[horn blaring]
[Casey] This was one of the most deviant predators
that the Allegheny County District Attorney's Office ever encountered.
[jangling, clicking]
If she would have opened her mouth,
there would have been hell to pay.
[Jerry] One day, she just up and disappeared.
I didn't know if she was alive or dead.
[Corin] Another young girl was discovered.
They were seeing a pattern in victims.
[Cameron] Her wrists are bound.
There's an extension cord around her neck.
[suspenseful music playing]
Authorities think
they had a serial killer on their hands.
[Corin] Panic spread through the town.
[Lawrence] The first thing he asked was,
"Did you kill Tanya Kach?"
He just chuckled.
And I always knew she was alive somewhere.
[theme music playing]
[theme music ending]
[indistinct chattering]
Adolescence can be the most challenging phase
for teenagers and their parents.
And often, when teens act out or run away,
they're home by dinner.
But for one family,
it turned out their daughter was in big trouble.
[horn blaring]
In the southwestern corner of Pennsylvania,
just 25 miles outside of Pittsburgh,
sits the quiet town of Monongahela.
[Jerry] Monongahela was a sleepy, laid-back town.
And the thing that attracted us most to it was,
its country-esque setting.
My name is Jerry Kach. I am the father of Tanya Kach.
I've agreed to do this interview,
but I wanted my identity to be concealed
to protect my privacy.
I got married in 1979. My wife was Sherry...
We were high school sweethearts.
Tanya was born in 1981.
And I was very proud, beaming from ear to ear.
That was my little girl!
Growing up, Tanya wanted to know
everything about everything.
You know, wide-eyed kid, full of wonder.
Sherry would always take Tanya to do the girly things
that girls like to do.
Get the hair done, go shopping for clothes.
Then we took trips... Busch Gardens, Disney World.
The happiest moments I had,
was watching the joy on her face,
as we were exploring the world together.
We were a very happy family in those early years.
My name is Corin Cesaric,
and I'm the associate editor of Crime at People Magazine.
For the first eight years of her life,
she had a relatively normal childhood,
and Tanya had a happy life with her parents.
[Lawrence] Unfortunately, the ideal life ran into trouble.
Then, there started to be signs of...
Something was wrong with Sherry Kach,
Tanya's mom.
[Jerry] She'd just take-off and leave Tanya home alone.
We had arguments about what she was doing.
Ultimately, her mother became abusive toward her.
One day, for no apparent reason,
her mother attacks Tanya with a knife.
I called the police.
[sirens wailing]
Tanya did understand that mommy was...ill,
and Tanya did fear
that something might happen after Sherry held a knife up to her.
I would say Tanya was probably 11 or 12
when I just said enough is enough,
and I have to get us away.
I had Sherry removed, through the court system,
out of the house.
That affected Tanya very badly.
She did not wanna see mommy and daddy broken up.
[Patrick] In 1995, when Tanya's 13 years old,
Jerry files for divorce
and wins full custody of his daughter.
Then, Jerry meets somebody new.
My name's Jo-Ann Kach.
I met Jerry through a dating service.
[Jerry] We were two like-minded individuals
looking for the same thing in life.
[Patrick] Jerry wants a fresh start.
So they move to be closer to Jo-Ann
just 30 minutes away in McKeesport, Pennsylvania.
[Jerry] Jo-Ann and I were dating six months
before we decided to move in together.
I believe it was August, 1995.
[Jo-Ann] When I first met Tanya,
my impression was she was a nice girl.
Everything was fine when she first moved in.
[Patrick] But for Tanya, McKeesport is much less welcoming
compared to the leafy suburb of Monongahela
where she had grown up.
[Lawrence] McKeesport is full of crime.
It's full of unemployment,
and it's just not a happy place.
[Jerry] It was quite different
living in the small town of Monongahela.
Different class of people, different environment...
Shortly thereafter, I had to transfer Tanya
to a new school, Cornell,
which she did not like.
She knew nobody.
