dennis murphy (voiceover): tina's family has been proactive, appealing to the state parole board every time sandoval has come up for a hearing, saying, don't release him, not this time, not ever. if tina was sitting here-- don't we wish she were-- what would you tell her about all those years? i'd just tell her i love her, and we tried our hardest, and we're going to keep trying. justice is not fully served yet, and we're going to keep pushing. she emulated everything that was good. she just yelled through the door, i love you. and that was the last time i talked to her. so i said, where's brooke. and he said, we can't find her.

kate snow (voiceover): a college student vanishes. i had this chill go through my whole body. they asked us, well, do you have a crime scene? no, we don't, other than flip-flops in a parking lot. we had a community that was scared who's going to be the next victim. kate snow (voiceover): 1,000 miles away, another student in danger. she said he's got a knife. he's trying to kill me. there were guns, and there was a girl there, and there was blood. this is not the first time he's done this. kate snow (voiceover): one case would help solve the other, one man behind two mysteries. this was dynamite to us. that's the smoking gun. you're not going to believe what we found. we'd gotten so close. i want to know where she is. kate snow (voiceover): some images are eternal, timeless.

happy day! kate snow (voiceover): one moment, the future seems immeasurable, the possibilities endless. but in an instant, you can be left with only memories to hold till the end of time. brooke wilberger lived as if she had all the time in the world, to grow up, to marry, to create a close-knit family like her own parents had. we have six children, and brooke is number five. always wanted to have a big family. we ended up with one. kate snow (voiceover): cammy wilberger and her husband greg raised their children near beautiful eugene, oregon, a family that included brooke's older brother bryce and sister, stephanie. we used to just had so much fun dressing her up. she was our little toy if you will. i know. let's dress up brooke, right? yeah, she was just fun. kate snow (voiceover): little brooke didn't speak until she was four,

and even then could be a bit hard to understand. but as brooke grew, her natural talents spoke loudly, she loved animals and 4-h, played basketball, and ran track. she was good. she was better than most of the rest of us at the sports that we played. kate snow (voiceover): she snowboarded on slopes around oregon, and as her little sister jessica remembers, took pride in being scrappy on the soccer field, she came home from soccer, and she had a black eye. and my brother had asked what happened, and she laughed and said, i got in a fight. and he goes, no, you didn't, brooke. you don't get in fights. and she laughed and said, you're right. i got hit in soccer practice, but isn't it so cool? kate snow (voiceover): brooke was also an honors student at elmira high who loved to bake, scrapbook, and see the sights on the west coast. this is my home. yay! kate snow (voiceover): she could be seriously silly or stylish, happy

to shop for shoes or fashion. she was reliable, thoughtful, popular, and pretty, inside and out. she made people feel better about themselves. people wanted to be with her. yeah. and she was nice. she was intelligent, and beautiful, but she was also really nice. kate snow (voiceover): the minute she turns 16, when dad's rules allowed her to start dating, she knew she wanted her childhood friend justin to be her boyfriend. and when they graduated from high school, brooke decided to follow him to brigham young university in utah. she just really wanted to experience life outside of our community and just branch out. kate snow (voiceover): the girl who'd grown up saying words a little funny decided to study speech pathology. brooke loved her new friends and byu, but returned home her freshman year for thanksgiving to spend time with her family and shop. we had gone to meier & frank before it became macy's, and she had really liked this watch.

and it was a dressy watch. and she was pretty classy in the things that she chose to wear. so she sees it in the case, and she mentions it to you. yeah, she says, i really like that watch, mom. easy christmas present. it was. kate snow (voiceover): six months later in the spring, her freshman year was history. brooke returned home to oregon. she had a summer job in corvallis, about 30 miles from home, working at the oak park apartments, managed by her sister stephanie and stephanie's husband. and on monday, may 24, 2004, she left the house where her sister jessica was getting ready for another day of seventh grade, she's in a rush, and she walked out the door and left. and about five minutes later, she walked back in, and she just yelled through the door, i love you, and walked out. and that was the last time i talked to her. kate snow (voiceover): by 9:00 am, brooke was at the apartments, and an hour later hard at work.

