perfume of jasmine, I rememer sittingin my bedroom, with the tv on and the window open, a soft breeze would come thru the wondow and when i heard this song, I would close my eyes, and listen to its haunting melody, feeling the heat and sweat upon my skin....beautiful song in every way.

  • i think the sheriff did it...he wanted her badly LOL

  • At 4.07 he looks a bit like Charlie Sheen...

  • thank god he doesnt sing this song the way he sings practically every other popular song of his. he saves the wailing and the weeping for when it actually would fit; the bridge is the only time he belts, and it helps this song a lot. this is actually a really cool song.

  • RIP Mary

    Awesome song.

  • Robert Conrad started a TV series after this,staring has a sheriff how odd

  • Mary was obviously being double teamed by the sheriff and Richard Marx. When she wouldn't take it in the arse, the sheriff killed her. Every girl in his county takes it in the butt...

  • @dishingthehatred ROFLMFAO

  • this is a hoot, under the video playing, showing the cops at their worse, they have an ad for "jobs in law enforcement" scrolling. I think the sherriff did it, and they are using this to try to get people to be police.Ha Ha...OMG sick

  • Small town sheriffs are the local Bosses. They are the law and are above the law in their own eyes. The sheriff's photos were only of Mary when RM's character was there. Why was the Rm Character not in those photos? Yea, the sheriff did it and then tried to pin it on the perfect patsy. Any way you slice it comes up a crime of passion.

  • It's a fucken music video retard. No one did it. They all went home at the end of the day...

  • First you missed the pix of just mary, without RM, on the sheriffs desk, he is a stalker! RM sees her in car trying to get away but runs instead, leaving the murder weapon, his scarf on the tree he feels guilty, because he ran,she does get out of car/Gets the scarf and goes to her safe place but who is waiting? RM does not fold, so they + a "sheriff" burn him out, cuts his hair as a loss of a part of him, her. Its a mystery/ love story. Says she's not is not afraid to RM/ runs from cop car

  • @cambizes Thanks for the sermon.

  • Is this the same hazard as in the dukes of hazard?

  • @RobDeManc No it's Hazard, Nebraska. Dukes of Hazard was Hazard, Georgia

  • she loved to watch the sun go down we use to walk along the river and dream away out of this town

  • this is a masterpiece of a music video! what ever happened to the hella artistic music videos?

  • Great song.

  • Poor Mary :(

  • Brings it all back - was it really 18 years ago? This is music that engages mind, body and spirit - we need more of this today. Loving it - goosebumps all over! x

  • @rayfih I agree........... fantastic song.

  • I thought I never would seen this video again. I grew up watching videos and you can hear them, but watching and hearing is better. thanks

  • Gotta love the good ole self-righteous lynch mob.

  • clairekerrypike i tried posting it but you tube wouldn't let me. i'm gonna e-mail it to you;)

  • there was another version of this video out at around the same time this one came out. in it, it shows that mary killed herself.

  • @tna33311 - where's the other video

  • l think, murderer is sheriff.

  • I reckon it is the Sheriff too. Rm should do a part 2. I am sure he would have requests to do it.

  • @wozvideo there is a part 2, but nothing is answered

  • EXACTLY!!!

  • I know a man at age 30, no prior's accused by his ex of killing a new guy as he left her house. NO Evidence, no witnesses...the jury (who were all busy people) said "we will go for guilty and he will get out on apeal. an Appelt atty's retainer is $100 GRAND and this now 50 year old man, who still says I did not do it, and I believe him...rots in jail. Pray for Michael, please.

  • oh so sad. I will pray 4 him!!! Keep me posted.

  • There was a story on Unsolved Mysteries some years go sounded very similiar to this story. The man was around 18 or so and had some mental problems. He was arrested for the murder of a young lady he was friends with. Many people came out to say there was no way he could have even done this. I don't know what ever happened but there was more evidence as time went by that was pointing in a different direction then the man they had arrrested.

  • great numbre, the sound is so good. greetings from Holland

  • Maybe it is a revenge story? When he was a kid we see him burn the house (or did he burn it?). Was his mom killed inside with the other man? Maybe the other man was the Sheriff (younger) and he didn't die. As revenge we see that Mary is killed (by the now older sheriff?) and his trailer burned. Both times a woman dies (comes to hazard) and a home is burned. He seems to look confused and struggling with a secret...

  • This video always led me to believe the Sheriff did it, although it's probably a made up story, it was realistic enough to me back when I first saw it.

  • i think he killed both his mother and mary. he killed all the people that love him. sad song and this is actually true about some people because they have mental problems.

  • when i wass mtudind in college.......,

    i got 1st price when is sing this song at a zone compitation and unter university compitation,.................

  • @vishwadeep9037332621 Fuck me.... which college or university did you go to exactly?

  • @CheesyPeasPlease must u use words like that everybody don't care to read these words........please

  • @vishwadeep9037332621 a tart's a slut in UK terms

  • love the song, it made me look up the video...Tart?  Is that what brits call an innocent girl getting murdered? Only in the UK

  • @Patti51Lynn a tart's a slut in UK terms

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  • It's a song with a story real or fake. I will say his vocals are amazing. The Sheriff is an actor in many movies years ago. This dude has many great songs.

