Happened to her, i could be a suspect. From his patrol car the officer was able to pull up images from cameras stationed around the river levee. No sign of karen. Then her cell provider sent a ping to karens phone. It turned up across the main road about half a mile from the river. In the parking lot at walmart. Where again, the officer could not find karen. What was going on . Around and around the river walk they went pointing their puny flashlights at a sea of dark. I did go home at about 5 00. I wrote an email saying karens gone. I dont know where she is. I just have to go to bed. And i went and i just cried. He did not sleep long. The phone call that startled him some good, some very, very bad. Coming up amyjanes murder and karens disappearance. Could they be connected . Investigators are about to discover a disturbing clue. I think in that moment most of us knew that that wasnt coincidence. cell phone rings where are you . Well the squirrels are back in the attic. Mom . 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But he certainly made it sound like it was a tough thing. Oh, it was. Karen had been struck from behind by some heavy blunt object. Her skull was crushed. The wound was massive. Right away the detective called 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 and she took one look at me, and it was so heartbroken that i, of course, broke down. And then i had a chance to see karen. The doctors gave her a slim chance, 1 in 100, maybe. She was airlifted to a bigger hospital in portland for specialized care. As dan kept watch at her bedside, he remembered an odd comment karen made a few days before she was attacked. 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 murder of Amy Brandhagen and the attack on karen lang seemed to take on a new and terrifying meaning. Chief roberts returned from his vacation to be handed this photograph by investigators. It had been taken four years earlier. One of the detectives had gotten his hands on an image of Amyjane Brandhagen and karen lang together dated august 14th. Oh, my god. Amyjane brandhagen was murdered on august 14th. Karen lang was assaulted on august the 9th one year after amyjanes murder. You think somebodys targeting them or someone within the church has some strange motivation . It could be a member of the congregation or it could be somebody who they provided Outreach Services to. In pendleton at the Free Methodist church, the word spread quickly. I think in that moment most of us knew that that wasnt coincidence. And i cant tell you how we knew. Well, small town, same church. Small town, same church. We all knew each other. I think we just knew. In a town where murder is rare, two women, one photo, and dates that lined up like a message. Had to be a connection. Certainly crossed my mind. Crossed my mind. So they scoured hours of video recorded by dozens of cameras stationed around town looking for a suspect. Good luck. When amyjane was murdered in broad daylight, those videos turned up exactly nothing. But then, then luck turned. They saw this. Recorded by one of the cameras stationed around the river walk, 6 31 p. M. Karen lang, there she is right there, out for her walk. And following her, a man watching her with what looks like a pipe hidden behind his back right there. They cross a small foot bridge. Maybe 50 or 60 yards where theres just no visibility from any direction unless youre actually on the path. And right there is where he attacks her. Is that where she was found . She was found about 30 feet down the path. And then they found this video recorded by another camera about an hour after the attack. Same man enters a park bathroom. And minutes later emerges to use a drinking fountain. I immediately said its the same guy. Weve got to show its the same guy. Wait, same guy as who . Chief roberts remembered after amyjane was murdered the only witness who saw anything reported a young man with dark hair wandering near the motel. Basically the description was fairly generic. 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Your dad wont call an exterminator. Can i call you back, mom . He says its personal this time. If youre a mom, you call at the worst time. Its what you do. If you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. Its what you do. Where are you . Its very loud there. When the Free Methodists of pendleton, oregon, went to their Weekly Worship Services that sunday in august, 2013, they offered their prayers for karen lang lying in a portland hospital in a coma. Her husband dan a constant presence at her bedside. The prognose was poor, but dan, optimistic by nature, struggled to hang on. Its just a faithful attitude that says no matter what happens its gods plan. And his plan is to prosper us. Even if i were to lose karen, i had to hold on to that and realize that. In those firss found in the brush alongside the pendleton river walk, shock spread like bad electricity. Someone came up to our Senior Pastor and said, you know, i think im glad im not part of your church if all these things that have happened. Yeah. Youre thinking is there a serial killer around . Not fear exactly, not yet. But someone was out there, was among them, had killed once perhaps twice. And so the unease grew. Dark places were avoided. The odds of a stranger picking two people that were as connected difficult to wrap your mind around. Umatilla County District attorney dan primis. This sounds more like a zodiactype killer. Like one of those weird puzzles. Absolutely. As youre working these investigations, youre thinking all those things. Trying to determine what connection is there between karen lang and Amyjane Brandhagen. It seemed very likely to the police and the d. A. The man seen in the Surveillance Video was the one who attacked karen lang, the killer who stabbed amyjane to death in that motel room one year earlier. But who was it . The chief asked his street cops to look at that video. Anybody recognize him . And what do you know . One of them did. He looked at the image for a second and said thats danny wu. How did he know . Because hed encountered him four times in the previous year. Minor infractions, though. So they never confirmed that his name actually was danny wu. But there was one thing that might help i. D. Him. He had a very distinct tattoo on the inside of his left wrist which read, semper fi. Hes a marine. That was my initial reaction. While chief roberts didnt know who the man really was or where he was now or why he knew they had to track him down right away. This is a community on edge. And now hes out there. Hes out there. And weve got to find him. There could be more victims. The chief canceled all time off, called in every available officer. A manhunt was on. And then a bit of luck. The very same sharpeyed detective who found karen noticed something odd nearby. A wooden panel on the back of an old batting