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don't treat it like it'swork. because if you treat it like it's work y get tired of work and you don't want to go to work. you will not last untilmarch. >> every single one of those tips is solid but if one reason you're not hitting the gym is you think itowded, no need to worry. in a f w weks it won't be. one of the top ten money wasters is unused gym members. >> but also have to eat right. there's a complete lifestyle change that e oprah is finally ready to make. >> l inside oprah's weight loss journey. beyond the scale. >> can you believeve it's 2016 already? another year gone by and another chance to get right. >> she may be a billionaire but when comes to the new years resolutions to lose the oprah struggles like the rest of us. >> usually around this time we all makeresolutions.
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we want to accomplish. an sometime around late febrbrry and march, we lose sight of the goals. >> oprah opens up about her own challenges in the current issue of o magazin saying i washed with diet and exercise mhole life. now i'm ready to go beyond the sc create a new way of being in the world. >> it's amazing to me i can't lift it but i used to carrie it around every day. >> it's been a long journey. she famously lost 67 pounds 1988 only to gain it all back a road she doesn't want to take again stating, quote, fed up with m lose and gain again routine. i had enough of no carb regimens. some people can live wi bread and pasta but it doesn't make sense to me. only crave them re. >> as of today, since august 12th, i've lost 15 pounds. w. >> oprah is now gaining success
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so much so she boug a 10% stake in the company. >> you kn that you promise yourself and by monday afternoon you say i'll start tuesday. >> weight watchers is actually these past two months given me the to to have accountability to my >> still using a point system rather than focussing an weight loss, the program tips thehe scales toward overall health. with oprah saying, quote, for me this is not a diet. it's a wh shift in perspective. convert. >> i can now have 13 poi left for the day. >> she also credits daily yoga and meditation for a stronger mind set and it's never late to start or jump back on the band wagon to a healthier life. 2016 is your year, our year, to our best lives. >> if oprah can be open with weight loss struggle we all can.
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. years is like more than half my life. doing that i fee like is l enough. >> revealing to charlie rose in november that she is done slaying the run ways and i think he's going to be okay. last year she stoford's list of highest paid super models with a coo $44 million. >> she earned it. she is the definition of what a super model is but hold on, there is a new movement generating a lot of buzz for the take revolutionizing the size standard. >> the upcoming documentary hopes to eliminate the wor plus sizell together. >> #drop the plus is tonight inside story. >> it's going to be a bit of shocker because traditionally mo just that. >> i developed eating disorder to maintain a size0-2. it was a 70 pound difference from who i am and what i
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>> he h been starved of curvyvy wowon for so long. pun intended. >> it's the ter polarizing the fashion industry. >> plus sized models, we do the same job. >> we're here t stay. >> we're basically giving them free reign to say whatever they want. >> for model turned film make putting the spotlight on the women that pro wear double di sizes. >> we have a bunch of women in is industry speakingngheir mind. >> hew documentary straight curvee examining the great divide between straight sizes 0 through 4 and the so-called sizes 10 and above in between. >> it would be great to have ashley graham walking down the runw right next carly kloss. the campaign has gone viral. advocating for size equality. i can't can't a m just be e called a model.
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is mitszing out on so much money. plus s fashion is a multibillion dollar industry. >> not to mention positive effects on b image. >> we have young girls that are feeling really bad about themselves. i'm a part of that industry and i can be a part of the shugs. >> if i was a old girl and i saw the ad where she a size 14 they didn't call it out as plus size somewhere and i see that i might t a little bit differently about myself. >> here's question. if you're beautiful enough to be chosen to be a model to begin with, why does it matter what size you areanyway. >> you took the wor out of my mouth. it opensfall. >> he married kim and kanye and he's friend with the biebs. meet the pastor to the stars bringing h hlywood to chchch. >> ricic i'm jerry bell the second. and i'm jerry bell the third. i'm like a big bear and he's my little cub. this little guy is non-stop. he's always hanging out with his friends.
