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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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[CRYING] I don't remember
what they said to me...

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Something a parent never,
never wants to hear.

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There's not a day that goes
by that I don't miss her,

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that I wish things could have
been different, that I question

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myself, that I wished
I would have done this,

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or I would have done that, or maybe if.

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You know?

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NEWSCASTER (ON TV):
Portland police are warning

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that young girls and women
living and walking the streets

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are even more vulnerable than usual.

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DAVE SCHLEGEL: We didn't know
what we were looking for.

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We were looking for a serial killer.

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So do you look for a hunter?

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NEWSCASTER (ON TV): All three
women found dead in Forest.

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Park fit that profile.

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There's a purpose.

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There's a mission.

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He's the predator, and that's the prey.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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SHELLY HARDING: It's scary
to think how, you know,

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one little act or one little thing

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can change your whole life, you know?

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I could not wrap my mind around, why me?

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Why am I the one that got away?

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I was going to make sure
that I was worth it...

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You know, I was worth saving.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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A [INAUDIBLE] life.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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[GLASS CRACKLING]

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About two days before you contacted me,

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I looked at my husband, and I...

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And I said out loud,
I think it's probably

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about time I tell my story.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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SHELLY HARDING: It
was winter time, 1992.

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I am seven months pregnant.

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I'm coming home from work.

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There are no buses running.

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And a car pulls over in a parking lot.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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The driver rolls down
the window and asked

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if I need a ride home.

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SHELLY HARDING (VOICEOVER): No.

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No, thank you.

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MAN (VOICEOVER): You sure?

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It's really no problem.

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And he just seemed like the nicest,

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you know, nerdy, harmless guy.

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And it's like, I'm tired.

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My feet are swollen.

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I see two car seats in the back seat.

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You know, I just... OK, sure.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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We probably went five blocks,
and it went badly very quickly.

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The doors locked.

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He had a knife.

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And you could feel the rage.

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He was very nervous, very freaked out.

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And he rear-ended another car.

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[BANGING]

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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These two gentlemen got out of their car.

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And I thought yes, here it is.

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Here is my savior.

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And then he sped off.

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And I am just thinking, oh my god,

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this guy is going to kill me.

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I'm going to die in this car.

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He drove me out in the
middle of kind of nowhere

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on this dirt road.

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And I remember thinking my
baby wasn't going to be born.

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That's what just kicked
in those survival skills.

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I just began putting my
fingerprints everywhere.

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And I started looking
at everything in the car

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and memorizing everything.

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And I just started
acting like I liked him...

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You know, saying I can
tell you're a nice guy.

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You know, what's wrong in your life?

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It's going to be all OK.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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But then he tried to
put a belt around my neck.

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He continuously raped me.

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SHELLY HARDING
(VOICEOVER): [CRYING]

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[CRYING]

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When he finished assaulting
me, he started crying.

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And I told him it was OK...

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Don't worry, I wasn't
going to tell anybody.

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I promise you.

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That if he just took me
back to where he found me.

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And he did.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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Once that car door opened,
and that air hit me,

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and my foot hit the concrete,
then I knew I was getting away.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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I guess what struck me about Shelly

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was that she kept her composure
through the whole thing.

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She didn't quit.

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She didn't give up.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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Thank you very much for meeting me.

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DAVE SCHLEGEL (VOICEOVER):
She was a survivor.

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And together we decided that we
were going to catch this guy.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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The hit-and-run obviously
became very important.

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A couple of guys were rear-ended,

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and they jotted a license
plate number down.

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And so when I got the
case, a traffic officer

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had already came up with
the name of Todd Reed, who

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was the registered owner of the
car that had struck these guys.

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Due to Shelly's efforts
leaving evidence behind,

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everything matched up.

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And so we arrested Todd on the rape.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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Alex did not call me on Mother's Day.

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It was really unlike her.

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She was living on the street, and she

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wouldn't tell me where she was.

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But she would call to tell me she was OK.

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And she always told me she loved me...

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Always.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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Alex was a tiny, petite girl, beautiful.

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She had a talent for writing.

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And funny... yeah, we had
a lot of laughs together.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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SUSAN ISON: Alex was 12 when
she started running away.

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She didn't want to go to
school because some of the kids

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would make fun of her
because she was different.

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It started with shorter periods of time.

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Sometimes she'd be gone a
day or a couple of days.

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And then it got longer and longer.

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It was really hard.

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It was really hard, and
it was really worrisome

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because she was so young.

