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[Music] it's so powerful to see how my mom handled this situation she's amazing you know and
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she's really really strong how often do Residential kidnappings happen here very rare yeah
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not very often at all Shauna Hanley is at her home with her daughter Isabella her friend came over just to
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come and visit with her we talked for about 5 or 10 minutes and the doorbell rang and so I went to
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the door and it's these two men these two individuals essentially present themselves to be delivery men of some
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sort Shauna sees them says look I have a friend over now it's not a good time she
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goes to close the door on them they force themselves in with guns they started to scream to get the F
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on the floor and don't move they handcuffed me in front like this I was just stunned I saw that my mom and her
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friend were handcuffed I said I have valuables I have jewelry I have cash I have precious metals I can get you money
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didn't interest them at all I said come with me and she went and they came back and asked me and I said
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no and they just accepted that and left they put her in the van I'm hooded they hooded me as soon as
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I went into the van it was a van that didn't have the windows in the back and it was just a rubber mat without seats
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back there and laid me on the floor and then they leave these guys are heading out of town
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with SH to handl in the back of that van one of the guys sat on top of me you know so he stayed screaming at me he had
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the gun to my head I was trying to pay attention to where we were I could feel when we picked up speed that we had made
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a turn I was like oh no my heart sunk I was like we're on an interstate or something and the guy stripped me they
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threatened to assault me sexually he put a pill in my mouth and he gave me another I said what are you giving me
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and he said don't worry about that and so I guess I started to maybe drift a little and I started
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praying so this particular day I got out of work as I was traveling there was a wreck on the interstate I got stopped
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behind a white van I could kind of see the the driver of the van was starting to get nervous in the mirror he was
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looking at me he decided to get into the shoulder and speed off it didn't sit right with me so I got
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in behind him I put my emergency lights sirens on [Music] then I hear sirens and I was like
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yeah yeah okay thank you God this is where the vehicle exited it's a dead end to a dirt road which had
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been mud cuz it just rained their van got stuck that's when they exited the vehicle and kept
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running the siren stopped and I just sunk again and I was like what happened did I imagine the sirens what's going on
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and I'm full of anxiety when you approach the van you've got your gun drawn yes sir I opened the
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rear door of the van and in the van what I thought was a mannequin moved scared me startled me so I jumped back and I
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shut the door said oh my God things aren't always what they seem [Music] [Music]
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I didn't know what was going on with my mom there was no one really telling me what was
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happening police say the woman was forcefully removed from her home in Lafayette with her childhood home now a
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crime scene and her mother Shonda Hanley just abducted by armed Intruders Isabella Cumberland found herself
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confused amidst a crowd of investigators and forensic analysts they wanted to go
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over the fingerprints on the doors upstairs my phone and it just kind of felt like I was another piece of
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evidence Isabella then just 14 years old was trying to process the sight of the violent kidnapping she had just
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witnessed at her family's home in Lafayette Louisiana on August 6th 20 2017 as they're driving away with her
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did you think that was the last time you'd ever see her I thought there was a chance Lafayette investigators and
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Isabella had no idea that about an hour after the kidnapping just across the state near Baton Rouge Chad Martin and
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Iberville Paris sheriff's deputy had just pulled over a suspicious white van after a brief Pursuit there were two men
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inside when they pulled into this parking spot they got stuck stuck in the mud so the men jump out and they take
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off running and right behind us is the inter Coastal Waterway they jump in and disappear and when Martin went to clear
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that vehicle he discovered shaa Handley handcuffed and naked in the back she looked at me and I'll never forget this
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she said are you the real police or are you the one that's going to kill me and he was like you're safe you're safe just
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minutes before before Martin was rushing home for Sunday dinner in his squad car
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after clocking out unaware of shonda's kidnapping nearly 60 M away his biggest worry at that time was his wife's wrath
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I heard you were habitually late for dinners I had a tendency uh to be late for everything now he had unwittingly
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made the rescue of a lifetime what's going to your head I mean you were just trying to pull over a couple of guys who
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looked a little susp icious I can't really tell you what was going through my head almost like I went into like
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robot mode and I was just trying to get this woman help Shonda told him a harrowing story that the kidnappers had
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drugged her and threatened to rape her and kill her if not for Chad Martin oh I would be dead I can't even
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imagine but I know it wasn't going to be quick and Swift Martin relayed the news of
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shonda's rescue to dispatch and it soon reached Isabella whenever they told me that she was safe I felt this
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relief law enforcement began to ask questions who were shonda's kidnappers and why did they abduct her
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but for Shonda there was no mystery who was behind it she had said that she believed that her husband is the one
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that had paid them to kill her her estranged husband Michael Handley Shonda says that before before
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the difficult months leading up to the kidnapping Michael would have been the last person she could have imagined
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would harm her they had met in 2005 through friends in Lafayette at a time when both were single parents and
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emerging from failed marriages he was really catering and just sweet and compassionate another thing they had in
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common both were in recovery for addiction at that time I had been sober for about 18 years oh wow Michael was newly
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clean and sober he had about a year the new couple hit it off and a year later they were married in Hawaii
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Isabella took an immediate liking to Michael he well was my dad from when I was 2 years old and so that's how I saw
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him was really as my dad in 2007 Michael and Shonda found success channeling their experience in recovery into a new
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business we're going to provide care and we're going to meet you where you are partnering with a doctor to start a
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chain of addiction treatment centers so we wound up opening at one point I think
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there were 14 centers throughout the South eight years later they made a decision we sold the company how much
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did y'all make on the sale the two of them Michael and his partner we sold the company for $21.5 million
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wow yeah but their life as happy millionaires didn't last long say prosecutors Donald kette and Kenny AAR
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you know money and free time with someone with an addictive personality isn't a great combination Shonda was
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seeing that firsthand with Michael in 2017 less than 2 years after the sale of their company when she found a bottle of
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Aderall with Michael handley's name on it so what we believed at our Treatment Center was that
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use of something like that amphetamine could open the doors to a world of trouble so when I found the bottle it
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terrified me and I can remember telling him this could lead to death this could lead to something devastating and soon
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things got even worse when Shonda discovered that Michael was seeing another woman he was having an affair
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and all I could think was like I don't even know who this man is is Shonda issued an ultimatum Michael had to go
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into treatment but when he refused to get help she made a difficult decision I changed the locks and Michael was locked
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out of the house and he started to lose his mind at that point and so after a couple of weeks he
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said you're going to regret this and then that turned into I'm telling you it's going to get
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bad then hanley's life together was falling apart fast Michael accused Shonda of assaulting him she was charged
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but later acquitted by a judge all while Shonda was begging the authorities to see that she was the one in danger if
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Michael wasn't apprehended he was going to kill me as Shonda Hanley was recovering in the
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hospital investigators were learning the details of her tumultuous past with Michael Handley they knew they had to
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find him and the kidnappers fast they started scouring the last place her abductors had been seen this canal
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there's a fisherman and he reported these two individuals Waiting by him in the water and one of them pointed a gun
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at him and said be cool but as the kidnappers had been swimming towards Freedom the Canal's
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unforgiving current had other plans behind me at the inter Coastal Canal is where two bodies were found yesterday
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they found them floating in inol Canal drowned dead dead they were later identified as Sylvester bracie and
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arcenio Haynes what did you think when you found out they were dead I thought I'm not
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going to have to worry about them hurting me as sad as that is while investigators suspected Michael
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Handley was responsible for the abduction proving it might have been difficult with their main Witnesses the
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kidnappers dead but Handley it seemed had made it kind of easy for them detectives are running the VIN number on
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the white van that VIN number leads them to an Enterprise dealership in Batar Rouge said well a few days ago an
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individual named lawren Michael Hanley came in and rented the van and then a couple days before that he went to
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Barney's police Depot which is a store that carries specifically Police Issue merchandise Handley was seen on store
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surveillance cameras as he pulls up and purchas his handcuffs finding evidence allegedly
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connecting Hanley to the kidnapping wasn't difficult but finding him turned out to be the challenge I'm asking if
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Michael's been apprehended and they they said no and so they said we need to like
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lay low for a little while with a fortune at his fingertips investigators feared he could be anywhere and a danger
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to Shonda once she was released from the hospital so they came up with a plan of
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action we decided on a safe house outside of Lafayette Sid bear a former Louisiana
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Sheriff was part of the security detail watching Shonda 24/7 we had a Lafayette sheriff's deputy
