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[tense music]

♪ ♪

TINA:
After he'd shot Beth Dodge,

we were just driving
towards Canada border.

And Wilder became different.

He put his arm
on the middle console, said,

you're gonna--
"I'm gonna take you to Boston

and let you go."

I didn't know why.

And I just looked at him
and I'm just--to myself,

like, okay, I'm not
gonna believe this

because it could be a trick.

- No, there was no feeling
of anything.

Everything was numb,
stifled, and petrified.

Any minute he could
change his mind.

♪ ♪

The next thing I know,
I'm at the airport.

I don't even remember driving
through Boston or anything.

I don't--I only remember
the airport.

We walked up to the counter.

Still not looking at anybody.

Just keeping my focus on him.

Give me your ID.

You pay for the ticket.

He's like, "Here's some money.

"You're gonna need this.

Take this $1,000
for whatever you need."

And then he just said goodbye.

That's it. Just bye.

And he left and turned around
and walked away.

I was still afraid he's gonna
come back and get me.

Always looking over my shoulder
like, where is he at?

Being that I was still in the
mindset of being controlled,

I was lost.

What'd I--what do I need to do?

So I just sat there waiting,
staring off to the darkness

out the window.

♪ ♪

Not until I was in that plane
that I know for sure

that I was actually
released from him.

I've never been
on an airplane,

and what a first introduction

to airlines and airplanes.

I think we stopped in Chicago,
went to, like, Texas,

and then to LAX or something.

You know, it was, like,
a weird route.

But I slept all the way home.

And I still didn't know
anything that's going on,

like the major manhunt for me.

- At the moment, the only
new information we have

is that the body found
in Victor, New York,

is not the body of our
missing Tina Marie Risico.

REPORTER 1:
33-year-old Beth Dodge

of Upstate New York
was shot in the back.

REPORTER 2: Police in New York
and surrounding states

have now joined the search,
but as one federal agent

said today,
Wilder moves very fast.

If they don't get him tonight,

he could be anywhere
by morning.

TINA: It's, like, 11:00 a.m.
I think the plane landed.

[suspenseful music]

I was just glad to be home.

It was warm and sunny
in Southern California.

It was April 13 on a Friday.

I got into a cab,

and, uh, the cabbie,
he knew who I was.

I didn't realize he did until
I happened to lean forward

and put my hands on the--
you know, the front seat,

and I looked down next to him
in the passenger seat,

there my face was
on the frigging

front of the newspaper.

And that was the first
inclination that people

were really looking for me.

My emotion was, oh, boy,

what's gonna happen to me now?

But I had been
in the same underwear,

same bra, same clothes
for the last amount of days.

And that's all I was
concentrating on,

everything was stinky.

And I said, well,
you know what?

Let's go down
to Hermosa Beach.

Can you take me to the
lingerie store, The Tushery?

No one was in the, uh, store
at the time I was.

The salespeople there,
they were nice girls,

but more infatuated knowing
that they had some sort

of true crime celebrity
in their store.

- What was it that led her
to think it was Risico?

And he gave her money
and put her on a plane.

REPORTER:
Really?

- And, um, that she didn't
wanna call her mother

until she had time to think
about it because she felt

after that happened,
it would be--

her life wouldn't be her own.

REPORTER: And this is
what the--she told the clerk?

- Both the clerks.

REPORTER:
And relate that story again.

What did she tell the clerk?

- She said--okay,
I guess they don't want me

to make any statement.

No statement? Okay.
REPORTER: Thank you.

BARRY:
We heard that she had gone

to that clothing store
in Hermosa.

We had 15 news stations out
in front of the department

waiting for her.

Everybody was all excited,

but we didn't know exactly
where she was going.

I thought she would go
to her mother's house.

TINA: So after shopping there,
I did realize

that if I did go home,
I'm just gonna be bombarded

by all these reporters.

So I didn't go home.

And I'm glad I didn't 'cause
apparently there was paparazzi

waiting for me to arrive.