i could see through our apartment to the back window facing our patio. and brooke was bending over, filling up a bucket of water. and that was the last time i saw her. at what point did you realize that she wasn't out there anymore? not until probably 1:00. i had fixed lunch for my children and for her, and she hadn't shown up. what starts going through your head when she doesn't come in for lunch? it's a large complex. there's over 100 apartments. and so i wasn't immediately worried, because i thought she could be cleaning a laundry room somewhere. i even said something like, well, let's take out the search party, tongue in cheek, and took my little kids out with me, and we started just walking around, seeing if we could see her, just to tell her that her lunch was ready. you're not in a full blown panic at this point. no, no. kate snow (voiceover): but before long, stephanie would come upon these near a lamppost brooke had been cleaning. her flip-flops were on the pavement. the little piece of plastic that goes between your toe was ripped out on one, and there were muddy toe prints

sliding down the actual sole of the shoe, so it was clear that she was trying to keep them. she was trying to stay put and stay grounded when she lost her shoes. you knew that right then. immediately, yeah. kate snow (voiceover): still, though, no panic, no cries for help for a couple of hours until 3:07 pm, when stephanie's husband placed a very calm call to 911. a very calm call to 911. where had brooke wilberger gone? why couldn't anyone find her? brooke's mom was about to learn of her daughter's disappearance in a phone call with one of her sons. i said where's brooke? and he said we don't know.

and i said, what do you mean, you don't know? he goes, we don't know where she is. and i said, spence, don't tease me. what are you talking about? and he said, no, seriously, mom, we can't find her. and right then i just had this chill go through my whole body. kate snow (voiceover): coming up, a whole community turns out to search for brooke while the police start their investigation by focusing on her family. we needed to go through is the family a suspect? and we had to get that work done, and we had investigators doing that. stephanie was just grilled about where was she? did you do it? kate snow (voiceover): when "dateline" continues. ♪♪ when you have moderate to severe eczema, it's okay to show off. with dupixent, show off your clearer skin and less itch. because you have plenty of reasons to show off your skin.

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am as she worked cleaning lampposts in the parking lot of the oak park apartments, just a block away from the bustling campus of oregon state university. at 1 pm, her sister stephanie got worried when brooke didn't show up for lunch. it just wasn't like her. she was just always on time. kate snow (voiceover): by 3:00, stephanie's husband called police. we've looked everywhere we could think to look for her here. kate snow (voiceover): word was spreading among brooke's five siblings, their sweet but feisty little sister had disappeared. when did they call you, bryce? it was mid-afternoon sometime. i think we knew something was seriously wrong when the comment was we can't find brooke. it didn't take anything longer than that. kate snow (voiceover): bryce went to pick up his mother, who was trying not to panic. a lot of people talk about that maternal feeling that sometimes you get inside. did you get a feeling? i just kept thinking maybe she

met up with one of her friends, that's going to osu. brooke wouldn't do that. it's not brooke. kate snow (voiceover): by late in the afternoon, with brooke now missing for hours, cell phones started buzzing. i was sitting at my son's tee ball game, and i got a phone call from one of our patrol lieutenants at the time who said, john, we have a missing girl. kate snow (voiceover): captain jonathan sassaman and lieutenant tim brewer, both with the corvallis pd at the time, were about to begin a journey unlike anything they had ever experienced. i asked him, what do you think? is this real? he had a natural gut instinct that this was not a walkaway. this was not a runaway. something bad had happened. kate snow (voiceover): when captain sassaman arrived at the apartments, he was struck by how few clues he had to work with. it is a parking lot with a pair of flip-flops and a bucket with soap and some water under a lamppost. kate snow (voiceover): also left behind-- brooke's wallet, purse, cell phone, and car.