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in a marked unit on premises no visitors no package deliveries nothing until further notice even in hiding Shonda was
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feeling relief that Michael was finally being recognized as a threat after living in constant fear prior to the
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kidnapping the terror that I was in for those three months the kidnapping was nothing in comparison the kidnapping in
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was a blessing what the kidnapping is what allowed me to get to a place where people were willing to support me in the
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beginning how many people believed Shonda not many but Shonda had found a fierce Ally
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in Christine Mir her divorce attorney Christine knew all too well what Shonda had
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experienced the most dangerous case I have ever heard about let alone been a part of what made it so dangerous
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Michael Hanley he was constantly stalking her telling her that he knew where she was
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threatening her threatening her daughter with harm Shonda called the police several
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times but felt she wasn't taken seriously Christine helped Shonda secure a restraining order but says Michael
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found creative ways to make it effectively worthless he disguised his voice he also used an app that picked up
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dummy numbers that he used to contact her so there was no proof that it was him that was actually violating the
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protective order and he seemed to be tracking shonda's every move he was able to spy on her through her own laptop
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computers her alarm system he compromised all of that nothing was out of bounds Michael's Behavior was growing
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increasingly erratic even though he was the one to initially file for divorce in
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the spring of 2017 he soon changed his mind and Shonda says now he was demanding they reconcile or she'd pay a
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humiliating Price He says some of our private videos are going to go out to people in the
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community intimate videos intimate videos Shonda struggled over this but knew she couldn't take him back so
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videos went out to hundreds of people in the community my cousins uncles administration at the school
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political friends neighbors I sat and cried and was sick to my stomach I almost didn't stand up
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just when Shonda thought she couldn't take anymore on June 8th 2017 almost 2 months to the day before the kidnapping
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Michael Hanley slipped into her house through the garage he was enraged he R of alcohol he
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was he was Furious and he had me pinned up against the wall and I screamed Isabella well he put his hand over my
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mouth and he pulled out a gun a 9mm a gun he pulls out a handgun and he said if you scream or anybody comes to
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interfere I will shoot you both I will kill you both do you understand me Shonda says that after hours saying
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anything she could think of to calm him down she finally convinced Michael to leave as soon as he walked out of that
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gate I ran in the house bolted the door and I started screaming and crying when Michael left that day after he had
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attacked me I was 100% positive he was going to kill me police were called once again but they didn't arrest Michael
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Hanley I can see in your eyes that you're getting emotional oh I felt as though I was being told that that I was
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lying and that I was making it up this is why women don't report abuse because they fear they will not be
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believed how many times had Shonda filed a report against Michael I believe that the actual
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reports f were a couple dozen if not more as far as how many times was there an arrest made there wasn't why a lot of
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times he was out of state sometimes the investigators felt like they didn't have
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enough evidence to actually go forward and get a warrant for the arrest after the kidnapping
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investigators were confident that this time they had more than enough evidence to make an arrest but could they find
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him in time so somehow Michael is able to track Shonda down to the place that she's seeking
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[Music] Refuge does Michael Hanley know that the cops are on to him yes because at some
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point he tried to Charter a PR private plane and so the pilot essentially said I am not going to be taking you anywhere
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uh because you're a wanted man the pilot reported it to police but Michael was long gone and as he continued to evade
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authorities Shonda got a text message from a strange number claiming that Michael had also been kidnapped saying
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in part pay the ransom for your husband and pay us 500 large or we will send him
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home in pieces a day later friends received a shocking photo of Michael he was nude
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handcuffed and seemingly injured and he's got blood on it right it appeared to be from shonda's kidnappers but
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investigators knew that couldn't be true we know that obviously wasn't from them
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because they're dead at this point so Michael is behind these messages on August 11th 2017 after a
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4-day man hun detectives finally cornered the multi-millionaire once accustomed to
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private jets in five-star hotels he was in this off-ramp motel in Sidell Louisiana we begin with new information
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on the arrest of a Lafayette kidnapping suspect as they took an oddly smiling Michael Handley into custody
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investigators began sifting through the nearly $10,000 in cash pizza boxes and illicit drugs finding this to-do list on
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it were things like burner phone hair dye cash but it's final task was even more ominous says prosecutor Kenny AAR
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since shonda's safe house was just 35 mil away but on the bottom of that list were
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the words finish the job and finish the job would mean in our opinion he was going to kill
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her with Michael Hanley now in jail Shonda and her security team decided it was finally safe for her to come out of
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hiding it was time to go home and that's what she said I just want to go go home
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and rebuild my life but with his track record of evading Justice Isabella was skeptical that the worst was behind them
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I remember thinking that it was almost pointless that he was being arrested it felt like he had all the power and he
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was going to keep all the power Michael Hanley pleaded not guilty to a Litany of charges including
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conspiracy to commit second deegree murder and prosecutors got to work building their case against him
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anytime you're on our side of the table you start thinking what's the defense going to
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be we could not figure out what his defense was going to be there was no question that she was a victim of a
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kidnapping but says Kevin stock still the man who Michael Hanley hired to defend him the physical evidence doesn't
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prove his client played a part in any of it were the van and the handcuffs enough
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to convict him I don't think so that is because stock still says that there is an explanation for everything
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it started when Michael hired Sylvester bracie not to kidnap his wife but instead he claims to move some furniture
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that was the reason Michael rented the van he says and made no effort to hide it Mr Hanley you know goes into the
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Enterprise uh renter car location with his credit card in one hand and dri's license and the other so you thought you
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could explain to the jury Hey listen nobody who's actually going to commit this crime is going to go in with their
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license and ID and buy it themselves correct it was all innocent enough stock still says until the wbe Mover went
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rogue stock still theorizes Sylvester bracie saw Michael's desperation to get his wife back and decided to use it to
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his advantage that's when he enlisted arcenio Haynes to help him kidnap Shonda and hold her for ransom so you're
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thinking the kidnappers could have wanted to extort Michael to get money from him so they
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would have kidnapped his wife potentially and of course he did buy the handcuffs but stock still says he only
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used them to Stage that fake kidnapping photo so as he's bound and gagged he's bound with handcuffs it was just the
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latest example according to stock still of photos and videos that Michael had been sending to Shonda for months
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showing him an emotional distress and in one case apparently beaten up in a misguided attempt to try and win her
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back I love you I love you because Michael had he had a proclivity to try and Stage these things
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to to get you know sympathy from Shonda but as the defense prepared to argue that the kidnappers acted on their
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own Shonda Hanley made a damning discovery while cleaning out a remote Mississippi property they owned starts
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getting some of her personal belongings well one of the things that they found was this camera it was a type of camera
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called Arlo Michael Handley used it for security when Arlo detects sound in video Arlo starts recording that's right
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that's right well it turns out he accidentally turned the camera on himself all put together what did the
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camera record I mean hundreds of hours hundreds of hours one of the First videos is from 2
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months before the kidnapping Michael is by himself in a hotel room and is apparently talking to himself you see
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him moving around and at some point he picks the camera up and he puts it in a back and
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you hear him say the words I'm going to kill her I'm going to kill her kill her kill
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her prosecutors believe the her he intended to kill was Shonda and that Michael was even
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more explicit just days later in a conversation with a friend in the living room of the Mississippi house they're
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having beers and they're discussing the issues that he's having with Shonda surrend right yeah she's not going to
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and you're not going to the friend later said he didn't recall hearing what Michael said next that's why
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she Michael says that's why she's going to have to die so matter of fact in yet another clip from just two
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weeks before the kidnapping Michael Hanley is caught with Sylvester bracie at that property planning how it was the
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perfect place prosecutor say to bring Shonda to torture her and possibly worse he specifically says it's almost
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impossible for anyone to get in here to which bracie responds and it'll be impossible for her to get out
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I mean did you think you had a rock solid case before that yes well what' you think after it uh I thought I must
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have done something right in the world then in a move no one saw coming that's when go give us the truth the
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whole truth nothing but the truth St you got I do Michael Hanley agreed to tell his side of
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things what is the strongest piece of evidence against Michael Handley chat now on Facebook and
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Twitter while awaiting trial for the kidnapping of his estranged wife Shonda Michael Hanley was held in the Lafayette
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Parish Correctional Center but Shonda says even though Michael was behind bars he continued to harass her I've received
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a lot of mail letters while he's been incarcerated at numerous calls can't they stop him from calling you I guess
