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The motel, pepper went with them. but it didn't last long. pepper's new household was as troubled and messy as her own life was. she swallowed her pride and moved back to 110 colennial hotel. even though by then, says pepper, shirley didn't seem to care much what she did. >> i remember when i was trying to so-called run away, plot my escape, before it went into action, i was in my mind i'm going to show her, she'll care. like, i remember thinking that. but she didn't care. she didn't come to get me. >> still having tasted freedom once pepper was determined to get away from her kidnapper for go...

A long pause. >> pepper's story had ups and downs. >> when i looked at the e-mail i just couldn't believe it. >> but after so many tears, so many years and so many turns in her story. >> i was like whoa. >> there are still more stunning twists to be revealed. >> it's amazing. it's the best gift ever. >> welcome to dateline. a 4-year-old girl was abducted and raised by her kidnapper. her story has an extraordinary ending but as it turns out that ending was just the beginning. here is keith morris. >> our story begins with this mother of a teenage daughter.

Number in ohio. she dialled the number. a man answered. it was june 5, 2010. >> i said are you robert christie, and he said yes, and i said are you married to a barbara blackwelder or were you married, i didn't know. and he said, yes, and i said i think i'm randa christie or do you know rhonda patricia christie, and there was a long pause. >> this is who she was talking to. his name is bob christie. >> i almost dropped the phone. she knew idea hesitated and she said this is your daughter rhonda. and it was something that clicked in my mind that i the voice rang a bell. >> and he called to my m...

Results. tell me what it feels like to go to an official to ask for something you really, really need and you kind of know how it's going to go? >> i get emotional usually. i crucially cry. it just brings me to a sad place. >> so you'd be sitting across the desk from somebody crying. >> oh, absolutely. >> and they wouldn't do anything for you or say i can't do anything for you, probably. >> you need this document. this is what you have to provide. i have no way to get this document because i don't my parents' name, i don't my real name. pepper. >> and once again pepper felt perhaps understanda...

Took the truth to her grave on july 29, 1986 at the age of 63. she was buried here, this cemetery in an unmarked grave. rene now 19 got on with life, moved in with her boyfriend. soon pepper showed up at their apartment homeless and nowhere else to turn to. and everywhere pepper went from then on shirley's poison gift followed because of that woman and what she did, pepper was officially at least a nonperson. so it took a little while for her determination to come back. she was in her mid-20s, a single mother by then. if only she could find her birth certificate, that could lead her to her par...