I avoided all that.

I went up to my
boyfriend Billy's

'cause I'm like, that's it.
I wanna see Billy.

I missed him so bad.

And he wasn't home when I got
taken up there by the cabbie,

but our friends, uh,
Rick and Jerry were there.

RICK: We're in the front yard
washing our vehicles.

And all of the sudden,
a taxicab pulls up.

She steps out of the cab,

and Jerry and I are, like,
we're dumbfounded.

We absolutely didn't expect
to see Tina come home.

Didn't expect it.

You know, we were--we were

treating her with kid gloves,
you know?

We didn't--we didn't wanna
shake her up at all.

We just let her talk.

And she was kind of just
in a different, uh, space.

TINA: At Billy's house,
it was peaceful.

I was able to take a shower,
change my clothes.

And then they said, we should
take you to the police station.

- She kind of just
resigned herself.

Said, "Yeah, I guess we do
have to go," you know?

Well, she knew
it was inevitable.

DIANE: Billy had contacted me,
and I can't remember

whether it was the day before
or that morning.

And he asked if I could go
to Torrance Police Department

with him as kind of
moral support, right?

To be interviewed
by detectives.

I was just sitting there
waiting for him.

And I remember Ricky McCarter
walking in with Tina.

And it was just--

There are no words
to describe it.

I didn't say anything to her
because she was obviously

whisked away immediately.

TINA:
At the police station

with all the FBI
and police people,

it was, like,
3:00 our time, maybe?

Someone comes
rushing in the room.

We just got word,
you know, like,

talking amongst ourselves,

you know the cops,
how they say.

And then they look to me
and told me what happened.

♪ ♪

DUNCAN:
Christopher Wilder is

in Beth Dodge's
Pontiac Firebird.

And he is heading
for the Canadian border

about 10 or 12 miles north,
the little town of Colebrook.

Where he goes into the
Getty service station.

And then two troopers
are driving back

from having lunch, I think.

Wilder looks at them
passing, two cops,

and it's that remarkable
moment where they say,

you know, this is the guy
that everyone's looking for.

The cops wheel into
the service station.

One gets out first while
his mate is covering him.

Goes to the car.

He and Wilder start fighting.

Then a gun goes off.

[gunshot]
[sirens wailing]

[suspenseful music]

REPORTER: What was the scene
like when you arrived?

- There was
an unidentified subject

in a--in a gold-colored Camaro,
uh, slumped over the seat,

and Trooper Jellison
was sitting in his seat.

- It was something very unusual
for a small town

like Colebrook,
something like this to happen.

PETER JENNINGS:
A nationwide manhunt is over.

Christopher Wilder, who has
been on the FBI's wanted list

for more than a week,
shot and killed himself

in Colebrook, New Hampshire,

just 5 miles
from the Canadian border.

REPORTER: Spotted by state
troopers, Wilder shot himself,

but the bullet passed
through his body

and wounded a police officer.

Wilder then fired again,
this time killing himself.

♪ ♪

- Relief.

What went through my mind
was relief.

Yeah, relief.

I can't live my life
by what-ifs,

but what if he was
still alive today?

I wouldn't be sitting
in this chair today.

DAWN:
I learned in the hospital--

I was still in the hospital.

I was sleeping, and I woke
up with, you know,

a t--a terror, right?

And, um,
I remember they're like,

it's okay, it's okay, he's--
you know, he died.

And I'm like, you know, no he--
you know, did he really?

Is it true?

- Christopher Wilder's awful
odyssey appears to be over

and remains unexplained.

- So there was, like,
this immediate relief of,

okay, you really are safe.

- Wilder had a long history
of sex crimes

in Florida and Australia.

DAWN: I was super,
super relieved, too,

that he couldn't hurt
anybody else.

And even as young as I was,
I was glad

that I would not ever have to
face him again, like, in court.

- We are gratified that
the killings will stop.

However, our investigations
to locate the missing women

will continue.