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not on top of that Shonda lived in fear that Michael just might get out that's because at one point the defense argued
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that Michael was suffering from mental illness and was not guilty by reason of insanity
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when Michael was sober he was a fantastic individual you know very talented willing to help people when he
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was found at the hotel in Sidell I mean there were drugs there you know there's no question that he was using
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again I don't know the level of his responsibility but I think it's a combination of um substance abuse and
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some mental illness for prosecutor Kenny AAR however it was a desperate attempt to get
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Michael released they did it so that they could get some psychological professionals on the stand to say he
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needs to be out of jail and he needs to go to these mental health facilities well we're talking about
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mental health facilities that don't have nearly the security that a jail has Michael's defense team submitted mental
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health records showing that he suffered from bipolar disorder Complicated by drug addiction
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which they say rendered him legally insane during the time leading up to the kidnapping two courta appointed doctors
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agreed but the judge ruled that Michael was competent to stand trial and must remain Behind
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Bars once they initially failed to get him out they withdrew that play and what did they change it to they just changed
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it to regular not guilty while Michael hanley's criminal battle was heating up in March
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2018 his divorce from Shonda became G finalized Shonda was awarded all of the assets there was only one problem there
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is no money there's no money you know millions of dollars vanish Michael was a very Ecentric person he was obsessed
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with the collapse of the American dollar so much of their money was in gold bars
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Shonda said she had seen gold before and knew that there was gold somewhere on that property I believe people actually
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went out with metal detectors to try to figure out if he stashed it somewhere no
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gold was ever recovered so there's all of this money that's unaccounted for but we know it's got to be out there
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somewhere on top of being left with nothing Shonda says she suddenly found herself responsible for repaying her now
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ex-husband's massive debts how much of a hole did he leave you in 750,000 I can't comprehend how I'm now
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in a position where I owe this sort of money Shonda felt like it was a slap in the face after enduring so much but it
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wasn't all for not during the settlement negotiations shonda's divorce attorney Christine me had subpoenaed Michael for
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a deposition and surprisingly he agreed I mean that's wild it is I can imagine that someone with the arrogance that
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Michael Hanley had insisted that he was going to be testify and it was going to be fine cuz he is the smartest person in
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the room shonda's divorce attorney and the prosecutors had agreed to cooperate with each other and everyone was
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interested in hearing what Michael Hanley had to say it was a risk cuz he might go into
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that deposition and say stuff that really jeopardizes his criminal case I've never been more nervous in a
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deposition than that one do you swear the testimony God gives the truth the whole truth dressed in a
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striped prison uniform Michael answered questions for for 10 hours over 3 days I
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was hanging on every question I bet you were yeah it was a chaotic and hectic time I was living out of hotels I've
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been moving from hotel to hotel for several months Michael was asked about his relationship with Sylvester bracie
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and the reason he rented that van I had hired him to move furniture I rented the
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van to make a move to move the furniture he stuck with his original story he said that he had hired Movers
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in order to move furniture and they went rogue because they thought he had money
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I got a phone call as soon as I answered the phone and I said hello they screamed
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um they screamed we've got your mother wife and um I just remember cuz it was like I got punched in the it's like one
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of those moments when you go into AO but when pressed about the details of how he first met bracie I don't recall
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Michael claimed he couldn't remember much about the weeks leading up to the kidnapping I don't remember I don't know
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I don't recall that's why I'm hesitating I don't remember I don't recall I don't
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recall I don't recall there are big gaps in my memory I don't know I don't know the reason that I don't recall is
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because I was high I was living like a rock star I was on and off medications during this period of time and I was
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under the influence of substances mental illness is tough you know but he insisted despite the gaps in
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memory there was one thing he knew for certain I would not kidnap my wife he would cry and say that he loved her so
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much I don't remember that he was so sorry it was that type of manipulation I have a tremendous
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regret during the deposition Christine pulled that Arlo camera recording in which prosecutors believe bracie and
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Handley were caught talking about the plot to kidnap Shonda the wife Handley claimed he loved so much I queued up
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where One of the kidnappers was telling Michael and you know if she gets out of line I won't hesitate to kill
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her and I said what kind of movers tell that to you and his fear was palpable and he said oh I don't know Christine
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people tell me all sorts of things Michael Hanley withered under questioning poking holes in his own
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defense with his own words the civil attorneys provided us with those deposition transcripts shortly after
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receiving them and with the trial date fast approaching Michael's defense attorney feared the worst we were of the
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opinion that he ran a significant risk of of a conviction with the walls closing in an
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hour before the trial was set to start Michael Handley indicated he was open to a deal he would plead you know to second
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degree kidnapping um the minimum sentence would be 15 years the maximum sentence would be 35 years prosecutors
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Donnie KET and Kenny AAR say there was a lot to take into consideration the problem with a jury trial is you you
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almost never know but I also knew that there's Shonda Hanley there's Isabella you've got victims that have to relive
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that moment if you go to trial ultimately the decision to take the deal or go to trial was shaas I was so scared
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that if we went to trial that it could work out beautifully for him because Michael always lands on
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his feet once Michael's out I'm no longer free see more of the evidence photos at
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48 hours.com [Music] in July 2021 all Shonda Handley wanted was for her ex-husband Michael Hanley to
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stay behind bars so she agreed to accept his plea of guilty to second degree kidnapping I didn't want to take any
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risks I would rather the plea deal than to take the chance and go to trial less than a year later on March
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24th 2022 Shonda was in the courtroom to find out what Michael's sentence would be Isabella was there too as was
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Michael what was it like to come face to face with him in court it was so surreal
00:36:19
you know and I think honestly for both of us it was this really strong powerful emotion that we both felt but mine was
00:36:29
hatred hoping to help convince the judge to give Michael the maximum sentence Isabella chose to give a victim impact
00:36:38
statement what did you say at the hearing I really kind of told a story about how difficult it really made my
00:36:46
life and how difficult it still makes my life because I didn't think he knew that
00:36:51
it affected me as well as it affected her Shonda also had something she wanted to say to Michael
00:36:58
I told him that he wrecked everything and that he destroyed everything and how could you like we had like a
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really we had a good life we had a good family and we we adored each other he was the person I
00:37:15
most admired in this world until then do you think Michael understands his actions
00:37:23
have had an effect on his former wife and stepchild I think think that he does you get to sense the guy's sorry I think
00:37:30
so I think he's capable of remorse yet when it was Michael's turn to speak instead of a tearful apology he gave yet
00:37:39
another new story this time he admitted he did in fact hire the two men to kidnap Shonda but he claimed it was all
00:37:47
fake and staged so that he could swoop in save her and be the hero what he really wanted to do was
00:37:57
emerge as the White Knight who came in and rescued her it was a way for him to try to win her back but he never really
00:38:04
intended to hurt her it was all a big game in the end the judge sided with the prosecution and gave Michael Hanley the
00:38:13
maximum penalty a Lafayette man was sentenced today in the 2017 kidnapping case of his estranged wife Lawrence
00:38:22
Michael Handley received 35 years in prison for the crime 35 years minus five for time served puts him out
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when he's 79 79 are you okay with that I'd rather he never get out are you still afraid even
00:38:40
with him behind bars oh yeah that concern is something Isabella shares do you fear for your safety from
00:38:51
Michael Handley yeah I do nothing could stop him I just see him as a a villain not a good person and I'm not sad about
00:39:02
it in my mind he's changed to a completely different person so it doesn't feel like I've lost my dad it
00:39:09
feels like I've lost a stranger the now 20-year-old college junior chooses to focus on the valuable
00:39:16
lesson that she learned from her mother it's so powerful to see how my mom handled
00:39:23
this situation she shown me how she can overcome something so horrible and turn it into something great and become an
00:39:32
even better person out of it welcome welcome to our house I'm glad that um you're here Shonda has found renewed
00:39:40
purpose working with others like her I know the ladies she sold property took out a loan and opened two Sober Living
00:39:47
homes dedicated to helping women get back on their feet we want you to feel comfortable I want you to feel like this
00:39:52
is a safe place where you can start a new it's been really really rewarding and you know from my experiences that
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I've had um the challenges that I've had I'm able to show them firsthand that we
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get up we keep going we put one foot in front of the other and uh we will persevere an important part of moving
00:40:15
forward for Shonda has been recognizing those who stood by her and while she did
00:40:22
speak on the phone with Chad Martin that officer who saved she we never got the chance to thank him in person until now
00:40:31
when we arranged for them to meet so good to meet you good to see you again yeah I'm looking at you to see if I can
00:40:40
remember I remember I'm really glad that uh I was in the right place at the right
00:40:45
time to help you really glad yeah thank you feel like I owe you everything I guess my greatest
00:40:53
gratitude in you saving my life is that my daughter gets to have her mom and have a good life thank you
00:41:01
give you another hug [Music] wow oh wife disappears she just vanished why was her husband contacting
00:41:32
spellcasters he wrote can you hex to have her hurt enough maybe an accident or broken bone do you think Maya left
00:41:39
that house on her own no no 48 hours Saturday on [Music] CBS [Music] [Music] at 6 years old I had never been in
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darkness like that before it was just pitch black like the dark was touching me engulfing me like I
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was actually inhaling the darkness Chowchilla in 1976 was a cow toown you could could
00:42:57
drive through the heart of town in about 30 [Music] seconds very close niit Community
00:43:07
everybody looked out for each other people didn't lock their doors there was nothing to
00:43:13
fear I didn't know what fear was I still have a hard time grasping the way that my life changed on July
00:43:26
15th just another average summer day very hot going to summer school and that day we