At school, the kids that she encountered, were bullies.
[Jerry] She felt afraid.
She wanted no parts of it.
Tanya began spiraling down very quickly
after she got into a fight.
[Jo-Ann] Tanya did get suspended.
She was grounded,
and we took her phone privileges away.
[Jerry] But she just resented
you know, any type of authority or discipline.
I thought they were underlying issues about the divorce.
[Lawrence] So, she's struggling,
and she doesn't have anybody to talk to.
Her mom's not around,
she can't talk to her dad about it.
[Jerry] But I was just met with staunch silence.
She didn't wanna tell me anything.
Then one day, she just up and disappeared.
On 10 February, 1996,
Tanya's family woke up to discover she was gone.
[Jo-Ann] Jerry found her pajamas
that she wore the night before,
down in the basement.
And Tanya had a duffel bag, and that was missing.
I went out looking for her in the car,
riding up and down the streets.
And, I didn't find her.
Tanya's barely 14 when she disappears
in a town she's lived in for less than right months.
But this wasn't the first time.
Over the past few weeks,
she's made several attempts to run away
when she was angry with her dad and Jo-Ann.
And she would hide out in various places around town.
[Corin] Jerry had reported her missing
on a few occasions.
But those reports would be cancelled
when Tanya would inevitably come back home
after a few hours.
My name is Cameron Jackson.
I am a private investigator, retired from law enforcement.
Here's a problem.
They report the child missing,
then they report the child missing again,
and then again, and then each time, they're also saying
"Okay the kid's not missing anymore."
So it's this back and forth that occurs over and over again.
Jerry was waiting to see if she came back
before he sent a police on a wild goose chase again.
[Jerry] Yeah, I was hoping and praying that she would show up
after a couple of days.
But she just... didn't.
[Patrick] Four days pass, and Jerry's now terrified.
For him, this no longer feels like a teenage rebellion.
And he fears Tanya is in trouble.
[Jerry] I contacted the McKeesport Police Department.
to tell them what was going on.
On 14 February, 1996,
Jerry files a missing person's report.
[Jerry] McKeesport Police Department says,
"Oh, she just disappears, and she comes back."
It was "No big deal."
[Patrick] But then, Tanya's grandmother calls Jerry
about something she found.
[Jo-Ann] Jerry's mother found a number
at her house, that Tanya had written.
So she called the number.
And, a person named Judy Sokul answers the phone,
and mentions that to the police.
[Cameron] Investigators contact Judy Sokul at her house,
and they learn that the house is a magnet
for kids who are disadvantaged kids,
kids who are maybe runaways.
Judy recalled a time,
when Tanya probably in December of 1995,
three months before she disappeared in '96,
Tanya had come over to the house,
it was cold out.
And Judy gave her a jacket.
[Lawrence] Judy Sokul tells the police
that she'd never saw or heard from Tanya again after that night.
[Jerry] After the sixth day, the seventh day,
and the next week,
I started getting really worried.
And said, "Okay, where is my daughter?"
I didn't know who to contact.
[Corin] So, Jerry and Jo-Ann started looking for clues
in her bedroom,
in hopes of garnering some sort of leads.
[Jo-Ann] And I found a note,
and it looked like a guy's handwriting.
It was about a sexual relationship.
The note was propositioning Tanya
for oral sex.
Jerry and Jo-Ann do not know who wrote it.
But they have a lingering suspicion.
[Corin] Kevin Churchfield, a neighborhood down the street,
had asked Tanya to become a baby sitter
for their younger son.
[Jo-Ann] Before she disappeared,
Tanya had mentioned
that her and Kevin Churchfield went out to eat
at a restaurant.
And I asked her, "Did you go with the family?"
She said, "No, it was me an Kevin."
I told Tanya, "You shouldn't have went with him."
[Jerry] I definitely was concerned.
She was 14 years old.
And I suspected Kevin Churchfield was a bad person.
I knew it. I could just feel it.
So, I got on the phone.
