up next on a second look they made headlines when they survived their kidnapping and eventually gained their freedom. from newspaper heiress patty hurst to a girl held in a crawl space underneath a church to a girl who talked her kidnapping to letting her go. this past week a shocking story came to light out of the

cleveland. three women held captive for more than a decade all found safe inside a home there. it's raised memories of other similar cases including jaycee dugard. but it also brings to light another case of a berkeley student, a newspaper heiress. from her abduction to her apparent conversion to sla revolutionary, to her capture to her trial on federal bank robbery charges would flood the headlines. on the 30th anniversary, dennis richmond who covered the case from the beginning had this look back. >> police swarmed over the berkeley apartment shared by patty hurst.

heavily armed gunmen had fired warnings to discourage curious neighbors. two years later the first of many tapes arrived. >> mom, dad, i'm okay. >> we love you patty. and we're all praying for you. i'm sorry i'm crying but i'm happy you are safe. and be strong. i know god will bring you back. >> reporter: it was then learned that patty hurst had been kidnapped by a group calling them the sambienes liberation army the sla. the sla claimed responsibility for a killing because they said they didn't like some of their programs, allowing searching of school lockers for guns. romero was an sla member who was then inprisoned for the

murder. >> reporter: charles bates now retired was the special agent in charge for the effort to first rescue hurst later to track her down for bank robbery. >> they had a name of people they were going to kidnap and they kidnapped patty. >> reporter: by now a portrait was beginning to emerge of the sla. its self-style leader was a person who called himself cue. he was an escaped prison inmate with a passion for plum wine. sarcruse main player was miss moon. camila hall who was thought to have master minded the kidnapping of hurst. and these women along with a third person were thought by the fbi to be the real brain of

the sla. >> i will be frankly, the white women involved in the sla decided to bring him in so they would not be accused of being racist. >> reporter: they quickly shifted gears and offered themselves as servants of people. with a demand that hurst sponsor a food give away if patty were to be set free. that give away quickly turned into a fee fiasco. when it was over, newspaper headlines blared the sla's next demand they wanted more. >> did that get in your way? >> no because it's not going to affect what i'm doing to try to find the sla. >> reporter: the food give away was quickly forgotten as the

new demand from the sla came in. >> we realized that the only alternative to freedom is death. and that the only way we can free ourselves of this fascist dictatorship is by fighting not with words but with guns. >> the easiest thing for them to do is to join. i am sure they talked to them about the sla rhetoric. what a fascist her dad was and all of those things they talked about. >> reporter: a few days later the latest photo of patty hurst appeals it is a leather garbed tanya. >> we did some background study on that and it came from che guevara or one of those guys down in south america. i don't think it had any effect on the final outcome. it got a lot of coverage. and it portrayed patti is one of the terrorists and that's what the sla was. >> reporter: what happened next

made the tanya tape peal in comparison . >> dennis sits down with a former cia agent who was at the center of the search. abducted for seven years how steven senard gained his freak and freed process.

in 1974, patty went from captor to criminal. that after -- dennis richmond talked to at bates about how the dramatic events played out.

>> the defense said the gun isn't loaded. the prosecution said yes it was. how do you know? patty doesn't know anything about guns. she was going across like this. says i'm patty hurst. probably because she was told to. >> reporter: patty hurst and the sla dropped out of sight while the cia searched for her. then came word of a shooting in los angeles. a man tried to shoplift. the clerk grabbed him and had one hand handcuff on him when a woman opened fire. >> patty takes this sm1 and stitches the marquee. >> reporter: patty hurst and the harris got away but they left too many clues. the fbi is just about 24 hours

away from arresting the sla and patty hurst. >> they said come out with your hands up. they only said that 21 times and then they fired tear gas through the front window. as soon as they shot tear gas through the front window, the s la started firing. >> the news carried the scene live. the hide out in flames, ammunition could be heard exploding from some where inside. curiosity seekers flocked to the burned out house. sla photos were found along with sin cue and the others all expect for bill and emily harris and patty hurst. it would be 16 months before