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tops and definitely valleys and the quicker you learn how to smile the better off you'll be. >> do you enjoy watching them as parents? >> yeah, absolutely. they have a lot to teach us when comes to parenting. they have been incredible. we don't h kids yet. practice every day. >> that the ne chapter? >> practicing >> start talking about sex in church it always gets awkward. >> while the pair have appea on keeping up with the kardashians a f times rich and his wife recently realized their own reality run with the oxygen series. >> did i ment i'm a pastor. >> why was it time to do your own thing? >> i never watched much reality tv. >> do you ever worry are there cameras around too much. >> you have pretty feetthough.
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>> i think for everyone the ajectory of your life is didiated by the people you surround yourself with and we have wonderful family. wonderfulparents. wonderful brothers and sisters and friends and i think that they're the voices that we really listen to. >> he actually a kanye to design the cover of his first book. >> rick schroder is preparing for his teen daughters to step into hollywood spotlight. you set down with good-looking family. >> the genetics are amazing and i caught up with rick at his l.a. ranch where i met his two daughters. both girls are teenage models and social media pros but it's the girls career moves their celebrity dad is concern about. >> you have been in hollywood
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>> a now your beautiful daughters are starting tpeir own carers. ar nervous? are you` scared? are you excited? i'm all of those things. i'm nervous and scared and excited. not necessarily for them but for the worl because they're so cool. i'm actua worried about all the boys whose hearts will be broken. >> henows how success can change your life in an instant. now he's watching as both of his teenage daughters kick start their own modeling careers. >> we were there as theyosed with tyler shields. >> the sister act, the one that i'm interestedin. >> w wat's so cool about this industry is that there's r for everyone. >> there's room for us, there's room for kendall and kylie a
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would ever want to do what they did to her. >> amyjane was an angel. traveling the world with her church to help children. >e loved amy. they loved amy so much. >> but back home something sinister lay waiting. >> it was a pretty horrific crime scene. >> a bright young life snuffed out. >> who would do that? it doesn't make any sense at all. >> months later a mom out for a walk vanishes. >> karen's gone. i don't know where she is. i just cried. >> one murder, one disappearance in the same small town. but soon police would discover a creepier connection. >> one of the detectives had gotten his hands on an image of amyjane brandhagen and karen lang together. >> oh, my god. >> the dead teenager and the missing mom arm in arm. >> in that moment most of us knew that that wasn't coincidence. >> was someone stalking the
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this sounds more like a zodiac-type killer. >> absolutely. >> a race to connect the dots revealing a truth darker than anyone imagined. >> i don't get that. i mean, it's just evil. >> i'm lester holt. and this is "dateline." here's keith morrison with "someone was out there." there are children born into this world for whom the dance never ends. for whom joy seems uncontained. for whom exuberance is uncontainable. >> amyjane. what are we doing right now? >> we're riding the roof of a car. >> there was this young woman, a sprite really in a young woman's body who loved adventure and people and who danced to music no one else could hear. which is why -- >> it haunted me. this case haunted me. >> haunted the police. haunted the whole town.
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around? >> a serial killer with plans for two women in one particular church in one particular photograph? >> i was like this is insane and everybody needs to find this person. >> yes. but it began with that girl, that sprite. >> just the freest spirit that you could think of. like literallylyot having a care in the world.. >> kate cook is talking about her friend and fellow missionary amyjane brandhagen. talking about her now that it's happenedl that it's all over. kate and amyjane went to india and nepal together back in 2012. small town girls, kate from wisconsin, amyjane from oregon. >> she's always ready to give and pour her heart out to people and just give everything she had to offer. >> t ty were there three months for something called youths with a mission. or ywam for short.
