door, i love you. and that was last time i talked to her. >> i said worth broke, he said we can't 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 don't, 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 he's got a knife and trying to kill me. >> there was a girl there and there was blood. >> this is not the first time that he's done this. >> one case would help solve the other. one man behind two mysteries. >> this was dynamite to us, that is the smoking gun. >> you're not going to believe what we found. >> we've gotten so close. i want to know where she is. >> some images are eternal. timeless. one moment of the future seems immeasurable, the possibilities endless. but, in an instance, you can be left with only memories to hold until the end of time. >> brooke wilbur lived as if she had all the time in the world to grow up, to marry, to create a close knit family like her own parents. had >> we have six children and brokers number five. >> always want to have a big family? >> we ended up with one. >> camry wilbur gore and her husband, greg, raised their children near beautiful eugene oregon, a family that included brooks older brother bryce and sister stephanie. >> we just used to have so much fundraising up, she was kind of a toy, if you will. >> i know, let's dress up brooke. right? >> she was just fun. >> little brook didn't speak until she was four and, even, that could be a bit hard to understand. but, as brook grew, her natural talents spoke loudly. she loved animals and for age, played basketball and ran track. >> she was good. she's better than most of the rest of us at the sports that we played. >> she snowboarded on slopes around oregon and, as her little sister jessica remembers, took pride in being scrappy on the soccer field. >> she came home from soccer and had a black eye. my brother had asked what happened and she said i got in a fight. he goes, you didn't, broke. you don't get into fights. she laughed and said, you're right, i got hit in soccer practice but isn't so cool? >> brook was also an honors student at al naira who loved bake, scrapbook, and see the sights on the west coast. >> this is my home. yay! >> she could be seriously silly. >> this is my crib. >> or a stylish, happy to shop for shoes or fashion. she was reliable, thoughtful, popular, and pretty inside and out. >> she made people feel better about themselves. >> people want to be with? her >>. yeah >> she was nice, intelligent, beautiful, but she was also really nice. >> the minute that she turned 16, when dad rules allowed her to start dating, if she knew that she wanted her childhood friend, justin, to be her boyfriend. when they graduated from high school, broker decided to follow him to brigham young university in utah. >> she just really wanted to experience life outside of our community and just kind of branch out. >> the girl who had grown up saying words a little funny decided to study speech pathology. brooke loved her new friends at byu, but returned home her freshman year for thanksgiving to spend time with her family and job. >> we had gone to myron franken before, they came to the macy's. she had really liked this watch. it was kind of addressing what. joe shoe is a pretty classy in the things that she chose to wear. she sees it in the case and she mentions it to you. ? >> i really like that watch, mom. >> easy christmas present? >> it was. >> six months later, in the spring, her freshman year was history. brook returned home to oregon. she had a summer job in corvallis, about 30 miles from home working at the oak park apartment, managed by her sister stephanie and stephanie's husband. on monday, may 24th, 2004, she left the house where her sister jessica was getting ready for another day of seventh grade. >> she was kind of in a rush and she walked out the door and left. about five minutes later she walked back in and just yelled through the door, i love you. and walked out. and that was the last time i talked to her. >> by nine a.m., brook was at the apartments and an hour later, hard at work. >> i could see through my apartment to the back window facing the patio, and brooke was bending over filling over a bucket of water. it was last time that i saw her. >> at what point did you realize that she wasn't out there anymore? >> not until probably 1:00. i had fixed lunch for my children and for her and she hadn't shown up. >> what starts going through your head when she doesn't go through for lunch? >> it's a large complex, there's over hundred apartments, so wasn't immediately worried because a shot she could be cleaning in the laundry room somewhere. i even said something like, let's take out the search party tongue-in-cheek and took my kids out with me and started walking around, seeing if we could see her to tell her that her lunch was ready. >> you're not in a full blown panic? >> no, no. >> but, before long, stephanie would come upon these near a lamppost brooke had been cleaning. her flip-flops were on the pavement. >> a little piece of plastic that goes between your toe was ripped out on one and there were muddy tow prince sliding down actual soul of the shoe, so it was clear that she was trying to keep them, trying to stay put and stay grounded when she lost her shoes. >> you knew that right then? >> immediately. >> still, though, no panic, no cries for help for a couple of hours until 307 pm when stephanie's husband placed a very calm call to 9-1-1. >> 9-1-1, what's your emergency? >> i've got to someone who's missing. a worker of mine that we can't seem to find. >> missing from? where >> are the manager of the oak park apartments. >> and this actually happens to be my sister in law. she's 19. >> when was the last time anybody saw her? >> around 10:30. >> where had brook wilbur gone? why couldn't anybody find her? brooks mom was about to learn of her daughter's disappearance and a phone call with one of her sons. >> i said, whereas brooke? he said we don't know. i said, what do you mean you don't know? he goes, we don't know where she is. i said don't tease me, what are you talking about? he said, no, seriously, mom, we can't find her. and, right, then -- i had this chill go through my whole body. >> coming up, a whole community turns out to search for brooke while the police start their investigation by focusing on her family. >> you need to go through what is the family suspect? we had to get that work done and the investigators are doing that. >> stephanie was just grilled about, you know, where was she? 