the fbi finally caught up with them. >> every day that goes by we're one day closer to when we're going to find them. because we checked out a lot of things. we've interviewed a lot of people. >> reporter: former fbi agent tom patton says the break came when agents decided to secretly watch supporters of the sla. >> kathleen salia was one of those people she had given a speech over in berkeley where she encouraged the harris' and patty hurst to stay in there and keep you know up the good work. the lead that got them was the surveying of the solia family to those two addresses. >> september 18, 1975 base told his agents to move in after the harris and hurst were tracked to two different homes in san francisco. the harris' were jogging when the agents moved in. >> we put a microin front, a car in front a car in back and

said fbi freeze. pulled harris out. we had a fingerprint kit. slapped his hands on that. we had his prints because he was in the service and it was bill. >> reporter: not far away patty hurst and another fugitive was also taken. >> they look in there and there's patty and tom sitting at the table. tom has a shotgun with him. he said fbi open the door. >> patty had picked up on us and she was starting to get up. i told them to freeze fbi and she didn't. and i told her if she didn't freeze i was going to blow her head off with that she put her hands up. we asked about weapons and wendy told me that she had a shotgun in her bedroom. >> reporter: five guns were seized at this house on moore street and the rest of the items seem to be more of a personal nature. if one of the two houses were

used as a headquarters, it would seem to be the harris' home. bates clearly remembers the day patty was taken into custody in an elevator. >> i told her, i am sure for many ways you are glad this is over. of course she was in a high stress situation. >> on february 4, 1976 two years to the day after patty hurst was kidnapped she went on trial for robbery. after 12 hours of deliberation a jury of what had been called the trial of the century found patty hurst guilty. down to 87-pound and with a collapsed lung hurst is hospitalized. it would be two years since she

would begin serving her sentence. on february 1, 1979 after serving four years. then president jimmy carter commutes her sentence. patty hurst is free. >> i have gotten a lot stronger, a lot more self- confidence. i take a lot more things in stride that make over people fall apart. >> reporter: patty hurs appeared on a television talk show. she was held in a closet and repeatedly raped. >> right when you got out -- right when you were taken out of the closet you were immediately raped? >> well by different members. >> the harrises -- had gone to

live in a different building. i don't know many my mind i think that if i had stay -- stayed away from them long ago i could have broken the contact and thought i don't have to do this anymore. but as it was at that point i really believed i had no place else to go. >> reporter: now 20 years later, patty hurst shaw is living with a former police officer who quit his job to become her body girl and eventually married her. how a boy's why shop t.j.maxx and marshalls?

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steinard disappeared while walking home. he would appear again five years later after he led a young boy into the police station. both had been kidnapped by the same man. he reunited with his family, got married and had children. but by 1989 while riding his motorcycle to work, steinard hit a car and died. >> reporter: steven steinard the very young man who's childhood was stolen from him. this is steven at 18 after he was reunited with his family after being held captive for eight years. he was forced to live with his abductor kevin parnell. steven said kevin sexually

molested him and told people he was his son. the next day steven carried timmy piggy back then he told why he decided to escape. >> i left because i didn't like it happened to me and i didn't want to see it happen to somebody else. >> reporter: parnel was convicted with two counts of kidnapping but served two years and is now reportedly living quietly in berkeley. steven steinard eventually got married and had two kids. last spring his story became a tv mini series life which had been so horrible with him was finally getting better until yesterday. the highway patrol says that's when steinard crashed into this plymouth. >> apparently steinard had no chance other than to put on the

>> reporter: officers are looking for barr era they say fled the scene. steinard was not wearing a helmet. a young boy like steven steinard would have to survive all that he did only to have his life end like this. >> seems like there's no justice in the world for someone to have lived through that and then fall down on a motorcycle. >> he didn't have a life and then died at such a young age. it just didn't seem to be too lucky. >> neighbors in this apartment complex where steinard had been living said he didn't talk much about his past and that he used to spend a lot of time with his children. >> when we come back, how an alert citizen led to the discovery of a kidnapped little girl held captive in a church crawl space. [ male announcer ] fact: the 100% electric nissan leaf...