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taj mahal. like preachers, they spread the word. to children, mostly. for whom amyjane was magnetic, irresistible. >> they would see her and run up and say the word that means sister, sister. so excited. >> when the three-month mission trip was over. >> she h hed it. she was like i don't want to go home. >> home for amyjane was a universe away from vibrant teeming india. here it is. pendleton. safely tucked into a small valley on the vast rolling flanks of eastern oregon. cowboy country. >> ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the pendleton roundup! >> home to one of the nation's biggest rodeos, the pendleton roundup, which each september
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tumble past as a brawling and bordello-filled cow town. and then good conservative citizens wave good-bye to the parting cowboys and settle into a safe and predictable life and fill the pews every sunday morning without fail. people like bill caldera, who was like family to amyjane and her parents, jim and kathy brandhagen. >> they brought amyjane home when she was three days old. and they brought her home. >> bill and knew the remarkable little girl l om the very beginning. you watched amyjane grow up. >> yes. >> and saw what sort of girl emerge? >> she is very carefree, loving, didn't know a stranger. >> the brandhagens asked bill to speak for them after what happened when they sorely needed their church family at pendleton free methodist. like youth minister jeff hummel
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encountered the dancing sprite when she was in middle school. >> if she got the feeling that you were left out, she'd find you and make sure that you knew you had a friend. >> little bit like pippi longstocking. >> i always remember she knew everyone's name. she was just fun. >> one year when she was far away in india, the people who loved amyjane worried a lot. and didn't breathe easy until she returned home to the safety and security of pendleton. where -- >> she was waiting for god to tell her what to do next. whether it was going to be to travel the world or go back or go to school. >> she wanted more freedom too, so she moved out of her parents' house and got herself a little apartment in downtown pendleton. worked two jobs to pay for it including a job cleaning motel rooms at the travelodge across from city hall. >> she was excited to get this other job, but she wasn't so sure about working at the hotel. she was a little nervous about
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>> after all she'd never done that sort of thing before, or answered to a boss who -- this one sounded gruff. but she went. and she scoured and scrubbed those little rooms that looked out on downtown pendleton. and then it was august 14th, 2012. >> 911, what is your emergency? >> i am calling from travelodge, there's a girl dead in the babaroom. i don't kn. >> a girl dead in the bathroom? >> i think she's passed out. >> okay. i'm going to get the police and ambulance headed that way, okay? >> in his office down the hall from the 911 operator, bill caldera listened and felt the dread flood in. >> just gave me a feeling in the pit of my stomach that something was not good about this call. >> bill, remember, was a clolo friend of the brandhagen famamy, attends s e same church. but he's also a policeman. and that day with the chief on vacation, lieutenant bill caldera was the man in charge.
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sergeants arrived on scene he requested my presence which i knew then we would probably be dealing with a homicide. >> as he raced to the motel he couldn't know what had just been started there any more than whose life had just ended. >> what this veteran investigator was about to find would leave him stunned. >> i just can't tell you the feeling th went through my mind. >> when we return, a crime that thanks to a suspect list that could include anyone and everyone. >> within the first hour of being at the crime scene upwards of 50 people walked by. [cough, cough] mike? janet? cough if you can hear me. don't even think about it. i took mucinex dm for my phlegmy cough. yeah...but what about mike? he has that dry scratchy thing going on. guess what? it works on his cough too. cough! guess what? it works on his cough too.