00:43:35
got to go to the town swimming pool got back on the bus ready to go home the bus
00:43:41
driver was Ed Ray he was a strong Quiet Man everybody liked Edward and respected
00:43:48
him the buses had the windows down the Hot Summer Breeze the kids were laughing and singing Happy
00:43:57
and just glad to be going home what I remember was traveling he just left off two kids all of a sudden
00:44:06
he said what the heck is this and then I can remember the bus stopping at a stop
00:44:11
sign Edward went to go around a white van that was parked in the road and then this man came up with a stocking over
00:44:20
his head with a gun and said open the door the first man came on the bus and he had a gun Ed R said what's going on
00:44:33
and he said shut up and move to the back I remember telling him that if he didn't
00:44:38
get me home on time my dad would be on him like stink on skunk you know I wasn't afraid of anything I didn't know
00:44:45
I needed to be and then another man came on the bus and he had a s double barrel
00:44:56
shotgun the shotgun filled me with Terror the mass men had panty hoose pulled over their face it was a very
00:45:07
distorted look where their eyes were it almost looked Hollow it was like looking
00:45:13
at death one of the kidnappers got into the driver's seat and the bus started moving
00:45:24
again I started to think I wonder where they're taking us 26 school children and their bus
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driver have vanished anguished parents President Ford hundreds of searching police are asking the question where are
00:45:41
the [Music] children [Music] [Music] just outside Chowchilla on July 15th 1976 the frightening Journey
00:46:44
began we start driving down the road I was wondering how it was going to feel to die I was too scared to
00:46:55
move 26 terrified children some as young as five were staring down the barrel of a
00:47:04
sought off shotgun three masked men had hijacked the Dairyland Elementary School Bus one
00:47:12
had the shotgun one drove the bus and one followed behind in the white van they'd used to block the
00:47:20
road it's a hard thing to explain cuz I'd never been around guns you only seen bad guys in the movies with stockings on
00:47:28
you know so I knew it wasn't good Edward kept telling us kids just to be quiet sit down do what they
00:47:37
say Edward was speaking in a harsh tone and that normally was not the Edward that we knew and
00:47:45
loved eventually the bus went off the road down into a dry riverbed and into this big Grove of
00:47:56
bamboo that were taller actually than the bus and then as I looked out one of the side
00:48:05
windows I saw that there was another van that was parked there they parked the bus and there was a green van down there
00:48:12
waiting for us even at the age of nine little Jennifer Brown seemed to know the horror of that day should be documented
00:48:20
walk over she later made this recording with her mom and there was two guys standing from the bus door to the van
00:48:27
door with guns um with panty H over their head so we wouldn't run out and then see they pulled the van right up to
00:48:35
the um bus door the kidnappers herded the stunned children from the bus into those two Vans we had to jump from the
00:48:44
bus to the van so there um wouldn't see any feet [Music] prints when it was my turn to get on the
00:48:55
van he stopped me he held a shotgun to my stomach I said I was doing what you said and I had to stand there with this
00:49:07
gun in my gut until the one van drove away and they backed the second van up it felt like
00:49:16
forever I thought he was going to shoot me I actually did Jennifer Larry and the rest of the
00:49:24
children followed jod into the second van along with the bus driver ed Ray then the kidnappers closed the
00:49:33
doors it was pitch dark the Vans had been converted into makeshift jail cells by installing wood paneling and even
00:49:42
painting the windows no one could see in or [Music] out the kidnappers sped off with the
00:49:51
children caged in those mobile prisons and I felt like I was an animal going to the slaughter
00:49:59
house around that time Jennifer's mom Joan Brown came home from work the house was empty the children were not there uh
00:50:08
no peanut butter uh on the counter no chairs out there well they just weren't [Music]
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there as one hour turned to two worried parents began helping the police retrace
00:50:22
the school bus's route crisscrossing dozens of rural roads where were those children 26 of
00:50:31
them and a bus driver nowhere and then just before Sunset a police pilot spotted the big
00:50:41
bus about 7 mil outside Chowchilla hidden in the dry riverbed you would only see it from the
00:50:50
air Madera County Sheriff Ed Bates rushed to the scene we found a tire impressions in the sand that led
00:50:59
straight to the front door of the bus obviously someone had backed their vehicle up to the doors of the bus
00:51:05
Sheriff Bates was convinced I called the governor I said I need some help down here the children of Chowchilla had
00:51:13
become the victims of a Brazen and bizarre mass kidnapping I had the parents all assembled there in the fire
00:51:24
station well you could just look at their faces and uh the anxiety and the fear was
00:51:32
there I told him I called the FBI all of a sudden I had 30 FBI agents there as Sheriff Bates continued to
00:51:41
widen the investigation the children continued to suffer inside the sweltering pitch black
00:51:49
vans we'd bang on where the driver's panel would be like let us out let us out and they would just say shut up
00:51:58
[Music] and we drove what seemed like for hours upon hours upon hours and I remember that I kept falling
00:52:13
asleep and coming back awake I would dream about being I would dream about being up in
00:52:24
the forest where my family would go camping we all tried to comfort each other and a few of my um little friends
00:52:40
that are five and six that came over and started laying on me and crying and I told him be brave cuz everything's going
00:52:47
to be all right then the van started to slow down the kids could feel it pulling off the
00:52:57
road lurching from side to side on rough terrain before coming to a stop after nearly 12 unbearable
00:53:06
hours they opened up the door and they took EDR out first they shut the doors back and we're like where's Edward now
00:53:13
what what are they doing and I remember they would just grab the first kid that was inside the door they and they just
00:53:19
kept doing that they open the door and they grab somebody else they open up the door they take the next kid out and they
00:53:23
close the doors but when they open the doors you don't see them I thought they were basically killing us each one at a
00:53:31
time I kept scooting to the back of the van and I thought maybe if I just hide in the corner they won't come for
00:53:38
me but they did I didn't know if it was in the desert at at the beach in the side of a mountain I had no
00:54:00
idea where we were I didn't even know if we were in [Music] California after almost 12 hours in
00:54:08
darkness 10-year-old jod Heffington was the last to be taken out of the first fan being the last one you don't know
00:54:18
what's going to happen because you don't see nobody else what happened to them if
00:54:23
you didn't kill them where are they at they had flashlights kind of like shining in their faces and then one
00:54:30
shining on your face and they said what's your name and I actually I have a little bit of a smart ass in me and I
00:54:38
said PUD and Tain ask me again I'll tell you the same I was pissed and I was scared at the same
00:54:44
time they said if you don't tell us your name you're never going to see your mom
00:54:48
and dad again do you understand and they took all my belongings and then they said you're
00:54:54
going to go down in this hole right here the hole led to an old truck trailer buried
00:55:05
underground Ed Ray and the children from the first fan were there there was a table set up in the
00:55:15
back it was surrounded with jugs of drinking water on some of the mattresses they had some cereal a loaf of bread and
00:55:24
some peanut butter in the wheel wells they had cut holes in them for toilets we could hear fans so we knew that there
00:55:32
was some sort of ventilation 14-year-old Michael Marshall was still in the other van with some of
00:55:42
the youngest children the kids got a hold to me and were holding on to me and scared out of
00:55:50
you know we're all just scared of our wits as they did before the kidnappers removed the children one by
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one Michael and the youngest 5-year-old Monica artery were the last ones left in
00:56:07
the van it was just me and her not knowing what had happened to the other children or if they were even alive
00:56:15
Michael says he couldn't bear to hand Monica over to the kidnappers so when they open the doors again he went first
00:56:23
I had to take her hands from mine and R and take them apart say be okay and go with them and leave
00:56:32
her that was hard as soon as I got on that ladder and took a step down and I heard the rest of the kids
00:56:44
say smike SMY Michael and and I realized that everybody was alive and to his relief not long after
00:56:58
Monica came climbing down that ladder they were all together again we're okay we're okay we're okay so right now so
00:57:07
far we're all right but the sense of relief was shortlived before I knew it the ladder
00:57:13
was gone they threw a rolled toilet paper down and said we'll be back for you and that was
00:57:20
it the kidnappers then covered the opening with a manhole cover what I remember it just went
00:57:28
dark and you just hear the material getting throwed on us we would been buried alive buried 12T
00:57:41
underground I just remember looking up at that hole I wanted to stay close I wanted to be like right there cuz that
00:57:48
was the way out at Ray and Mike Marshall they looked at every corner every wall for an Escape
00:57:54
Route got underne the manhole cover pushed up on it they couldn't move it so Ed raay determined that it was
00:58:04
time for everyone to get some rest the minutes and hours ticked by it would be silent and then somebody
00:58:18
would bust out crying and oh would just erupt every crying the thing that made me cry
00:58:31
was not being able to say goodbye to my mom and I'm remembering the last time that I saw
00:58:43
her and wishing I could have told her goodbye throughout much of this day parents and other family of the missing
00:58:54
children came to the command of post set up in downtown Chowchilla to try desperately to Fathom some reason out of
00:59:00
this madness Carol Marshall's 14-year-old son Mike was another on the bus any chance at all this could be some
00:59:06
kind of terrible hoax or joke that someone is playing I imagine there's a chance I hope that's all it is it is
00:59:14
believed to be the largest kidnapping in US history so far there's been no word from any
00:59:24
abductors they had been in the ho for almost 12 hours and the conditions were deteriorating we had eaten the
00:59:34
food the fans on the ventilator stopped my little brain started to grasp the concept of we may really not go
00:59:45
home there was this one boy and he kept kicking blocks out from underneath the 4x4 pillars and so the roof of the van
00:59:56
was starting to cave in the seams were breaking dust was flowing through the sides of the van were bowing in children
01:00:05
just screaming and crying we thought if we're going to die we're going to die trying to get out of
01:00:12
here see more photos from the case at 48 hours.com [Music] as a young kid you don't have a lot of
01:00:32
sense of time there was no sunlight so you couldn't tell if it was day or night we were out of food we were out of
01:00:42
water the roof was caving in it just was a desperate situation everybody got the mattresses
01:00:51
and stacked them up as high as we could go right underneath the manhole cover people started standing on each other's
01:00:58
shoulders I was a very tall girl and very strong so they stood on my shoulders when they didn't stand on um
01:01:05
Edwards they took turns pushing up on the manhole cover I'm giving it everything I got and all the kids are
01:01:13
cheering me on you know come on Mike you can do it you can do it then all of a sudden they said it moved it moved but
01:01:21
they were far from being free the kidnappers had put truck batteries and dirt on top of the manhole cover and had
01:01:29
constructed a wooden box around it once the manhole cover was moved that box was
01:01:35
just big enough for Michael to stand [Music] in like Jennifer Michael Marshall made a
01:01:44
recording about his experience box I started hitting and Bing and hitting and Bing he dug until he was exhausted and
01:01:58
then he kept on digging there was no quit in him never knew when we got out there just going to be standing there
01:02:07
with shotguns in our head and stuff so we there pretty [Music] scared then suddenly this Ray of
01:02:24
sunlight this Ray of sunlight came down into the opening it was catching the dust and the dust particles looked like
01:02:39
a bunch of shooting stars there was this airflow that came out of the van and I knew we were
01:02:52
free I need a minute the air and the light there was beaming coming [Music] through Mike Marshall actually Brave
01:03:19
person that he is crawled out of the hole first and I stuck my head out and there was nobody I didn't see anybody
01:03:26
and I can see we were in the Hills he said the coast is clear and so we started taking the little ones and
01:03:35
putting them up there and Mike grabbed them that part was kind of scary too cuz we're out now we don't know who's out
01:03:45
here it was approximately 8:00 p.m. on July 16th they had been in the hole for nearly 16
01:03:52
hours we all just scurried like a bunch of little ice we saw conveyor belts excavators it looked like The
01:04:04
Flintstones and all these men with hard hats came to us and looked at us like who are
01:04:14
you the kidnappers had buried them in a rock quarry in Livermore California 100 Mil away from
01:04:24
Chowchilla when police arrived as evidence they took photos of every [Music] child an alamia County Jail
01:04:38
bus came and it was like yeah they put us back on a bus then they transported them to the closest place that could
01:04:45
hold them the Santa Rita Rehabilitation Center a local jail I remember going in in the bus and
01:04:53
you could see the prison wife and you thought well they're taking us into jail they took us into what looked like
01:05:04
classrooms they brought us apples and soda they had these everall and all us little kids got into them and we had to
01:05:13
roll the pants up about 10 feet and then we rolled the arms up and we were all sitting there some of them didn't roll
01:05:20
our arms up we sitting there flapping our arms we said hey we can fly over the next few hours Ed Ray and the
01:05:28
children were examined by doctors they were also questioned by police each one of us was interrogated by ourselves to
01:05:36
tell our story how do you describe somebody that has panty hose over their face after 4 hours of questioning they
01:05:44
were finally allowed to go home they put us on a Greyhound escorted us back to chap
01:05:54
Chilla it was time for Mom and Dad I just wanted my Mom and Dad it was 4:00 a.m.