And I called McKeesport Police Department.
Much to their surprise,
they learned from the investigators,
that Tanya had actually reported Churchfield
two months earlier for the things he had done to her.
[Patrick] The report says every time Tanya babysits
Kevin Churchfield propositions her
and asks for oral sex.
But Tanya continues to babysit for Kevin Churchfield.
She thought life at home is so terrible,
and awful, that she would rather babysit for him,
than stay in that home.
[Cameron] Tanya never tells her father or stepmother this.
She does tell a police officer
associated with the school.
[Jo-Ann] Tanya told the police officer
that Kevin made Tanya touch his penis.
I felt a lot of anger.
I guess she didn't wanna tell me anything.
But no one ever got in touch with me.
I couldn't understand why.
This was an incidence concerning my daughter,
and she was 14 years old.
[Patrick] Churchfield was charged.
Tanya, however, failed to appear at court.
[Corin] When she disappeared,
all of those claims were dropped.
[Cameron] In this part of the country,
both the accused and the accuser
have to show up in front of the magistrate
for a case to move forward.
And because she's not available,
for the hearing, Churchfield walks.
So, you have an accuser who disappears
right before a court hearing with your accused.
That's a huge red flag for investigators.
[Lawrence] The McKeesport Police learned,
Kevin Churchfield had a sordid criminal record
involving violence,
and it was an eye-opener.
[Patrick] McKeesport Police bring Kevin Churchfield for questioning.
And they don't mince words.
He'd agreed to submit to a lie detector test.
And the first thing they asked was,
did you kill Tanya Kach?
Kevin Churchfield chuckled, and said no.
[Cameron] But the polygraph clearly shows
Churchfield is being deceptive.
And as such, the investigators
decide to focus more intensely on him.
[Lawrence] And Churchfield finally admitted
that he and Tanya Kach had a sexual encounter.
[Jerry] Churchfield's home, it was searched.
But unfortunately, they turned up nothing.
[Patrick] There's no evidence Churchfield abducted Tanya.
And they can't charge him with a sex crime
until Tanya resurfaces.
So, investigators are left back at square one
with no real leads.
[Jo-Ann] At that point, I didn't know if she was alive or dead.
But Jerry felt that she was still alive.
It was a very emotional time.
[Jerry] I drove around McKeesport.
I just was hoping to maybe see her
walking the streets somewhere.
[Patrick] Then, after months without any new leads,
Jo-Ann happens upon a discovery
in Tanya's bedroom.
[Corin] Jo-Ann discovered a diary
that had a lock on it.
[Jo-Ann] I found a diary that Tanya had,
and I picked the lock with a bobby pin.
[Lawrence] The diary had these innocent observations
that a young girl, who's boy-crazy might make.
The name "Tom" comes up several times.
Jo-Ann wasn't sure who Tom was.
But, it was very clear
that Tanya was interested in him.
And there was also an entry about Judy Sokul.
And from the diary, it was clear
that Judy and Tom knew each other.
Based on Tanya's diary, it would appear
that Judy knows more about Tanya
than she'd originally shared with investigators
when they'd visited her house.
[Cameron] Investigators go back to Judy's house,
and they ask her of this person named Tom.
[Lawrence] Judy Sokul said that she heard
that Tanya had a crush on a security guard
at the Cornell Middle School.
And that his name was Tom Hose.
[Corin] Judy confirmed that the Tom in the diary was Thomas Hose,
and that Tanya, at one point,
did write Tom a romantic letter.
[Cameron] At the time she wrote the love note
Tanya was 14 years old.
And Tom Hose is a 38-year-old man.
The investigators do background work on Tom Hose
and find out that he lives with his parents,
and in fact, he is the head of security at Cornell School.
Investigators go over to Tom Hose's house.
[knock on door]
[Lawrence] They knock on the door, and they ask him,
"Do you know anything about Tanya Kach?"
And he says, "I don't know anything."
[Cameron] And they have a course of conversation.