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if god had a plan for pendleton, oregon, on the afternoon of august 14th, 2012, one could hardly have imagined it would be this. >> 911, what is your emergency? >> there's a girl dead in the bathroom. >> lieutenant bill caldera prepared himself as he drove over to the travelodge and then climbed the stairs to room 231. all the preparation in the world could not have been enough. lying on the batatoom floor her lifeless body punctured by the startling scarlet of a dozen stab wounds was the sweet free spirit he'd known since she was a baby, 19-year-old amyjane brandhagen. >> it just felt like somebody kicked me in the pit of my stomach. i just can't tell you the
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mind. >> almost like she was your kid in a way. >> very much. >> lieutent caldera took it upon himselfo notify amy jane's parents. >> and that was probably the toughest thing that i've ever had to do in my career. and i can't tell you the feeling we all had. we broke down in tears. >> but why would anyone want to kill amyjane of all people? >> i was crushed. like how is this even possible? i was speechless. and then i just sasacrying in the bathroom for probably the next hour like not understanding, like craziness. >> as word spread through amy jane's church family, so did the questions. high school youth pastor chris thatcher. early on was there any indication of who may have been responsible? >> i don't think anybody had any idea. i think that's what made this so
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know each other. we're family here. >> but there was the dismal work to do. lieutenant caldera returned to the motel where amy was murdered. it would be pretty hard for you to take part in an active investigation. >> no, i wouldn't have. i couldn't have. not with my relationship. >> lieutenant caldera turned the case over to detective sergeant rick jackson. >> it was a pretty -- pretty horrific crime scene. >> it was obvious amyjane fought for her life. heheglasses lay in the b bhtub. blood spattered the walls. dna of a male presumably her attacker would be found under her fingernails. but the medical examiner said it was not a sex attack. and it wasn't robbery either. amyjane's purse and cell phone were still right there on the bedside table. and nobody saw a thing. even though -- >> this is during broad daylight with a motel room door -- with motel room doors open. >> the only potential witness, if he was a witness at all, was
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who said he saw a young man with longer hair, darker skin, perhaps hispanic or native american, walking near the back parking lot. >> it may have been the person who did it and it may not have been. >> could have been somebody passing by. >> sure. while we were there she was in the first hour of being at the crime scene. upwards of 50 people walked byby i mean, this is a pretty busy area of townwn >> busy, yes. and studded with cctv cameras. banks, bridges, city hall, walking trails along the river that runs through town. detectives painstakingly went through the footage. >> there was nothing. >> they took dna from dozens of motel guests to check against the sample taken from amyjane's fingernails. wasn't any of them. so detective jackson went to the people who knew amyjane well, or perhaps romantically. those stab wounds were all focused around her heart, which often indicates some kind of crime of passion.
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>> i think most of the males we spoke to really viewed themselves as her protectors. >> pendleton police chief stuart roberts hurried back home from his abbreviated mexican vacation and encountered a case going nowhere fast. >> everybody thahaknew her characteririd her in the same way. she knew no stranger. she didn't have an evil bone in her body. >> as the investigation entered its second week, amyjane's family prepared a memorial service at the church where they'd raised their daughter. >> amy loves thunderstorms. it was one of her favorite things to do go out barefoot and dance in the rain because she just loved it. the morning of her memorial service there was a loud clap of thunder thatatame over town about 6:30. and several of us heard it. i think we knew. >> up there dancing in the rain somewhere, huh? >> i think she was. >> together we pray, in jesus'
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>> hundreds crowded into amy jane's church. and many like jed and lisa hummel were amazed by the strength of amyjane's parents. >> they were hurting deeply, but they weren't looking for vengeance. >> me, on the other hand, i was just ticked. and everybody needs to find this person. >> oh, they were certainly trying. even at that very moment. >> we had about 10 to 12 undercover officers in and about the memorial service looking for anybody that would strike us as odd. >> but no one stood out. >> hang in there, caleb. hang in there. >> a month after the murder, the famous roundup filled the streets as usual. and then they emptied again. and as the autumn wind turned raw, detective jackson's investigation chased down every lead and got nowhere. >> we call them rabbit trails. we ran hundreds of rabbit trails
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holidays for other people. not detective jackson. not chief roberts. >> it haunted me. this case haunted me. >> and then a spring breeze dipped into the pendleton valley, curled its warming fingers into secret corners and came out whispering a name. coming up -- >> we've gone for months with noththg and now this. >> oututf the blue, a tip. have cops found their killer? >> we go out and find his
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could have done this. six months after the murder of amyjane brandhagen, investigators finally caught a break. a county jail inmate looking for a deal got word out to the cops. he claimed to know who killed amyjane. >> i mean, we'd gone for months with nothing and now this. >> there were two of them, said the inmate. ira draper and eric torrrr, both
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enforcement. who soon confirmed the men were in the area the day of the murder. they found torres first. and looked like they were on to something. torres said, yes, he was in on it. but he didn't kill her. it was the guy he was with, he said. draper, who went into the motel room and came out very bloody. >> he basically tells them, yeah, i was driving the getaway car. >> it was his buddy who did the killing, he said. ira draper. >> so we go out and find his girlfriend. she's going, i always believed he potentially could have done this. he's aggressive. and he has these journals. and there are journal entries about defiling women and killing and burying them. >> they found and questioned draper who said he understood why he was a suspect. >> have you ever thought about killing anybody? >> i've never really planned it out, but maybe thought about it, yeah.
