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Kate Snow Voiceover a College Student vanishes. I had this Chill Go through my whole body. They asked us, well, do you have a Crime Scene . No, we dont, other than flipflops in a Parking Lot. We had a community that was scared whos going to be the next victim. Kate Snow Voiceover 1,000 Miles Away, another student in danger. She said hes got a knife. Hes trying to kill me. There were guns, and there was a girl there, and there was blood. This is not the first time hes done this. Kate Snow Voiceover one case would help solve the other, one man behind two mysteries. This was dynamite to us. Thats...

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...

Thing that gets your adrenaline going and you're investigating a case via elimination of all these other tips and you're just sitting there, getting to them, it's frustrating for the team. it can be discouraging. >> how hard is it to face the family with that? >> very hard. you want to be able to give the family answers. >> and then that very week, the last week of november 2004, it happened. nearly 1,400 miles away in new mexico, a place aptly known as the land of enchantment, the break that they had been praying for. in albuquerque, in one of the city's tougher neighborhoods, a waitress name...

Joel patrick courtney was sitting in jail in albuquerque. it was december 2004. the married father of three was facing decades in prison if convicted of kidnapping, sexual assault, and battery charges. he had been caught carrying a knife and a crack pipe hours after a university of new mexico student said joel courtney abducted her near campus and sexually assaulted her. miraculously, she had escaped. >> this is an incredibly brazen crime. he abducts her in broad daylight. 6:45, it's just about dark. that's either incredibly stupid or insane. >> no, it's experienced. he knows what he's doing. ...

Incredibly detailed description of the man and of his car. >> she described the car seats down to the detail. she described the tinted windows. she described the fact that the car was two-door, that it was red. >> and the victim remembered something else, a small, stuffed animal on the car side window. enter albuquerque police officer ed taylor. he showed up at the scene, ready to help track down the bad guy. first stop, the apartments where the victim escaped from her kidnapper. >> so you go to the door of the apartment. who answers? >> it's a female. but we went inside the apartment and righ...