  • he never talked about his great great grandfather karl.hahaha

  • @tbonematt08 lol...

  • I just love this song. those three chords at the beginning just make me feel so sad for some reason...he is a real weirdo in the vid though isn't he, but that Sheriff looks really creepy as wel, what a tragic story.....

  • c'est une merveille,le clip,la mélodie,une présence incroyable,mon sentimment restera pendant plusieurs jours...

  • what is this song about

  • amazing song, very sad story though x

  • Ubedljivo najbolja lagana stvar!

  • i lvd mary!X

  • amazin chooooon!

  • Unbelievably awesome...

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  • :( have to disagree with you, Hazard is real. I know because I was born and raised there. Amazing and beautiful country. do a google search for hazardnebraska and you'll find our home page ;-)

  • No..not Demi Moore. Resemblance, but not her.

  • i like listening to this just to hear him belt it out @ 2:50. His upper vocal range is so powerful!

  • Is that Demi Moore? Looks a lot like her!

  • Awesome song.. Sad story

  • This is the only richard marx song i like. way better than beyonc e.

  • You don't hear this track anymore...It's such a great track,,,,I'm glad you posted it..

  • She killed herself after Marx refused to get a haircut.

    Fantastic song!!

  • hahah..ha.ha ^^

  • I'm pretty sure the cop did it. He stalked her a lot in the video.

  • Marx is multi-talented, and his lyrics are always deeply meaningful.

  • who cares ? great song.

  • Great Song!! Thanks.

  • This song use to scary me when I was a little girl, I always wondered what happened to Mary. Wow a musician and a story teller. Thank god for Richard Marx

  • @ninjergg it used to scare me, too...I had bad dreams about it...

  • OMG thanks for the song!!!

  • Only God knows who killed her.

  • i think jayce killed mary

  • Your all wrong it was Casey Anthony the bitch!

  • T hat psycho marx did it, you hear d what the folks im town been sayin aintcha, you know hes nuts cause who the hell wears a white scarf thats why she was with the other dude she though t he was her gay friend

  • Ok I've got my opinion but it's exactly this...only an opinion. What if the jealous boyfriend was the sheriff (not the boy in the car) and the sheriff was just furious about it? What if Mary saw the sheriff while in the car and not Richard? Sheriff killed Mary and needed a way out...unfortunately RM's scarf got caught in the bush...perfect for the sheriff.

    Anyway...it's just my opinion and largerly debatable.

    What is not debatable is that this is a great song :)

  • I've seen the second video, slightly different from this one. At the middle a female voice says "You seem to be the only one who really understand me". At the end the same female voice says "I know it might sound weird...I don't know what I'll do (...can't understand..) my jealous boyfriend". During the discussion the (supposedly) lawyer defending Richard says that it would be needed more than a scarf to jail RM and that the scenery seems more to lead to a suicide.

  • I'm surprised I never asked myself who killed Mary.

    On the first approach I would say the sheriff because he never had a doubt about RM guiltyness. For jealousy? That would be really plain and obvious. For the fact that simply he didn't want RM to stand around cause he knew something by his past that's better not known by others? At the point to sacrifice the only person that got in touch with RM?

    Anyway, good question :)

  • I adore this song for the music and the lyrics. Everytime I listened to it, I was seeing things from Richard Marx's point of view: surrounded by a world that considered him "not right" since the age of seven, he found a person (Mary) who saw him "behind the rumors and the lies". But this dream was not going to last and he lost Mary and had to get away from Hazard, city "cold" not only as far as the weather is concerned but also for the people living in it.

  • your all wrong it was the butler who did it!!!!

  • nope she was strangled with that white scarf

  • I think it was the sherrif too

  • I think it was Marx character also...Great song BTW

  • It was the sheriff!

  • i agree I think it was the sheriff.

  • I think "Who killed Mary" was the sheriff. Since the beginning of the clip he says the couple. In questioning the sheriff requiring him to confess and end of the clip he pursues Mary while she runs.

  • what a cool song.

  • As vezes eh melhor nao saber a traducao das musicas...

  • Eu também acho

  • Hauntingly beautful. Mysterious. Great voice and song.

  • The best:)

  • i cry everytime i hear it...

  • you and me both...even wrote a follow up fan fiction resolving everything, clearing him..and helping him find love again. Am I the only one who wished for such a song?

  • is this song SUPPOSED 2 make give U the creeps? tho i LOVE it and Who DID kill Mary and WHY???

  • I don't know darling.

  • The sheriff killed Mary, but he says "since the day I killed Mary" he blames himself for her death.

  • Are you referring to when he says "3 years ago when I came to know Mary"?

    When did he say "Since the day I killed Mary????

  • Who killed Mary  was the sheriff :)

  • great song, AWESOME MULLET!!!