nobody, it seemed, saw anything, but someone heard something-- about 10:30 that morning, a blood-curdling scream. the evidence pointed to an abduction, but investigators started with questions for the people closest to the victim. first question-- where was brooke's boyfriend, justin? it turned out he was serving a two-year mission for the mormon church 4,000 miles away in venezuela. next, brooke's family. we needed to go through, is the family a suspect? and we had to get that work done, and we had investigators doing that. stephanie was just grilled about where was she? why don't you know where she was, and did you do it? that had to be awful. - it is awful. - it was. it's awful. it was terrible, and we had made a decision that we'll, as a family even, we would do anything to get brooke back. whatever the police asked us to do, we will do it.

if they suspect us, that's ok. we don't care. we want to find brooke. kate snow (voiceover): and soon, a community came together. within hours of brooke's disappearance, dozens, then hundreds of people showed up, many from the wilbergers' church, others concerned citizens and cops. i suppose she could be anywhere, and we just have to look everywhere. kate snow (voiceover): they came in droves that first evening and every day after with one goal-- find brooke. by golly, come hell or high water, we are going to find her. kate snow (voiceover): but for detectives, the sheer number of searchers presented a challenge. as an investigator responsible for this, we're looking at, is our bad guy here? it is not uncommon for people who commit the crime to circle right back around, be present, learn, see what's going on. kate snow (voiceover): by this time, the fbi had also entered the investigation. supervisory special agent joe boyer's first question-- had

brooke been taken by someone who lived at the apartment complex, and could that person be among the tens of thousands of oregon state students who'd soon be leaving town for the summer? agent boyer asked fbi profilers for help. they asked us, well, do you have a crime scene? no, we don't, other than flip-flops in a parking lot. do you have any witnesses? no, we don't. do you have a vehicle description? no, we don't. do you have a body? no, we don't. and they said, frankly, there's very little we can do for you at this point. with so little evidence, investigators found themselves thinking back to another crime, a crime many here in corvallis barely recall. on another day in may, nearly 30 years to the day and one mile away from where brooke disappeared, a young oregon state student vanished. it wasn't until her body was discovered and her killer caught that people here realized this town had been visited by one of america's most notorious serial killers--

ted bundy. authorities in corvallis wondered if there was now another sexual predator bold enough to abduct a young woman in broad daylight. it was a rough day for the sex offenders in our county because there was a team who went out and put their finger on every single one of them. how many sex offenders are there in this area? you know, i think that was something that was very startling to realize is how many there actually were. kate snow (voiceover): when police told brooke's family there may be 2,000 sex offenders in the area, they were horrified. when they tried to-- they'd get into details, and i just had to lay back on the bed because i'd become nauseated. just the whole trauma of it was too much. it just took a couple of days, i think, to sink in that something bad had happened and that she was really gone. kate snow (voiceover): there seemed to be little question brooke was gone and in grave danger. the family took to the airwaves. her father, greg-- and if anyone has seen brooke at all, if they

would just please call in. kate snow (voiceover): tips poured in to police hotlines. we had dozens and dozens of brooke wilberger sightings in practically every state. everybody who went out for a walk in the following days, who saw someone who just looked out of the place, called us up. kate snow (voiceover): the search expanded daily. at times, it seemed the whole state of oregon was pitching in to find brooke. well, i have daughters this age, and i want to help. kate snow (voiceover): more search teams, dozens of square miles. what's the geography like around here? where could someone have taken brooke? limitless. i mean, we're 10 miles from interstate 5. we've got a north-south highway running right through corvallis. we have an east-west highway running right through corvallis. so literally you could drive five miles from corvallis and be in a very remote area. in the deep woods. absolutely. kate snow (voiceover): but despite the odds, within days, investigators were hot on someone's trail.

coming up-- so i'm imagining red flags are going off all over the place when you start getting this information. from our perspective, every red flag went off. kate snow (voiceover): a police search turns up a terrifying checklist either. someone is planning a very heinous mutilation sexual assault crime and murder, or it's a fantasy. but either way, it's extremely important to us in our investigation, and very startling. kate snow (voiceover): when "dateline" continues.

