all away. and i was like, jessie? nothing? i juggled her a little bit. and then i knew, this is not. good my daughter, won t wake up. she had been murdered in her own bed after coming home from a pool party. a party that hadn t been all fun and games. she was 19 and these men were in their 40s. we wanted to talk to. them did something happen at that party? what was happening around this small town. i heard somebody running behind me. then i noticed he had a knife in his hands. someone was stalking young women. it was either, i try to save myself or i let this guy do whatever he wants to me. his dreams were there nightmares. the research is on search is on bond. could he be caught before he killed again? and then we knew he done it. now we just had to prove it. hello and welcome to dateline. and a small wisconsin town, a 19 year old girl came home from a party, said goodnight to her mother and went to bed, safe for the night. but, the next day she was
than anything i d ever seen in my life. i cried for my dad. was this a murder? every day i think of that. all i could think of was my kids. what about my kids. it was in the dark that the fear began, in the dark, and it grew. it terrorized our family, our friends. who was out there, in the dark? here, miles and miles in the woods. so far from safety. from civilized protection. they could just come, onto our property, and invade our lives. but on the summer night, deep in the california sierra, the terror came out of the dark. came after them. to take everything. the terrible, desperate chase. it s awful. and now the question, what really happened, out there in the dark? i still feel like i need to go help him. it looks so innocent now. closed up, quiet, empty. here in its place at the end of 100 yard dirt track, that sneaks off this lonely country road. deep in the sierra nevada but this was not how it was. or was ever meant to be. no. before it happened
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middle of the night. haunted for more than two decades, he would make a chilling discovery that would unlock this mystery. now you know the whole story. yes, sir. everything kind of clicked. it s just so unbelievable. i knew he was telling his mom s story. hello and welcome to dateline. aaron fraser was only 3 years old when his mom left the house, never to be seen or heard from again. police soon learned that aaron may have witnessed the unspeakable, the murder of his own mother. the boy would become a man before the whole truth was revealed. and though memories faded, the evidence pointing to the killer couldn t stay buried. here s dennis murphy with she never left. she d been gone from his life, unaccounted for, for more than 20 years. his mother, bonnie. it was odd to be the one that found her. because you d spent a lot of your life looking for her, right? yes, sir. there s a poignant video of the mother and child s last christmas morning toget