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[ominous music]

[angela] so, for many years,

I felt like the person standing in a room,

And the room had two doors.

[ominous music]

[angela] one door had a sign on it that said 'do not enter',

And one door had a sign on it that said 'do not exit'.

[emotional music]

[angela] to open either door would be too dangerous;

It would have put other people in jeopardy.

I couldn't do that, I wouldn't do that.

[emotional music]

[angela] all those years had passed

That I'd just stayed within a room.

[emotional music]

[angela] I lost my sense of self.

[serious music]

[former president reagan] 'cause I want to speak to you

Just briefly about the problem of missing children.

Well over a million american children

Disappeared from their homes or neighborhoods every year,

Causing, as we can all understand,

Heartbreaking anguish.

Parents cry out for help, many through letters to me.

For example, I learned about jonelle matthews

Of greeley, colorado,

Who would've celebrated a happy 13th birthday

With her family just last month.

Five days before christmas,

Jonelle disappeared from her home.

[angela] I had to open one of those doors,

Because there was a 12-year-old girl

Counting on me.

[dramatic music]

I had to try.

A dairy has begun printing

The pictures of missing children on its milk cartons,

In the hope that will help authorities find them.

[male reporter]jonelle matthews, 12 years old,

Alone in the house, was kidnapped.

It affected people for decades. It still does.

[woman] greeley was a sleepy little town.

[male reporter]there's a deep fear now in us.

Something like this had never happened before.

[jennifer]I'm scared, I wouldn't want it

To happen to me.

[male reporter]as the search

For jonelle matthews intensifies,

It will be a christmas eve devoid of joy.

[jim] the longer you go without knowing,

The less hope there is she's alive.

We would do anything to get her back.

[male reporter]she remains one of

A growing number of abducted children.

December 20th was always a date you remembered.

[dramatic music]

[mike] kids come and go with no concern

The boogeyman is outside.

[serious music]

[ominous music]

[jennifer] jonelle would walk this home from school.

I think it's a mile and a half. Which, nobody does that anymore.

[somber music]

[jennifer] greeley in the '80s was innocent, pure,

And a child's playground.

So, this green house is the house that I grew up in.

Jonelle's window was the third one on the right.

It seems so small now.

[ominous music]

Greeley was safe. Until December 20th, 1984.

[contemplative music]

[jennifer] in our home,

I had my dad, jim, my mother gloria,

And my younger sister, jonelle.

She's three and a half years younger than I was.

My sister, she would be the life of our quiet family,

Because she was the planner.

As long as you were okay with what she had planned,

Come and join her!

[contemplative music]

[jennifer] she was kind and loving.

But we were just two different girls

With different personalities,

And I think it was startin' to amp up a little bit.

[pop music]

♪ whoa ♪

♪ whoa ♪

[jennifer] jonelle loved to perform.

Jonelle was starting to get into music, she developed earlier.

She was fiery, and...

Just got in my space,

And, uh, I just wanted no part of it.

So...

[somber music]

[jennifer] when I think about jonelle

And just the relationship we had,

Maybe I didn't give her the opportunity

To get to know her better.

Maybe I wasn't the best sister.

[shrill violin music]

You look back and wish that things could've been different,

But they weren't.

[tense music]

[jim] our family was going in different directions that night.

Jonelle's mother hadn't seen her parents

For at least a couple years.

So, she was gonna fly out that evening to los angeles

And surprise her parents for christmas.

Jennifer had a home basketball game that night,

And jonelle had a concert.

Jonelle was in the honor choir at her middle school,

And it was gonna be held at, uh, what we call

The united bank in town.

[gloria] a few days before christmas vacation,

Jonelle had a cold.

So, I made her stay home from school.

She was home, I think, for two days.

And on the third day she went to school,

Because she wanted to be in the choir.

She was looking forward to having christmas.

[tense music]

[gloria] by quarter to six,

Jennifer was going to her basketball game.

I'm going to the airport.

And so, we all had apple cider.

I remember her being difficult.

Jonelle said, "mom and dad,

What are we gonna do for, for christmas?"

And we told her that we would celebrate it

As soon as gloria came home, which was gonna be the 26th.

And she was pretty upset about that.

[eerie music]

[gloria] I just said "goodbye, jonelle."

You know, kissed her, kissed jennifer.

There's so many things that I wish

That I would have done, but I didn't.