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(CRYING) And there's just
so many crazies out there,

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and things that happen to kids.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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SUSAN ISON: It made
me sick to my stomach

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when I heard that she was using heroin.

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And we had quite a
conversation about that.

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I often told her, I don't want to read

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about you in the newspaper.

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I want you to get help.

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[SIGHING]

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That afternoon the detective
showed up at my house.

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That was my worst fear had come true.

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My head felt like it had exploded.

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And it's beyond anything
I've ever experienced.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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You know, I was used to being
a very strong personality.

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You know, the girl that always
wore the lampshade at parties.

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You know, the funny girl,
the life of the party.

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And all that went away...

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All of the self-confidence
and the self-assurance.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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I tried to block out that pain, tried

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to block out those memories.

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And that's when substances
became a problem for me.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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I had this child then
that I could not take care

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of because I was so screwed up.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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SHELLY HARDING: You know, I
can't tell you a worse feeling

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when somebody is not going to trust

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you alone with your own child.

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[CRYING]

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And so I did my best to
become that piece of dirt

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that they saw and said that I was.

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And my life went downhill very fast.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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You go into downtown cities and you'll

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see the, like, crazy girl walking down

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the street with no shoes on and talking

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to herself like... that was me.

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I was that girl that you'd
cross the street, believe me.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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SHELLY HARDING: I
first met Lilla...

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We were in rehab together.

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And at first I didn't like
her, and she bugged me.

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But in the end, we became very close.

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And she became somebody that...

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That I really loved and
genuinely cared about.

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She just had a smile and a
laugh that was infectious.

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[SOFT LAUGHTER]

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When you're homeless, you feel
like gum on somebody's shoe,

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you know?

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But when I picture Lilla,
there were times when

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we forgot where we were at.

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We were just being silly...

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Not engulfed in that pain
and that other stuff.

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I don't remember the exact circumstances,

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but she hasn't came home in like a week.

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Then another week goes by.

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No word from her, and I knew
something bad had happened.

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I just knew it.

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On the news they said they had
found a body in Forest Park.

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NEWSCASTER (ON
TV): In early May,

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hikers discovered the bodies of Lilla.

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Moler and Stephanie Russell.

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[CRYING]

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I was at home listening to the news

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when the first two girls
had been discovered.

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And I had a sinking feeling
wondering where Alex was.

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I was absolutely terrified.

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I called and filed a
missing persons report.

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I was on a mission.

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I had to find her.

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And I didn't know where to look.

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[SIGHING]

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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The next morning they had found
a third person in the park.

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And that afternoon, the detectives

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showed up at my house.

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And when they showed up I knew
exactly why they were there.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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I don't remember what they said to me...

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[CRYING]

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Something a parent
never, never wants to hear.

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That was my worst fear had come true.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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That was my baby.

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She was 17 years old.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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When you get more than one body that's...

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You're going to start thinking is do we

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have a serial killer going on?

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Our victims were prostitutes,
drug users, fringe dwellers.

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They're living their life, they're

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doing the best they can,
and then this evil...

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Or whatever you want to call
it... shows up and takes them.

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So our job is to hold him
responsible for the desecration

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of a human life.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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And we spent a lot of nights out
just driving around Portland,

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talking to women on the street.

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They were all worried
about their own lives

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because there was somebody
killing people just like them.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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Somebody was hunting them.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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NEWSCASTER (ON TV):
Hikers in Forest.

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Park discovered the bodies of Lilla.

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Moler and Stephanie Russell.

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The body of Alexandra Ison
was found in early June.

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At the time when she died, I wanted

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to know everything I possibly could

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about what happened to her.

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[SNIFFLING] I was trying to
see if it was really real.

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Because it didn't feel real.

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Nothing felt real.

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I read the police reports,
and I asked for a copy

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of the autopsy report.

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I asked to see the crime scene photos.

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I needed a visual of her face.

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I needed to know that that was really her

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and they hadn't made this huge mistake.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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Three bodies, no end in sight.

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We don't know what started
it, what's going to stop it.

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The supervisors in the homicide detail

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requested that we form a task force.

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The three victims that we had...

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People involved in drugs, people
involved in prostitution...

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It is a real close community.

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And I needed a window into that lifestyle

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to see what people in the community

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were saying about these three
women who had been killed.

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One day at a friend's house...

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[PHONE RINGING]

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The phone rings.

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It's for me.

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And on the other end
is Detective Schlegel

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saying are you aware of...