TIM: The phone rang,
and he said, "This is the FBI.

Is Mr. Kenyon there, right?"

And I was like, yeah, hold on.

So I hand him the phone.

And I remember that feeling,
that I remember the shriek

my mom let out when it--

and my dad,
you know, he told her.

BILL: With him dying,
I think my parents

felt as though that was--

that was the only person

that was going to let them know
where Beth was.

REPORTER: But local police
aren't giving up.

Miami detectives hope
to find out information

from 16-year-old
Tina Marie Risico.

Risico spent more than
a week traveling with Wilder.

- I don't know that she's going
to be able to tell us anything,

but I wouldn't rest comfortably

till I had had the chance
to speak with her.

- I think it was around
the same time, um,

of learning about him,
you know, being dead.

It kind of, um, solidified
the feelings that there was--

and I don't wanna use this
in her detriment,

but a relationship,
but I was glad

that she was also a survivor.

- Only hours after Wilder died,

a suspected accomplice
turned up.

A teenaged woman walking
into police headquarters

in Torrance, California.

She had been seen with Wilder
recently in New York.

BARRY: There were other
jurisdictions involved

where Dawn was from
and Beth Dodge was from.

And they insisted
that Tina was involved

with Wilder and an accomplice,
so they were after her.

TINA: There was mostly men,
all in suits

with their badges on their h--
uh, belts.

They started immediately
interrogating me.

And without a lawyer present.

Okay, so it goes as follows.

"Tina Marie Risico, aged 16,
was interviewed

"to determine
the circumstances

"of her abduction by
and travel with

"Christopher Bernard Wilder.

"Efforts were, therefore,
centered on obtaining

"knowledge and degree of
participation in the kidnapping

of Dawn and Beth Dodge."

I really don't
wanna read that out loud.

TINA: Talking with them, uh,
the FBI, being interrogated,

it was really invasive.

Being that I was still in this
fog, I wasn't in reality yet.

It was hard for me
to open up about everything

and give every little detail.

"Due to Risico's actions
towards Wilder,

"he began to trust her,

"that she would not
attempt to escape

because of the punishments
that he was giving her."

Yeah.

"Risico noted that as she
wanted to escape from him,

"she purposely tried
to get him to believe

he could trust her,"
which I did.

Every little word that was
what I said to the women,

why did I--you know,
why didn't I go away?

Why didn't I run away
in the car?

Why didn't I drive away?
Why didn't I do this?

I'm like, why would you?

What would you do, you know?

What would you do?

This is what I did.

And here I am today
to tell you about it.

I did something right, I think.

So you tell me,
what would you do?

Okay, I'm not gonna
talk about that.

- I know, but whatever
I've said about her before

and when I said I was sorry,
that's all you guys

are gonna get from--
I'm not gonna reread this.

Yeah, it's pretty accurate.

♪ ♪

- During our experience,
it wasn't a shared experience.

Like, she very much
was with him

and I very much was the victim.

And I know things now,
that I know that,

you know,
she was there involuntarily,

she was a victim.

But during that experience,
it was not at all clear to me.

- I'm agitated.

This is opening up
so much for me.

It's just like, I was really,
uh, sick and tired

of being asked so many
questions over and over again

and wondering
what the hell is going on,

realizing, am I in trouble?

You know, it sure felt like it,
you know?

And that's when my father
came in the view.

REPORTER:
How did you find out?

- I--over the news media.

REPORTER: Have you had a chance

to talk with her at all?
- No, no.

REPORTER: What's the
first thing you're gonna do

when you see
that daughter of yours?

- What do you think?

I'm gonna grab her
and hug her and kiss her.

Well, I gotta get going.
Thank you, guys, okay?

All right.

TINA: My father
was never in my life,

and now all of a sudden
he's there

with the top criminal lawyer
at the time

in the state of California.

A criminal lawyer.

Am I being charged
for something?