Tom was like, "Yeah,
I'm surprised she hasn't been found yet."
Tom freely admits, "Yeah, she wrote me the note."
But he gave the note immediately to the school.
Tom Hose adamantly denied
ever having any inappropriate contact with Tanya.
[Cameron] Investigators ask Tom, "Hey, can we look around the house?"
And Tom says, "Well, my elderly parents
are asleep right now.
And they'll be startled."
And investigators say, "All right, that's fine."
The school confirms that Tom Hose did in fact,
turn in the letter that Tanya had written him.
And, with that information,
the investigators move on from Tom Hose.
[Jerry] Over the course of next couple of years,
I basically had no contact whatsoever,
with the McKeesport Police Department.
They seemed like they just wanted to file it away,
and let it collect dust.
I experienced a lot of anger, frustration, helplessness.
What did I do wrong? What could I do?
What should I do?
Is there something that I missed?
[Patrick] Two-and-a-half years later,
a horrifying discovery is made just a mile from Tanya's home.
So, on 06 July, 1998,
a body was found in the McKeesport cemetery.
[Cameron] Workers in a very remote part of the cemetery,
come across a body of a young girl.
[Lawrence] The victim was approximately Tanya's age.
Approximately, her same height,
same hair color.
[Jerry] My thoughts immediately went to,
"It might be Tanya!"
[Cameron] She's in a stage of decomposition,
so it's very difficult to identify who she is.
I was watching the news with bated breath.
[Cameron] The coroner shows up,
and they start looking at the body for clues.
They open up the jacket,
and they find a female's name written inside the jacket.
And they locate the family of that female
and they find out that female is in fact alive.
However, her sister, Kimberlie, is missing.
[Corin] Later on, through dental records,
the body was confirmed to be 14-year-old Kimberlie Krimm.
[Lawrence] There were indications of sexual assault.
But due to the badly decomposed nature of the body,
the manner of death was not determined.
[Jerry] It did not turn out to be Tanya.
And... Thank goodness,
but I was saddened that it's some other young girl
that lost her life.
[Lawrence] During the course of the investigation,
into Kimberlie Krimm's death, police discover that in 1995,
there was another girl found dead
in the McKeesport area.
[Corin] 16-year-old Anna Marie Callaghan went missing,
and was discovered dead as well.
[Cameron] A kid was going fishing in McKeesport river.
He comes across the body of Anna Marie Callaghan.
She's got an extension cord wrapped around her neck.
Her wrists are bound with duct tape.
[Corin] DNA evidence was collected
from her clothing and other items,
and entered into the FBI's CODIS system.
But sadly, there are no matches.
They were seeing a pattern in the victims.
These girls, all went to Cornell Middle School.
They were all between the ages of 14 and 16,
and were quote, troubled teens.
Now, they're wondering if Tanya was also killed,
but has never been found.
[Lawrence] By October of 1998, authorities began to think,
they had a serial killer on their hands.
[Corin] Panic started to spread
through the town of McKeesport.
The interest in Tanya's disappearance
was finally coming to the fore.
[Patrick] Police enlist the help
of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
age-progressed her photograph,
as to what age she would have been
at that particular time.
There were posters put all over the United States,
looking for Tanya.
[Lawrence] Her image appeared on over 400 million milk cartons
across the United States.
[Jerry] For a time after the discovery
of Kimberlie Krimm's body, they re-ignited interest in Tanya's case.
That didn't last for long, though.
[Lawrence] In early 2000,
leads go cold for all three girls.
[Jerry] Ten years had passed.
And I sort of accepted the fact
that Tanya may not come back.
But I had hopes that police would contact me concerning Tanya.
But they never did.
I thought that Tanya could've met with her demise.
But I never gave up hope.
[Patrick] It's been ten years since Tanya disappeared,
with no movement.
The last thing anybody expected,
was a big development just around the corner.
[Lawrence] On 21 March, 2006, police receive a call that,
Tanya Kach is being held on Soul Street...
at the home of Tom Hose,
the security guard at Cornell Middle School.
