here's keith morrison with "return to game night." >> reporter: they were so sure for his freedom. he loved her too much more that, they said. and anyway, he was with us, they said. he could never have done those dreadful things, they said. here on that frigid night in the house on sumac drive, when the woman inside stopped feeling the cold, or anything else. when the husband returned from what he'd later say was his ironclad alibi, and called 911. 9:40pm, december 27th, 2011. >> what is the location of your emergency? [ crying ] >> okay. i need you to take a couple deep breaths so i can see what's going on. >> i just got home from a friend's house and -- and my wife -- my wife. >> reporter: the man was hysterical. a real emotion, most who heard it had come to believe. but now, a question -- was it? >> god. >> what is her name? >> her name is betsy. >> betsy? >> yes. and the crying you can hear is her husband, russell. >> oh, my god. no. >> russell -- she -- do you think that she's beyond help right now? >> i think she's dead. >> okay. >> oh, my god. she's gone. >> reporter: betsy

here's keith morrison. >> reporter: the woman in the icu was barely alive. her jaw shattered in a dozen pieces. a once beautiful face unrecognizable after the brutal beating, the rape, the fire, the fall, the massive nearly fatal stroke. someone thought she'd be dead now. someone who fled into the night. someone killing women. and this one deep in a coma at the threshold of death is their only chance to catch him before he does it again. what happened here was spawned in a very dark corner of the human condition. but a terrifying flaw that virginia, there really is a bogey man. and against him were the only weapons they had. the power of one family. a determined cop. and one remarkable gift in the face of evil. here's where it began, three months before that scene in the icu. this is the nightclub district, denver, colorado. town lodo. short for lower downtown. very trendy. it was the night before april fool's day 2011. a warm spring evening in denver. girls' night out. an attractive 19-year-old named kenia monge was on her way to lodo to party with some gir

here's keith morrison with "the secret life of a soccer mom." >> the news spread like the morning sun. western fringe. as inexplicable and frightening as the burned car, the vanishing. it was june 28th, 2007. over the mountains in denver, four hours away, frank bergfeld was driving to his office. phone rang. >> the voice on the phone says, "this is somebody with the mace ka county mesa county sheriff's office. are you paige's dad?" i said "yep." "did you know she's missing?" >> barbara campbell got the call from her husband who told her -- >> paige is missing. what do you mean, she's missing? >> andrea lan got the news in an e-mail. >> it said paige is missing in the subject line. i knew something horrible had to have happened because it didn't make any sense that she would be missing. >> no way for even a best friend to prepare for such a thing. nor any way to understand just how much of it was going to be a mystery. how much they did not, could not know. about the life and disappearance of paige bergfeld or what they'd be called on to do to bring her home. >> stunningly beautiful. o

here's keith morrison. ♪ >> when jason bingham thinks of home, this is what he sees in his mind's eyethis as much a part of him as breathing. as his own heart. >> it's god's country here. we just love it. you can't see neighbors for as far as you can see. it's just a beautiful place. >> a good horse, a faithful dog and a sturdy truck is about all he need out here. until he met her. and what happened when he met stacy, love, but for them, way out here in god's country, it truly was. a grand sweeping landscape, a town of 400 or so. here, jason bingham worked at his father's accounting business. stacy was a nurse at a nearby hospital. this is a home the bingham's loved, where they imagined they'd raise their kids and live for the rest of their lives. >> hi, we're late forturech. sierra is compassionate and loving. megan, confident and athletic and lindsey is our hockey mom, she makes sure everyone stays in line. hunter is a happy go lucky five-year-old. full of energy and life. then gabe, who is kind of the family clown. >> i love him. >>. >> but parties, of course, don't last forever, b

here's keith morrison. >> when jason bingham thinks of home, this is what he sees in his mind's eye. this as much a part of him as breathing. as his own heart. >> god's country here. we just love it. it's just a beautiful place. >> a good horse, faithful dog, a sturdy truck, about all he needed out here. until he met her. and what happened when jason met stacey was, well, love, brand new, unique. god's country, it truly was. haines is a speck in a grand sweeping landscape. a town of 400 or so. near the oregon-idaho border. here, jason worked at his father's accounting business. stacey was a nurse at a nearby hospital. and this was the home they loved, and where they imagined they would raise their kids and live for the rest of their lives. >> hi, good morning. we're really late for church. >> it takes each one of them to make us a family. you have see ierrasierra, megan. lindsey. she makes sure everyone stays in line. and then hunter, who is just a happy, go lucky 5-year-old. >> oh, yeah. >> full of energy and life. and then gabe, who is the family clown. coming home from work is jus