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>> it was mid afternoon sometime. i think we knew something was seriously wrong when the call was we can't find brooke. it didn't take anything longer than that. >> bryce went to pick up his mother who was trying not to panic. >> a lot of people talk about that maternal feeling that sometimes you get inside. did you get a feeling? >> i just kept thinking, you know, maybe she met up with one of her friends that is going to msu. but brooke wouldn't do that, it's not broke. >> late in the afternoon with brooke missing for hours, so phones started buzzing. >> i was sitting at my sons table game and i got a phone call from one of our patrol lieutenant at the time who said, john, we have a missing girl. >> captain jonathan and lieutenant tim brewer both with the corvallis at the time we're about to begin a journey unlike any of them had ever experienced. >> i asked him, what do you think? is this real? he had natural gut instinct that this was not a walk away, it was something bad had happened. >> when captain salman arrived at the apartment, he was struck by how few clues he had to work with. >> it is a parking lot with a pair of flip-flop. and a bucket with soap and some water under a lamppost. >> also left behind, brooks wallet, person, cell phone, and car. nobody, it seemed, saw anything, but somebody heard something. about 10:30 that morning, a blood curdling scream. the evidence pointing to an abduction, but investigators started with questions for the people closest to the victim. first question, where was brooke's boyfriend, just? and it turned out he was serving a two-year mission for the mormon church 4000 miles away in venezuela. next, brooks family. >> you need to go through what is the family suspect? and we had to get that work done and we investigators are doing that. >> stephanie was just grilled about, you know, where was she? why don't you know where she was? did you do it? >> that had to be awful. >> it is awful. it is awful. >> it was terrible. we had made a decision that we, as a family, we would do anything to get broke back. whatever the police ask us to do, we will do it. if they suspect us, that is okay. we don't care. we want to find brooke. >> soon, a community came gather. within hours of brooke's disappearance, dozens then hundreds of people showed up, many from the will burgers church, others are concerned citizens and cops. >> i suppose they could be anywhere, we just have looked everywhere. >> they came in droves that first evening and every day after with one goal. find brooke. >> come hell or high water we are going to find. her >> for detectives the sheer number of researchers presented a challenge. >> as an investigator responsible for this, we are looking at is there a bad guy here? it is not uncommon for people who commit the crime to circle right back around, the present, learn, see what is going on. >> by this time, the fbi had also answered the investigation. supervisory special agent joe boyer's first question, had brook been taken by someone who lived at the apartment complex and could that person be among the tens of thousands of oregon state students who would soon be leaving town for the summer? agent boyer asked fbi profiler's for help. >> they asked us, well, you have a crime scene? no, we don't, other than flip-flops in the parking lot. do you have a witnesses? no we don't. you have a vehicle description? no we don't. you have body? no i don't. and they said, frankly, there is very little we can do for you at this point. >> with so little evidence, investigators found themselves thinking back to another crime, the crime any year in corvallis barely recall. on another day in may, nearly 30 years to the day and one mile away from where brooke disappeared, a young oregon state a student vanished. it wasn't until her body was discovered and her killer caught that people here realized this town had been visited by one of america's most notorious serial killers, it had to bundy. authorities in corvallis wondered if there was now a mother sexual predator bold enough to abduct a young woman in broad daylight. >> it was a rough day for the sex offenders in our county because there is a team who went out and put their finger on every single one of them. >> how many sex offenders are there in this area? >> i think that was something that was very startling and realize is how many there actually were. >> when police told brooks family there may be 2000 sex offenders in the area, they were horrified. >> when they would get into details i would just have to lay back on the bed because i'd become nauseated. just the whole trauma of it was too much. >> it just took a couple of days, i think, to think in that was something bad had happened and that she was really gone. >> there seemed to be little question. brooke was gone and engraved danger. the family took to the airwaves, her father, greg -- >> if anyone has seen