[eerie music]

[jim] I decided that I was gonna take jonelle out,

Uh, to get, you know, something at mcdonald's

Before I dropped her off at school.

She was excited.

She was six or seven weeks away from her 13th birthday.

[emotional music]

[jim] the bus was loading children for the concert.

I had to kinda choose between, you know,

Was I gonna go to the concert,

Or was I gonna go to the basketball game?

And with my sports interests and everything,

Uh, I gravitated towards going to that basketball game.

[suspenseful music]

I watched her get on the bus.

That was the last time I saw her.

[deanna] the choir concert was a big thing

Because it was gonna be, um, televised.

Jonelle, she was up front.

I was probably hiding in the back, I'm sure.

[shrill violin music]

[deanna] jonelle was very excited about putting on a show.

♪ oh, jingle bells, jingle bells ♪

♪ jingle all the way ♪

♪ we wish you a merry christma, we wish you a merry christmas ♪

[jim] I wasn't really sure when jonelle was gonna be home.

And I knew that her two best friends from church,

Uh, their parents were going there,

And that she would be picked up by one of those.

[serious music]

Because of the nature of greeley,

And it's a safe place,

We knew that she would be taken care of.

[serious music]

[russell] so, about 8 o'clock or so,

I drove up a little before the buses got there,

But the buses come pullin' in,

And of course the kids got off the buses and so on.

Pretty soon I see my daughter deanna.

Jonelle's with her, and jonelle says,

"can I have a ride home?"

And I said, "you bet."

[serious music]

[russell] did it a thousand times.

It was just, didn't even think about it.

The girls were giddy about, you know,

"hey, we were on cable.

Maybe they'll want our signatures."

[deanna] we were just talking about christmas break,

Exchanging gifts, maybe talkin' about boys.

Jonelle seemed perfectly normal. It was like any other time.

[serious music]

[russell] and I pulled up the driveway,

It wasn't quite 8:30, maybe.

[serious music]

[russell] the garage is part of the way up.

Kinda normal.

Of course, the headlights went into the garage.

But nothin' unusual, I guess.

[deanna] I told her, "I'll see you tomorrow."

She turned around and waved.

We always had her flick the lights on and off

Just to make sure she made it in and everything's fine.

[somber music]

And that was the last conversation we had.

[tense music]

[somber music]

[jennifer] I didn't see my dad coming into

My basketball game that night,

But I could hear him in the crowd.

[buzzer blaring]

[jim] after the game, I came straight home.

There was snow on the ground.

As I was pulling into the driveway,

I heard the news come on at 9:30.

I parked in the garage.

Walked into the house. I said, "hello, jonelle."

And I got no response.

[ominous music]

[jim] I went downstairs,

And I could see that jonelle had been there.

The tv was on,

She had taken her pantyhose off

And laid them right on the couch.

I just thought that she's upstairs,

And maybe she didn't hear me.

[tense music]

[jim] uh, I walked back upstairs.

[tense music]

Jonelle was not there.

[ominous music]

[jim] that's when I started feeling

That something's out of place.

[ominous music]

[jennifer] I got home closer to ten.

[ominous music]

And things were different.

[tense music]

[jennifer] my dad said to me,

"jenny, do you know where jonelle is?"

I had no clue.

She was supposed to be at home. That was the plan.

[tense music]

[jennifer] I've never seen my dad worried about

Jonelle like that before.

[ominous music]

It was like she just vanished.

Ic]

[jim] it's getting late at night,

And jonelle still hasn't shown up,

And I haven't got a phone call from anybody.

Well, I called a couple of her friends.

[russell] around ten or so, I get a call from jim,

And he says, "have you seen jonelle?"

And I was like, "well,

We dropped her off a little after 8."

[jim] russ told me that she flicked the lights on,

And I know she got in the house safely.

But then he shared with me that the garage door was open.

[serious music]

[jim] I said, "no, wait a minute.

That's not normal."

[serious music]

I know the garage door was not open when I left.

[dramatic music]

[jennifer] it didn't make sense

That jonelle would just run away.

We both were really good about being where we were supposed to.

She was just gone.

[eerie music]

[jim] I decided to call my pastor,

Who was probably my closest friend at that time,

And he said, 'jim, you probably need to be callin' the police'.

[somber music]

[phone ringing]

[ominous music]

[mike] about 11 o'clock on the 20th of December,

Jim matthews called,

Believing that his daughter was either missing or had run away.

Greeley police department was fairly small.

Uh, it was roughly 70 to 80 officers total.