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That girls have been disappearing?

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And I said, yeah, and, you know,
let him know how one of them

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was my friend.

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He asked me to, like, vouch for him,

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to let people know that
they could talk to him,

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that he didn't care if
they, you know, had warrants

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or what they were doing in their life,

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that he just wanted to figure out

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what was happening to these
girls to catch the person.

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And so I did.

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And he just treated me with
respect and with empathy.

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And he was the first person in
a long time that I could trust.

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NEWSCASTER (ON TV):
Portland police are warning

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that young girls and women
living and walking the streets

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are even more vulnerable than usual.

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We were looking for a serial killer.

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So what do you look for?

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Our working theory was that the
killer was picking these women

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up in high vice areas, somehow
getting them into his car,

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and then driving to a secluded spot.

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And I guess that's what we
were looking for was a hunter.

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[CRICKETS CHIRPING]

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So we... just like fishing,
you put some bait out there

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and see if the guy comes along
and takes a nibble at it.

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Test, test 1, 2.

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We knew a female police
officer that worked

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in drug and vice division.

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And we put her out on the
street with undercover police

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officers.

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She was approached by a guy in a car.

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WOMAN (ON SPEAKER): Hi.

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MAN (ON SPEAKER): Hi.

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Something felt weird to her about it.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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So we cruised around the
area trying to find this car.

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We find it a block away from our decoy.

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And he's parked in such a manner that we

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can see her on the opposite
side of the street.

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Normal people, if they're
going to look at somebody,

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they'll do this.

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They'll sit in eyesight
from you and look at you.

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A hunter wants to observe
without being seen.

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He's the predator, and that's the prey.

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I was thinking, my god, we solved it.

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This is it.
This is going to be the guy.

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And we're four or five feet apart.

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And his back of his head's to me.

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And as we drove past, I looked inside.

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And the hair on the
back of my neck went up.

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The

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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SHELLY HARDING: I'm sitting
in a restaurant with a friend

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of mine, and I look up, and it's almost

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like in a Christmas story.

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You know, where the ghosts
of Christmas past come in,

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or whatever.

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And you almost wonder, like,
is that what I really saw?

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00:26:03,330 --> 00:26:05,080
Did I hallucinate that?

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00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:07,960
And I looked at my friend,
and I said that guy

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00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:10,070
- tried to kill me one time.
- Hey!

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00:26:10,070 --> 00:26:11,290
Hey, you!

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00:26:11,290 --> 00:26:14,420
And I just started chasing
him out of the restaurant,

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00:26:14,420 --> 00:26:16,090
screaming you tried to kill me.

339
00:26:16,090 --> 00:26:17,540
You tried to kill me!

340
00:26:17,540 --> 00:26:18,520
Hey, come back here!

341
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:19,500
Hey!

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00:26:19,500 --> 00:26:21,500
And he got in the car.

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And he just looked straight forward

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00:26:23,010 --> 00:26:27,750
like... saying, you know, like
I was just some crazy person.

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00:26:27,750 --> 00:26:30,640
[MUSIC PLAYING]

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00:26:37,890 --> 00:26:42,280
And I really felt like I had been duped.

347
00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:46,630
The police, and the judges,
and the whole judicial system...

348
00:26:46,630 --> 00:26:47,810
I didn't matter.

349
00:26:53,690 --> 00:26:55,910
I was hoping for that... yeah, a little

350
00:26:55,910 --> 00:26:57,800
longer sentence on the rape.

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INTERVIEWER: He actually ended
up being sentenced to 12 years

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00:27:01,430 --> 00:27:03,570
and served 3.

353
00:27:03,570 --> 00:27:04,820
Don't tell me that.

354
00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:14,760
INTERVIEWER: What
comes to your mind

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00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:16,400
when you see Todd after all these years?

356
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:20,130
Well with me, I get angry.

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00:27:38,610 --> 00:27:41,820
The first night we run the decoy mission,

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00:27:41,820 --> 00:27:45,250
and we're four or five feet apart.

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00:27:45,250 --> 00:27:47,880
And his back of his head's to me.

360
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:50,660
And as we drove past, I looked inside.

361
00:27:54,970 --> 00:27:56,500
And there was Todd Reed.

362
00:27:59,410 --> 00:28:00,860
[MUSIC PLAYING]

363
00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:05,900
I mean, it was just a...

364
00:28:05,900 --> 00:28:09,140
Like a bell going off, a siren going off.