brooke at all, if they would just please call in. >> tips poured into police hotlines. >> we had dozens and dozens of brook sightings in practically every state. >> everyone who went for a walk, you know, in the following days who saw someone who just looked out of place called a stop. >> this girl was abducted -- >> the search expanded daily. at times, it seemed the whole state of oregon was pitching in to find brooke. >> i have daughters this age and i want to help. >> more search teams, dozens of square miles. >> what is the geography at like around here? when could someone have taken brooke? >> we are ten miles from interstate five. we've got a north south running right through corvallis on the east west. so it really could drive five miles from corvallis and be in a very remote area. >> in the deep woods? >> absolutely. >> but, despite the odds, within days investigators or hot on someone's trail. coming up, imagining red flags are going off all of the place when you start getting this information. >> from our perspective every red flag went off. >> a police search turns up a terrifying checklist. >> either someone is planning a very heinous mutilation, sexual assault crime and murder, or it is a fantasy. but either way it is extremely important to us and our investigation. >> when dateline continues. teline continues unlike some medicines that only treat bipolar i, caplyta treats both bipolar i and ii depression. and in clinical trials, movement disorders and weight gain were not common. call your doctor about sudden mood changes, behaviors, or suicidal thoughts. antidepressants may increase these risks in young adults. elderly dementia patients have increased risk of death or stroke. report fever, confusion, stiff or uncontrollable muscle movements which may be life threatening or permanent. these aren't all the serious side effects. caplyta can help you let in the lyte™. ask your doctor about caplyta find savings and support at caplyta.com. ♪ bosch dishwashers use water less ♪ ♪ add finish tabs more success ♪ ♪♪ ♪ work well together every time ♪ ♪ burnt on stains, get outshined ♪ ♪♪ i got this $1,000 camera for only $41 on dealdash. dealdash.com, online auctions since 2009. this playstation 5 sold for only 50 cents. this ipad pro sold for less than $34. and this nintendo switch, sold for less than $20. i got this kitchenaid stand mixer for only $56. i got this bbq smoker for 26 bucks. and shipping is always free. go to dealdash.com right now and see how much you can save. we planned well for retirement, but i wish we had more cash. you think those two have any idea? 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are you praying together all the time? >> i think that is all we could think to do. you know, as a family. we just stayed in steph's little apartment and it was a small, and that became the command center. >> did you think she was live somewhere? >> yes. that was the overwhelming feeling that we felt. and i think that is why the focus was fined broke. it is what drove us. we know the statistics, but this is our family. she's got to be there. >> i think that you have that hope and no matter what every day that goes by, whatever this just to 60, are the chances are that they were dead. we didn't let ourselves go there because, if you go there, then i think life would become pretty dark. >> and there was reason to hope. >> you heard it first on msnbc, elizabeth smart found alive and, from what we can tell so far, physically in good shape. >> in that summer of 2000 for the story of elizabeth smart who was still fresh. she was the 14 year old who snatched from her bedroom -- held captive by a strange creature, and after nine months returned to her family. lives >> i would think, maybe somebody just held her captive and they'll decide let her go one day. >> a family friend put the will burgers in touch with elizabeth smarts uncle. >> was it comforting? >> he was very positive. because, of course, of their experience and he said, you, know never give up hope. just keep thinking positive. >> she came home? >> right. i don't know how, i don't know the circumstances, but i cannot give up hope. >> and while the search continued, what seemed to be a lead emerged. >> they pointed them to this man. >> this name son who came came to investigators left in a week after brooke vanished. kim was a reclusive 30 rolled with a degree in genetics and cellular biology who still lived with his parents in this home 80 miles from corvallis's suburb of portland. he spent much of his time online, trading stocks. just weeks before, a search of kim's home had turned up thousands of pairs of women's underwear, stolen from college dorms throughout the area. burglary charges had been filed and he went to soon be charged with stealing underwear from a dorm at oregon state university, just blocks from where broo . police out an investigative theory based on their experience in other cases. >> when you start making steps to entering other buildings and dormitories and going and stealing other peoples property, namely underwear, that is a progression. >> meaning do violent? >> there's going to be step two, step three, and contacting somebody next. ultimately, abducting somebody. >> then, just five days after brooke's disappearance, another search. in a dramatic, middle of the night raid captured by videotape by police, an oregon state swat team blew open the front door of the home that kim shared with his parents. >> oregon please. >> 15 officers stormed inside to service search warrant, looking for physical evidence. air, body fluid, and more. evidence of kim's possible involvement in brooks's disappearance. >> come out of the house with your hands in the air! >> they found n