[suspenseful music]

[mark] I was on routine patrol,

And I was the first officer on scene.

[serious music]

[mark] mr. Matthews greeted me at the door.

I was surprised he wasn't very talkative,

But a couple of things were out of place.

He said his daughter had, uh, returned from a concert.

He indicated to come back and find the garage door open.

[suspenseful music]

[mark] there was absolutely no sign of a struggle in the home.

There was no sign of forced entry.

The television was on,

Jonelle's shoes appeared to have just been kicked off.

Her nylons were found bundled up on a, on a couch.

Jennifer and jim would help in going through her things.

They confirmed that all of jonelle's shoes

Were present in the home.

But they couldn't find the coat they knew she had worn

When she went to sing in the choir earlier that evening.

[eerie music]

A runaway is not gonna throw on a pair of slippers

And walk out of the home with a coat on.

[ominous music]

[mark] outside, what really caught my eye was

I could see marks in the snow.

There were shoe prints in the snow in the backyard

That appeared to have been raked out.

As far as jim could tell, they were not his.

And jim is unable to explain why it looks the way it looked.

The footprints led from the garage

To the garden-level windows in the back of the home,

As if someone had been looking into the windows

And then raked the tracks out.

And as you entered this garage, to the left was a rack

And a rake.

Uh, your common metal-head rake with a wood handle.

[serious music]

[jim] the tracks in front of the house, to me,

Showed that somebody was looking into our house.

I never thought that jonelle ran away.

[suspenseful music]

[mike] in short order, phone calls began to be made

With an eye towards that this was a kidnapping,

Um, and not necessarily a runaway.

But other than the raking in the snow,

They really didn't have, uh, any additional evidence

That she'd been kidnapped.

No forced entry. No signs of a struggle.

Uh, no witnesses on the street that saw anything.

If this was a kidnapping,

The suspect had to know that gloria was gone for california,

That jim would not be home until 9:30,

And that, uh, jonelle would be home alone

At, at roughly 8:30 in the evening.

When detectives kinda considered that,

It became impossible for someone to know these set of facts.

So, either it was a completely random thing,

Or it's someone that knows a lot about

The family's comings and goings.

[ominous music fading out]

[jim] by the end of that night, I was just numb.

I meant, "I can't believe what's going on.

The police have been here, my daughter's missing."

[phone ringing]

[jim] my wife's not here. It was devastating.

[emotional music]

[gloria] by the time I came to california,

My sister and brother-in-law picked me up.

And I called up jim...

And I said, "hi, honey. I'm here safely."

[suspenseful music]

[jim] that's when the nightmare, really,

For both of us really hit us.

[emotional music]

[gloria] I felt that she was taken.

[emotional music]

[emotional music]

I had no idea.

[emotional music]

[ominous music]

[radio reporter]it was in 1969 or 70...

[jennifer] when I woke up and getting ready for school,

It was already on the radio.

[radio reporter]saw anything unusual

Thursday night...

I had a police car take me to school, so that's odd.

[jim] there were policemen canvassing

The neighborhood, talking to people

If they'd seen anything, heard anything.

[mike] officers started knockin' on doors.

And smartly done that early in the morning,

Because you gotta catch people

Before they start leaving for work.

The street is cordoned off.

Essentially, anyone leaving the neighborhood

Would have to speak with an officer.

A thorough neighborhood canvas began round the matthews' home.

Open fields, an irrigation ditch that ran nearby.

It was essentially very, very wide open.

[male reporter]police looking along river bottoms, in fields.

Investigator jack statler looking for anything

That would help locate jonelle matthews.

The next-door neighbor recalled with specificity, for sure,

That his dog began to bark incessantly at the fence

At 8:42 p.M.,

Something it's never done before.

[eerie music]

[mike] jim pulled into his garage

At exactly 9:30 in the evening.

And so, reports would indicate collectively

That, uh, between 8:45 and 9:30,

Jonelle disappeared from home.

Well, it was perplexing for the police.

I mean, this doesn't happen.

The proposition for some drifter coming through town

And just stumbling into a house

That conveniently had what he wanted,

And then just vanishes into the night?

It's so fantastical that it comes across as impossible.

Anyone who knows about the raking in the snow

Had to have been involved in jonelle's disappearance,

And that's really our only lead in this case.

But if an intruder had kidnapped jonelle,

How do you take a 12-year-old that is feisty

Outta the house and get her to your car,

And nobody sees you drive away?

