else, she wouldn't have been in that situation. >> reporter: of course, no one could have known then that it would end up like this. >> unified police department. >> i need to report a runaway. my daughter is missing. >> reporter: her daughter was anne grace kasprzak. though when veronica first met annie, she wasn't a kasprzak at all. she wasn't even her daughter. she was a client, just 7 years old, with a rough childhood. >> she'd been through some abuse, and she had a hard time trusting other people. >> reporter: back in 2005, veronica was a case worker for utah's division of children and family services. her job was to find homes for kids who no longer had one. annie was one of those kids. >> annie has kind of a larger-than-life personality. whatever annie does, she never did small. if there was something she liked, she loved it and she was huge. if there was something she didn't like, it was big. and there was no question about it. >> reporter: drama came with it, huh? >> oh, yes, oh, yes. >> reporter: veronica tried for years to find annie a stable