[eerie music]

♪ ♪

DUNCAN: It's difficult
to come to grips with,

the fact that Tina
played an active role

in luring Dawn to the car.

She sees Beth Dodge
being executed.

She's dropped off by Wilder
at Logan Airport.

And she sits there
and doesn't call the police?

Flies back to California.

Heads off to do some shopping.

It's very strange behavior.

♪ ♪

- Let me ask you
a question first.

Are we not live?

Is anybody live?

Nobody? Great.

BARRY: Captain Popp was
my captain at the time,

and he was really in charge
of the investigation.

- Well, why don't
we start, then?

- He was very adamant that she
was a victim, not a suspect.

And contacted the news.

- It is the opinion
of Torrance investigators

that Tina Marie Risico
has been a victim

throughout the nine days
of terror that ended

with her safe return
to Torrance.

TINA:
I was a child, 16 years old.

Captain Popp and Barry Walsh,

they were the most caring
for me.

And all the way through it.

I remember, I was most
securely safe with those two.

- Uh, it's easy to sit back
and second-guess

when you haven't gone
through the ordeal.

Secondly, the terms
that you've used

are very, very critical,
and the term "luring"

in our investigation,
was not used.

- No.
Let me put it this way.

She was very quick to realize
that if she did not comply

with his wishes, she would,
number one, be tortured;

number two, probably be killed.

- Someone asked me yesterday,
what's the normal response?

My answer to that is,
I know of no normal response.

DIANE: There's all
these expectations

on what Tina should have done

without understanding
who Tina was as a person.

She had a really
dysfunctional childhood.

When you have
dysfunctional childhoods,

you become old and wise
beyond your years

as a survival mechanism.

[melancholy music]

♪ ♪

TINA:
When I was a little girl,

I just observed and learned

what I was being shown
at such a young age,

be it drugs, uh, sex,
or being abused.

I was exposed to,
uh, my mother, uh,

overdosing on heroin twice.

The first time,
I remember, uh--

I think I was four or three.

She--I--

I remember trying
to wake her up,

and she was foaming
at the mouth

and shaking and everything
'cause she was ODing.

Uh, somehow I knew how
to call on the phone

to my aunt, my mom's sister.

Yeah, so surviving
with my mom was tough.

I was exposed to so much
at a young age.

So many sick men.

I had a few family
members that had

sexually abused me continually

till about I was
seven years old.

From about three to seven.

I have lived so much already
by the time I was 16.

It just came natural for me
to absorb this, uh,

brutality of being controlled.

JIM: With me,
I have Roland Summit,

who's a community psychiatrist

at Harbor UCLA Medical Center
in Torrance.

Thank you.

- I think we can say
more about Wilder

from what we can see
about Wilder

than anything he told her.

I'm assuming
that Wilder's excitement,

his rage against women

was stimulated by a woman

pleading for her life,
a young woman totally unhinged.

Along came Tina, who had
dealt with victimization

from her early childhood,

learning to cope
and how to survive it.

I could imagine that she was
different from all the others

from the beginning
by not acting

as if she hoped to live,

not asking, but finding ways

to be totally compliant
on the surface,

but to be calculating
underneath.

TINA: Why did I survive
and they didn't?

I don't know.
That's everyone's question.

I never screamed.

I never retaliated.

I succumbed and, you know,
was vulnerable to him.

I don't like playing games,
but it was a game.

I'm gonna survive
in playing this game.

[suspenseful music]

ROLAND: She, the captive,
captivated the captor,

and captivated Wilder
into seeing her differently.

Seeing her as somebody who had
a life that ought to be saved.

He began to develop
a respect for the young woman,

which was not consistent
with his need.

Jim Popp and I,
we wanted to keep this girl

who had suddenly appeared
out of unimaginable chaos

free from further
damaging encounters

with a critical world.

♪ ♪

- April 19, 1984.

"A psychiatrist who interviewed
Tina Marie Risico last week

"warned Wednesday that should
the 16-year-old Torrance girl

"choose or be pushed
into the bright light

or public scrutiny,
it may destroy her."

