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from, there are thousands of potential locations. coming up -- >> chief medical examiner came back and said i think we've found her. >> when "bringing brook home" continues.
captive by a deranged street preacher then amazingly, after nine months, returned to her family alive. >> i would think, maybe somebody just has her captive and they will just decide to let her go one day. >> a family friend put the wilbergers in touch with elizabeth's uncle. was it comforting? >> it was comforting. he was very positive, of course, because of their experience and he said, never give up hope. just keep thinking positive. >> and she came home. >> right. right. and so i was like, you know, i don't know how, i don't know the circumstances, but i cannot give up. >> and while the search continued, what seemed to be a lead emerged. >> that burglary pointed them to this man, sung koo kim. >> the name sung koo kim came to the attention of
investigators less than a week after brooke vanished. kim was a reclusive 30-year-old with a degree in genetics and biology who still lived with his parents in this home 80 miles from corvallis in a suburb of portland. he spent much of his time online trading stocks. just weeks before, a search of kim's home turned up thousands of pairs of women's underwear, stolen from college dorms throughout the area. burglary charges had been filed and he would soon be charged with stealing underwear from a dorm at oregon state university, just blocks from where brooke was abducted. police had 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 people's property, being underwear, that's a progression. >> meaning what? that he could then do something violent? >> there's going to be step two, step three, and contacting somebody next and ultimately abducting somebody. >> then, just five days after brooke's disappearance, another search in a dramatic
she pointed at him. he was sitting at the light. >> the person that kidnapped her? >> that kidnapped her. >> the man with the knife had come to find her. dara called 911. she described the man, his red compact car. within minutes, police were there. >> a lot of people wouldn't have stopped. a lot of people didn't stop. >> no, nobody stopped. >> there was a lot of traffic. >> they wouldn't even help her at the restaurant. she was in the restaurant, at the counter, talking to someone. >> who was this young woman? blond, blue-eyed, abducted on her neck what she said was a mark from her kidnapper's knife. >> she was a college student. not from oregon but from russia. and the story this 22-year-old told officers was pretty incredible. she was walking home from work down this street, near the university of new mexico campus. she noticed a small, red car parked near the curb and a man standing next to it, but she didn't think much of it. walked right past. a few steps later she felt someone grab her from behind and
>> the wilbergers didn't know it but before the holidays would arrive in 2004, there would finally be a legitimate break in the case of the abduction of their daughter, brooke. coming up, halfway across the country, a college student runs screaming from a kidnapper. >> i told her, get in the car. that i wouldn't let anybody hurt her. >> a lot of people didn't stop. >> no, nobody stopped. >> would one woman's quick thinking help bring brooke home? , who sent it to cindy, who wondered why her soup wasn't quite the same. the recipe's not the recipe... ohhh. [ female announcer ] ...without swanson. the broth cooks trust most when making soup. mmmm! [ female announcer ] the secret is swanson. you wouldn't want your doctor doing your job. so why are you doing his? only your doctor can determine if your persistent heartburn is actually something more serious... like acid reflux disease.
sister could ever have guessed how they would get the answer to the question where was brooke? coming up, evidence finally implicates joel courtney in brooke's kidnapping. >> that's the smoking gun. that's the nail in the coffin. >> but will that help bring brooke home? an accident doesn't have to slow you down. with better car replacement available only with liberty mutual auto insurance, if your car's totaled, we give you the money for a car one model year newer. to learn more, visit us today. responsibility. what's your policy? how about a bike ride? you're not my dad ahh!! hey honey, back feels better, little dancing tonight, you and me? dr. scholl's pro inserts relieve different types of lower body pain by treating at the source so you're a whole new you. go pro with dr. scholl's.
university in eutah. >> she just really wanted to experience life outside of our community and 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 and byu, but returned home her freshman year for thanksgiving to spend time with her family and shop. >> we returned to meier & frank before it became macy's. and she had really liked this watch. and it was kind of a dressy watch and she was pretty classy in the things that she close to wear. >> so she sees it in the case and she mentions it to you? >> yeah. she says, i really like that watch, mom. >> easy christmas present. >> it was. >> six months later in the spring, her freshman year was history. brooke returned home to oregon. she had a summer job in corvallis, about 30 miles from home, working at the oak park apartments, managed by her sister stephanie and stephanie's husband.
>> ten miles is so close by. >> yeah, but it may as well be an eternity. because in a ten-mile radius from where she was abducted from, there are thousands of potential locations. coming up -- >> chief medical examiner came back and said i think we've found her. >> when "bringing brook home" continues. dd. just calling to let you know so you're calling to tell me you're giving me the silent treatment? ummm, yeah. jen, this is like the eighth time you've called... no, it's fine, my family has free unlimited mobile-to-any-mobile minutes. i can call all i want. i don't think you understand how the silent treatment works. hello? [ male announcer ] buy unlimited messaging and get free unlimited calling to any mobile phone on any network. at&t.
call from the lab. >> they told me, you're not going to believe what we found, and i said what is that? they said we found joel courtney's dna in the van. and i said, well, that's good, but that doesn't quite get us there. and they said, we also found brooke wilberger's dna in the carpet of the van. >> it was the physical evidence they had been waiting for. beneath the backseat in the carpet, they found a mixture of male and female dna, belonging to joel courtney and brooke wilberger. >> what happens here at corvallis police headquarters when you find that out? >> it's sort of an amazing day. that's the smoking gun. that's the nail in the coffin. >> the wilbergers return to corvallis to get the news themselves. >> they said, we got a dna confirmation that brooke's dna and his dna were in the van together. >> did you breakdown? >> no. you get up for certain things. you just steel yourself for that. it was like yes, you know? and then, of course, i sobbed the whole way home. >> the dna evidence revealed details no mother should ever