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sinking feeling. >> he was very much so enamored by the fact the police were giving him attention. >> he was playing you. playing it for all it was worth. >> he was getting a little street cred for it. >> the dna confirmed it was all an act. two unpleasant men, the police said, who seemed to be enjoying themselves at the expense of the cops. so back to zero. by august 2013 it had been almost a full year since amy jane brandhagen's murder in pendleton. investigators had exhausted hundreds of leads. and themselves. >> i knew it was having an impact on my physiological health as well as my mental health. >> on august 8th the chief took his family out of to for some r and r. and the very next day a woman named karen lange happened to be
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was going for a walk. >> and she came down. and i'll never forget what she said. she said, well, you know, i was thinking that we can maybe go out for dessert afterward. >> karen was an accomplished singer and pianist. dan vice president of the local community college. her walk along the river levee in downtown pendleton, the river walk was almost a daily habit. it was 4:30 p.m. lots of sun left on the warm august afternoon. >> and the last words she said to me were, well, i guess we'll just have a nice boring evening. dan went back to tinkering on hihimotorcycle. lost all track of time. it was dark when his son walked into the room and asked an innocuous question. >> where's mom? i said, well, i don't know. i'll give her a call. so i went -- i tried to make the
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hold of her. >> but it was after 9:30 p.m. karen usually walked for less than an hour. she'd been gone for five. in some people anxiety stokes panic. dan is not like that. it's a coping mechanism, he stays calm. he made another call. >> long day, 10:00 at night. my phone rings. i answer, hi, dan. >> remember jed and lisa hummel? friend of amyjane's from church? karen always parked their car in front of her house when she took her late afternoon walks. >> says, is karen at your house? no. i juju got home and i askekelisa if she'd been over. and i said, no, haven't seen her. >> and i had looked outside and sure enough the car was still there. so we went out to the car and she wasn't there. >> so jed and lisa grabbed flashlights and walked a couple of blocks from their house down there in the parking lot sat a pendleton policeman. what s suld they do they asked
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unusual enough that he got ahold of dan. >> as the officer left to talk to dan, jed and lisa kept looking through the dark along the riverbank. >> there's a fear of not finding anything. and there's a fear of finding something. >> when i got to where the policeman was, we were talking, and he said, you seem to be awfully calm for your wife being missing. and at that point i thought,t, holy mackerel, you know, if there's something -- if there's something bad that happened to her, i could be a suspect. >> from his patrol car the officer was able to pull up images from cameras stationed around the river levee. no sign of karen. then her cell provider sent a ping to karen's phone. turned up across the main road about half a mile from the river. in the parking lot at walmart.
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not find karen. what was going on? around and around the river walk they went pointing their puny flashlights at a sea of dark. >> i did go home at about 5:00. i wrote an e-mail saying karen's gone. i don't know where she is. i just have to go to bed. and i went and i just cried. >> he did not sleep long. the phone call that startled him awake brought news. some good, some very, very bad. coming up -- amyjane's murder and karen's disappearance. could they be connected? investigators are about to discover a disturbing clue. >> i think in that moment most of us knew that that wasn't coincidence.
