the little oil that i do have. josh mankiewicz: it was a little bit like lesley's life. and i read those scripts, and i just-- i-- i felt lesley. i felt her in my heart. i felt-- i laughed again, the way she used to make me laugh. woman: oh, it feels so soft and real. josh mankiewicz: and so one sister paid homage to another. it won't bring lesley back, but it makes her loss a little less painful. in this hollywood story, it's the only happy ending that's available. craig melvin: that's all for this edition of "dateline." i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. [theme music]

she vanished when october afternoon. 10 amy mihaljevic. >> is a made there? she never came home from school. >> she was going to buy a present for her mother. it's been a mystery for more than 30 years. who took amy? >> those are photos of your evidence. >> investigators are opening their files to us. >> it's more like your ted bundy type. >> you will get the chance to help crack this case. >> we want to hear from you. >> a new piece of information. >> you pick and pick. >> there is still a killer out there and somebody has to know something.

never stop investigating into the mystery is solved. that's the mission of detectives determined to crack the kidnapping case of amy mihaljevic. there are many clues and though decades have passed, the trail of evidence is not grown cold. police decided to do something rare, ask for your help to answer a burning question. here is josh mankiewicz with what happened to amy. >> these are all boxes of leads in their numbered. the first lead we ever got in this case all the way to, well past 10,000 leads. >> these have all been checked out. mark was a patrol officer in bay village, ohio, when amy mihaljevic disappeared. he worked the case for decades.

along with a team unfit investigators including this investigator, fbi agent. i know it kind of goes against your creed to be opening up the evidence locker and showing pieces of evidence to reporters. >> we feel the benefit would be to show people what we have and what we are looking for. >> willing to listen to anyone involving things that happened back then. >> there's a lot of evidence but these things involve one missing piece of a positive. somebody could bring that to us. even now, we are happy to get it and we want it. >> it's a piece they have been searching for ever since october 27, 1989. the day amy's mom came home to find her daughter missing and called everyone in the neighborhood. and she sounds different. >> hysterical. hysterical. is amy there? please tell me if amy is there

. no, she is not. i am sorry. where is she? why are you looking for her? she never came home from school. she never came home from school. i don't know what to do. >> it's a date amy's father marc has lived with for more than 30 years. >> talking to somebody, oh you are amy mihaljevic's father. i still get that today even. >> what do people say? >> i'm so sorry. i didn't realize you were amy father . one thing i never do, try not to, i will never answer. i say i am amy's father. so. >> and, it's a day these investigators have poured over for decades. here is what they have learned. and what they want you to know about the day amy mihaljevic

disappeared. october 27, 1989. >> she went to school about 7:20. she rode her bike from home. usually she writes with a friend but this day she did not. >> one of the friends amy normally rode with was kristy sable . >> i lived further from the school than amy so i would bike to her house and we would bike to school. >> tell me what you remember about amy? >> i remember her being really sweet and really fun. she was also my first friend, my first sleepover. >> and you were inseparable. >> yet, we were. >> christy, as a few streets over from amy who lived in this quiet cul-de-sac with her mother ma brother jason. >> it was a town where everybody knew each other growing up. you knew your neighbors. it was a great place to learn how to ride bikes. >> amy made the short trip to school.

she parked her bike in the rack and headed in. that day, amy was wearing short black boots along with silver and turquoise earrings shaped like courses heads. you can see them in these drawings. just normal school kid items that, as you will see, will become vitally important in the months ahead. 7:45 a.m., the bell rang. amy began her day in the fifth grade gifted class. she was a good student and love to read. here she is giving a book report. >> trying to get to the house because her mom left them. >> amy adored animals, especially horses, and her dog jake. she wanted to be a vet when she grew up. she also love to draw and leave little notes for her dad. >> you are the specialist person in the world and for that i have this gift. how old was she quick