[laughs]

"Tina Marie Risico
may have suffered

Stockholm syndrome,
which makes hostages

identify with their captors."

No, I did not care for him
in any way, shape, or form.

People magazine.

Two weeks after I came back
that they created this article.

People wanted to know me
just to hear what I had to say,

ask me all kind
of crazy questions like,

how come you're not dead?

Okay, "What led Tina Marie
on a trek?"

What kind of statement is that?

Trek, brainwashed,
and accomplice.

Yeah, see, I didn't--that's
why I don't wanna see those.

- I'm getting upset...
[laughs]

'cause it's just constant.

All of this? I was a child.

I was a minor, and for the
media to exploit me, my name?

They handled it all wrong
from the get-go.

That's why I didn't
live at home.

I moved in with Billy.

My home, Grandma's home,

was just always swarmed
with media.

I was looking for Tina Marie--
- She's not here.

REPORTER: You're her mother,
aren't you?

- Yeah.

REPORTER: I was wondering
if you might be able

to talk at all
for a couple minutes?

I know it's a very
difficult time for you--

a happy time now.

But, uh, everybody's sort of
been following the case

and are anxious to hear how
she was so fortunate

as to come through this ordeal.

- I guess when she's ready,
she's gonna let you all know.

She usually does things
in a big way like that,

so when she's ready,
it'll be shown.

REPORTER: Can you just tell me
how she's doing?

I mean, is she--
- She's beautiful.

She's great.
She's fantastic.

She's doing just fine.

She's in heaven right now
having a good time.

She's partying.

REPORTER: Well, good for her.
- Yeah, she's partying.

REPORTER: Okay.
Thank you very much.

- All right. Bye-bye.
REPORTER: Bye-bye.

TINA: When I got back home,
I was worried about my mom,

uh, beating my ass
for being gone all this time.

But that didn't happen.

She gave me hugs and kisses,

but right back
to our disagreements.

My mom and I didn't get along
all through my teen years.

- No, never talked
about it with them.

At all.
None of my family members.

Just didn't.

It wasn't there.

And that's how I liked it.

After coming home,
I became very closed off.

It's a protective shield so
people couldn't get close to me

'cause everybody
wanted a piece of me,

all the media
wanted a piece of me.

Wasn't into exposing myself.

PAUL: She was understandably
distant from everybody.

I think anyone that went
through something like that

would be closed off.

TINA: People would be afraid
around me

with just how to act,
how to talk.

Constant, uh,
tippy-toeing around me.

PAUL: She just was very
defensive about, you know,

who she was and what she was
gonna reveal to people.

I could just tell, she's--
she's been through too much

and she's not gonna talk
about anything right now.

- I, unfortunately, um,
was one of the people who

judged her when she got back.

I just remember just kind of
looking at her and, you know,

having some empathy
for what she went through,

but also having
so many questions.

I said,
you seem like you're okay.

She got, like, obviously upset.

She was screaming.
She goes, "I was tied down,

I was electrocuted,
I was raped!"

She said that.

And I wish I can
go back to that day

and just hug her and say,
you know,

"Thank God you're back,"
you know?

And "You got friends in us,
and if you need anything,

let us know."

That's what
should have happened.

ROLAND:
Tina was--was a victim

of destructive publicity
at that time.

Her name was rife,

and she was under
a burning magnifying glass.

The collective memory
of society toward that story

is still a very ambivalent one.

- I did a lot of suppressing
with, you know,

cocaine and drugs.

So I guess I wasn't
loving myself.

I threw all kinds
of elaborate parties.

And that's how
I got through it.

Support system of my friends,
closest friends, and drugs.

- A young woman allegedly left
for dead by Christopher Wilder

is out of the hospital tonight.

16-year-old Dawnette Sue Wilt,

recovering
from three stab wounds,

was released this morning
and flew home

to Indiana with her parents.