My name is Tanya Nicole Kach,
and I was held captive by Tom Hose
for ten long years.
A detective knocked on the door.
And Tom said, "Oh, [bleep] it's the cops."
I opened the door and he said, "Are you Tanya Nicole Kach?"
I said yeah.
Tom was like, "What's going on?"
And I looked at him, and said it's over.
It's over.
And then, the detective, he's like, "Let's go. Let's go."
[voice quivering] And I'll never forget,
I took my first step out that door,
and I got into the detective's car,
and... I said, "I don't know where it goes from here,
[crying] but hopefully, it's up."
[Jerry] I got a phone call.
The McKeesport Police Department
informed me that they had my daughter
sitting in their squad room.
At that point, I almost dropped the phone.
I asked him, is this a prank?
He says, "No, sir. We need you to come down."
I was like, "Oh, my God. Is she okay?
After ten years, it was very shocking.
My thoughts were racing a million miles a minute.
I couldn't wait to get to her.
I'm in this little office, and I hear my dad's voice.
And they open the door, and there is my dad.
And I just collapsed into his arms.
And all I could do was cry.
It was just...crazy.
When I see her, it's just like, "Wow!"
That was one of the best moments of my lifetime,
right then and there.
Being reunited with my daughter...
You know, finally knowing that she is alive!
My dad loves me.
[Jerry] We cried, we laughed,
There was a plethora of emotions.
Finally, being able to see her, hold her,
talk with her...
[Tanya] My dad took me back to him and Jo-Ann's.
It was a lot of crying and emotions.
[Patrick] The following day,
with her father and Jo-Ann by her side,
Tanya sits down with the police,
and begins to share her unbelievable ordeal.
[Tanya] When I first met Tom Hose,
he was my middle school security guard.
He kinda looked and me, and said, "You're new here."
And I said, "Yeah, I am."
Then we started to talk.
He made it seem like he genuinely cared.
It was like super nice, and he made me laugh...
[Geraldine] I'm Geraldine Massey.
I am the liaison between victims of crime,
and the court system. And I was
the Counselor Advocate for Tanya Kach.
Tom Hose was flirting with her,
and she thought that, "Wow, this grown man likes me!"
But she was just 14,
and he was this 38-year-old man.
[Tanya] We started to get to know each other more.
He would take me out of class just to talk to me.
[Geraldine] Tom wasn't a bad-looking guy.
He's courting her, he's grooming her.
And it made her feel special.
[Tanya] One time, I was skipping class, and I got caught.
And he's like, "Hey, I'm not gonna make you go to the office."
And I'm like, "Really?"
And that's when, he leaned in,
and that was the first time he kissed me.
And he told me I should leave and be with him forever.
He would say, "I'm always gonna love you."
"I can take so much better care of you
than your own parents ever could."
And, at 14, I believed him.
January, 1996, Tom devised a plan for me to leave for good.
And I just followed his instructions
to go to Judy Sokul's house.
And Tom and Judy were old friends.
[Geraldine] As part of his grooming,
he took her to Judy's house
where he felt she would feel safe,
and would not be detected.
She told me that she wanted to give me a makeover, a fresh look.
She loved redoing my hair and dying it.
[Cameron] Judy helps Hose conceal Tanya,
so she's totally aiding and abetting Tom Hose at this point.
[Tanya] No lying, everything was fine in that first month.
It looked like life was gonna be okay.
I was staying with Judy,
and Tom always came to Judy's after work to see me.
At first, Tanya felt safe with Judy and Tom.
But within a matter of weeks, everything changed,
and she found herself living a nightmare.
[Tanya] Tom got me pretty drunk one night,
to where I was not in my right state of mind.
And that was the night that I lost my virginity to him.
I felt horrible. I cried.
With Tanya being 14 years old,
and Hose being 38,
it was not consensual sex. It was rape.
He knew his victim,
and he exploited everything he could.
