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>> the first step in his process would be to gain the trust of the parents of the young girls he intended on victimizing so he would leverage that fact of how close-knit a jehovah's witness community is. he would build on that to get the parents to bring children to him. finally, in the spring of '04, the first victim confronted him and said point-blank, you molested me, and he admitted to it in front of her, in front of the adults, and in front of his wife. that was the dam-busting moment and the floodgates opened from then. >> nancy mclean called me and told me someone had come forward and t...

Now i'm excited because this falls into my time line. so i end up with this huge stack of paperwork from all of the auctions that happen in scottsdale in 2005. found the car. pull the information. i didn't recognize the name, but as soon as i read the address, it was the biggest most exciting moment in the investigation. oh my god. i decoded the treasure hunt because the address was the partial from the treasure. perfect absolute match he had from the sketch inside the truck. i'm thinking, this might be my one shot to break this thing open and get this guy in custody. what we found was just a ...

Sunk in. she said you need to talk to your daughter. i called her up to my bedroom and as soon as i said it, i knew that it had happened to her. i could just tell by her face, by the look on her face. so -- and then i said did anything happen to you. she said yes. and she started crying. >> it's just something that i just tried to forget about for so long, at that point i had just like suppressed all of this. like you know, you block out so much. >> we were very angry. immediately we wanted rick caught. >> absolute betrayal.

I just couldn't imagine anything worse. >> more victims started coming forward through summer of 2004, so at this point, mclean's been charged with 16 counts of sexual assault on four children. rick mclean's family left him. they packed up all their stuff and moved out, left him on his own. >> he wrote us a letter apologizing to us and asking for us to remember the good rick, but i really feel there was no good in him. >> he started liquidating his businesses. sold off race cars, sold off the properties that he owned. and i kind of believe he had a plan for a long time. he, some level, knew th...

I end up with a huge stack of paperwork from all the auctions that happened in scottsdale in 2005. found the car, pulled the information. i didn't recognize the name. but as soon as i read the address it was the biggest, most exciting moment of the investigation. oh, my god. i decoded the treasure map. because the address was the partial from the treasure map. perfect absolute match for the sketch that he had left behind in the truck. i'm thinking it might be my one shot to break this thing open and get this guy in custody. what we found was a retired guy living by himself in this house. >> th...