her name is pepper. i lived a secret life. she was kidnapped at age four. we got in the car, and we never went back. she spent decades trying to find her way home again, and she finally made it. or, so she thought. i said, i think that i am rhonda patricia christine. i said, do you know her? and there was a long pause. her story had many ups and downs. when i looked at the email, i just could not even believe it. but after so many tears, so many years and so many turns in her story. i was like, wow. there are still more stunning twists to be revealed. it is amazing, the best gift ever. welcome to dateline. a four year old girl was adopted and raised by her kidnappers. for decades, she searched for her family, and her identity. her story has an extraordinary ending, but as it turns out, that ending was just the beginning. here is keith morrison. our story begins with this much mother of a teenage daughter. a woman who had spent much of h
four. we got in the car, and we never went back. she spent decades trying to find her way home again, and she finally made it. or, so she thought. i said, i think that i am rhonda patricia christine. i said, do you know her? and there was a long pause. her story had many ups and downs. when i looked at the email, i just could not even believe it. but after so many tears, so many years and so many turns in her story. i was like, wow. there are still more stunning twists to be revealed. it is amazing, the best gift ever. welcome to dateline. a four year old girl was adopted and raised by her kidnappers. for decades, she searched for her family, and her identity. her story has an extraordinary ending, but as it turns out, that ending was just the beginning. here is keith morrison. our story begins with this much mother of a teenage daughter. a woman who had spent much of her life trying to figure out who she was. what was her name? where did s
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her memory. and then her long lost birth mother, to discover that renee was her actual sister. and now to learn she had a brother. raymond leonard smith junior is what jerry called him before he too was snatched away. abducted by the babysitter, shirley. where was he now? jeri gave us a copy of his birth certificate. he d be just about 40. now and our chances of finding, it seemed frankly, slim. we called 40 year old ray smith all over the country. there was a ray smith in colorado, ray with a maryland, in new jersey, and kansas. but did he go by the name ray smith? and then, a coal back. it was the ray smith from colorado. we had the right name, the right age, place of birth.
with what she could make as a waitress. then shirley made a change, a positive one it seemed, at least financially. she got this job, at the motel. she got it managing, which was further from where i worked, so i arranged with her to watch the kids while i worked. it was a godsend, really, sense jeri had to be hospitalized for weeks after raymond was born, and then get back to work, and then find a new home to take the kids to. i will come out there on my days off, stay with the kids, spend some time with them. so then, i called her and told her i was going to get the kids. the next day, i went out there, and gone. not a sign of them. no kids, no shirley. frantic, she went to the police. what did you tell them, your children have been kidnapped? yes, they took the report, that was the last i heard. did you go back, talk to them again? i went down the two or three