nearly a week into the head-spinning hunt for their daughter and sister-- hundreds of volunteers combed through this-- kate snow (voiceover): --brooke wilberger's family somehow kept their unfailing optimism afloat. how are you coping? are you praying together all the time? i think that's all we could think to do as a family. we just stayed in steph's little apartment,

and it was small. and that became the command center. did you think she was alive somewhere? yes, i think that was the overwhelming feeling that we felt. and i think that's why the focus was find brooke. it's what drove us. we know the statistics, but this is our family. this is brooke. she's got to be there. i think you have that hope. and no matter every day that goes by, the statistics are, the chances are that they're dead. and we didn't let ourselves go there. because if you go there, then i think life would become pretty dark. kate snow (voiceover): and there was reason to hope. you heard it first right here on msnbc, elizabeth smart found alive. and from what we can tell so far, physically in good shape. kate snow (voiceover): in that summer of 2004, the story of elizabeth smart was still fresh. she was the 14-year-old snatched from her bedroom

in utah, held captive by a deranged street preacher, then amazingly, after nine months, returned to her family alive. i would think maybe someone just has her captive, and they'll just decide to let her go one day. kate snow (voiceover): a family friend put the wilbergers in touch with elizabeth smart's uncle. was it comforting? it was comforting. he was very positive, because of course of their experience. and he said, never give up hope, just keep thinking positive. she came home. right, right. and so i just-- i was like, i don't know how. i don't know the circumstances, but i cannot give up. kate snow (voiceover): and while the search continued, what seemed to be a lead emerged. the name sung koo kim came to the attention of investigators less than a week after brooke vanished. kim was a reclusive 30-year-old with a degree in genetics and cellular biology

who still lived with his parents in this home 80 miles from corvallis, in a suburb of portland. he spent much of his time online trading stocks. just weeks before, a search of kim's home had turned up thousands of pairs of women's underwear stolen from college dorms throughout the area. burglary charges had been filed, and he would soon be charged with stealing underwear from a dorm at oregon state university, just blocks from where brooke was abducted. police had an investigative theory based on their experience in other cases. when you start making steps to entering other buildings and dormitories, and going and stealing other people's property, being in the underwear, that's a progression. meaning what? that he could then do something violent? there's going to be a step two, there's going to be a step three. there's going to be contacting somebody next, and ultimately abducting somebody. kate snow (voiceover): then just five days after brooke's disappearance, another search in a dramatic middle of the night raid captured on videotape taken by police--

an oregon state police swat team blew open the front door of the home kim shared with his parents. 15 officers stormed inside to serve a search warrant looking for physical evidence, hair, body fluid, or more, evidence of kim's possible involvement in brooke's disappearance. they found no physical evidence, but what they did discover drew their attention. on kim's computer, investigators found tens of thousands of photos and thousands more videos, what police termed a vast collection of pornographic images, including a small number of staged scenes depicting tortured, raped, and mutilated women. then there was this, a document labeled osu, as in oregon state university. it read like a how to guide for committing a sex crime. it included a list of supplies-- hood, glasses,

video, and digital cameras. it's more than just a checklist. either someone is planning a very heinous mutilation sexual assault crime and murder, or it's a fantasy. but either way, it's extremely important to us in our investigation, and very startling. and as detectives dug deeper, they discovered this. while kim was stealing underwear from dorms and laundry rooms, he had also developed a bizarre fetish for collecting lint from clothes dryers. in kim's home, they discovered a bag of some of that lint labeled with the name of an oregon state university swim team member. like brooke wilberger, she was young, blonde, blue-eyed, and she used to hang out a lot with other swimmers in corvallis, right here at the oak park apartments. so i'm imagining red flags are going off all over the place when you start getting this information. from our perspective, every red flag went off, that we had to spend some energy

looking at sung koo kim. kate snow (voiceover): the media pounced. any comment about being a person of interest in a case of corvallis? no comment. kate snow (voiceover): sung koo kim's life was examined from every angle. newspaper headlines blared his new nickname, the panty thief. and soon, brooke wilberger's family heard news reports that kim, on the day of brooke's disappearance, had purchased cinder blocks. my thought was maybe, if he were the person, and if he took brooke, then he might have tied her to bricks and dropped her in a river. kate snow (voiceover): those reports about kim buying bricks were never substantiated. his besieged family attempted to clear his name any way they could. he's not related to disappeared girl. everybody-- kate snow (voiceover): despite all the suspicion, was it possible that sung koo kim really was innocent?