>> probably fourth grade. >> i like that she signs it amy mihaljevic otherwise you won't know who it is. >> she was very accomplished for her age. kristy came in with this little girl and said, this is my new best friend, amy mihaljevic. i said well, hi, amy, how are you? >> and with that you were kind of amy's second mom. >> absolutely. i adore amy. >> during one of her classes that day, a young patrol officer visited the school to give a talk about safety. amy sat and listened along with her friend kristy. >> if anybody calls you, to go with somebody who calls you. if someone tries to pick you up in a car, to go with somebody in a car you don't know. >> amy was there for that. >> you have. >> that young officer rose through the ranks to become

chief of police. you have to look back on that talk to the students. >> i do. it's one of those things, is there something else i could've said? >> lunchtime. up to this point it had been a regular day at school. then come in the cafeteria, amy mentioned something to one of her friends. something she said was a secret. >> talking with her friends we learned amy received a call or calls from a man, he wanted to take her to go buy a present for her mother who had received a promotion at work and they were going to go to the mall with $45 and buy this gift. >> did you say the man told her to keep it a secret? >> yes. >> that secret would be the focus of intense investigation for the next 30 years. >> leeward by the chance to surprise her mom, amy heads to the strip mall and into a trap.

coming up. >> she didn't say anything about her plans. >> she didn't say anything out of the ordinary. >> she is seen walking toward the shopping center as if she is walking with a purpose. >> the kidnapper's plot is set in motion. >> 210-year-old saw this and both describe day male engaged her in conversation as they looked away and when they look back amy was gone. ne. time stops. (♪♪) and you realize you're in love... steve? with a laundry detergent. (♪♪) gain flings. seriously good scent. growing old is part of the journey, even when you have heart failure. but when he had shortness of breath, carpal tunnel syndrome, and lower back pain, we wondered, could these be warning signs of something bigger? thank goodness we called his cardiologist because these were signs of attr-cm, a rare and serious disease... ...that gets worse over time.

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just before noon on the day she disappeared, amy mihaljevic told a friend during lunch at school that she had a secret. a man had called her at home, she said, and offered to take her shopping to buy a surprise present for amy's mother. amy was going to meet the man after school. her brother, jason, knew none of this. she didn't say anything about her plans quick >> she didn't say anything out of the ordinary. i wish you would have. >> she didn't mention anything to kristy either. >> i remember looking in her classroom -- >> and you saw amy? >> it was the last time i saw her. >> after school that ended at 2:04, instead of riding her bike home she walked with a couple of friends to be square. it's a very small, kind of strip mall shopping area.

it's only a quarter-mile from the middle school so kids would often walk from the middle school to the be square. there was a baskin-robbins ice cream store. >> the fbi agent. >> she is seen walking toward the shopping center as if she's walking with a purpose. >> amy walk to the plaza with another little girl and mentioned the man to her. that girl later told kristy about the conversation. >> she told me that amy told her i'm going to meet a friend. she thought nothing of it. she was like, okay, have fun. >> she would walk on the sidewalk your. to the plaza to the right. >> the detective retraced the very few steps amy took that date. so she would've felt completely safe walking over here, hanging around. >> very safe. a lot of kids from the middle school would've been here. people shopping. you can see how many cars are here.

it would've been like this in 1989. >> two kids saw amy in the plaza, standing by this blackball. >> she seemed to be waiting for somebody. they described at some point that a male engaged her in conversation, and they looked away, carried on the business talking with her friends and when they looked back amy was gone. the two 10-year-olds who saw this helped provide a composite drawing of the individual they saw. >> these are the composite sketches based on descriptions from two 10-year-olds who had different memories of the man. they were widely circulated and came to symbolize the face of amy's abductor. police want you to know, they may not be entirely accurate. >> these were done by recollections of a couple 10- year-olds who were at opposite ends of the shopping area down here and down here with amy standing in the middle. >> investigators believe the

man is a white male with a medium build who was 30 to 35 at the time. he would be about 60, 65 years old today. you want to hear about anybody, even if they do not match the sketch. even if they didn't look like that then. >> that is correct. >> police say the man was somehow able to gather enough information about amy to get her to trust him. >> it's the key to determining who did it. figure out what is his method of operation that he's able to identify the mother with enough information to use their employer's information and also know the child's name. >> however the man did it, it worked. amy walked off with him, willingly. right in front of everyone. the spot where amy was taken was directly across the street from where the police station was. barely 500 feet away. this was marked's view from his