DAWN:
Um, when I first got home,

for those first
couple of weeks,

everybody wanted to make sure
that somebody

was overseeing me,
but I don't think anybody--

and why would they be--

were equipped
to help me through--

you know, there just
wasn't the awareness.

And I was 16-year-old girl
that suffered a ton of trauma.

It's like, okay,
you're back home.

Life resumes itself.

I was back in school within
weeks of what happened to me.

That car came back, and that
was my car, and I drove it.

I very much did not want to be
defined by that incident.

I didn't want people
to feel sorry for me.

And then it catches up
with you.

I didn't go away to school

because I couldn't even
sleep by myself.

I think I realized that I had
PTSD, like, when I was 40.

I started having
panic attacks.

There are triggers
that just come up, right?

That will, you know,
cause a memory.

I think it's just
all stored in there.

REPORTER: The end
to Wilder's murder spree

came too late for the family
and friends of Beth Dodge,

described
as a wonderful mother,

a Sunday school teacher,
and a hard worker.

STEPHANIE: I'm not typically
an angry person,

but when I hear the name
Tina Marie,

I get angry, I guess.

All I've got is what
has been reported.

And I understand,
you know, Tina

was in a traumatic experience,
and she lived through it.

But she's been quiet
for a long time.

She's never really
said her piece of it.

[suspenseful music]

REPORTER: Now the friends
and family of Beth Dodge

have the difficult task
of telling

her four-year-old daughter why
Mommy is never coming back.

STEPHANIE:
I honestly don't know

if it was a show or an article

throughout the years that
shed a little bit of light,

but I'm under the impression
that Tina's job for him

was to approach the other women
for the time that he had her.

I guess, really, I would
just ask for the truth.

And I could deal with it any--
any way that it was.

- I was in the car
the whole time.

It's--I mean, I didn't
expect him to kill her.

I thought he would just
take her car, you know?

I didn't--
that was a shock for me.

It was just fast.
Boom-boom-boom-boom.

He approached her with the gun,
pushed her in the car,

took it over,
and immediately follow.

Yeah, it was very horrific.

I hope I give her closure.

I'm sorry your mom's not here.

You have to live your life
without your mother.

And I guess because I'm so,
uh, monotone about this,

is because I had to be
so suppressed at the time

with him, that still today,
I'm still

in that frame of mind
when I have to talk about it

'cause it's--I'm still trapped,

compartmentalized
in that moment

of his Jedi mindfuck on me.

[serene music]

♪ ♪

- It made me very independent.

I was an only child for the
most part, and my mom was gone.

Um...

my dad turned to alcohol
after that.

So he was a great dad, uh,

in that he always
took care of me,

you know, cooked dinner
and all that.

But at night when he would
come home from work,

he'd stay there,
and he would just drink

until he went to bed.

And, um, so I had to grow up.

It was just me.

You know, it's not just
his immediate victims

that he affected.

PARENT 1:
We want to find our daughter.

PARENT 2:
I don't think I'm ever gonna

find anybody to replace her.

PARENT 3: I just wanted
to know where, when,

why he chose her.

STEPHANIE:
It's so many more people

for such a long period
of time.

REPORTER 1: Delta Flight 1187,
a nonstop flight from Boston

carrying the body of reputed
mass murderer Chris Wilder,

landed about 7:00 tonight

at West Palm Beach
International.

Minutes later,
a casket wrapped

in a cardboard shipping box

was carted out onto a Delta
air cargo loading dock

and placed into
a waiting hearse.

REPORTER 2: Christopher
Wilder's death on Friday

came just hours after his
brother made a private appeal

for his surrender.

REPORTER 2: With permission
from the Wilder family,

authorities kept the body
at the medical examiner's

for several hours.

Here, a plaster cast
of Wilder's jaw was made,

and a series of photos
were taken of the body.

- Well, there are several
investigations still going on.

The plaster cast,
the photographs

may assist the locals in
either pinning Wilder to it

or, uh, excluding him
from being a suspect.

