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>> diane church and her family lived in a sparsely populated area, which meant the kidnapper could have abducted heather without drawing much attention. >> it was this 13-year-old girl who was home, and yet, her brother was left behind. she disappeared and her brother was just still sleeping in his bed. it all was a very suspicious situation right off the bat. >> an fiber profiler agreed. since there was nothing missing from the home and no signs of violence, the profiler suggested heather's abductor might be someone familiar with the family and their routines. >> it's a very high percentage o...

Originally was to be at home and just do whatever we do, probably read them stories and that kind of stuff that moms do. >> then diane remembered her older sons had a boy scout meeting that night. diane's other children, 5-year-old sage and 13-year-old heather, wanted to stay home. >> heather didn't want to go and hang out with all those crazy boys, and so she asked if she could baby-sit that night, and so, we said sure, fine, whatever. and we took off and went to the cub scout meeting. >> heather had taken babysitting classes, so diane had no qualms about leaving her in charge. [ ringing ] la...

He most likely wore gloves, but when he had difficulty removing the screen, he took them off and inadvertently left three prints behind. prosecutors believe heather heard the noise and went to investigate. when brown saw her, he realized heather could identify him, so he struck her in the head with a blunt object, killing her instantly. he carried heather's body out through the front door, which he left unlocked, loaded her into his vehicle and drove to the mountains where he dumped her body in a ravine. to avoid the death penalty, brown pleaded guilty to kidnapping and murder and was sentence...

Ain't lying to you. your fingerprints are there. >> prosecutors believe brown's motive was burglary. [ ringing ] on the night of the crime, heather church was babysitting her brother, sage. her mother called at 8:30 to check on them. after her mother called, heather put her brother to bed, turned out the lights and went to sleep herself. brown arrived at the churches' home some time after 8:30. the house lights were off and there was no car in the garage, so he probably thought no one was home. brown entered the home through a window into one of the empty bedrooms.

>> the first suspect on the list was heather's father. at the time, he was separated from diane church and living on his own. >> the fbi wanted to talk to me for about four hours. i had the, like you see in the movie, the good guy/bad guy scenario, fbi agents asking me all these questions that some of them were really hard to imagine. they were very, very personal. things that, how i felt about my daughter. >> but mike church said he had an alibi for the time heather went missing. he attended a support group meeting for divorcees with plenty of witnesses. he left the meeting at 9:30. >> there ...