narrator: the wilberger family was informed.nted to know the truth but were almost afraid to discover more about joel courtney and his crimes. i googled him and passed it on to you. you googled him? sure, yeah. what was it like to see his face? you know, i just looked at him, and-- and at that point, it was just a numb feeling, you know? even then, i didn't feel hatred. you know, it was just-- i was all about getting brooke back. i want to know what you did and where she is. narrator: but neither the wilbergers, nor investigators, nor courtney's sister could ever have guessed how they would get the answer to the question, where was brooke? coming up, evidence finally implicates joel courtney in brooke's kidnapping. that's the smoking gun. that's the nail in the coffin. narrator: but will that help bring brooke home? when "dateline" continues. the moment i met him i knew he was my soulmate. "soulmates." soulmate! [giggles] why do you need me? [laughs sarcastically] but then we switched to t-mobile 5g home internet. and now his at

wilberger.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. [coughs] when caroline has a cough, she takes robitussin. so, she can have those one on ones again. hey jim! can we talk about casual fridays? oh sure. what's up? get fast, powerful cough relief with

wilberg. uh, mr. stone, um, ask by reporters if an israely ground incation into lebanon was inevitable, that's one of my questions, do you think that will happen? uh, us president joe biden said on saturday that it's time for a cease fire now. your thoughts on that. it was time for a cease fire about year ago. uh and all it would have taken uh to get achieve a cease fire then was one phone call from mr. biden to to uh mr. netanyahu saying that uh we will cut off we will you will get no further support from us either uh money or arms unless you uh enter into a ceasefire in gaza and of course the opposite happened uh biden the emperor uh showered israel the criminal uh the terrorist enterprise. uh the uh what they what the americans call their permanent unsinkable aircraft carrier in the in west asia, they showered them with 500 flights uh... "i think it was so far, of arms and billions and billions of dollars of us uh fund funding in order to keep up the genocide in gaza, and uh the uh mr. nasralla for