01:06:01
when the bus arrived at last it had been almost 36 hours since their traumatic ordeal
01:06:10
began the scene was like a mob scene news cameras and TV lights everybody started um saying are
01:06:19
you all right Jennifer and all this stuff I said yeah I'm fine then whenever we got into this room I found my mom and
01:06:27
my dad we pulled up to CH chill and I was asleep so when I got off the bus I started taking pictures of me and I'm
01:06:38
like how you doing what was [Applause] like they just let us off the bus with all these people and you didn't know
01:06:50
where your parents were this man carried me off the bus and he put me in my mom's
01:06:59
arms and I said hi Mom and fell asleep on her shoulder I felt I felt like I was finally
01:07:10
safe nothing was ever the same nothing was ever the same after that we had no idea what our kids have been
01:07:28
through none whatsoever how does it feel to be a big movie star I don't know i' never been a movie star before for
01:07:35
9-year-old Jennifer Brown the experience has allowed her to still see the world with compassion why do you suppose that
01:07:42
they would do something like that I don't know they didn't have enough love she had horrible
01:07:50
nightmares she would run screaming into our bedroom room and she wasn't even awake and she would tell us later that
01:08:02
she dreamt that they were lined up and shot one night I was dreaming that I was falling down this hole and I was trying
01:08:16
to get out I started screaming for my mom mom came in and all I could do was cry and all she could do was hold
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[Music] me today in this rock quarry they Unearthed the truck that was prison and
01:08:50
very nearly a tomb for 26 children and their school bus driver unearthing the h who and why of all this is much
01:08:59
harder in the days following the kids's Escape investigators searched the rock quarry and the van that had been their
01:09:07
underground tomb hoping they would find clues that would lead them to the kidnappers they looked to see who would
01:09:14
have keys to the quy in order to have access to bury this moving container undetected you would have to have access
01:09:22
assistant district attorney Jill kingy Fred Woods had keys to that quarry 24-year-old Frederick New Hall Woods the
01:09:30
son of the owner of the Quarry immediately became a person of interest they looked at The Ledger surveillance
01:09:36
tapes and started to put put it all together at that point security guards told investigators
01:09:43
they had seen three young men digging a large hole in the Quarry months before the
01:09:49
kidnapping one of them they said was Fred Woods and Woods had a record 2 years earlier he had been
01:09:58
charged with Grand Theft Auto arrested with him were two of his friends James shenfeld Fred's partner in
01:10:06
a used car business and James's younger brother Richard all three were from wealthy
01:10:13
families who lived in San Francisco's nicest suburbs they escaped with a fine and probation they're young they're
01:10:22
wealthy I think it added a component of Fascination to the story because it was so unlikely that three
01:10:28
men such as these would commit such a atrocious crime investigators executed a warrant to search Fred Woods's father's
01:10:37
estate for the last two days the woods estate has looked like an armed Camp dozens of officers looking for anything
01:10:43
what they found there was a treasure Trove of evidence we were able to recover one of the guns that was used
01:10:49
during this kidnapping this crime was planned out for a year and a half in intricate
01:10:56
detail you actually have a document labeled plan and it sets out the way they were going to commit the kidnapping
01:11:04
and then they on the right hand side put how they would compensate or deal with what could go wrong they also recovered
01:11:11
the draft of a ransom note the draft of the ransom note says $2.5 million but in
01:11:16
actuality they were going to ask for $5 million from the state of California but the kidnappers were never
01:11:23
able to deliver their demand when they tried to call the Chowchilla Police Department because of the number of
01:11:29
calls that were coming in worldwide the phone lines were jammed they couldn't get through so they took a nap and by
01:11:36
the time they woke up they saw in the news that the kids had been found so they were never able to request their
01:11:42
anom and so the search is on Nationwide for these three men in their arrest warrants were issued Richard shenfeld
01:11:50
turned himself in Fred woods and James shenfeld fled California but not for long James shenfeld was
01:11:59
captured at dawn today police say he ran hard all over the western United States
01:12:03
but he did not run well Frederick Woods was arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police this
01:12:09
afternoon just across the Washington state border in Vancouver I remember being physically
01:12:15
ill when I actually saw him after that you kind of did have a sense of you can breathe they're behind bars
01:12:26
so what drove these young men seemingly well off to kidnap young children for money James shenfeld eventually said
01:12:34
despite their parents' wealth he and Fred Woods were in serious debt he would later tell the parole board we needed
01:12:41
multiple victims to get multiple millions and we picked children because children are precious the state would be
01:12:49
willing to pay ransom for them and they don't fight back I think that the two shelts did it just on pure persuasion by
01:12:57
Fred Woods Fred Woods in my own personal opinion and I have a master's degree I think he was a sociopath some might call
01:13:04
him a psychopath with the overwhelming evidence against them woods and the show andells pleaded guilty to 27 counts of
01:13:14
kidnapping for ransom and robbery but they refused to plead guilty to8 counts of bodily harm those charges would send
01:13:22
them to prison for life without the possibility of parole so 16 months after their
01:13:30
abduction Jennifer Michael jod and some of the other children face the kidnappers in court you're in this
01:13:37
little box and they're there looking at you just glaring at you and staring you down they testified that in addition to
01:13:46
the emotional trauma they had suffered physical wounds like cuts and bruises and I looked over at them and I just
01:13:54
broke down that was the first time I cried so they allowed my father to come sit by me and that made
01:14:04
me feel a lot safer the kidnappers were sitting to my left at a table I remember giving my dad
01:14:13
my gum because I told him I was going to spit my gum at him you say they would give you this funny look what did that
01:14:20
make you feel scared I did my testimony I answered my question questions and I left that courtroom with my head held
01:14:28
high and there was no way that I was going to let them see me cry a California judge today impose mandatory
01:14:35
life prison sentences without parole on those three young men who kidnapped 26 chachilla I remember thinking they're
01:14:43
going to go to jail they're not going to do this to anybody else that's all that
01:14:47
I need to know with the kidnapper sentenced to prison for the rest of their lives the
01:14:53
survivors thought their nightmare was finally over bye but it was just beginning bye Jennifer
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bye see more photos from the case at 48 hours.com just 5 weeks after being buried alive the gutsy children of
01:15:23
Chowchilla and their bus driver ed Ray were hailed as Heroes there was even a trip to
01:15:30
Disneyland everyone thought that was great because the good memories of Disneyland would overshadow the bad
01:15:36
memories of the kidnapping but it wasn't that simple in a way you try to be normal but when you've gone through
01:15:52
something that's so traumatic is it's hard to go back and be a normal kid again sometimes it's like life is an act
01:16:04
you try to be good for everybody else so they don't worry but they worry anyway so I advise everybody else not to
01:16:11
do it that way the Survivor struggled to move forward but just four years after the
01:16:20
kidnappings a critical Turning Point the kidnappers lawyers appealed the finding
01:16:26
of bodily harm prosecutor Jill clingy and the appell at court overturned it and while acknowledging the heric nature
01:16:33
of the crime stated that the injury suffered did not rise to the level of bodily harm under the
01:16:39
law so Fred woods and the shanfeld brothers were resentenced to life with the possibility of parole they would get
01:16:47
a parole hearing every one or two years I felt like I had been betrayed by the just
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system just 6 years after the kidnappings the parade of parole hearings began every time one of the
01:17:03
kidnappers came up for parole it triggered all their fears and Trauma the hearings took place inside the prison
01:17:11
they sit in the same room and it's not a large room with the kidnapper the first
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time I was terrified for all three kidnappers there had been more than 60 parole hearings to date jod heing and
01:17:25
went to nearly all of them it just seems like every 3 years I go and I go three times every time it's excruciating and
01:17:34
the aftermath is um never good Jody and the other survivors watched helplessly as Richard shenfeld was the first to be
01:17:42
granted Parole in June 2012 36 years after the kidnappings 3 years later James shenfeld was paroled too as far as
01:17:52
I know they have not been in any kind of trouble the same could not be said for Fred
01:17:58
Woods he repeatedly broke prison rules he was caught with pornography and cell phones hello my name is jod madano I was
01:18:12
Jody Heffington in 2018 48 Hours was at Fred Woods's 15th parole hearing and recorded audio of Jody's testimony to
01:18:22
listen to him talk about his poor childhood um I don't know if I want to laugh cry cuss him or what because um
01:18:33
where did my childhood go like I told him Mr Woods you're not a kidnapper you're a thief you're a thief
01:18:43
of lives not just the the kids that were in the bus but they stole our family's lives and
01:18:56
what we all had before that after that hearing Woods was again denied parole it was 28 hours of Terror that
01:19:11
will always be with Michael Jennifer jod and Larry all who have managed to find ways to get on with living healing
01:19:20
continues if you allow it Larry Park who spent his 20s and 30s abusing drugs now owns a handyman
01:19:31
business and volunteers as a pastor at a local church his nightmares have finally
01:19:36
stopped and he is sober I have 9 years sober his sobriety was motivated by an epiphany about the kidnappers my
01:19:47
resentment for them was killing me one night I was laying ined de and I said God help me to forgive
01:20:03
them Larry met the men shook their hands and did forgive them here he is with Richard shenfeld it changed my
01:20:13
life something washed over me and there was peace like I had never known and I knew that day that I would
01:20:26
be okay Jennifer Brown Hyde a wife mother and executive assistant says it took her
01:20:33
decades before she could even sleep without a nightlight and I've had family and
01:20:40
church family and co-workers that have piece by piece helped put me back together and I want people to know that
01:20:48
that little girl that was kidnapped and buried alive has managed to live a Wonderful Life
01:20:56
Michael Marshall had lost his way after the kidnapping I went to bed at 18 drunk
01:21:03
and hung over and blacked out and woke up about 48 you know with a hangover blurry he is sober and has found
01:21:13
happiness as a father and a long-distance trucker he tries not to think about those
01:21:19
kidnappers what they put my mom and dad through through is something I cannot [Music]
01:21:38
forgive Jody Heffington never left the Chowchilla area she opened her own hair salon and raised a
01:21:46
son but she struggled to find peace of mind how that day of affected me has affected
01:21:58
me every day in some way or another I think it made me not a good daughter not a good