  • On the other version of this song (not clear to look at), there is a person named Kent....he noticed the same thing I did in this one...she WAS in a car with someone else and "Richard" saw them and she saw his face when he saw her!! I think he's closer to just WHO DID kill her....she did, because of "guilty" feelings!! By all means the sheriff was rotten to the core, but.........we may NEVER know!! hahahaha Can guarantee, if you saw it back then, you'll wonder every time you see it now!!

  • when the kid an his (presumably)mother are standing on the deck of their house an the man in army uniforn(presumibly dad) walks through a curtain an hugs dome girl. who is the girl he hugs? and why does the kid set the house on fire? was it because the mother was cheating on the father? she must hav survived the fire if that was the case.

  • Wicked song

  • SOB !!!!! Looks like quite a few people loved this song like me!! I lived where cable wasn't available until this song came out, and I'd break my neck to see the video!! It's amazing just how POWERFUL music can be!! Hey great explanations below me!! That sheriff was a piece of work, huh? Like I said...SOB !!!

  • the sheriff saw them and was jealous as he loved her and he killed her as you can guess when she's running from the sherif's car (frame 3.47) , have you noticed how he spied on her (frame 1.00) ? then followed her ( frame 1.26),then court them kissing ( frame 1.46) then mr marx ran away 'cause under caution , then mr sheriff had all the time to do his nasty work on poor mary....I love this song.

  • I think the cop killed her! Small town! They can get away with murder! Who can fight them! You could be next!

  • It was Marx's Character.

  • It's such a tragedy that Marx has several songs already under his belt, by the time this song came out. It really is sad he had to release such sappy, pop-dreck, before this - a mature, well told story, very gritty, morbid and dark. It saddens me more he's not even remembered for this song, when it was truly his best work.

    And I will admit, I was never really a Richard Marx fan, but this was an absolutely brilliant bit of songwriting. And I gotta give credit, where credit is due.

  • It's the sheriff, the end actually gives you the answer. Mary says "you know everyone says I should be afraid of you but I am not" is not to Richard's character, but the sheriff as we see in the video. It's a small town, certain people had power and the rest keep their mouth shut, while the free are driven out or worse. That's my take. Haunting song when I first heard it in the 80's and twenty years later it still is.

  • Personally, of course I think it's just a set of circumstances presented in the videos that leave the viewer to wonder about. There IS NO answer, and that just adds to the mystery. Each character under suspicion in the video was a possible suspect -- even Marx. Back then, I was convinced it was the sheriff. But now, as an older man, I'm not so sure. The Marx character was certainly troubled... sure, he loved Mary with all his heart. But that's never kept troubled men from murdering.

  • CAMBIZES! Thank you so much for your analysis!!  This is really cool! I was intrigued by this video (well, both of them) when they originally aired, and NOBODY I knew back then had the slightest idea what I was talking about! I was the only Marx fan among us. It's really cool to see, FINALLY, someone examine this song and appreciate it! Again, thank you so much! You made my night! :-)

  • Thank you

  • Após assistir ao clip, é evidente que quem matou Mary foi o xerife.

  • É bem possivel que seja ele mesmo

  • I think that crazy cop killed her and tried to pin it on him since he was he was an outsider from the time he was a kid.

    There's that scene where Mary's running while the cop's in the car chasing her with his car...

    Why was he taking pictures of them when they were just siting by the river?

    Is Robert Conrad the cop?

    I love this video..love this song...love, love, love Richard Marx!

  • "I think about my life gone by

    And how its done me wrong

    Theres no escape for me this time

    All of my rescues are gone, long gone."

  • It was Obama, by the river ,with a candle stick.

  • I think it's supposed to be open to interpretation. I hope he didn't do it, but it can pretty much go either way.

  • gosto muito de ouvir esta música. Nanci

  • Adoro essa música....e a voz de Richard é linda de+...

  • she tied his scarf around her neck and drown herself after richard caught her with someone in the car. she loved him and couldn't bare what she did to him. DUH!!!

  • Yes, I believe it was his best....

  • I've been looking for this song forever. I only remembered the story and that it was about a river but not the name or artist. I finally found it, thanks for putting it on here.

  • i am not a richard marx fan, but this is a good song?

  • Reminds me of that girl down in Nova Scotia who was murdered by her mother last year. She was found on a river bank.

  • How tragic.....do they know why?

  • Love this song too, very haunting! Pretty sure the sherrif did it! He's been watching Mary for a long time!

  • I concur. sheriff is a pervert and follewed her to the river. not all went to plan and she wound up dead

  • i love this song! full of twists and em0ti0n.. the best voice for a male singer! cant wait for his c0meback! the jealous sheriff did it!!

  • He never left...just focusing on song writing...something he is amazing at!

  • Very touching song, and in the same time very beautiful voice...

  • i absolutely love this song and i have been trying to work out what happened.i believe his mother was murdered by the locals who set fire to the house which he managed to escape.he was in love with mary but it was purely platonic and when he stumbled on her in the car he ran off to which his scarfe got caught on the branch.she got dressed and ran after him and saw the scarfe which she wrapped around her neck and walked along the river.

  • very haunting ..

  • Funny about the finger prints, Nebraska deputies always tell me finger printing is only in the movies. lol

  • Very Powerful song and video... heard the new version from his DUO album?...wow