Maybe she knew the individual.

You know, she agreed to go because she trusted them.

Or she was overpowered and drug to a car.

[ominous music]

[gloria] I flew home that night.

I was crying the whole way. Just missing her a lot.

[ominous music]

[jennifer] I could hear my mom crying

Through our air ducts in our house.

I was just waiting for answers from the police,

And they weren't finding them.

[russell] I racked my brain for tryin' to think about,

"what did I miss?"

Because we were the last ones to actually see her,

And I just, yeah.

[serious music]

[deanna] I felt like she had to be somewhere, right?

She had to be home before christmas, 'cause that's...

Her presents are waiting for her.

[male reporter]christmas eve for the matthews

Will be a time of prayer and anticipation.

But if jonelle doesn't come home,

It will be a christmas eve devoid of joy.

[erin] it was on the news every night.

For the matthews family, that was their new life.

[male reporter]as the search for

Jonelle matthews intensifies,

The wait for word continues for jonelle's family.

You know, there's a tremendous void.

Of course, you know?

And of course, we won't open up her christmas presents,

You know, until she gets, um, back.

[serious music]

[erin] they didn't have a lot of leads to go off of,

And that was apparent.

[male reporter]police say they have no solid leads or suspect.

That's the reason for the reward.

[mike] there comes a point where the fbi enters into this,

And they're offering their assistance

Just with the sheer volume of tips that were coming in.

[gloria] people were calling in

And saying that they saw jonelle in a car or whatever.

All of the phone calls to our house

Were answered by our pastor,

Because he didn't want us to be bothered with it.

Just looking for that one straw in the wind

That will turn everything the other way.

[mike] at times, the tips are almost like

A taunt, uh, to law enforcement.

In other cases, you don't know that it's made up.

[ominous music]

[mike] in January of 1985,

The police department received a phone call from

Someone claiming to be a pastor named pankey.

He straight-out said that

Someone had come forward to him and confessed,

But that pankey was prevented from telling statler

Who this individual was,

Hiding behind, for lack of a better word,

'pastoral privilege'.

Several days later,

Pankey arrived at the police department

And basically said, "disregard, don't worry about my lead."

And he just kind of vanished from the face of the earth.

At the time, the officers thought it was just a prank.

It was nothing legitimate.

But they were not realizing what they had missed.

[serious music]

[male reporter]as the search

For jonelle matthews intensifies,

The wait for word continues for jonelle's family.

These days are both frustrating and painful.

[angela] in 1984,

We were living west of greeley, about three miles.

And at that point we had no tv, no radio.

But it was cornfields and open space

Between there and the mountains.

Every christmas, there was always snow.

My husband, steve, was never into christmas.

Like, you know, the holiday type stuff.

But for christmas this year, steve's dad said,

"hey, it'd just be wonderful

If you guys could come to big bear,

Spend some time with the old folks,

'cause we don't know how many christmases

They're gonna be with us."

But steve said we weren't gonna go.

[ominous music]

[angela] so, the afternoon of the 21st,

All of a sudden, steve came home and said,

"get us packed, we're leaving tomorrow morning."

[emotional music]

[angela] I felt so bad because we had two great dane dogs.

Steve said, "don't worry about the dogs."

That, "I dumped the dogs. Get us ready to go."

We weren't going, and now all of a sudden,

He's dumped the dogs?

I mean, it was just like, "what on earth is going on?"

[intriguing music]

[angela] on the 23rd of December,

We arrived at big bear.

His family was not expecting us.

And the trip did not go well.

So, on christmas morning, during breakfast,

Steve and his dad got into a heated argument.

Steve came down and said, "get us packed and ready to go.

We're going back to greeley."

[serious music]

[angela] two or three hours out of big bear,

Steve said, "turn the radio on."

[radio static]

[male reporter]jonelle matthews,

Five foot three with brown hair and braces.

It was being broadcast quite frequently

That there was a missing girl.

She was twelve years old, her name was jonelle matthews.

[male reporter]jonelle was supposed to receive

A stereo for her 13th birthday,

And the absolute mystery about her disappearance

Remains unsolved.

Steve said, "keep looking, keep looking."

He was just so focused on these news reports,

Over and over.

I'm flipping the radio dial

For the entire rest of the trip home.

And some of the reports were actually saying

Russ ross's name

As the family friend who had brought her home.

[ominous music]

[angela] he worked with a man named russ ross.