He's telling her, "Oh, nobody wants you."
She doesn't know any better.
[Corin] While Tanya is at Judy's house,
Hose is telling her at every chance he gets,
that if she goes back home,
her parents are going to be so mad at her.
And he keeps building up in Tanya's head,
that she can't go back home whether she wants to or not.
But, eventually, Judy Sokul said okay, enough is enough.
She didn't want it here anymore.
[Tanya] I had to leave Judy's house.
And that's when I ultimately went to his house.
I willfully went to Tom's
because he offered me such a better life.
But it turned out to be captivity.
[Cameron] Starts off as kind of a good deal for Tanya,
but she realizes
that it's probably not the best deal
that she thought it was
after she moved in with Tom Hose.
[Tanya] When I first got there,
I had to sneak up to his bedroom.
We were in his room, very quiet.
His parents were there.
They didn't know I was in the house.
He took total control
once I was in his grasps fully.
[Cameron] He had the manipulation skills
to get her to stay there.
He starts threatening her,
telling her, "If you leave, I'll kill you.
I'll kill your family."
She's 14! She doesn't know any better.
He was the perfect predator.
[Tanya] I had to stay in that bedroom, locked in there,
all day, all night.
[voice quivering] My only source of going to the bathroom,
was in a bucket. It was terrible!
I had to brush my teeth over that bucket
that I'd went to the bathroom in.
Tom's parents were always home. They were elderly.
I always had to be quiet.
Tom said if his parents find me,
he would smother me in my sleep,
and drown me in the river.
And of course, for fear for my life,
I did what I was told.
I was scared.
If she would've opened her mouth,
there would've been hell to pay.
[Patrick] Tanya stays hidden in her captor's room,
where he forces her to be a sex slave.
[Tanya] The sex was everyday, multiple times a day.
From the time before he went to work,
after he came home from work,
before he went to bed... It didn't matter.
At one point, after a couple of years,
I'd had enough.
I was gonna just walk out of the house.
And he said, "I'll kill you. I'll kill your family.
You're not gonna leave me."
At that time, I believed whatever he said.
I prayed all the time that he wouldn't kill me.
One day, Tom came home, and said,
they found Kimberlie Krimm's body in the cemetery.
[indistinct chatter]
Tom and I knew her from school.
And I'm like, "Oh, my gosh.
How in the world she died?"
And Tom's reaction was so cold.
He just folded his arms like this,
and he was like, "Why, you knew that was coming..."
It was very, very chilling.
[Cameron] Oddly enough, from Tom's bedroom,
you could look down into the cemetery,
and you could see the area where Kimberlie Krimm's body was found.
[Tanya] Wish I could tell you he did or didn't murder Kimberlie Krimm.
But I don't know...
Still didn't know what Tom Hose was capable of.
In March of 2000, Tom surprised me
when he let me out of the house for the first time.
At that time, he changed my name.
I was no longer Tanya Nicole Kach.
I was Nikki Diane Allen.
He gave me $120,
and he told me to go to AIMS department store,
and I... I was scared,
because I hadn't been out in four years in society, at all.
And when I got back, he was outside, waiting for me,
to sneak me in.
[Corin] Ultimately, she was being brainwashed.
For four years, she was psychologically
and sexually abused by Hose,
and now, she's allowed to go out,
but even though her father's house is pretty close to his,
she thinks that there's no way she can go home.
[Patrick] Tanya had been a stranger to McKeesport
when she'd disappeared.
And since she's been out of sight for so many years,
no one takes note of her.
Tanya's privileges only continue to expand as time passes.
I finally met Tom Hose's parents.
He introduced me as his girlfriend.
[Patrick] By the end of 2005,
she's getting a weekly allowance,
and has become a regular at the corner store,
"JJ's Deli Mart,"
where she hangs out on a daily basis.
Nobody actually recognized me.
Tom's house was two blocks away from JJ's Deli Mart.
And I really got to know the shop owners.
