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>> two years later, karen found hers in the arms of the community again when dan died and pendleton was once again a smaller sadder place without dan and the girl who always reached out to the lonely, the strangers, just like the one who drifted into town and killed her. >> pretty remarkable, huh? i mean, isn't he exactly the sort of person she would have sought out? >> i find that very ironic. and it's also the same person that if she were here today, she would say take the way of forgiveness, it's the better way. >> let's pray. >> and every sunday the faithful still fill the pews at the pend...

It's had such a positive effect on people and how it could be so much worse for me. i see it as we need to go through it. it will be a season of recovery for us. >> and then in september 2014, it was pendleton roundup time again. and the emcee's voice boomed through the arena. miracles happen, said the announcer. >> no one in pendleton knows that better than our singer today. for our "national anthem," please welcome miss karen lang. ♪ o say can you see ♪ ♪ by the dawn's early light ♪ >> i looked at it as an opportunity to really just thank the people of pendleton for all the support a...

Hundreds of leads. and themselves. >> i knew it was having an impact on my physiological health as well as my mental health. >> on august 8th the chief took his family out of town for some r&r. and the very next day a woman named karen lange happened to be a member of amyjane's church announced to her husband dan she was going for a walk. >> and she came down. and i'll never forget what she said. she said, well, you know, i was thinking that we can maybe go out for dessert afterward. >> karen was an accomplished singer and pianist. dan vice president of the local community college. her walk al...

♪♪ >> they were there three months for something called youths with a mission, or ywam for short. like tourists they went to the taj mahal. like preachers, they spread the word. to children, mostly. for whom amyjane was magnetic, irresistible. >> they would see her and run up to her and say the word that means sister, sister. so excited. >> when the three-month mission trip was over. >> she hated it. she was like i don't want to go home. >> home for amyjane was a universe away from vibrant, teeming india. here it is. pendleton. safely tucked into a small valley on the vast rolling flanks o...

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 amyjane's murder. >> you think somebody's targeting them or somebody 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 wasn't coincidence. and i can't tell you how we knew. >> well, small town, same church. >> small...