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Kate Snow Voiceover a College Student vanishes. I had this Chill Go through my whole body. They asked us, well, do you have a Crime Scene . No, we dont, other than flipflops in a Parking Lot. We had a community that was scared whos going to be the next victim. Kate Snow Voiceover 1,000 Miles Away, another student in danger. She said hes got a knife. Hes trying to kill me. There were guns, and there was a girl there, and there was blood. This is not the first time hes done this. Kate Snow Voiceov...

door, i love you. and that was last time i talked to her. >> i said worth broke, he said we cant find her. >> a college student vanishes. >> i had this chill go through my whole body. >> they asked us do of the crime scene? no we dont, we have flip-flops in a parking lot. >> we had a community that was scared, who is going to be the next victim? >> 1000 miles away, another student in danger. >> she said hes got a knife and trying to kill me. >> there was a girl there and there was bloo...

Thing that gets your adrenaline going and youre investigating a case via elimination of all these other tips and youre just sitting there, getting to them, its frustrating for the team. it can be discouraging. >> how hard is it to face the family with that? >> very hard. you want to be able to give the family answers. >> and then that very week, the last week of november 2004, it happened. nearly 1,400 miles away in new mexico, a place aptly known as the land of enchantment, the break that they ...

Joel patrick courtney was sitting in jail in albuquerque. it was december 2004. the married father of three was facing decades in prison if convicted of kidnapping, sexual assault, and battery charges. he had been caught carrying a knife and a crack pipe hours after a university of new mexico student said joel courtney abducted her near campus and sexually assaulted her. miraculously, she had escaped. >> this is an incredibly brazen crime. he abducts her in broad daylight. 6:45, its just about d...

Incredibly detailed description of the man and of his car. >> she described the car seats down to the detail. she described the tinted windows. she described the fact that the car was two-door, that it was red. >> and the victim remembered something else, a small, stuffed animal on the car side window. enter albuquerque police officer ed taylor. he showed up at the scene, ready to help track down the bad guy. first stop, the apartments where the victim escaped from her kidnapper. >> so you go to...

On a november night in 2004, albuquerque police were on a manhunt. a man had kidnapped a 22-year-old student off the street and sexually assaulted her. but when he carelessly tied her up and left her in his car in this apartment parking lot, she bolted, run naked into traffic and, thankfully, been rescued by this woman. >> that could be my daughter. shes a human being. she did not deserve to be running down the road with no clothes on. >> now albuquerque police officer ed taylor was among those ...

And a detective noticed that nearly a year before, in january 2004, in coastal lincoln county, oregon, courtney had been pulled over by a state trooper and charged with driving under the influence. but courtney had failed to appear in court, so a warrant had been issued for his arrest. and thats when an albuquerque detective did something he didnt have to do. he decided to dig deeper. picked up the phone and made a call to oregon. that would lead to a long-awaited break in the case of brooke wil...

Over rock, still searching. and we were, at that point, just hoping for something to break. >> just waiting? >> it was difficult. >> when you dont have that active, that high-end lead, the thing that gets your adrenaline going and youre investigating a case via elimination of all these other tips and youre just sitting there, getting to them, its frustrating for the team. it can be discouraging. >> how hard is it to face the family with that? >> very hard. you want to be able to give the family ...

He had been caught carrying a knife and a crack pipe hours after a university of new mexico student said joel courtney abducted her near campus and sexually assaulted her. miraculously, she had escaped. >> this is an incredibly brazen crime. he abducts her in broad daylight. 6:45, its just about dark. thats either incredibly stupid or insane. >> no, its experienced. he knows what hes doing. hes done it before. he knows how to make it happen. he picked his spot really well. its a very quiet stree...

The young woman gave an incredibly detailed description of the man and of his car. >> she described the car seats down to the detail. she described the tinted windows. she described the fact that the car was two-door, that it was red. >> and the victim remembered something else, a small, stuffed animal on the car side window. enter albuquerque police officer ed taylor. he showed up at the scene, ready to help track down the bad guy. first stop, the apartments where the victim escaped from her ki...