here is keith morrison. >> when jason bingham thinks of home, what he sees in his mind's eye, it's as much a part of him as breathing, as his own heart. >> it's god's country. you can't see any neighbors as far as you can see. >> faithful horse, good dog and sturdy truck is about all he needed out here. until he met her. what happened when jason met stacy was -- well, love, brand new, unique. but for them, way out here in god country, it truly was. grand sweeping landscape near the oregon/idaho border. jason bingham worked at his father's accounting business. stacy was an obstetrics nurse at a nearby hospital. this was the home the binghams loved and where they imagined they would raise their kids and live for the rest of their lives. >> hi! >> hi! easter morning. we're really late for church. >> it takes each one of them to make us a family. you have sierra, compassionate and loving, megan, who is confident and athletic and lindsay has been our little jabber jaws. she makes sure everyone stays in line and then hunter, who is just a happy-go-lucky 5-year-old. >> oh, yeah. >> full of e

here's keith morrison with "someone was out there." >>> there are children born into never ends.tained. for whom exuberance is uncontainable. >> amyjane. what are we doing right now? >> we're riding on 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. >> is there a serial killer 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 literally not 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 happened, 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

here's keith morrison. >> did you just shoot me? did you just really shoot me. >> he didn't feel them, the .44 magnum slugs that ripped through his body, blew holes in the wall behind him. >> and i'm on the ground and i'm crying, why are you killing me? >> and she answered with a bullet to the chest. so, of course, it's a love story in its own weird, perverted way. a story about a kid and a dame, about people who act like they're living in movies, like "double indemnity" or "body heat" or "sin city." but the star would be the simple trusting guy who gets played for a chump, if you can imagine a chump's worst nightmare. >> i had an uncle by marriage and he was sexually molesting me. >> but then life had never been a box of chocolates for jaime ramos. >> i was about 6, 7 when it started. and it ended about somewhere between 15 and 17. >> ten years? >> yes. >> he barely knew his imprisoned father, not even a memory of mother. >> i lost my mother at 2 years old. she committed suicide. >> is that why young jaime turned out the way he did

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here's keith morrison with "mystery in big sky country." >> reporter: there was a broad swath of prairie where the cattle outnumbered the people and a sad summer breeze sang around a modest dwelling in the grass. >> emergency. >> this is marlene protsman in geraldine. >> reporter: they called it the bunkhouse, though it was really just an old single-wide trler. himself. my husnd just went down to check to see if he was going to pasture. >> reporter: a nondescript little place out on the montana prairie. a bit worn around the edges. >> do you know where he shot himself? >> he doesn't know. >> is he still alive? >> a there's blood everywhere. >> reporter: the sort of place a young vet could live cheap while he built his business. >> well, if you can have somebody go check and see if he's still alive. i have paged the ambulance. >> reporter: when the local sheriff's deputies arrived, they found the body in the middle of the kitchen floor lying on its back. blood had pooled under its head. on one foot was a shoe of the sort people wear in the water. the other was bare. a .357 magnum was on t

here again, keith morrison. the highway from little geraldine is a living remnant of america's old west. ft. benton, montana. still holding out against wind and weather and occasional outbursts of the worst humans can do to each other. this is where, in a cell in the county courthouse, they installed tom jaraczeski. it was 1998. he was 25 years old. and he was charged with the deliberate homicide of dr. bryan rein. tom's parents and five siblings tried to get their heads around what seemed to them an outrageous accusation, cruel and unjust. what's it like to have your little brother charged with murder, facing life imprisonment? >> you feel angry. you want to do anything you can to help him. >> it was just devastating. we've never been through anything like that in our family. >> reporter: there simply wasn't the money to hire some fancy, high-priced attorney. so tom got a state-appointed lawyer, bob peterson. this kid? >> when i met him, i knew that he couldn't have done it. >> reporter: oh, come on. what a typ

here's keith morrison. >> it was august, hot in coral gables. the air was shirt-sticking thick as night fell. a small damp breeze pushed weakly at limp palm fronds. in the artificial cool of attorney john sutton's house, an intimate party was winding down early. it was susan sutton's birthday. attending, their son, his girlfriend and john's law partner. daughter melissa just off to college in north florida, couldn't be there. so she phoned her mother to say she missed her. you two close? >> extremely. it's my best friend. >> i was going to ask how old your mom was. >> 57. no, you can't put that on. she was a nice 45. let's leave it at that. >> the guests left. the law partner went home. son christopher and his girlfriend went out to a movie. john settled in to watch tv in the master bedroom. susan, in another bedroom, talked on the phone with a close friend. a quiet end to a pleasant evening. quiet, but not for long. >> 911. >> i need police. >> what happened, sir? >> somebody came in and shot me. >> they shot you? >> yes. >> who did it? >> i do