cage beside the river walk looked not quite right. So the officer reached behind the loose panel and found a pipe that appeared to have blood on one end. The dna confirmed it was karens blood. And then when the crime lab compared a dna sample from the other end of the pipe with the material found under amyjanes fingernails . I get that call on a sunday afternoon. Now weve connected the dots. The man who assaulted karen and Amyjane Brandhagens killer were one in the same. Right away the police chief shared the news with the d. A. I was at home. Chieasked me if i was sitting down. He told me that the dna from the pipe matched the dna found underneath amyjanes fingernails. And it gave me chills. But though chief roberts officers scoured the town, even distributed flyers with wus picture on them, they found nothing. Hours piled up, days, more than a week. No danny wu. But anxiety . Oh, yes. You didnt leave garages unlocked. No. Sheds, doors, windows, cars. Yeah. You do. You feel like theres a serial killer in town. And then a call from the local Convention Center. Two Catering Company employees told the dispatcher theyd gone in through a side door to the kitchen. And here sits this person who they readily recognize as this danny wu that we had disseminated the images of and and he basically picked up his stuff and disappeared into the facility. So hes in the building somewhere. Its a big building. Its a big building. Within minutes the police surrounded the Convention Center. A search dog trained to bite joined in. They set up a command post outside one of the centers windows. The dogs just woof, woof, woofing at the door. And the oregon state trooper behind us says i can see a leg hanging out of the ceiling. Looking through a window. I take about two steps back from where im standing and i can see it. So i give him the command to enter. They enter, go straight to this location in the stairwell and there he is. Minutes later the suspect, the man known as danny wu, the man who may have murdered one woman, possibly even two and terrorized the town of pendleton walked out in handcuffs and into the flashing cameras of the local paper. Later, officers took this video of his hiding spot in an airconditioning duct in the Convention Center ceiling where clothes. It looked like a nest. And looked like hed been there for a while coming and going, hiding in plain sight. Hed been here all year. But now what . Would he talk . Lawyer up . Or even would he reveal who he really was . And why it appeared he was targeting the women of the Free Methodist church. Coming up inside a heart of darkness. I didnt understand that. Ive never heard that before. Revelations that would leave this town and its investigators shattered. I didnt know whether to cry, here he was, t here he was, the man they knew as danny wu, the Man DetectiveSergeant Rick jackson had been chasing for a year. Im Sergeant Rick jackson. I work here at the Pendleton Police department. I know im not dressed like a normal police officer. Jackson was out hunting elk when they caught danny wu. And rushed in still in his camo hoping finally to get answers to his year of questions. Are you willing to talk to me . To a certain point. The chief and the d. A. Watched from a nearby office. I didnt expect him to say anything. I expected him to ask for a lawyer. I wasnt sure how he was going to respond to any of the questions. But d. A. Primis and all of them were in for a big surprise. Whats your name . My name is lukah chang. I want to write it down. Whats your last name . Sure enough not danny wu. Lukah chang, 23 years old, the son of christian missionaries. A deserter from the u. S. Marines who drifted into town without any plan and stayed in that Downtown Motel where he encountered a maid named amy jane. Did you talk to her . No. Only in passing like she would knock on the door. Soon he was broke, living on the street, spending his days at the town library across the you walked by and saw saw working. I saw her working and just. How long did you have to wait . Probably a half hour. Youre weighting there a half hour, youre thinking to yourself what . Im going to do it. Grabbed her, brought her into the motel room or into the bathroom and then what happened . I stabbed her. With what . A knife. When detective jackson tried to get into this young mans head, the conversation veered off into a cold and disturbing place. Chang rebelling against his parents, against god . Detective jackson asked the question on just about every mind in pendleton, oregon. Why . To see how it felt. See how what felt . Taking a life. Why . I was curious. How did it feel . Saddening. Empowering and saddening . Yes. At the same time . Yes. Empowering because i took a life. Saddening because i realized ive seen life is precious. That was it . To see how it felt . I didnt understand that. Ive never heard that from a killer before. But why the Second Attack . Did he target those two women because they taught bible School Together . Because they appeared in that photograph together . Not really. It was approaching the anniversary of the first time. And that was just about it, said lukah chang. She was walking by, i noticed, followed, attacked. He was a brick wall. If the real answer was buried in his religious past or his failed military career or some other secret corner, we were not to know. Ever. Do you feel remorse . Not really. Why is that . I got tired of feeling. Emotions and stuff like that. I got tired of feeling the feelings. So im like all right. Lets just cut that out. Then having had his say, the man the police had been chasing for so long was safely tucked away in a jail cell soon to plead guilty to murder and attempted murder. And to begin serving 35 to life. I cant even describe the relief. Its like the world is lifted off your shoulders. I didnt know whether to cry, didnt know whether to scream. You know, i just didnt i was just kind of dumbfounded. Across the state in Portland Dan Lang told his comatose wife karen they caught him. Ough, of course, she couldnt hear that. And then in a few days later dan turned on his video camera. And, well, see for yourself. Karen, can you raise your hand again . Yeah, can you raise that hand up . There you go. Yeah. Very good. Doctors, life flooded back. Im doing very well. I feel great. And just a year after that vicious attack, here she was, karen lang, the woman whose ordeal wound up catching a killer. Not exactly the purpose she expected when she talked to her husband dan that day. Like i told him not that long ago i said dont ever pray for more to do with your life because, boy, do you get answered on that. The recovery took a long time of course. Three hospitals, surgeries to rebuild her skull, months in a but of that awful night, she had no memory at all. What was the sense you recalalat 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 no