old office window. >> she was standing a four post down when she was last seen. >> you literally could've seen it happen if someone had been looking out the window. >> yeah. yeah. >> just after 3:00, her big brother jason got home from school and noticed amy was not there. >> i walk in the door were she normally would've been in the tv room, doing homework or outside with jake. noticed she wasn't around so i looked in her room. made a phone call to my mother of where is she? >> their mom margaret was at her job, working for a local newspaper. she wasn't too concerned because amy had told her earlier that she would be at choir practice that afternoon. >> i hang up and go back to doing my homework and whatnot. >> not long after that conversation, another phone call

would become one of the most haunting moments in the case. >> at 3:30, margaret gets a phone call from amy. >> the kids would call margaret at work when they were home and safe. >> margrethe, came from home. >> exactly. >> what did margaret say quick >> good to have you home. have a snack. there was no sense of urgency. >> in that moment, margaret didn't realize a phone call at the time almost too routine for her to remember would be a call she would never forget. >> coming up. >> when amy calls her mother, she does not appear upset. there's no indication something is wrong. >> the phone call did not come from home. >> he led amy called her mom. he is taking a huge chance. >> he is willing to take risks. >> he is charming and

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kidnapper. >> when amy calls her mother, she does not appear upset. no indication anything is wrong. there's no red flags up, she doesn't say anything to her mother. >> that shows astonishing amount of daring and planning by that man. he is taking a huge chance, and yet, he lets amy call her mom. he has no idea how that will go. >> he is willing to take risks, but risks he's comfortable with. people do they have when they plan things out. >> suggesting he knew if amy's mom received a phone call, she wouldn't start looking for her right away. >> right. he bought himself also sometime to make sure that amy still felt comfortable. >> police don't know her amy was when she made that call because back then, local calls within an area cold weren't even logged. they do know this.

amy was in the hands of a calculating and devious planner. >> somebody who is intelligent but will commit a heinous crime. it's a very unusual pairing. >> the fbi agent wonders if amy might've called from the westgate mall which was about six miles from the shopping plaza where amy was last seen. >> it is very likely during the initial part of this abduction she is still shopping. >> he said a woman give a detailed description of a little girl who looked like amy in the westgate mall that day between 3:00 and 4:00 p.m., ruffling an hour after amy was taken. she said the girl was with a man. >> it was her walking through a food court into the mall with a white male. >> police want to know if anyone out there remember seeing anything similar at the

westgate mall that day. even though it's 30 years old, you are hoping somebody remembers them. 5:30 p.m. that's when amy's mother returns home from work and realizes amy was not there. she raced to the school and a horrifying site. her brother -- her daughter's bike was still parked in the rack. >> we it at face value the child was missing. >> her dad arrived home from work to a chaotic scene. >> margaret was running around the house, amy is not here. >> could you tell something was really wrong? >> oh, yeah. >> you didn't think she was overreacting? >> no. it was a real thing. >> mark took the family dog and went to search for amy himself. >> he took jake to the shopping center and try to find amy. >> the neighbor rushed to the nbc station with amy's class photo. >> i said, look, i am not

leaving until you put this picture on, and i did not leave until they put the picture, and i drove in the yard. i heard this primal scream. margaret was screaming because she saw amy's picture on the television. >> and realized all of a sudden , she is that mom and this is that kid. >> yes. she did. she was heartbroken. >> amy had been missing for about five hours. in the company of a man who lured her with lies. a man who meticulously planned the whole thing. who was he? investigators have an idea about his profile. and, now, they want you to hear it too. >> that's another thing you

want viewers to think about is, who was around back then? who likes kids, can get kids to trust them? a planner. manipulative. and is methodical and not impulsive. >> all of those things. manipulative is the key and maybe interact socially with other people. some of the people like this, people even find them somewhat charming. >> you are not looking for a frightening freak, that's not how they present themselves. this is more like your ted bundy type. somebody who comes across her can come across as charming and ingratiating. >> correct. >> as the sun began to set, amy's parents hunkered down, hoping to hear from their daughter. >> we head the phone in the kitchen, the wall phone, and that's where margaret slept that night. >> on the kitchen, on the floor. >> that's right. >> yeah. >> the long night passed and

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year taking $140 million. gladiator ii came in second with a $55 million hall. for now, back to dateline. welcome back to dateline. i am andrea canning. amy mihaljevic's mother spent all night by her phone hoping to hear her daughter was safe. that call never came. police were searching for both amy and her kidnapper, a man believed to be intelligent, manipulative, and possibly well practiced. it turns out amy may not have been the first little girl on his wish list. back to josh mankiewicz with what happened to amy? we have called everyone we know. >> the day after amy mihaljevic was taken, her parents went on tv, asking for help. >> just find her.come home.