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sister not a good Aunt especially not a good mother and probably not a a good friend I try to be those things but it
01:22:24
seems like it um it just took something from me that I can't ever get back and I can't tear it
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down no matter how hard I try and no matter what I [Music] do a young mother found dead in her car
01:23:10
where's the gun sir it's right here in her hand it appears she took her own life but could she have shot herself
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twice it just seems like something out of a movie instead of real life 48 hours Saturday on CBS and stream on Paramount
01:23:27
[Music] Plus on behalf of the state of Wisconsin I am so proud to present our hometown
01:23:45
hero award to miss Jamie Claus it's amazing it's amazing and and she is an extraordinary child and I
01:23:56
cannot wait to see what she becomes she's I hope she has a chance to be a kid [Music]
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again for 88 days I have stood before you and said we would work tires s to bring Jamie Claus
01:24:17
home today I can report we have done just that 13-year-old Jamie Claus who disappeared the day her parents were
01:24:24
murdered in October has been found and she is alive and she is [Music] safe I was crying and talking and he's
01:24:36
like what is wrong I go Jam's phone it's unbelievable it is miraculous Jamie is the hero in this
01:24:43
case there's no question about it she's the one that helped us break the case it's amazing the will of that
01:24:50
13-year-old girl to survive and Escape I was finishing my walk right at the end of my driveway and Jamie was coming
01:24:59
towards me she just said I'm lost I don't know where I am I knew she needed help so I knew I need to get her out of
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the cold I knew I need to get her to a safe place hi I have um a young lady at my house right now and she says her name
01:25:13
is Jamie cloth okay have you seen her photo ma'am yes it is her I 100% think it as her okay I've got multiple
01:25:21
deputies headed out there just hearing the story My Heart's beating a little faster just because I
01:25:28
can't imagine what it was like for this young girl who's gone through who knows what to finally see somebody that can
01:25:34
help her whatever it took I was not going to let anything happen to her the sheriff showed up and they gave us that
01:25:40
news and we cried in happy tears and cried this is truly a community a country coming together for one purpose
01:25:50
solving this is the will of a 13-year-old girl solving this case and coming home and saying enough is
01:25:58
enough think of the positive impact this child has already made on our world the
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talk of Hope the talk of love the talk of Faith the talk of family Jamie has already made such an impression on this
01:26:09
world this is the suspect he targeted Jamie Jake Patterson is a 21-year-old male with no criminal history this guy
01:26:20
tried to do his best to beat us and he just didn't Mr Patterson will never terrorize her
01:26:28
again he's not sorry for kidnapping Jamie and murdering her parents he's sorry that he got caught exhibit 7 your
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honor shows where the defendant confined jimie for 88 days this was her prison there grown people I think that would
01:26:46
have been paralyzed in fear in fear yes yes we don't know what she went through but to beat him in his own game and to
01:26:53
survive and get out of there I mean [Music] wow two innocent people were murdered
01:27:18
and a young girl taken after 88 days in captivity that young lady found her way to Freedom
01:27:27
ladies and gentlemen that young lady Jamie Claus is with us here today last month Jamie Claus appeared in
01:27:35
public for the first time since her kidnapping Wisconsin state representative ROM Quinn on behalf of
01:27:43
the state of Wisconsin I am so proud to present our hometown hero award to miss Jamie
01:27:53
Claus Jamie looked out over the chamber her family by her side her Aunt Jennifer
01:27:59
Smith speaking for her entire family I have to say that Jamie is totally deserving of the Hero part of this award
01:28:09
her courage her bravery and her spirit are things that Inspire us and make us stronger and better just like you we
01:28:18
want Jamie to know how much we love her thank you Jamie Claus went missing in the early
01:28:29
hours of October 15 2018 when a man the family did not know pulled into their driveway Jaime's Father Jim was murdered
01:28:39
shot at Point Blank Range at the front door her mother Denise barricaded herself with jimie in the bathroom and
01:28:49
called 911 Baron County Sheriff Chris fitzer described the call which was recently
01:28:56
released the 911 call is very inaudible 911 where you can't hear words you hear yelling or maybe a
01:29:11
scream and it ends by getting hung up by the time police arrived Denise Claus had also been shot to death in
01:29:23
front of her daughter the killer drove away with 13-year-old Jamie in the trunk of his car the time from the 911 call
01:29:31
until our deputies arrive is less than four minutes the timing is just it has to be perfect on his part so we think
01:29:39
this was well planned out we are asking for about 2,000 volunteers to walk specific areas there was a massive
01:29:49
surch but no one had seen any trace of jam Claus until January 10th 2019 it was a little after 4:00 in the
01:29:58
afternoon I was at the end of my driveway and then I saw a young woman who appeared to be in distress all I
01:30:05
knew is whoever this child is she's in trouble what did you see that made you think she was in trouble well because it
01:30:11
was 19 or 20° outside and I she only had a sweatshirt on and maybe some black leggings did you recognize her right
01:30:20
away right away because her pictures are everywhere yeah and she just sort of fell into me and said I'm Jamie and I
01:30:26
said I know Jeanie Nutter was out walking her dog that afternoon on a remote Road in the Tiny Town of Gordon
01:30:34
Wisconsin that's about an hour north of Jaime's home this girl whatever it took for her to get out of that house I was
01:30:42
not going to let anything happen to her as fate would have it jeie is a retired trauma counselor she focused on getting
01:30:50
Jamie to safety and keeping her calm I just kept saying don't worry Jamie everything's going to be all right
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you're going to be fine you know just hang on to me because we were walking on like three Ines of glare
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eyes jimie immediately told jeie who had been holding her captive the man who killed her parents
01:31:11
his name was Jake Patterson so she named him right then yeah she named him right
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away jeie was afraid to take Jaimie back to her cabin knowing Patterson's property with these two two cabins
01:31:24
touches the back of her land Jamie even asked me do you live around here and I said no I'm just walking my dog because
01:31:32
I didn't want her to know that I didn't think our cabin was safe you stay calm I
01:31:37
was not calm inside so I did not want her to know that in fact she was terrified Patterson might find them out
01:31:44
on that road did you start to get concerned that maybe Mr Patterson is following her that was my head you know
01:31:52
I just wanted us to be moving moving in a direction to safety cuz literally that word was going through my
01:31:58
head safety safety safety luckily Genie found Neighbors at home one of the few families who live here year
01:32:06
round Kristen and Peter kazinski she just opened the door and said this is Jamie call 911 right now
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Douglas County 911 I have um a young lady at my house right now and she says her name is Jamie
01:32:22
clth I mean we've been seeing her for so long Billboards commercials all this stuff and it was like I was seeing a
01:32:29
ghost in front of me Peter loaded a gun and went to the front door I was pleading with the person on the line
01:32:38
saying this is not fake this is real Kristen is the neighbor that walked her up is she still there Kristen passed
01:32:46
the phone to jeie ma'am so how did she come up upon your cabin I was walking my dog and she was walking towards me
01:32:54
crying saying you got to help me you got to help me and she said I am Jamie class
01:33:00
yes she said he killed my parents I want to go home help me as the minutes tick by Genie told
01:33:09
police all she could about Jaime's capture his name is D Patterson do we know what type of vehicle or if he works
01:33:18
anywhere does he work he doesn't work and I asked her what kind of car it was the red he used
01:33:25
to be in the military and did she say he's gone right now yes and she doesn't know where he when or what he does he
01:33:33
might come yep so if the cops could get here soon would I have I have many deputies had it that way I'm going to
01:33:40
keep you on the line okay Peter and Kristen's two young children were also home they were telling us to get away
01:33:46
from the windows and get the kids downstairs so that the kids were pretty freaked
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out 20 minutes into that phone call their fears were mounting are they close we're nervous
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they're close hang on a second and then finally 29 minutes into the call they're in the house the cops
01:34:10
are in the house police arrived oh they're in there with you yes came in at long last Jamie Claus was safe after the
01:34:19
brutal murder of her parents after 88 days in Captain ity and after her incredible
01:34:27
Escape there was at least for the moment relief I didn't believe she was alive I
01:34:35
can't imagine the par I mean the parents aren't gone but they still have family but I don't know it just it just gets to
01:34:43
me when I talk about [Music] it sheriff's deputy secured jimie and went looking for Patterson
01:34:54
and they found him just 11 minutes later driving around looking for Jamie it was less than an hour since
01:35:04
Jamie found Jeanie on that road honestly I feel privileged that I had this little piece of you know the
01:35:12
puzzle of finding Jamie and I just happened to be a social worker I happened to be there at that time sounds
01:35:18
like it was meant to be Genie Nutter if Jamie hadn't escaped when she did if she had not met jeie things could
01:35:27
have ended very differently I think it was God it was it was none no doing of any
01:35:34
man that did this it I mean our neighbor was late doing things walking her dog late I happen to be home
01:35:43
everything happened I mean you nobody could have planned this it happened for a reason whatever happened that day it
01:35:51
started with Jamie what 13-year-old has it in them to endure what she has and then find the courage and just to get
01:36:02
out for her Aunt Jennifer back at home those last hours waiting for Jamie were perhaps the longest it's driving me
01:36:11
crazy I just got to see her I just got to give her that hug [Music] I was crying and talking and he's like
01:36:42
what is wrong I go Jamie's found dad she's found she's safe and he just started crying and crying and he's just
01:36:49
like oh my gosh I can't believe it this was a new they had all been waiting for those three long months we
01:36:56
spoke to some of Jamie Claus's family just days after her Escape it was the most
01:37:03
amazing fabulous thing in the world Len Claus is Jaime's Aunt we've all been wearing Jamie bracelets um you know
01:37:11
bring Jamie home and we all took them off and threw them in the kitchen it was like we you know we've got or we don't
01:37:18
have to wear our bracelets and you just feel lighter you just feel so unbelievable so you get the news that
01:37:27
everybody has been praying for hoping for longing for for the past 88 days tell us how you each heard that you the
01:37:33
news that she was okay dad had to call my neighbor and she comes screaming in my door Jam's Aunt Sue Allard I'll never
