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While we were there she was in the first hour of being at the crime scene. upwards of 50 people walked by. i mean, this is a pretty busy area of town. >> busy, yes. and studded with cctv cameras. banks, bridges, city hall, walking trails along the river that runs through town. detectives painstakingly went through the footage. >> there was nothing. >> they took dna from dozens of motel guests to check against the sample taken from amyjane's fingernails. wasn't any of them. so detective jackson went to the people who knew amyjane well, or perhaps romantically. those stab wounds were all focused...

Hello and welcome to "dateline." pendleton, oregon, nicknamed the real west, is steeped in cowboy tradition. but these days it's no rough and tumble down. so when a woman was killed in broad daylight, the community was stunned. and then another brutal attack almost exactly one year later and a terrifying thought started to spread. was there a serial killer on the loose? here's keith morrison with "someone was out there." there are children born into this world for whom the dance never ends. for whom joy seems uncontained. for whom exuberance is uncontainable. >> amyjane. what are we doing ri...

But she went. and she scoured and scrubbed those little rooms that looked out on downtown pendleton. and then it was august 14th, 2012. >> 911, what is your emergency? >> i am calling from travelodge, in pendleton. there's a girl dead in the bathroom. i don't know. >> a girl dead in the bathroom? >> i think she's passed out. >> okay. i'm going to get the police and ambulance headed that way, okay? >> in his office down the hall from the 911 operator, bill caldera listened and felt the dread flood in. >> just gave me a feeling in the pit of my stomach that something was not good about this call...

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 air-conditioning duct in the convention center ceiling where he had a blanket, radio and some clothes. >> it looked like a nest. and looked like he'd been there for a while coming and going, hiding in plain sight. he'd been here all year. >> but now what? would he talk? lawyer up? or even would he rev...

After what happened when they sorely needed their church family at pendleton free methodist. like youth minister jeff hummel and his wife lisa who encountered the dancing sprite when she was in middle school. >> if she got the feeling that you were left out, she'd find you and make sure that you knew you had a friend. >> >> one year when she was far away in india, the people who loved amyjane worried a lot. and didn't breathe easy until she returned home to the safety and security of pendleton. where -- >> she was waiting for god to tell her what to do next. whether it was going to be to trave...