>> if anybody has seen her get in a vehicle, that would help quite a bit. >> detectives push forward with their investigation, looking for any information about the man who would call amy at home. >> we want to know if anybody else out there, any school children in this age group receive similar phone calls. >> they sent out a letter to thousands of local students and received a frightening response. in the months before amy disappeared, two young girls living in a neighboring town received calls almost identical to amy's. police believe the girls may have actually spoken with amy's kidnapper. those two rules are now grown women. all these years later, they have asked us to shield their identities. a measure of the lasting damage this crime has inflicted on so many. they still wonder if that man is out there, watching. >> the person on the phone

introduced himself as my mom's boss by name. >> he knew your mom's boss by name. we are calling this woman pam. she was 10 years old when the man called her. what did he want? >> he expressed my mom was getting a promotion. he was excited about it. he was not sure what to get her for a gift. they wanted it to be a surprise, and he wanted to pick me up after school to go pick something up because they wanted to get something special. >> when the man -- overheard pam tell her brother, his tone change. >> he was almost angry. you were going to rent it. at that point, i was like, i cannot go. >> you saw several different sides of the sky. at the beginning, he is trying to charm you. >> it was like excitement. wanting to collaborate and all that. then it was she is not an easy

target. >> the unknown is scary. >> this woman who we will call katie spoke with the man several times. before her older sister made her hang up. these calls would only happen when your mom was out of the house? >> yes. >> as if the person knew your mom is out of the house or a coincidence? >> i think they new. >> katie said she noticed a car parked outside her home around the time the man was calling. remains convinced he was watching her. there had to be a moment when you thought, this could be me on the posters. >> over the years, i thought about that a lot. i prayed on it and i pray for my family and i pray for amy and for amy's family. it ripped the family apart. it ripped the town apart. >> armed with this new investigate -- information, they search for a link between the children who had been called. they got all the families together in a room and had them

fill out questionnaires. >> did they shop at the same places? did they go to the same dry cleaners? did they use the same dennis? did they get their car fixed at the same place? we asked these questions to drug him parents is a commonalities to see if we could get investigative leads. >> great idea. did it go anywhere? >> unfortunately not. >> there's one undeniable link. the story the man told about knowing each girl's mother. it is his signature and it is unique. investigators want to know if that mo rings a bell with any other law enforcement agency out there. >> it's not going to be something this person is going to be able to turn off after he abducts amy. it would most likely be a person that maybe did it before because he did a very good job of luring amy to the shopping plaza on october 27 of pad

nines. >> you're looking for case like this to happen before that that was not as refined and this was the case of him getting better at it. >> possibly. maybe not a case where someone was abducted and killed but maybe a case where this guy had some type of sexual relationship with a child and got away with it. maybe he did do time for it, and he was out at that point. >> fall turned to winter. there was still no trace of richard lui eight -- amy. >> life changed a lot. there were times when we would cry and be scared. we would be scared. not knowing what's going on. talking about when is she going to come home? >> december 11 was amy's 11th birthday. she had been missing for 45 days. >> margaret invited me in on

amy's birthday. >> connie was a reporter for the nbc station wky see and live down the street from amy. >> she still believed that amy was alive and she was going to throw this birthday party that she hoped, that if there was some publicity, someone would see this and decide to let her go. there were birthday presents stacked up on the fireplace. >> it's very difficult to have a birthday party without the birthday girl. >> i was holding back tears. so was my photographer. >> even kristy savo, 10 years old, did her best as she reached out to her friend the only way she could. >> happy birthday, amy. i hope you are still alive. i hope you come home soon. >> weird feeling to talk to

your friend through television? >> it was weird. i was nervous. >> i felt for jason. when we were off-camera, he would cling to jake. he was there, the dog. >> a lot of the way i handled it was to not be in the way. a lot of days were spent riding my bike with jake, going to the lake. and, watching the water. >> mark tried to keep to the family routine as best he could. >> amy had a paper route and it came out every thursday. i would get up before i went to work and her and i, excuse me, her and i would go and deliver the papers before school. >> after she disappeared? >> i kept the paper route running for three weeks but i deliver the papers on thursday morning. me and the dog.