01:37:42
ever forget her screaming Sue Sue they found Jamie and her cousin Lindsay Smith then my brother called me and he's just
01:37:51
screaming on the phone we have Jamie we're getting Jamie home and I burst into tears I'm so excited it's like
01:37:58
you're covered in Goosebumps you're so excited you can't breathe you can't think you can't it's just
01:38:05
incredible Jennifer Smith is not just Jaime's Aunt I was her daycare provider that's why this has been so hard on me I
01:38:13
watched her every day for 12 years Jennifer was living as they all were with the unbearable mix of pain and
01:38:22
hope ever since that terrible October night my heart was shattered left a hole in our heart and we just wanted to find
01:38:31
her and we I just had hope that she was alive out there somewhere and we get her
01:38:36
home you know we went to day 88 and normally when these type of stories come they do not have this
01:38:43
ending yeah please help us understand how you all all of you say we never gave up hope never we had this little girl
01:38:51
that we couldn't find we kind of said okay as horrible as that is we got to put it here and we got to find
01:38:58
her Jamie spent the first night after her Escape in the hospital the next day Jennifer and her
01:39:06
husband Bob could finally bring Jamie home I get to reunite with her today it's driving me crazy I need to see
01:39:16
her first inside the door waiting was Jim's grandfather Grandpa Rod first Grandpa R was in there at the end of the
01:39:24
hallway crying before she even come in the door but he got to be the first one to hug her so her grandfather it was
01:39:30
just so good just to really see her you know and just to give her a hug she had you know I said a couple things to her
01:39:38
quietly and she had a little giggle and I mean it's like you want to record it and take it with you but even as their
01:39:46
eyes filled with happy tears there hung the shadow of their loss of Jaime's parents Jim and Denise have you had time
01:39:54
to grieve really no no no all we've done is search for Jamie My Hope for Jamie is
01:39:59
that um she will recover and we will get through this together we will grieve together cuz we have not grieved as a
01:40:06
family for my sister and brother-in-law and we will grieve together for her mom and
01:40:11
dad Jamie is Jim and Denise Claus's only child they were people of Faith who worked side by side for 27 years at the
01:40:21
jny O Turkey plant here in Baron and they doted on Jamie known for her love of volleyball ice skating and her dog
01:40:30
Molly Jamie was Jim and denisa's life oh man they everything they did that they worked for Jamie y for
01:40:39
Jamie Jamie will now be living with her Uncle Bob and Aunt Jennifer I will never
01:40:44
take her mom's place her mom will always be her mom and I'll let her know that I
01:40:49
will be her aunt but yet I'll be like a mom to her the thing I wanted wanted to express to her immediately and we all do
01:40:55
is the pride we have in her for doing this for getting out for making it for the power that she has you know I mean
01:41:04
that she took the power away from this man that she did this are you all surprised by the strength because we
01:41:11
keep hearing her described as shy and quiet I am I'm you are I am I I think there was the power of God behind it all
01:41:19
these people in this whole nation um the prayers that were said she's a Survivor
01:41:26
yes she's our little Survivor now the long road of healing lies in front of this family and a set
01:41:34
of hard truths they will have to face together so there are many questions and I know you want answers everybody wants
01:41:42
answers how will you go about getting the answers to all of the questions that so many people have and yourself
01:41:47
included in due time we can't we have to take Little Steps J when she's ready to
01:41:54
talk she will we ask her can we hug you we ask her you know we're just not going
01:42:00
to take her and you know be gentle with her one question her family could not help asking themselves since the day
01:42:10
jimie was taken was why why this crime this family this child nothing made sense it still doesn't yeah it still
01:42:20
doesn't there's a lot of still lot of questions why with Jaime's cap doe in court they
01:42:31
were about to get some [Music] answers hear more from close family friends on how they're helping jamy heel
01:42:39
on Facebook at 48 [Music] Hours tonight's 48 hours will continue [Music] when Jake Patterson was pulled over by
01:43:13
police on January 10th looking for Jaimie in that red car he told deputies he knew why they were stopping him
01:43:22
saying quote I did it we're still in the active uh stages of the investigation we're
01:43:30
still serving the search War all right 4 days later on Monday January 14th Patterson appeared in court by video
01:43:38
phone to be charged with two counts of first-degree intentional homicide and one count of kidnapping uh Mr Wright the
01:43:48
state's recommendation regarding bail state is asking the court to set cash bail in the amount of $5
01:43:55
million by this time Patterson had given a detailed confession that he was going
01:44:01
to shoot anyone inside that home including children because he could not leave behind any eyewitnesses details that
01:44:09
didn't help his defense I will set bail at $5 million back in Patterson's hometown of
01:44:18
Gordon Wisconsin the community was in shock you can't believe it your own neighbor you know doing something like
01:44:26
that and here she's been in this house all this time and we had no idea whatsoever Daphne ronning lived next
01:44:33
door to Jake Patterson who is the youngest of three siblings we see him all the time working in the yard working
01:44:39
on cars they were typical teenagers typical kids when Patterson's parents divorced
01:44:46
in 2008 he and his brother continued to live with their father in the family cabin
01:44:53
eventually he would live there alone over the past few years Daphne saw less and less of Jake I haven't seen him in
01:45:03
quite a while Kristen cazinska who made the 911 call after Jim's Escape had been
01:45:10
Patterson's Middle School teacher this wasn't a kid that I ever would have thought would be involved in something
01:45:16
like this he graduated high school in 2015 voted the most quiet person in his class in this photo he sits removed from
01:45:27
his classmates in a corner by himself it is up to you yes sir After High School Patterson enlisted in the Marine Corps
01:45:38
but he was dismissed after 5 weeks of basic training he returned home to Wisconsin and had two very short live
01:45:48
jobs there were no other Clues as to why he decided to commit these violent crimes why why did Mr Patterson pick
01:45:59
Jamie why did he feel he had to kill her parents uh those are really key questions that we want to address uh
01:46:08
during this investigation after two months in the baron County Jail Patterson pleaded
01:46:16
guilty to all charges how do you plead guilty Mr Patterson do you understand that by
01:46:25
pleading guilty you give up your right to a trial yes two weeks ago on May 24th jimie
01:46:39
Claus's friends and family packed the courtroom on the day of Jake Patterson's sentencing waiting for answers and
01:46:50
Justice investigators learn had plans to kidnap multiple girls and kill multiple families Baron County
01:46:59
district attorney Brian Wright explained how Patterson targeted Jamie he had been
01:47:05
thinking about kidnapping a girl for several months and was just waiting for the right opportunity in early October
01:47:13
2018 the defendant got a job working at Saputo cheese as he was driving to work on the morning of his first day he saw
01:47:22
jimie getting on the school bus that stopped in front of the CLA home his thoughts immediately turned to how he
01:47:29
could kidnap her Patterson made elaborate plans to take her and avoid detection he prepared himself
01:47:39
to try to beat the forensics of of law enforcement things like he cut his hair all off um so that he wouldn't leave
01:47:47
trace evidence of his hair that night he wore steel toe boots a black ski mask two pairs of gloves he
01:47:56
brought with him a knife black gorilla tape a flashlight and his father's 12 gauge Mossberg shotgun that was later
01:48:05
recovered from the defendants residence in Gordon attorney Wright told the court
01:48:12
what Jaimie endured for almost three months of captivity jimie went into survival mode he kept her in constant
01:48:20
fear by yelling at her and threatening her he physically hit her with a curtain rod exhibit seven your honor shows where
01:48:29
the defendant confine Jamie for 88 days this was her prison no bathroom breaks no movement no sound out of her
01:48:40
for up to 12 hours at a time those were the defendants rules rules she better follow or something really bad would
01:48:51
happen to her patter also addressed the court I would do like absolutely anything to take back what I
01:49:01
did you know I'm just so sorry that's the prosecutor wasn't buying it he's not sorry for kidnapping
01:49:12
Jamie and murdering her parents he's sorry that he got caught but the most powerful statement came from Jamie
01:49:21
herself read by her courta apppp appointed lawyer Chris gramstrup judge this is the statement of Jamie Claus
01:49:30
okay last October Jake Patterson took a lot of things that I love away from me but there are some things that Jake
01:49:38
Patterson can never take from me he can't take my freedom he thought that he could own me
01:49:44
but he was wrong I was smarter I watched his routine and I took back my freedom he thought that he could
01:49:52
make me like him but he was wrong Jake Patterson will never have any power over me I feel like I have some power over
01:50:00
him because I get to tell the judge what I think should happen to him for 88 days
01:50:06
he tried to steal me and he didn't care who he hurt or who he killed to do that he should stay locked up
01:50:15
forever thank you the judge had the last word not only were you danger to the Claus family you
01:50:25
are in extreme danger to the public in general he sentenced Patterson to two consecutive life sentences for the two
01:50:34
murders and 40 more years for kidnapping district attorney Brian Wright I hope the result in this case
01:50:47
will give Jamie some measure of comfort in knowing that Mr patter will never terrorize her again on behalf of Jamie I
01:50:57
would like to thank everyone involved in helping us through this very difficult time today was a very important step in
01:51:03
the process of helping Jamie to move forward Jamie will very likely have more to say in the future but we are grateful
01:51:12
for you allowing her to do that on her own terms thank you to that 13-year-old girl
01:51:18
Jamie who led us with her strength and the will to not give up your smile is now contagious across the
01:51:31
world see the evidence photos presented in court at 48 [Music] hours.com tonight's 48 hours will
01:51:51
continue [Music] when we were confirmed it was her uh you know my leg started to shake man it was
01:52:05
it was awesome when the news first spread that Jamie Claus was alive and safe 88 days of holding on to the faith
01:52:14
that our authorities would never give up and they certainly did not thoughts turned to another celebrated
01:52:21
case and when we hear that you know a Jamie has been found how wonderful what another miracle Ed smart knows the
01:52:30
anguish of waiting for a child to come home you know night after night you just want to wake up and this is a bad dream
01:52:39
and it's going away it was 2002 when Ed's 14-year-old daughter Elizabeth Smart was snatched from her Utah bedroom
01:52:49
it was one of the most publicized and memorable child of uction we have not given up on you Elizabeth we're going to
01:52:56
find you it took 9 months of searching and sorrow before the smart family could celebrate Elizabeth's safe return they
01:53:05
took me to this room and when they opened the door and she was there I just I couldn't believe it I I just couldn't
01:53:14
believe it Elizabeth had been abducted by this man Brian David Mitchell Whom The Smarts briefly hired to do work in
01:53:21
their home Mitchell and his wife held Elizabeth captive hiding and disguised Mitchell is now serving a life