coming up-- you put all three of those together, that's an ironclad alibi. kate snow (voiceover): new information about the person of interest in brooke's disappearance. prosecutors should look at that and say, this is a case we simply can't charge. we've got the wrong guy. kate snow (voiceover): where would the investigation lead? you had a community looking for answers. you had a community that was scared. was there somebody else out there? who's going to be the next victim? kate snow (voiceover): when "dateline" continues. introducing new advil targeted relief. the only topical pain reliever with 4 powerful pain-fighting ingredients that start working on contact to target tough pain at the source. for up to 8 hours of powerful relief. new advil targeted relief.

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test their region at a turbulent moment for beijing. and now back to dateline. d while working outside these apartments in corvallis, oregon-- search teams spend a 12th day surveying acres of land. kate snow (voiceover): --the search was winding down. the official end would soon come. members of brooke's family expressed their gratitude. you've given up so much to help. and i was thinking yesterday, brooke will be saying, they didn't even know me. kate snow (voiceover): and while detectives were still busy looking at sung koo kim as a person of interest, at least one of brooke's siblings took one look and thought, no way. we never once for a second thought he had anything to do with it. i personally didn't because i just kept thinking, she could get away from him. he didn't look very threatening to me. kate snow (voiceover): and soon more reasons

surfaced to cast doubt on the idea that kim was involved in brooke's disappearance. he offers an alibi. well, offering an alibi and us being able to validate that alibi are two different things. kate snow (voiceover): but kim's alibi for the day of brooke's disappearance consisted of not just one, but three pieces of evidence. put together, they showed kim could not have been in corvallis at 10:30 am when the kidnapping occurred. first, these records show an online purchase of 500 shares of stock with ameritrade, executed on kim's computer 75 miles from the crime scene at 11:14 am pacific. next, a witness came forward saying kim answered a phone call at the family home at 12:10 pm. and finally, there was a videotape showing kim and his father entering an electronics store in portland at 12:42 pm, and a receipt showing a purchase at the same store at 1:11 pm.

you put all three of those together, that's an ironclad alibi. kate snow (voiceover): steven sherlag was one of kim's attorneys. prosecutors should look at that and say, this is a case we simply can't charge. we've got the wrong guy. did they say that? they didn't. in fact, they went public naming sung koo kim as a person of interest in the wilberger abduction. kate snow (voiceover): investigators insist it was a lead they had to follow. when it came to sung koo kim, there were moments where we were challenging each other with how much time do we spend here versus spend it over there. looking for someone else. and we didn't want to chase the red herring with 100% of our resources. it was the healthiest thing for the investigation. it made sure nothing fell through the cracks. kate snow (voiceover): it took months, but authorities officially cleared kim. kim's family filed a lawsuit claiming excessive use of force in that nighttime swat raid. the state of oregon, without admitting any wrongdoing, eventually settled with the family, paying them more than $330,000.

there was a lot of pressure to try and save this young woman. undoubtedly, the officers were hoping that they could find her, and hoping they could find her alive. but they really didn't have many facts here, and the search was done in a very aggressive, i think quite radical fashion. kate snow (voiceover): kim was eventually convicted of burglary and other charges in connection with his panty stealing, and served seven years of an 11-year prison sentence. he was released in 2012. the summer of 2004 wore on, and investigators in the wilberger case seemed to be back at square one. members of the fbi and the corvallis police department worked hard, but leads were wearing thin. the weeks turn into month, two months, three months. how frustrating is it to not have more of a lead? it was extraordinarily stressful. you had a community looking for answers.