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in 1988 a four-year-old

girl named candy serolivo disappeared from her home. then someone spotted a man kidnapping another child and called police. that led to the capture of the man and kidnapped girl as well as candy serolivo. >> repo: this is what parents of candy had been waiting for, to have her back. monday night police in elk grove found her in the united methodist church. she was being held in a crawl space. police say the man who put her there was 32-year-old church handyman kenneth alvin michelle. a man who is deaf and also unable to speak. officers say they tracked down michelle after a witness saw him kidnap another girl monday.

5-year-old mui han seifon. she was later found in the trunk of michelle's car with hands and feet bound with duct tape. >> nobody gets near this car. now where's the suspect. where's the suspect. >> there's a girl in the trunk she's alive. >> get an ambulance, code three. >> code three ambulance, get there. >> reporter: leonard says he spotted michelle's car in an earlier attempted kidnapping. >> never saw the little girl in the car. i saw him with the little girl in his arms then i saw the car speed away from the back of the dental office. he saw me i assume, made a u turn. and at the time he made the u turn, right in front of me i took his license number down. >> at the mooreville supermarket, suzy young says she often sold groceries to michelle. >> he would come a little more frequent than he had. he would buy a little more than he usually did. but i never put the two and two together. >> reporter: officials at the

elk gre united methodist church said they were shocked. before that he worked for the day care center next door. but he had some problems with small children. and because of that he was sent to counselor and transferred to the handyman job. >> he was never accused of child molestic. he was never accused of fondling any children. there was never anything like that at all. obviously there was something that happened that was of concern enough to that staff that they took care of that very quickly. >> reporter: both girls were examined and released to their families tuesday morning. >> she is doing fine. she is regressed a little bit. a little bit. >> in what fashion? >> her speech, her language. >> reporter: candy's mother says she even learned some sign language while she was held

captive. police say it does not appear he molested either of girls. a counselor is communicating with him to see why he kidnapped the girls. another girl talked her kidnapping into letting her go. a man held her captive in a home less than a mile away from her own home. on june 2003 we got this report on the girl's recovery and reaction. >> this is a success story. >> reporter: police and the victim's family are celebrating the girl's safe return but family members were still in shock this morning over what happened the past four days. today at a news conference, the victim's mother rocilia tamayo still had the bruises and scratches she got from fighting the kidnapping. her daughter police say suffered no obvious physical trauma but was still frightened after her ordeal.

the girl's mother thanked the police, the public and the media for helping her daughter. >> i'm thankful that you helped my daughter and that you didn't leave me alone. you supported me in the worse moment and i want to tell all mothers not to let your kids walk alone even if it's a safe street. because when you lose a child, what it feels like to lose a child i think you feel like you're going to die. >> reporter: last friday afternoon, the mother and the victim's brother returned to their home on south wind drive after anker an -- after an errand and saw a man trying to take the little girl in his car. a man saw the man take off with the little girl after a fight with the girl's mother. police say the man sexually assaulted her. police say cruz drove her and turned her lose telling her not

to call police. they say he may have gotten rattled by all the media coverage. >> anyone who's a parent knows the terror of the possibility of losing a child and certainly -- mother has been through a great deal of pain. her mother has been through a great deal of main. her neighborhood has gone through a great deal of pain. certainly the city has shared that pain. but certainly we share in the light that [ bleep ] is back with her family and back where he belongs >> reporter: apparently someone led police to cruz who was arrested at a friend's house. cruz is now being cooperative. investigators are checking on a possible link between the suspect and victim. police say cruz may be what they call a friend of a friend of one of the children. >> in september 2004, a jury con vicked david cruz of kidnapping and raping that little girl. and the following ja a

moe than 100 years in prison. the judge called the crimes the most vicious he had seen during his 18 years on the bench. and that's it for this week's second look. i'm frank somerville. we'll see you again next week. you know you couldn't just pause a show in one room, then... where was i... you couldn't pause a show in one room then start playing it in another. and...i'm talking to myself... [ male announcer ] call to get u-verse tv for just $19 a month for 2 years with qualifying bundles. rethink possible.

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