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>> i said are you robert dean christie, he said, yes. i said are you married to a barbara blackwelder, or were you? he said yes. i said i think i'm rhonda christie or do you know rhonda patricia christie and then there was a long pause. >> this is who she was talking to. his name is bob christie. >> i almost dropped the phone. she knew i'd hesitated and she said this is your daughter rhonda. and it was something that clicked in my mind that i reck -- the voice rang a bell. >> and he called to my mom, barbara, to pick up the phone. rhonda is on the phone. she picked up the phone and the first t...

Just brings me to a sad place. >> you'd be sitting across the desk from somebody crying. >> oh, absolutely. >> and they wouldn't do anything for you? >> no. they could say i can't do anything for you probably. >> you need this document. this is what you need to provide. i have no way to get this document because i don't know my parent's name. i don't know my real name. pepper. and once again, pepper felt, perhaps understandably, like giving up. but by then she was living with her daughter in south lake tahoe working as a waitress and, what do you know. hometown girl jaycee dugard, kidnapped ye...

But there was another terribly important reason to see her then. maybe the most important. one last opportunity to find out who she was. >> as she was dying, did you try to find, do you know, maybe she'd make a death bed confession and say, i did take you and here are what your parents' names are and how to find them. any of that happen? did you ask? >> oh, yeah. >> and shirley had a response for the girl she renamed pepper. the question was, what could see do with that answer? coming up -- if jaycee duggard could be found after 18 years, certainly there must be hope for pepper. >> it trigge...

It was really -- i would -- it just brings me to a sad place. >> you'd be sitting across the desk from somebody trying? >> absolutely. >> and they couldn't do anything for you? >> no. you need this document. this is what you need to provide. >> sorry. >> i have no way to get this document because i don't know my parent's name. i don't know my real name. pepper. >> and once again, pepper felt perhaps understandably like giving up. but by then she was living with her daughter in south lake tahoe working as a waitress and what do you know, hometown girl jay see duagaard was found. >> the communit...

Tried to make her comfortable, visited her regularly, but there was another important reason to see her, maybe the most important reason. one last opportunity to find out who she was. >> as she was dying, did you try to find -- maybe she'd make a death bed confession and say i did take you, and here are your parent's names and how to find them. any of that happen? did you ask? >> oh, yeah, and shirley had a response for the girl she renamed pepper. the question was, what could she do with that answer? coming up, if jesus christ duggar could be found at 18 years, certainly there must be hope ...