you had a community that was scared. was there somebody else out there? who's going to be the next victim? and we have got a family in tremendous pain, and they are hurting. and they are doing everything they can to support us, to encourage us, to inspire the investigators to not give up. in what sense? they didn't turn. they never became an adversary. they were a partner with us, and it was incredible. kate snow (voiceover): but the wilbergers were feeling the strain as well. and in september, three months after brooke's disappearance it was time to return to school. jessica was heading into eighth grade. i always thought about it. there were days i would get up in the morning and just be like, oh, i don't want to do this today. but i would put a smile on my face, and i'd go to school, and just worry about school. kate snow (voiceover): their mother cammy would do the same, returning to her job as a third grade teacher. how did you go back to school? how did you walk in the classroom

and teach little third graders? you know what? i wasn't sure if i could do it, but it actually became very therapeutic. because when i walked through that school door, i was mrs. wilberger. and it gives you the opportunity to love little children, and to be concerned about their needs. and so it was really a good therapy for me. it kept my mind busy on other things. kate snow (voiceover): the wilbergers didn't know it, but before the holidays would arrive in 2004, there would finally be a legitimate break in the case of the abduction of their daughter brooke. coming up-- he was waiting. he was lurking right there. i mean, there's no question what he was waiting for. kate snow (voiceover): halfway across the country, a college student runs screaming from a kidnapper. i told her get in the car, that i wouldn't let anybody hurt her. a lot of people didn't stop. no, nobody stopped. kate snow (voiceover): would one woman's quick thinking help bring brooke home? when "dateline" continues.

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ask your gastroenterologist about rinvoq. six months after brooke wilberger's disappearance, police in corvallis, oregon were frustrated. her family's hopes were fading, slim yet steadfast. what was that thanksgiving like around that table? we still had a good time. just because we love each other, and we still were pretty hopeful. i think when we get together, for myself, it brings a lot of joy and a lot of comfort. and so even though we missed brooke, there was just comfort in being together. kate snow (voiceover): police announced the reward had been doubled, hoping more money would loosen lips and shake out new leads. but even investigators felt trapped, as if it were groundhog day. we don't have a suspect. we don't have any clear leads. kate snow (voiceover): every press conference simply another chance to make the same plea-- help us find brooke. the investigation had gotten to a point where they were

still plugging away, following up on tips, still talking to people, still turning over rocks, still searching. and we were at that point just hoping for something to break. just waiting. it was difficult. kate snow (voiceover): and then that very week, the last week of november 2004, it happened, nearly 1,400 miles away in new mexico, a place aptly known as the land of enchantment, the break that they had been praying for. in albuquerque, in one of the city's tougher neighborhoods, a waitress named dara finks was driving her suv down the street with her three daughters just after dusk, when they saw a young woman. we were sitting at the light, and the girl comes running across the street. and my daughter in the front seat says that she doesn't have any clothes on. that's weird, you see a naked woman running across the street. we were watching her run into the restaurant. my daughter was ready to jump out the car, and i'm like no, no, no, wait.

we'll go over there and see what's going on. kate snow (voiceover): it was clear, dara says, the young woman was in trouble, frantically trying to get help from someone inside the restaurant across the street. no one helped her. because we pulled around there, and my daughter got out of the car, and met her at the door, and brought her over to the car. to your car. and that's when she said he's got a knife. he's trying to kill me. kate snow (voiceover): the woman said she'd been kidnapped, but had escaped. i told her get in the car, lock the door, that i wouldn't let anybody hurt her. how scared were you, dara? my tire iron was underneath the front seat of my car. my kids are in the car; i'm not going to let anybody hurt us. kate snow (voiceover): but then the young woman saw something back out in the street that made her scream. he was back. the man who'd kidnapped her was looking for her. she sees him. she pointed at him. he was sitting at the light. the person who had kidnapped her. had kidnapped her. kate snow (voiceover): it was true, the man with the knife had come to find her. dara called 911. she described the man, his red compact car.