365
00:28:09,140 --> 00:28:16,840
Circumstantially, it's a pretty
cosmic coincidental moment.

366
00:28:23,580 --> 00:28:27,150
We needed evidence to convict him.

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00:28:27,150 --> 00:28:32,170
We'd gotten DNA samples off the victims.

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00:28:32,170 --> 00:28:34,830
We run it through our database to see

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if it popped up with a name.

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00:28:39,730 --> 00:28:43,450
At the time it was a pretty slow process.

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00:28:43,450 --> 00:28:49,910
So we kept on him 24 hours a day
until we got the DNA tests back

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that positively identified
that his DNA had been found

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at the scenes up in Forest Park.

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NEWSCASTER (ON TV): Employees at
Rinella's Produce in southeast

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00:29:04,500 --> 00:29:06,930
Portland can't believe
their coworker, Todd Reed,

376
00:29:06,930 --> 00:29:08,700
is an alleged serial killer.

377
00:29:08,700 --> 00:29:11,970
Police showed up and arrested him.

378
00:29:11,970 --> 00:29:15,340
This certainly does not ease
the pain felt by the families.

379
00:29:15,340 --> 00:29:17,400
Nor does this diminish
the loss of Stephanie,

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00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:19,070
Lilla, or Alexandria.

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00:29:21,850 --> 00:29:26,470
I think I was still in so much grief

382
00:29:26,470 --> 00:29:31,450
that I really didn't have
time to focus on Todd Alan

383
00:29:31,450 --> 00:29:36,230
Reed other than the hatred
that I felt toward him

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for what he had done.

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00:29:40,620 --> 00:29:42,610
[MUSIC PLAYING]

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SUSAN ISON: What I remember
from her memorial service

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00:29:51,730 --> 00:29:57,470
is there were hundreds of people there,

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00:29:57,470 --> 00:30:07,010
and I had never felt so
much love, and acceptance,

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00:30:07,010 --> 00:30:09,350
and compassion as I did that day that I

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00:30:09,350 --> 00:30:10,630
went to that memorial service.

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00:30:22,550 --> 00:30:24,930
There were a lot of street
kids there at her service.

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00:30:27,940 --> 00:30:33,070
And my whole attitude changed because I

393
00:30:33,070 --> 00:30:35,290
saw the love they had for her.

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00:31:22,610 --> 00:31:26,630
We decided we'd contact Shelly, tell

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00:31:26,630 --> 00:31:29,480
her that we'd arrested Todd.

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00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:31,580
She was incarcerated at the time.

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00:31:34,810 --> 00:31:39,000
And we were walking into
the big open day room area.

398
00:31:41,630 --> 00:31:47,150
She walked up to me, and she
goes, you got him didn't you?

399
00:31:47,150 --> 00:31:48,600
I said, yeah.

400
00:31:54,380 --> 00:31:57,580
And I said, what's the person's name?

401
00:31:57,580 --> 00:32:00,760
And he said, Todd Alan Reed.

402
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:09,550
And... and I felt like
I shot out of my skin.

403
00:32:09,550 --> 00:32:12,450
I mean, I never felt
shock like that before.

404
00:32:12,450 --> 00:32:16,590
And I could not wrap my mind around...

405
00:32:16,590 --> 00:32:17,460
Why me?

406
00:32:17,460 --> 00:32:21,100
Why am I the one that got away?

407
00:32:21,100 --> 00:32:24,380
Because so many other women didn't.

408
00:32:31,610 --> 00:32:34,020
[MUSIC PLAYING]

409
00:32:36,930 --> 00:32:40,240
The jury hears what you have to say.

410
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:43,660
I just remember him saying
look, I need you to help me.

411
00:32:43,660 --> 00:32:45,620
We need to put this guy away.

412
00:32:45,620 --> 00:32:48,110
And I can't do it if
you're all messed up.

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00:32:51,010 --> 00:32:52,690
SHELLY HARDING: He gave
me her business card.

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00:32:52,690 --> 00:32:53,920
And he said, you're going to go here,

415
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:56,040
and you're going to talk this lady.

416
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:58,440
DAVE SCHLEGEL: Call.

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00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:02,630
I had tried to make
changes so many times.

418
00:33:02,630 --> 00:33:04,660
And it never worked.

419
00:33:04,660 --> 00:33:10,340
It never stuck because I just couldn't

420
00:33:10,340 --> 00:33:12,450
handle the thoughts, the feelings,

421
00:33:12,450 --> 00:33:19,000
and I just wanted my mind to stop.