- For a lot of detectives,
Wilder is the white whale case

of their careers.

The one they couldn't stop.

There were the women that
we know that he killed,

and then there are others
who keep appearing.

REPORTER:
17-year-old Mary Opitz

vanished in January of 1981.

18-year-old Mary Hare
disappeared

from the same mall
in February of that year.

Another disappearance happened
in March of this year,

19-year-old Melody Gay.

DUNCAN: Wilder is
probably responsible

for upwards of 14 murders
across two countries

over a period of 20 years.

In Australia,
he might be responsible

for the Wanda Beach Murders,

one of the most
notorious crimes

in Australian history.

REPORTER:
Police search Wanda Beach

after two teenage girls
are found murdered.

15-year-old friends
Marianne Schmidt

and Christine Sharrock
had taken their brothers

and sisters for a day out.

The pair was last spotted
with an unknown teenage boy.

DUNCAN: A good-looking young
bloke, late teens, early 20s.

Sandy blonde hair.

At the time, Christopher Wilder
was almost 20.

REPORTER: They were seen
to disappear with that youth

into the sand dunes.

DUNCAN: They'd been
sexually assaulted

then stabbed to death.

It was an utterly
horrific crime.

And that Wanda Beach murder
prompted, at that point,

the biggest manhunt
in Australian history.

They have semen samples
and blood samples

they believe belong
to the killer.

- Sadly, when they went looking
for it, when DNA came in,

it had been misfiled
and no one's

ever been able to find it.

So that one bit of evidence

that could prove
that Christopher Wilder

was the killer or wasn't
the killer is missing.

The case
still remains unsolved.

You just have to wonder
how many other people

may be Wilder victims.

REPORTER: The end of Wilder's
bloody cross-country odyssey

has not closed the case.

The FBI is examining the car
in which Wilder shot himself.

The most significant find
may be this briefcase

containing bloodstained tape,
a knife,

gun holster, passport, $4,900,

as well as photographs
of several unidentified women,

the kind Wilder
reportedly enticed

with promises
of modeling jobs.

TIM: He had Beth's keys,
he had all her personal stuff.

I mean,
the reality sunk in that,

you know,
probably never gonna find out

where she's at unless
someone else had information.

[somber music]

- My parents, they were
trying to hang on to something

that would find Beth.

- We're just going on
the theory that possibly, uh,

liking Beth so much, as he did,
that he really didn't harm her.

BILL:
When my mom passed away--

and she passed away
pretty young, 59--

she died of a broken heart.

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TIM: A lot of reasons
to be hateful

towards Christopher Wilder,
right?

But if I ever feel
really angry about him,

is what he took
from our family was the chance

to be a family, right?

With my kids.

So.

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JOHN: It's sad--we never found
Rosario Gonzalez

or Elizabeth Kenyon's body.

The poor families
have to live with it.

And there's no doubt
in my mind

that he killed other girls.

You gotta figure
this is not all he did.

But I don't know what else
more we could have done.

You wanna be able to feel
like you did all you could do.

JOHN:
Well, I do. Yes, I do.

And I'm not saying that--

I'd tell you, you know?

You gotta be able to live
with yourself, you know?

TINA: I have two regrets:
getting in the car

and taking Dawn.

It was a choice.

It wasn't mine,
but it was a choice,

and I have to live with that.

DAWN: While it would not
have happened to me

if it were not for her,
I think she was a victim

and did what she felt like
she needed to do

to, you know, stay alive.

Like, it's a survival mechanism
like we all have.

Yeah.

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- After, uh,
redoing our investigation,

the United States
Attorney's Office in Buffalo

has declined to prosecute
Ms. Risico, uh,

for any of her involvement
in the kidnapping

of, uh, Ms. Wilt in Indiana
and her transportation

to the Buffalo area.

REPORTER: So is that
a final decision on her?

- [scoffs]
Um...

Have they had a good life?