within minutes, police were there. a lot of people wouldn't have stopped. a lot of people didn't stop. no, nobody stopped. there was a lot of traffic. they wouldn't even help her in the restaurant. she was in the restaurant at the counter talking to someone. kate snow (voiceover): who was this young woman, blonde, blue-eyed, abducted, on her neck what she said was a mark from her kidnapper's knife. she was a college student, not from oregon but from russia. and the story this 22-year-old told officers was pretty incredible, that she was walking home from work down this street near the university of new mexico campus. she noticed a small red car parked near the curb and a man standing next to it, but she didn't think much of it, walked right past. a few steps later, she felt someone grab her from behind and hold a knife to her throat. inside the car, she was sexually assaulted. then her abductor stopped at these apartments, tied her up with her own shoelaces, and went inside.

incredibly, the woman was able to wriggle free, left the shoelaces lying in the parking lot, and ran into the street with no clothes on, where she was rescued by dara finks. what made you want to help? what made you stop? my upbringing, the way we were raised. i feel god put me here for a reason-- to help that girl because he knew we would help her. it was gutsy as hell. and i think she's the hero. dara is the hero of that night. kate snow (voiceover): theresa whatley was the prosecutor who handled the case for the bernalillo county district attorney's office. had they not been there, he would have picked her up again. he was waiting. he was lurking right there. i mean, there's no question when he was waiting for. kate snow (voiceover): but though the victim was now safe, her attacker was still on the loose. the young woman gave an incredibly detailed description of the man and of his car. she described the car seats down to the details. she described the tinted windows. she described the fact, the car was

two door, that it was red. kate snow (voiceover): and the victim remembered something else, a small stuffed animal on the car's side window. enter albuquerque police officer ed taylor. he showed up at the scene ready to help track down the bad guy. first stop-- the apartments where the victim escaped from her kidnapper. so you go to the door of the apartment. who answers? it's a female. we went inside the apartment, and right off the bat you can tell that she was not going to be helpful at all. not cooperative? not cooperative. she did tell us she knew him as joe, and he spoke spanish. and that was about it. kate snow (voiceover): the name joe, he spoke spanish, would it be enough to find him? and four states away, as you're about to see, would it be enough to help find brooke? coming up-- i called out to him as joe. i said joe. and he acknowledged me. and as he got closer, i said, this is your vehicle? he said yes.

kate snow (voiceover): police track down a suspect in the new mexico kidnapping case and start to speculate about his mo. this is not the first time he's done this. you don't start grabbing people in broad daylight when you're almost 40. kate snow (voiceover): was it possible this wasn't his first abduction? when "dateline" continues. introducing new advil targeted relief. the only topical pain reliever with 4 powerful pain-fighting ingredients that start working on contact to target tough pain at the source. for up to 8 hours of powerful relief. new advil targeted relief.

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without talking to your doctor. on a november night in 2004, albuquerque police were on a manhunt. just blocks from the university of new mexico campus, a man had kidnapped a 22-year-old student off the street and sexually assaulted her. but when he carelessly tied her up and left her in his car in this apartment parking lot, she had bolted, run naked into traffic, and thankfully been rescued by this woman. that could be my daughter. she's a human being. she did not deserve to be run down the road with no clothes on. kate snow (voiceover): now albuquerque police officer ed

taylor was among those looking for the suspect, a white male with a shaved head wearing a cap. police had learned from a woman who lived in the apartments where the victim escaped that the man's name was joe, that he spoke spanish. she would say no more. i went back to the substation, and i spoke to my supervisor. i told him, i believe if i went by myself, she will tell me more information. why? why did you have that feeling? i thought i had a connection with her. so i returned to the location, and i told her. i said, this is what's going on. this is what happened. basically, god forbid something like this were to happen to you or somebody you know. and she reluctantly ended up telling me you might be able to locate the vehicle behind the restaurant just south of gibson. kate snow (voiceover): riding solo, officer taylor followed the woman's directions, and parked right here on this dead end street was a red two-door honda with a stuffed animal stuck to the window. so i waited a little bit, and a few minutes

later, i noticed three individuals walking out of that-- that house. --white house and walking towards me. i called out to him as joe. i said joe. and he acknowledged me. and as he got closer, i said is this your vehicle? he said yes. i had him turn around, and i placed him in custody. did you find anything on him? i found a glass pipe used to smoke crack cocaine and a small knife. did he ever ask you why he was under arrest? no, didn't say anything. i think he knew he was caught. kate snow (voiceover): caught was this man, joel patrick courtney, soon identified by his victim and booked into jail on charges of criminal sexual penetration, kidnapping, and aggravated battery. joel courtney was 38 years old. he lived in this albuquerque suburb, rio rancho, in this home with his wife and three young children. he'd worked as a mechanic and fisherman, and had lived all over the united states. a fluent spanish speaker, he'd also lived in mexico.