01:53:30
sentence his wife was released after 15 years today Elizabeth Smart is 31 she has three children is a network news
01:53:40
commentator and has authored two books these stories are indelible and while rare still too frequent for those
01:53:51
involved there was the case of John Paul Getty III the grandson of oil tycoon J Paul
01:53:59
Getty who was kidnapped in 1973 at the age of 16 the story was told in the movie all the money in the world I start
01:54:08
paying ransoms I'll have 14 kidnapped grandchildren held by the mafia in Italy his ear was chopped off eventually a
01:54:17
ransom was paid and he was released 5 months later Mom Dad I'm okay I just hope that you'll do what
01:54:27
they say Dad and just do it quickly in 1974 19-year-old newspaper Heir Patty Hurst was kidnapped by the California
01:54:37
radical terrorist group The symbionese Liberation Army I have chosen to stay and
01:54:43
fight a year and a half later after being involved in a bank robbery she was found during an FBI raid her first
01:54:52
served a 2-year prison sentence as questions swirled about whether she had willingly committed violent acts I'm a
01:55:00
soldier in the People's Army or was brainwashed I think about you know what it was that I had to do in order to
01:55:08
survive it's amazing what people can do to you today she's a philanthropist mother and
01:55:17
grandmother another missing child made news in 1991 11-year-old old JC Dugard was
01:55:24
abducted on her way to school in California she was hidden for nearly 2 decades by a couple Philip and Nancy
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guito Philip gito was a registered sex offender JC lived behind a series of fences and Tents even giving birth to
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two children fathered by her abductor in this ramshackle backyard compound Dugard was found when she was
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29 when a campus police officer noticed gito acting strangely she now heads a foundation for families in trauma when
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Jamie Claus escaped ji sent her a message writing the road ahead will have many ups and downs allow yourself to
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grieve and move forward October 6 202 was a Sunday it was about 1:00 in the afternoon Shawn
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was bored and and uh asked if he could go out to play he wanted to ride his bike to his friend's house something
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that we had let him do you know hundreds maybe thousands of times before to me he was just my sweet little
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boy the parents of Shawn Hornbeck also know the pain of waiting after a child goes missing Shawn was 11 when he
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vanished in Missouri in 2002 it would take 4 and 1/2 years before Shawn's parents learned what happened I didn't
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didn't really know it was behind me next thing you know I was in the ditch that's when he picked me up tied
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my hands behind my back and put me in the truck he had the gun he had the power a random stranger a child predator
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named Mike delin abducted Shawn the thing that sticks out the most is he said you were just in the wrong place at
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the wrong time Sean's nightmare came to an end when delin kidnapped another boy this time
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from a school bus stop a witness helped law enforcement track down the vehicle delin drove which led them to find both
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boys at Devin's apartment and then the parents who didn't know if they'd ever see their son
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again laid eyes on Shawn and that was just the most wonderful feeling that you could have and then it was like the
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Waterworks were just on there there was no off button on it it's like a water man
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broke since then Shawn has mostly stayed out of the spotlight he was last reported to be working in a factory with
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hopes of obtaining a college degree in criminal law of course it's too soon to know how
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Jamie Claus will now move on unlike these other cases her parents weren't there to welcome her home I think it's
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going to be hard not having her parents there but but making the connection she can and
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finding the love and support from the community and the town of Baron has been giving Jamie exactly
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[Music] that [Music] is small and tight-knit they never gave up on Jamie Claus and now that she's
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safely home they're still coming together to show their support this community just if it wasn't close before
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it is now my heart is just in a new place last month the town held a fundraiser for Jamie and her family in
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the high school gym we at a beautiful benefit for the CL Family School Superintendent Diane tremble just a lot
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of beauty and love wrapped around this event people's True Colors show in these times a lot of love in this town a lot
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of love in this town the town of Baron showed the world the true meaning of community starting the day Jamie
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disappeared day one the town was left reeling in shock and horror I've been doing this for over 20 years and it's a
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crime scene like we rarely see it's going to take a toll on our people law enforcement launched a
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massive search we all have the same goal in mind and that is to bring Jamie home the
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entire Community joined in prayer fear and hope we will overcome the world began to learn a
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little bit about the eighth grader who disappeared Without a Trace jimie wrote on one of her assignments in response to
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the question what would you do if you were given a million dollars she said feed the hungry and give the rest of the
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poor time was of the essence every second counts in this case more than 100 officers combed
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through neighborhoods and searched for Clues over 200 tips came flooding in J's Amber Alert web page got 30,000 hits and
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friends like Melissa salmonson organized a prayer vigil everyone's feeling very helpless right now and being able to
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pray together and just feel like maybe those prayers are helping in some [Music]
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way 4 days in the sheriff asked for 100 volunteers to search the area 300 people showed
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up if you find something of Interest let your team leader know the sheriff called
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upon more citizens to join in the investigation we are asking for about 2,000 volunteers to walk specific areas
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in or around the crime scene to help with our investigation they came in droves they swarmed the area in line
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formation through the woods across the streams and into the corn fields I believe she's still alive I
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believe she's still out there and the hope is what we're riding on and that's what we're going to go
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[Music] with but in the middle of all this Hope Came a solemn reminder of what was
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lost two people who were deeply loved Jim and Denise Jim's parents why why they're normal people They go to work
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they go home they're they're about their families As Time passed the leads dried
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up and the cold reality set [Music] in investigators who had set up shop in the command center started leaving town
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you know we were averaging sometimes between 100 to 250 a day now we're down to that 25ish range so we need to scale
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back the operation itself life for the most part went back to normal but the people of Baron never
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forgot Jamie Claus on day 77 people of all ages and walks of life called upon the spirit of
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Christmas to bring Jamie home the Sport's been overwhelming Jam's uncle my Closs addressed the crowd our
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families like you just we just want Jamie home that wish came [Music] true that was a pretty great hug uh when
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you got to tell the aunt she's coming home my phone does not stop ringing if it's not somebody calling me it's
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somebody sending send me a message all good things but everybody's just so happy and excited that she's been found
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cuz she's got a whole huge family out there besides [Music] us she's loved by [Music]
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everybody what's your message the best thing that we can all do to help Jamie to help this family at this time keep
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her in your prayers because she's got a long road you know she's got a lot of stuff to deal with patience love and mhm
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keeping her making sure she's feeling safe yeah and kindness just be kind don't be nosy just be
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kind Jaime's powerful statement read by her lawyer at the sentencing shows she is taking back her life Jake Patterson
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can never take away my courage I was Brave and he was not he can never take away my
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spirit he can't can't stop me from being happy and moving forward with my life I will go on to do great things in
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my life and he will not friends say jimie is doing very well since coming home she is seeing family
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and friends and has started therapy Can't Get Enough NCIS walk the streets with real agents
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joh pek was a stellar Marine on the cases they can't forget this is one of the worst cases I've ever seen Newly
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Weds murdered the Killer's identities almost as shocking as the crime this is my son piece of him is finally home
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Wednesday this is terrifying this is a senseless murder this is not a minor point this is really a who done it this
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is a heavy gun this is hate this is real this is crazy this is the Moment of Truth this is terrifying this is exactly
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what I tried to stop CVS news original [Music] reporting