422
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:20,690
And I wanted to die.

423
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:32,600
But I felt a responsibility
to Lilla and knowing

424
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:35,760
exactly what she went through.

425
00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:40,110
And then I got pissed.

426
00:33:40,110 --> 00:33:41,590
And I was not going to let my story

427
00:33:41,590 --> 00:33:45,430
end there, dead in a ditch.

428
00:33:45,430 --> 00:33:48,260
I was going to do whatever
it took to put him away.

429
00:34:00,300 --> 00:34:03,740
[MUSIC PLAYING]

430
00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:14,050
(QUIETLY) I haven't
read this in a long time.

431
00:34:14,050 --> 00:34:16,020
[MUSIC PLAYING]

432
00:34:19,970 --> 00:34:25,580
It says, my name is
Michelle Kotoff Harding.

433
00:34:25,580 --> 00:34:30,470
I am the only known
survivor of the defendant.

434
00:34:30,470 --> 00:34:33,170
What I want you to know is
on that horrible night he

435
00:34:33,170 --> 00:34:37,190
continuously raped me and
tried to take my life.

436
00:34:37,190 --> 00:34:40,790
I was seven months pregnant.

437
00:34:40,790 --> 00:34:44,870
He had no regard for my
life and the innocent life

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00:34:44,870 --> 00:34:47,320
of my unborn child.

439
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:49,840
Since the attack I've had to
be hospitalized too many times

440
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:53,920
to count for depression and
post-traumatic stress disorder.

441
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:56,550
I'm terrified of the dark, and
I have to sleep with the lights

442
00:34:56,550 --> 00:34:57,250
on.

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00:35:00,390 --> 00:35:04,640
This is something that I'll carry

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00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:07,140
with me the rest of my life.

445
00:35:07,140 --> 00:35:09,110
[MUSIC PLAYING]

446
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:16,150
And I looked at him straight in the eye,

447
00:35:16,150 --> 00:35:19,300
and I said, but through it all I take

448
00:35:19,300 --> 00:35:23,690
great satisfaction knowing that
you are going to burn in hell.

449
00:35:23,690 --> 00:35:25,290
And I got up and I left.

450
00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:34,090
[MUSIC PLAYING]

451
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:39,730
I'll always have a special
place in my heart for Shelly.

452
00:35:39,730 --> 00:35:46,450
I was forever grateful for her
coming forward and testifying

453
00:35:46,450 --> 00:35:48,880
at his sentencing.

454
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:51,490
I felt like that was a
very brave and courageous

455
00:35:51,490 --> 00:35:52,510
thing for her to do.

456
00:35:55,410 --> 00:36:03,160
And when it came my turn
to make a statement,

457
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:05,280
I looked him in the eye.

458
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:08,460
And he looked at me...

459
00:36:08,460 --> 00:36:14,560
No expression and didn't
even blink when I told

460
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:16,330
him what he had stolen from me.

461
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:32,270
[MUSIC PLAYING]

462
00:36:47,740 --> 00:36:51,760
I've been retired 10 years.

463
00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:54,820
There were things that I saw that I

464
00:36:54,820 --> 00:36:56,140
didn't want to see anymore.

465
00:37:00,550 --> 00:37:05,080
I can't imagine the
feeling of losing a child

466
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:08,890
in a situation like that.

467
00:37:08,890 --> 00:37:13,170
The aftermath of these
things for the families

468
00:37:13,170 --> 00:37:18,790
and the victims, they're
going to leave scars.

469
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:24,640
I don't know that you ever get over it.

470
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:26,260
You just deal one day at a time.

471
00:37:29,020 --> 00:37:30,980
[MUSIC PLAYING]

472
00:37:33,430 --> 00:37:35,400
[PAPER RUSTLING]

473
00:37:41,790 --> 00:37:44,210
Dear Dave, Hi.

474
00:37:44,210 --> 00:37:46,140
Yes, it's me.

475
00:37:46,140 --> 00:37:47,700
I wanted to make sure that you know

476
00:37:47,700 --> 00:37:49,860
how much I appreciate your friendship

477
00:37:49,860 --> 00:37:52,730
and compassion over the years.

478
00:37:52,730 --> 00:37:55,090
If it wasn't for you,
I don't think I would

479
00:37:55,090 --> 00:37:57,230
have made it through all this.