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dawn took its own time on the morning of august 10th, 2013. by that time going on 6:00 a.m. karen lang had been missing more than 12 hours. then finally the morning sun lit up the banks of the umatilla river. >> then the policeman called, we found your wife. >> she was found and alive but what the policeman said next was terrifying. >> well, when he said we found your wife and she's alive, that was a great relief. but he certainly made it sound like it was a tough thing. >> oh, it was. karen had been struck from behind by some heavy blunt object. her skull was crushed. the wound was massive. right away the detective called
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mountains five hours away and described the way they found her. did he think she was dead already? >> he thought she was dead. tremendous amount of blood. he indicates that he reaches for her wrist to see if she has a pulse and her leg moves. and she gasps. >> but it didn't look like she'd be alive for long. the detective drove dave lang to the hospital, told him prepare for the worst. as he arrived at the emergency room, dan ran into a nurse he knew. >> and she took one look at me, and it was so heartbroken that i, of course, broke down. and then i had a chance to see karen. >> the doctors gave her a slim chance, 1 in 100, maybe. she was airlifted to a bigger hospital in portland for specialized care. as dan kept watch at her bedside, he remembered an odd comment karen made a few days before she was attacked.
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grown. she wasn't sure what her purpose was any more. as she told dan -- >> i really wish that i could be, you know, more useful, if i'm going to remain here. >> on planet earth. >> on planet earth. i would assure her that god has a plan. and you will be used. >> but what kind of use was this? if she lived, she might never regain consciousness. if she regained consciousness, she might never be the same. how useful could that be? and then suddenly, the case in the murder of amy brandhagen and the attack on karen lang seemed to take on a new and terrifying meaning. chief roberts returned from his vacation to be handed this photograph by investigators. it had been taken four years earlier. >> one of the detectives had gotten his hands on an image of amyjane brandhagen and karen lang together dated august 14th.
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>> amyjane brandhagen was murdered on august 14th. karen lang was assaulted on august the 9th one year after amyjane's murder. >> you think somebody's targeting them or someone within the church has some strange motivation? >> it could be a member of the congregation or it could be somebody who they provided outreach services to. >> in pendleton at the free methodist church, the word spread quickly. >> i think in that moment most of us knew that that wasn't coincidence. and i can't tell you how we knew. >> well, small town, same church. >> small town, same church. we all knew each other. i think we just knew. >> in a town where murder is rare, two women, one photo, and dates that lined up like a message. had to be a connection. >> certainly crossed my mind.
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>> so they scoured hours of video recorded by dozens of cameras stationed around town looking for a suspect. good luck. when amyjane was murdered in broad daylight, those videos turned up exactly nothing. but then, then luck turned. they saw this. recorded by one of the cameras stationed around the river walk, 6:31 p.m. karen lang, there she is right there, out for her walk. and following her, a man watching her with what looks like a pipe hidden behind his back right there. >> they cross a small foot bridge. there's a short stretch there maybe 50 or 60 yards where there's just no visibility from any direction unless you're actually on the path. and right there is where he attacks her. >> is that where she was found? >> she was found about 30 feet down the path. >> and then they found this video recorded by another camera about an hour after the attack. same man enters a park bathroom. and minutes later emerges to use a drinking fountain.
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same guy. we've got to show it's the same guy. >> wait, same guy as who? chief roberts remembered after amyjane was murdered the only witness who saw anything reported a young man with dark hair wandering near the motel. >> basically the description was fairly generic. male, 20-something, dark hair, a little bit longer, with dark toned skin. now we have this second crime a year later, almost to the anniversary, and here's a male profile or image on our network camera system that fits. it fits. >> but who was he? and why was he targeting women from the same church? within hours a very unusual kind of pendleton roundup was underway. the order was clear -- find him. fast. coming up --
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