Because I truly hope they have.

Um...

I would hope somebody
doesn't survive that

and then have to live
the rest of their years

in torture because of it.

So...I would just, uh...

I would ask them
if they've had a good life

because I hope that somehow,

through it all,
they found peace.

DAWN: It has not been
an easy ride,

but there's been
some incredible joy

and incredible satisfaction.

I have two beautiful children
that, you know, I live for.

Um, we have lots of laughs
and fun,

and, you know, some days are
hard and some days are amazing.

And it is just this journey.

And I don't think that
time heals all wounds,

but time certainly
helps you, um,

be able to, like,
sit here today, right?

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TINA: When I came back, as I
mentioned, I was closed off.

I was in a lot of anger.

Hurt my grandma
all the time, my closest--

closest person to me, and I
wish I could take that back,

but it was because I was
dealing with this

internally by myself.

So I was an introvert.

But Lou broke me out of that.

A friend, Bruce Brush,
did this for our anniversary.

8-25 is when we got married.
I married Lou.

And me in Vegas.

[sentimental music]

Lou was well aware
of every detail of my ordeal.

And he was so laid-back,
big heart,

that it changed me
to become myself,

my true self, finally,
at, you know,

32 years old.

I had to become myself then.

JACKIE:
Three days a week.

Hi, Tina.

The woman of the hour.

TINA:
I turned myself around.

Got sober.

I'm--you know, I'm living
my best life now.

Hi, Jackie.
- It's okay.

TINA:
Hi, Sherry. Hi, Buck.

Look at you, you're all great.

Oh, my God!

Hi, Holly.

[overlapping speech]

Yes, you are.

Hi, baby.

I'm so glad you made it.
- Good to see you.

TINA:
Likewise. Hi.

- Hi, hello. Tina Marie.
TINA: Hi, Ricky.

I have
an abundance in my life.

I have lots of loving friends.

They have been there through
thick and thin with me,

ups and downs,
and I love my friends.

- That you are.

PERSON: So it's nice
to officially meet you.

TINA: I may not see them
every day of my life,

but that's what
good friends are about.

It doesn't have to be
like every day.

- Tina, how has this experience
been for you?

- Uh, cathartic. Uh...

RICK:
Can you spell that?

[laughter]

- Not really.

RICK: No one said
there's gonna be big words.

- Cathartic. Uh, uh...

eye-opening, um...

I had forgotten some things
or suppressed them,

not really a--same difference.

Uh, and then having to read
some things that I forgot

that happened to me that
kind of, you know, jarred me.

PERSON: I, for one,
was always concerned

that she never talked about it.
- Yes.

- And last night, she called me
and she told me things that--

- Yeah.

TINA: See, I never talked
about it with people

because it's hard
to understand.

And you're gonna like, oh, my
God, you're out of your mind.

How could that have happened?

How could you say, like,
how did that happen?

So I never talked
to any of you about it

because I didn't wanna
have to explain.

- Do you think that
what you went through

as an innocent child
helped you survive?

I mean, do you--
do you correlate that?

- Oh, the survivor skills
kicked in

because of how Mom
brought me up.

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I have been approached for all
these years many, many times.

Doing a couple of shows.

And it just only
focused on him.

And then it didn't
express who I am.

DAWN: I have never watched,
listened,

read about anything about this

because, you know, it was
my experience, I had it.

But I do remember somebody
saying to me that, um,

he had actually did turn around

to see if I was still there
and alive.

I love that he knew that.

You know, that he came back
for me and I was gone.

And so I think
this project in particular

was compelling for me
because this really

is a story about survival.

And the other victims
and their families

having an opportunity to
share who they were as people.

They were much more than what
happened to them at the end.

TINA: And I hope after this
comes out, that somebody

can find strength from what
I've given in my side

of the story, my truth.

I hope they can, uh,
gather something from it

and walk away
with inspiration.

Don't take shit from nobody.

Only you can dictate
who you are.

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[somber music]

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