480
00:37:57,230 --> 00:38:00,800
I'd probably be out there,
messed up even worse,

481
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:01,610
instead of here.

482
00:38:05,710 --> 00:38:06,460
That's pretty nice.

483
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:17,940
[MUSIC PLAYING]

484
00:38:23,970 --> 00:38:24,770
[LAUGHING] This is me.

485
00:38:24,770 --> 00:38:28,250
And this is Dave Schlegel.

486
00:38:28,250 --> 00:38:30,180
And it's very important
that he was there.

487
00:38:32,990 --> 00:38:37,660
Because I wouldn't have
been here without him.

488
00:38:37,660 --> 00:38:40,380
I would have never got to be this girl.

489
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:46,720
[MUSIC PLAYING]

490
00:38:49,650 --> 00:38:52,600
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here...

491
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:56,290
Because I just remember
sitting at bus stops.

492
00:38:56,290 --> 00:38:58,600
Like it being cold and not
having on the right clothes.

493
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:00,750
And I can still remember
watching cars go by

494
00:39:00,750 --> 00:39:03,180
and thinking, I want to be that person.

495
00:39:03,180 --> 00:39:05,630
And seeing those moms with
their babies in the back

496
00:39:05,630 --> 00:39:07,140
and thinking, I want to be that person.

497
00:39:07,140 --> 00:39:10,260
Like, I want to be
anybody but me, you know.

498
00:39:10,260 --> 00:39:14,880
And may your days be
good and long on earth.

499
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:18,370
And Arthur, you may kiss the bride.

500
00:39:18,370 --> 00:39:19,870
[CLAPPING]

501
00:39:22,870 --> 00:39:26,490
Dave Schlegel, he was
that one cheerleader,

502
00:39:26,490 --> 00:39:30,050
that one person that believed in me.

503
00:39:30,050 --> 00:39:31,460
[MUSIC PLAYING]

504
00:39:34,290 --> 00:39:35,820
I hope that he knows
that he saved my life.

505
00:39:48,250 --> 00:39:50,230
[MUSIC PLAYING]

506
00:40:05,150 --> 00:40:07,580
I can say this happened 18 years ago,

507
00:40:07,580 --> 00:40:09,590
but it still affects my life today.

508
00:40:15,350 --> 00:40:18,010
All of my children have
struggled with Alex's loss.

509
00:40:21,740 --> 00:40:23,510
My youngest daughter started having

510
00:40:23,510 --> 00:40:27,220
panic attacks at 11 years old.

511
00:40:27,220 --> 00:40:30,770
My son got into his addiction.

512
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:37,960
My other son just kind of
went into a depression.

513
00:40:42,900 --> 00:40:44,880
[MUSIC PLAYING]

514
00:40:51,300 --> 00:40:55,230
There's not a day that goes by
that I don't think about her.

515
00:40:55,230 --> 00:40:57,210
I love her to pieces.

516
00:40:57,210 --> 00:40:58,010
And I miss her terribly.

517
00:41:02,220 --> 00:41:04,260
These memories are so
cherished because it's

518
00:41:04,260 --> 00:41:06,590
all I have of her is memories.

519
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:16,330
[MUSIC PLAYING]

520
00:41:21,830 --> 00:41:27,020
For those days when I really
struggled and life seemed too

521
00:41:27,020 --> 00:41:30,020
much, I would tell myself, you know,

522
00:41:30,020 --> 00:41:31,180
Lilla doesn't get this chance.

523
00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:39,360
[MUSIC PLAYING]

524
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:46,300
[CRYING]

525
00:41:46,300 --> 00:41:49,200
I just hope you know that...
How much you mattered.

526
00:41:52,700 --> 00:41:54,910
There's not many days that
go by that I don't forget

527
00:41:54,910 --> 00:41:55,990
I'm not supposed to be here.

528
00:41:58,850 --> 00:42:02,190
I miss you.

529
00:42:02,190 --> 00:42:05,390
And I hope that you're proud of me.

530
00:42:05,390 --> 00:42:07,860
[MUSIC PLAYING]

531
00:42:13,300 --> 00:42:16,170
While Stephanie and Alexandria,
they didn't get their do-over.

532
00:42:16,170 --> 00:42:18,630
They didn't get their second chance.

533
00:42:18,630 --> 00:42:21,220
And I did.

534
00:42:21,220 --> 00:42:24,510
And so I would want to
make them proud also.

535
00:42:24,510 --> 00:42:26,960
[MUSIC PLAYING]