Ross was in some sort of a supervisory capacity

Over steve's job.

Steve just didn't like it at all.

[male reporter]she was alone in the house.

[angela] but it felt like he was getting some sort of glee.

Now russ ross was sitting in the hot seat

Because he was the last adult to see her.

Oh, I absolutely thought he was acting strange.

But I just didn't quite understand.

[ominous music]

[angela] so, now we're home.

We're kinda go into a normal mode for, you know,

Two or three days.

And all of a sudden, I smelled smoke.

And at the back of the property, there's a car on fire.

And steve is standing near the car,

Kinda leaning on a shovel.

Why was the car on fire? Why would you do that?

What was he doing?

[somber music]

[male reporter]12-year-old jonelle matthews

Disappeared from her greeley home one month ago today.

Abduction is the fate of

An estimated 150,000 children in the u.S. Every year.

We would sell this house. We would sell everything.

We would, you know, do anything to get her back.

[male reporter]jonelle matthews will turn

13 in two weeks.

No one knows where she'll spend her birthday.

She remains one of

A growing number of abducted children.

[gloria] I just thought about jonelle.

All night long, dreams.

[somber music]

There was absolutely nothing.

[somber music]

[jim] you hold out hope that she's gonna show up.

But the longer you go without knowing

What's going on with her,

The less hope there is that she's alive.

[tense music]

Well, come January of '85, jonelle's gone.

She's not coming home.

[eerie music]

[mike] the more time passes,

The evidence that you're looking for grows old.

And so they're, they're trying everything they can

To find a direction to go to in this investigation.

But in the absence of something that is plausible,

No one fit the mold better than, uh, jim matthews.

He had the knowledge that jonelle would be home alone.

He knew that gloria would not be there.

He knew that jen wouldn't be home.

He was the logical potential suspect.

[ominous music]

[mike] jim was asked to come in

And conduct, uh, a, a polygraph examination.

[jim] uh, I had heard about this in the news,

That this was not something that was out of the ordinary.

And I said, sure,

'cause I knew I wasn't a part of this.

I don't know what happened.

They'd ask me questions like,

"do you know where jonelle is?"

Uh, what I knew, what I remember.

I got upset.

[mike] jim failed the polygraph,

And it secured in the minds of every detective

That he definitely had something to do

With the disappearance of jonelle.

'cause they had no other options.

[ominous music]

[angela] February of 1985,

I was working as church janitor at faith ministries.

We were living west of greeley, about three miles.

It was an okay house.

The church was right across the street.

Steve had the car dealership.

He would buy insurance totals and fix the cars up.

Life was very, very hard. We were very, very poor.

If we could keep the car dealership going

And get it a little more fine-tuned,

And, you know, with me doing this side job, and...

There was potential for it being brighter soon.

[somber music]

[angela] one Sunday morning,

After we had had the prayer and the announcement,

Pastor dowell suddenly said, "I have a word from the lord.

The lord says that jonelle is gonna be safely returned

And reunited with her family."

Steve was sitting to my left.

And all of a sudden he says, "false prophet."

And he stands up, and he says, "false prophet," again.

I thought he was being a bit too angry.

I mean, I was embarrassed, I thought something about that

Had really, really, really agitated him.

I couldn't quite figure out what.

Two ushers in our area got up,

And they're walking him out of the church.

I didn't ask. I didn't say anything.

I was afraid to. I, I was afraid.

It wasn't safe.

[somber music]

[intriguing string music]

[eileen] when I first heard a rumor that it could be jim...

It angered me.

It was our duty to find her.

I wanted to do something beyond

What the police were doing or not doing.

[intriguing string music]

[male reporter]jim matthews calls it

A national disgrace,

And says we spend more money recovering stolen cars

In this country

Than we do in recovering missing children.

[eileen] there were a number of us who

Were friends and parents,

And that's kind of how

The rescue jonelle effort then started.

[male reporter]more than 600 people

Crowded into a greeley church before dawn this morning

To volunteer to help in the search for jonelle.

[eileen] we had tens of thousands of

Posters printed.

We were mailing them overseas.

We started calling networks and trying to get the word out.

Greeley and the whole city wanted to do something to help.

We were going after the world.

I kept brainstorming, thinking,

Who was the next place we could go to?

It just came to me.

"well, maybe we should get the president on this."

The white house has a phone number.

[serious music]

[eileen] I just thought, "why not try it?"