but the man who appeared in family photos as the ever smiling, attentive father also had a dark side. six months before, his wife had taken out a restraining order against him, reporting he had choked her. the first time i saw him, i remember thinking it was as strong a reaction as i had had to richard ramirez. kate snow (voiceover): ramirez, the notorious night stalker, convicted of murdering more than a dozen people in the 1980s. he died in 2013, awaiting execution on california's death row. prosecutor theresa whatley once crossed paths with ramirez in a courtroom. he actually made the hair on my arms stand up because he was so evil. the only other person who has ever done that to me is joel courtney. when you first read the reports about this case, what went through your mind as a prosecutor? that this is not the first time he's done this. you don't start grabople int off the street and grab them into your car when you're almost 40. that's not the way the criminal mind works. kate snow (voiceover): the new mexico prosecutor didn't

know yet how right she was. and back in oregon, the wilberger family knew nothing yet of these developments as they faced the holidays still hoping brooke would walk through the door and take her place on the stairs for the family's annual christmas pageant and pictures. hey, smile, angels. that's exactly what we kept thinking. this can't happen. this just can't happen. this is brooke. she's too full of life. she's too dynamic and too much a part of us. i've got to keep hoping, and i've got to keep thinking positive. kate snow (voiceover): where was brooke? six months had passed. was she still alive somehow, somewhere? her sister stephanie was dealing with a lot of guilt. brooke was working for her when she disappeared. i was driving somewhere and just reflecting on where we were so far. and i remember thinking, gosh, i

wonder what it will be like when i don't think about this every day? what could i have done differently, or what if just this little thing had changed? kate snow (voiceover): but something was finally about to change. the quick thinking that led to joel courtney's capture in new mexico was about to lead to more questions, and investigators would soon want to know if this father of three, now charged in a daring abduction, could also be the man who took brooke. he'd been caught carrying a knife and a crack pipe hours after a university of new mexico student said courtney abducted her near campus and sexually assaulted her. miraculously, she had escaped. this is an incredibly brazen crime. he abducts her in broad daylight? 6:45, it's probably just about dark. that's either incredibly stupid or insane. no it's experienced. he knows what he's doing.

he's done it before. he knows how to make it happen. he picked his spot really well. it's a very quiet street. it's dinnertime. as awful as it sounds, it's a smart move for what he's trying to do. kate snow (voiceover): with joel courtney safely in custody, albuquerque police begin a routine background check on their suspect. they found that in addition to new mexico, he had lived in several states-- alaska, florida and oregon. and a detective noticed that nearly a year before, in january 2004, in coastal lincoln county oregon, courtney had been pulled over by a state trooper and charged with driving under the influence. but courtney had failed to appear in court, so a warrant had been issued for his arrest. and that's when an albuquerque detective did something he didn't have to do-- he decided to dig deeper, picked up the phone, and made a call to oregon that would lead to a long awaited break in the case of brooke

wilberger. he calls up lincoln county sheriff's department, and he gets to a detective and says, hey, what do you know about this case? this is what he did down in new mexico, and he's relaying the circumstances. and the lincoln county detective having heard about brooke's case-- because everyone here has heard about it. because everybody knows about it, says to him you need to call corvallis police department. it's that simple, and he does. kate snow (voiceover): coming up, it was not just police asking questions about brooke's case. so was the suspect's own sister. there were some similarities. and so you thought to yourself-- could it be? no. i mean, you couldn't even say the whole sentence because it was unthinkable, right? kate snow (voiceover): when "dateline" continues.

narrator: joel patrick courtney was sitting