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she was amazing. i just cant talk about th feeling that went through my mind i can think of anybody tha would ever want to do what the did to her ♪ ♪ ♪ >> amyjane was an angel, traveling the world with her church to help children. >> they loved amyjane, the loved amy so much. >> back home, somethin sinister lay waiting >> it was a pretty horrific -- >> a white young lives snuffed out. >> it doesnt make any sense a all. >> months later, a mother ou for a walk vanishes. >> karen is...

It >> grabbed her, brought her into the motel room, or th bathroom, and then wha happened >> i stabbed her >> with? what >> a knife. >> when detective jackson trie to get into this young mans head, the conversation it into a cold and disturbing place. as a missionary, some was luka chang rebelling against hi parents, against god detective jackson asked abou the question of every mind and pendleton, oregon. >> why >> to see how it felt. >> to see how what felt? but >> taking the life >> why but >...

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The chief on vacation in the mountains five hours away and described the way they found her. did he think she was dead already? >> he thought she was dead. tremendous amount of blood. he indicates that he reaches for her wrist to see if she has a pulse and her leg moves. and she gasps. >> but it didnt look like shed be alive for long. the detective drove dave lang to the hospital, told him prepare for the worst. as he arrived at the emergency room, dan ran into a nurse he knew. >> and she took o...

But of that awful night, she had no memory at all. what was the sense you recall at least of coming out of this blackness into -- back up into life again? >> well, a lot of it was just a feeling that i didnt know what was wrong. i didnt know why i was in a hospital. i didnt know i was in portland. >> the langs troubles are not over. a few months after dan brought karen home from portland, he was diagnosed with cancer. so a skeptics question. you know, you two have been through so much in the las...

If shed been over. and i said, no, havent seen her. >> and i had looked outside and sure enough the car was still there. so we went out to the car and she wasnt there. >> so jed and lisa grabbed flashlights and walked a couple of blocks from their house down to the river levee. there in the parking lot sat a pendleton policeman. what should they do they asked him. >> he just thought it was unusual enough that he got ahold of dan. >> as the officer left to talk to dan, jed and lisa kept looking t...

>> two years later, karen found hers in the arms of the community again when dan died and pendleton was once again a smaller sadder place without dan and the girl who always reached out to the lonely, the strangers, just like the one who drifted into town and killed her. >> pretty remarkable, huh? i mean, isnt he exactly the sort of person she would have sought out? >> i find that very ironic. and its also the same person that if she were here today, she would say take the way of forgiveness, it...

Hundreds of leads. and themselves. >> i knew it was having an impact on my physiological health as well as my mental health. >> on august 8th the chief took his family out of town for some r&r. and the very next day a woman named karen lange happened to be a member of amyjanes church announced to her husband dan she was going for a walk. >> and she came down. and ill never forget what she said. she said, well, you know, i was thinking that we can maybe go out for dessert afterward. >> karen was ...

Her boys were in college, nearly grown. she wasnt sure what her purpose was any more. as she told dan -- >> i really wish that i could be, you know, more useful, if im going to remain here. >> on planet earth. >> on planet earth. i would assure her that god has a plan. and you will be used. >> but what kind of use was this? if she lived, she might never regain consciousness. if she regained consciousness, she might never be the same. how useful could that be? and then suddenly, the case in the m...

>> dan went back to tinkering on his motorcycle. lost all track of time. it was dark when his son walked into the room and asked an innocuous question. >> wheres mom? i said, well, i dont know. ill give her a call. so i went -- i tried to make the phone call, and i couldnt get hold of her. >> but it was after 9:30 p.m. karen usually walked for less than an hour. shed been gone for five. in some people anxiety stokes panic. dan is not like that. its a coping mechanism, he stays calm. he made anot...