Joe Sparico and his wife and his daughter.
Just by going in there everyday,
they offered me a job to work at JJ's.
And I really felt a part of the family.
[Cameron] She's seeing how regular people interact with one another.
And she realizes this is a lifestyle I think I want.
[Tanya] At this time, I was about 23,
and Tom was about 45.
It never sat right with Joe
that I was with such an older man.
Joe and his wife were great people.
I mean, you saw what a marriage was,
and what a normal life is.
That's what really opened my eyes about my situation.
That's all I wanted.
[Cameron] And it's at that moment that Tanya gets the courage
to tell Joe who she really is.
[Tanya] 20 March, 2006,
it was just Joe and I there in the store.
And I just started breaking down.
And he's like, "Why are you crying?"
And I said, "My real name is Tanya Nicole Kach."
After I told him who I was, and everything,
Joe was like, "I'll handle it."
He told me not to do anything out of the ordinary,
and I didn't.
I went back to that house,
and then he called the police.
[Geraldine] Thank God for Joe Sparico.
Because he had to...
to keep asking Tanya questions
about why she was with Tom,
until the dam broke.
That was it.
[Jerry] Quite a few times, I was looking for Tanya,
and I passed by the street where she was being held.
It was very shocking to learn
that she was only about a mile away.
from where we lived.
[Patrick] Tanya's now free, and back with her family.
And while she acclimates to her new life, outside of captivity,
McKeesport Police get to work, investigating her story,
so they can build a case against Thomas Hose.
My name is Casey White.
I was in the Child Abuse unit
at the Allegheny County District Attorney's office.
Tom Hose was one of the most deviant predators
that I believe the Allegheny County
District Attorney's office ever encountered.
[Patrick] Police get a search warrant for Hose's residence.
And inside, they find 31 date books
chronicling Tanya's time in captivity.
The pages are filled with a detailed chronology of the rapes
and the sex acts inflicted upon her.
He wanted to keep track of all the sex.
[Casey] He had her color-code the sexual acts
that they performed with each other
so that he could brag to his friends.
[Patrick] With physical evidence documenting the abuse,
Tome Hose and Judy Sokul are arrested.
[Casey] Tom Hose was charged with the involuntary deviate sexual intercourse
and a number of sexually related crimes.
He was not charged with kidnapping because,
Tanya went there willingly.
[Lawrence] The McKeesport Police Department
was certainly curious
about Tom Hose's connection to Kimberlie Krimm.
But, as strange as it was, that Tom Hose's house
had a full view of the cemetery
where Kimberlie Krimm was found.
No further connection between the murder of Kimberlie Krimm,
Anna Marie Callaghan and Tom Hose was ever developed.
[Casey] Judith Sokul was charged with a litany of crimes
associated with her interactions
with Thomas Hose and Tanya Kach.
[Geraldine] Judy dyed her hair, she kept her,
and she allowed them to have sex in her house,
and she was only 14.
I didn't get to go to school, I didn't graduate,
I didn't have "Sweet-sixteen."
I didn't get to go to the prom.
She's safe at home now.
She's back where she belongs.
[Patrick] The media attention forces Tanya
to relive her story over and over again.
But nothing prepares her
for the scrutiny she receives at home.
[Tanya] Everything was fine at first.
But then, within a few weeks,
it started to turn with my dad...
where he would say, "Well, you're the one that left."
I'm getting this backlash from Jo-Ann saying,
"Well, you did this to yourself."
[Jo-Ann] At first, I believed her.
But after I looked at the big picture,
things just weren't adding up.
Tom Hose may have psychologically trapped her.
I believe some of it was his doing.
But if she was there, unhappy,
why did she just not leave?
She could've left at any time.
That's my belief.
I would like to hear Tom Hose's side of the story.
'Cause there are always three sides to every story.
His side, her side, and the truth.
[yelling indistinctly]
My big sister!
A lot of people, at the time doubted Tanya's story.
And I think that's unfair to her.