>> so she would have something to come back to. >> yeah. we delivered the paper. so. >> for margaret, there was a headed torment that the kidnapper used her name to lure amy away. >> it is the constant pain. the constant torment of wondering what she is going through. where she is and why. we keep asking why? >> it would be months before amy's mother would find out what happened to her little girl. >> coming up. >> i talked to her mother this afternoon. >> she was adamant. it's not her. it is not amy. >> a discovery on a country

road. heartbreak in bay village. >> i remember putting my head down and crying. >> anti-you can help solve this case. >> you are looking for whether anybody has seen these earrings or a. child's boots like that. >> these are extremely unique items so if anybody had seen them, they would probably recollect it. recollect it. even with worsening heart failure. so when i had carpal tunnel syndrome, lower back pain, and shortness of breath, i thought that's what getting older felt like. thank goodness... ...i called my cardiologist. i have attr-cm, a rare but serious disease... ...and getting diagnosed early... ...made a difference. if you have any of these warning signs, don't wait, ask your cardiologist about attr-cm today. (♪♪)

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the reporter was at work when the news broke on february 8, 1990. >> into our newsroom, we had the scanners going all the time. the word was that a body had been found. 50 miles south of town in ashland. >> she had become friendly with amy's mother margaret and called her right away. >> i talked to her this afternoon. >> she was adamant, it is not her. it's not amy. she honestly thought that amy was in the area being cared for by someone who wanted a child. >> within hours, authorities had their answer. it was amy. >> it came to a heartbreaking and about a quarter mile behind this quiet country road.

>> i came home and the chief of police was at the house. our minister came to the house. i think somebody from the fbi came to the house and we sat around and held hands and they explained what they found. >> kristy heard the news at school. >> we found out it was amy. there were guidance counselors at school and i remember putting my head down and crying. >> you went to the funeral? >> yes. yeah. it was huge. it was my first funeral. for my friend. >> all of bay village was there? >> and then some. it was packed. her poor mom and dad and brother. that poor family. >> the thing that still sticks in my mind is going past the

bay village police department and seeing the flag at half- staff. after that, excuse me, after that, the police, all the time. always questioning. you always asking and looking for something. they never stop. >> for 105 days we were looking for amy. the day her body is found, we are now looking for a killer. >> the search began here, contee road 1181 in anson county. 50 miles from bay village. >> the perpetrators more likely comfortable with this area to dispose of a body. >> it isn't just a place you stumbled onto or drive-by. >> it is well off the highway. it's not as if you take a couple rights and you were there. it's very rural and out-of-the- way but for some reason, this perpetrator chose that location. >> investigators collected

every debris within a mile of where amy was found. her body yielded few clues. there was some indication of sexual assault, but nothing conclusive. the medical examiners believe she had been in the field for a while and most likely killed shortly after she was taken. amy had been hit on the head and stabbed in the neck. the most telling clue might be what was not found at the scene. her backpack was not there. it contained a buick binder like this one which her dad had given her from his job. it said, best in class. also missing, amy's boots and those horsehead shaped earrings. the one she put on that last morning. is it reasonable to believe the items that were missing from amy , her backpack, the binder, her boots, the earrings? that those were retained by her killer? >> it is possible.

it's possible they were kept as a trophy. >> you are looking for whether anybody has seen these earrings or a pair of child's boots like that? >> but these are unique items so if anybody had seen them before, they would probably recollect it. >> the decades of brought many theories of what happened to amy mihaljevic. recently, the case was in the headlines again with a possible person of interest. no arrests have been made and police say their overall investigation continues. >> we could go on and on of the number of investigative leads that have been followed up on. >> 10,000 tips. 30,000 interviews and 100,000 man hours later, they are still looking. >> every officer that works in our police department is aware of the amy mihaljevic case. whether they were there in 1989 restarted after that. it is something we never will forget about.

