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instant horror of where is she what had happened to baby savanna? the answer would come decades later and astonish the world. it happened so fast, couldn t fathom what was going on imagine, your mother fugitive. your father stranger. your home, your name your past was any of it real? the first thing i felt, jus a pit in my stomach. i jus felt like it was my fault. a mother s crime. a father pain what kinds of emotions di it stir up when you would se that crib? it would just make me cry a daughter forced to face the shattering truth i was shocked and i was jus terrified. hello and welcome t dateline a father left childless and daughter left questioning he very identity. it was a case that started as custody battle, but turned int an international mystery tha spanned two decades and took investigators nearly 10,00 miles around the world all driven by a determined dad searching for answers and hi daughter here s andrea canning with finding savanna. ....
Biologically related to him, and that he d been helping the authorities to find my mom and i. reporter: imagine finding out that your mom was an international fugitive wante by the fbi. imagine realizin that you were living a life yo were not meant to live. an savanna said it was a good life i grew up in mainly cap town, south africa, and that was just great. we used to g down to a beach in cape town and just spend family. mom was very into going to the beach and having fun there reporter: she remembere going to game reserves i botswana and competing in swim races in new zealand i had a lot of friends. i had animals. i was educated. i had dancing. did piano. i had mom. i had a dad. i had brother. i had a house. and was given everything the possibly could afford. it wa just it was normal. it wa so normal. reporter: so normal. and as savanna now discovered, so ....
And that he d been helping the authorities to find my mom and i. reporter: imagine finding out that your mom was an international fugitive wanted by the fbi. imagine realizing that you were living a life you were not meant to live. and savanna said it was a good life. i grew up in mainly cape town, south africa, and that was just great. we used to go down to a beach in cape town and just spend family. mom was very into going to the beach and having fun there. reporter: she remembered going to game reserves in botswana and competing in swim races in new zealand. i had a lot of friends. i had animals. i was educated. i had dancing. did piano. i had a mom. i had a dad. i had a brother. i had a house. and i was given everything they possibly could afford. it was just it was normal. it was so normal. reporter: so normal. and as savanna now discovered, so different from the chaos of her ....