She was 14 years old when she left.
She was under this guy's spell
for such a long period of time,
that she lost a sense of reality.
[Cameron] There are several elements
of Stockholm's syndrome that apply to this case.
A victim starts to identify with the captor.
They don't see themselves as victims,
but they see themselves as one with the captor.
He was like a magnet that I had to get back to.
[Casey] She was so brainwashed,
that she was conveniently placed in harm's way,
if she would try to leave,
or tell somebody who she really was.
I know I went willingly.
But that doesn't excuse what happened.
I didn't know the hell that was gonna ensue.
The case, rock solid.
Tom Hose knew that he was up against
a mountain of evidence.
[Patrick] On 14 May, 2007,
Hose accepts a deal.
Pleading guilty to statutory sexual assault,
three counts of involuntary deviant sexual intercourse,
and a half dozen more related charges.
Hose is sentenced to five to 15 years at State Prison.
[Tanya] He harmed me, for the rest of my life!
He should've got life.
There was so much damage, from all the sexual abuse,
that I had to have a hysterectomy.
I can't have my own child biologically
because he took that away from me.
I had to have a colostomy bag for a year.
I have arthritis in my back
because I didn't grow properly.
I was stuck in a room.
I suffer from chronic migraines.
I get nightmares.
I will always be psychologically damaged.
But that doesn't mean I'm not strong.
[Jerry] Obviously, she suffered physical abuse,
then psychological issues
from her being with Tom Hose for those ten years.
But whatever Tom Hose's sentencing,
I was just happy that my daughter was alive.
Judith Sokul pleads no contest to statutory sexual assault,
interference with the custody of minor,
and several additional charges.
She was sentenced to six to 23 months.
Now, with Tom Hose behind bars,
Tanya starts to rebuild her life.
[sighs] Man!
My eighth grade picture.
I was only smiling to smile.
It wasn't happiness behind that smile.
I had to find myself again. I had to find Tanya!
She died!
It was incredibly difficult
to find myself again,
and become the person that I am today.
I wrote a book to help people,
to give them hope and faith,
that you could go through this super dark, dark road.
But there's light at the end.
And I'm proof of that.
I went through the darkest times of my life.
But look at me now.
[Jerry] After the book came out,
relations between me and my daughter
were completely severed.
Tanya blames me, she blamed Jo-Ann,
and blamed everyone else.
She had turned on every single one of us in that book.
[Tanya] I am not talking to my father or Jo-Ann.
I tried with my dad.
I tried so hard.
It breaks my heart everyday.
What can I do, though?
I've learnt to live my life without my father.
[Patrick] But then, the day Tanya has been dreading, comes true.
In February of 2022, Tom Hose is released from prison
after serving his full 15-year sentence.
And, he moves back to the same house
where he kept Tanya hostage, all those years.
[Casey] And that's scary 'cause it kinda brings this tragic situation
full circle where he's back to where the crime was committed.
It's unnerving.
I'm sure it's unnerving for the citizens of McKeesport too.
[Tanya] Today, I live about 15 minutes away from Tom Hose.
I could run into him
like in a store, or out on the street anywhere.
It terrifies me.
I don't wanna look into the eyes of the man
that did such horrible, horrendous things to me.
I hope he lives the res to his miserable life in that house.
I hope he rots in that house.
I know a lot of people don't believe my story.
But you know, they didn't go through the hell
that I went through.
But there's light at the end of the tunnel.
There is a happy ending.
It just takes time, patience.
[Jerry] She's still my daughter.
I still have feelings for her.
If any lesson can be learnt by all of this,
I would say...
Be there more for your kids.
Pay attention to them.
Help them.
Today, I'm happily married.
I have two step kids,
two grandkids.
Couldn't ask for a better life.
♪♪
We've had other homicides, but not like this one.
Somebody had beat her in the head, repeatedly.
I want the person who killed her to pay for it.
Everyone at this point is a suspect.
I look at every person asking "Did you kill my niece?"