[calm music]

[former president reagan] thank you.

How do you do? Thank you very much.

I want to speak to you just briefly about

A great, powerful public service that you posses.

Well over a million american children

Disappear from their homes or neighborhoods every year,

Causing, as we can all understand,

Heartbreaking anguish.

Parents cry out for help, many through letters to me.

For example, I learned about

Jonelle matthews of greeley, colorado,

Who would have celebrated a happy 13th birthday

With her family just last month.

But five days before christmas,

Jonelle disappeared from her home.

[emotional music]

[jim] thinking to myself, "I can't believe it.

The president of the united states

Is talking about my daughter."

And you're never gonna forget that.

[emotional music]

[deanna] that was pretty cool to hear her,

And to get her name out there.

[emotional music]

[russell] I thought that was a, a big step for us.

[emotional music]

For me, anyway.

[emotional music]

[male reporter]a dairy has begun printing

The pictures of missing children on its milk cartons,

In the hope that that will help authorities find them.

[eileen] I just remember after his announcement,

Then you started seeing the milk cartons at your store.

[female reporter]the milk carton campaign

Joins a growing number of similar projects;

All efforts to locate the nation's missing children

By keeping their images high in the public eye.

Jonelle was one of the first that was on the milk cartons.

[emotional music]

[gloria] to be honest with you, it's...

I, I felt that's the least that they could do.

[emotional music]

[jennifer] it was important,

Because that circulates her face.

Because you just never know.

[emotional music]

But I think you also prepare your heart

That it might not make a difference.

[emotional music]

[ominous music]

[mike] the president mentioned jonelle matthews,

And the results of that

Was a flood of incoming tips across the nation.

[serious string music]

[mike] people are claiming now

That they're seeing her everywhere;

West virginia, minneapolis, washington state,

The east coast, southern states.

Every, every corner of, of the nation.

It was overwhelming. Defeating.

Jonelle wasn't found, evidence wasn't found.

No leads were developed,

And jim matthews remained a potential suspect.

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They were exactly at the same place

They were at the start of the search.

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[eileen] there wasn't a doubt in my mind

That someone in greeley knew something.

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[angela] we were married in, October of 1978.

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[angela] it, it started to change rather quickly.

One day, steve said, "could you go by the storage unit

And pick up my welding rods?

Make sure that it's locked. Make sure it's locked."

The padlock that he had on the storage unit was just huge.

It was a big, heavy padlock.

It was hard for me to try and lock it.

So, at the end of the day,

When he wanted to take the welding rods

Back to the storage unit...

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[angela] and he's just furious.

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[angela] the next thing I knew,

He had that big, heavy padlock in his hand,

And he just slammed that into my face.

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[angela] and the next thing I knew,

I was on the pavement.

I can taste blood. I can feel blood.

The front of my shirt is covered with blood.

And steve was kicking me in the back.

"get in the car, get in the car! Get up, get in the car!"

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[angela] so, the next thing I know,

We're heading to red feather lakes.

To my dad's cabin.

The water wasn't on.

There's nothing food-wise or anything like that.

And steve says to me, "stay in the cabin.

Don't go out. Don't leave.

I'm gonna be back."

I mean, I'm totally, totally isolated there.

I mean, how long is he gonna to leave me here?

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Five days, I'm there.

And steve comes in, and he had a sack of groceries.

"make me something to eat."

That was a sign of things to come

For the, for the rest of our marriage.

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[angela] for the rest of my married life,

I was very scared of steve.

It was almost like, "I own you. I'm married to you, I own you."

And his control grew and grew,

And I became more silent and less sure of

Anything I should say or do.

Everything was a potential trigger

To set him off.

He told me, "if you're thinking about leaving me,

You're gonna watch me shoot both boys.

Then I'm gonna shoot you, then I'm gonna kill myself.

Is that what you want? Is that what you want?"

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[angela] so, I just had to stay in that situation.

In a room with two doors,

And I wasn't safe to open either one of them.

I felt totally trapped.

Like, how was I possibly ever going to...

Find my way out of that?

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[robert]I, I need to tell you guys

That there's been a development in the case.

[gloria]oh my...

[male officer] police, search warrant!

[robert] for 38 years,

A monster tapped on the shoulder of law enforcement

Because he couldn't help but to do it.

Hello, this is steve pankey.

I'm in front of the idaho governor's office.

I appreciate, and I humbly ask for your vote.

My website is pankeyforidaho.Com.

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