>> there is one more clue. a very important one. investigators want you to know about. it might the key to solving this whole case. >> discarded cigarette butts. maybe a soda can. this is the evidence detectives might use to zero in on a killer. in this case, the clue that caught their eye is something you may have seen. will you be able to help? coming up. >> it's so unique we hope somebody can identify that. if you saw it, we want to hear from you. >> we think it would be someone who would recognize and say, you know, i suspected this guy maybe of this. it's like a needle in a haystack. haystack.

welcome back. for three long months, police searched for amy mihaljevic, hoping to bring her back alive. after her body was found, the hunt is on for her killer, and it never stopped. investigators are looking at old clues with fresh eyes and there's one piece of evidence they hope leads to a breakthrough. here is josh mankiewicz at the conclusion of what happened to amy ?

>> when detectives found amy mihaljevic in this field, they gathered every shred of evidence they could find. >> anything that didn't grow there we basically grabbed up. could have been cigarette butts, papers, whatever. >> including this green curtain . >> it is very unique. it is so made, almost looks like a bedspread. it was made into a curtain. >> the curtain along with the other evidence was periodically tested over the years. because maybe the constant march of dna science would one day yield a clue. in 2016, it did. >> or too found is there were my new hairs identified on the curtain and the hairs were identified as being dog cares. >> not just any dog cares. >> when amy went missing, the investigators took samples of their dog 's hair for later

comparison. >> jake is long gone but his hair outlives him. carefully collected and preserved in this file, for decades. a lab compared it to the hairs on the curtain. the result was a huge leap forward. >> the dog hair and the hair on this curtain matched up. based on that, there is a theory that she was possibly wrapped in it curtain. >> jake, amy's constant companion during her short life may have provided a crucial key to finding her killer. >> she loved jake very much. >> and not jake may help solve her murder. >> 10, 13 years after his death he is still trying to save amy. he was a good dog. he was the best dog. >> the curtain has yielded a new clue, one detectives every feeling for the first time. further testing uncovered even

more hairs. this time they were human. and, they were amy's. strengthening the theory that amy was wrapped in the curtain and the killer may have used it to transport her body. investigwant you to take a close look at it. it does not look professionally made. >> it's not something you would've bought at sears or penny. somebody quickly out of what they had but it's unique that we hope somebody can identify it. >> you want viewers to look at it and say if they have seen anything like that before. >> if you saw it in a house we want to hear from you. >> remember, it may have been a brighter green in 1989. the quilting and design are unique as is the crude way in which it was sewn together. >> we think it would be someone that would recognize it and

say, i remember that curtain and so and so's house or somebody in their barn. we are hopeful that somebody will see that curtain and say to themselves, you know? i suspected this guy maybe of this and by the way, i remember seeing that curtain on his property. it's like a needle in a haystack, but we are hopeful. >> we are not made to bury our children. it leaves parents shattered. sometimes unmanned the blaze so. shortly after amy disappeared, her parents marriage fell apart. marcus of the relationship was already on the rocks before the abduction. 12 years after amy's disappearance, margaret died. she was only 54. whoever killed amy kind of killed margaret too. >> definitely. she sold her house and moved to las vegas where her mother

lived. >> she was broken by that. >> she was broken. >> mark keeps in touch with the investigators. >> will the police solve it? yes. >> you are convinced they will. >> yes. >> mark spaetzel who spoke with us before he retired as police chief, kept amy close, right until he left. you still have the poster of amy in your office. >> i do. i don't need it as a reminder, but i keep it there so she knows we are still doing it. >> he retired from the bureau and moves away but works the case when he can. >> i have been doing this a long time. when -- when nobody is doing anything, dave feel we are doing something and we are always doing something. >> i hope this is somehow. >> i hope it's the last interview i have to do one this before it is solved. >> amy's bike sits in a small

room at the bay village police department. her case notes remain front and center. she has been gone for more than 30 years, but amy mihaljevic is still here and she is waiting for justice. maybe you can help her find it. >> if you have information you think might help with the case, please call the bay village police at 440-871-1234 . investigators are offering a $50,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest and conviction. conviction. this sunday, background check. >> i'm looking forward to a hearing. >> president-elect donald trump's cabinet picks are facing intense sc