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people like bill caldera, who was like family to amyjane and her parents, jim and kathy brandhagen. >> they brought amyjane home when she was three days old. and they brought her home. >> bill and knew the remarkable little girl from the very beginning. you watched amyjane grow up. >> yes. >> and saw what sort of girl emerge? >> she is very carefree, loving, didn't know a stranger. >> the brandhagens asked bill to speak for them after what happened when they sorely needed their church family at pendleton free methodist. like youth minister jeff hummel and his wife lisa who encountered the dancing sprite when she was in middle school. >> if she got the feeling that you were left out, she'd find you and make sure that you knew longstocking. >> i always remember she knew everyone's name. she was just fun. >> one year when she was far away in india, the people who loved amyjane worried a lot. and didn't breathe easy until she returned home to the safety and security of pendleton. where -- >> she was waiting for god to tell her what to do next. whether it was going to be to travel the worl
people like bill caldera, who was like family to amyjane and her parents, jim and kathy brandhagen. >> they brought amyjane home when she was three days old. and they brought her home. >> bill and knew the remarkable little girl from the very beginning. you watched amyjane grow up. >> yes. >> and saw what sort of girl emerge? >> she is very carefree, loving, didn't know a stranger. >> the brandhagens asked bill to speak for them after what happened when they...
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don't wait, of amyjane brandhagen, investigators finally caught a break. a county jail inmate looking for a deal got word out to the cops. he claimed to know who killed amyjane. >> i mean, we'd gone for months with nothing and now this. >> there were two of them, said the inmate. well-known to local law enforcement. who soon confirmed the men were in the area the day of the murder. they found torres first. and looked like they were on to something. torres said, yes, he was in on it. but he didn't kill her. it was the guy he was with, he said. draper, who went into the motel room and came out very bloody. >> he basically tells them, yeah, i was driving the getaway car. >> it was his buddy who did the killing, he said. ira draper. girlfriend. she's going, i always believed he potentially could have done this. he's aggressive. and he has these journals. and there are journal entries about defiling women and killing and burying them. >> they found and questioned draper who said he understood why he was a suspect. >> have you ever thought about killing anybody?
don't wait, of amyjane brandhagen, investigators finally caught a break. a county jail inmate looking for a deal got word out to the cops. he claimed to know who killed amyjane. >> i mean, we'd gone for months with nothing and now this. >> there were two of them, said the inmate. well-known to local law enforcement. who soon confirmed the men were in the area the day of the murder. they found torres first. and looked like they were on to something. torres said, yes, he was in on it....
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and karen lang together dated august 14th. >> amyjane brandhagen was murdered on august 14th. karen lang was assaulted on august the 9th one year after amyjane's murder. >> you think somebody's targeting them or someone within the church has some strange motivation? >> it could be a member of the congregation or it could be somebody who they provided outreach services to. >> in pendleton at the free methodist church, the word spread quickly. >> i think in that moment most of us knew that that wasn't coincidence. and i can't tell you how we knew. >> well, small town, same church. >> small town, same church. we all knew each other. i think we just knew. >> in a town where murder is rare, two women, one photo, and dates that lined up like a message. had to be a connection. >> certainly crossed my mind. >> so they scoured hours of video recorded by dozens of cameras stationed around town looking for a suspect. good luck. when amyjane was murdered in broad daylight, those videos turned up exactly nothing. but then, then luck turned. they saw this. recorded by one of the cameras stat
and karen lang together dated august 14th. >> amyjane brandhagen was murdered on august 14th. karen lang was assaulted on august the 9th one year after amyjane's murder. >> you think somebody's targeting them or someone within the church has some strange motivation? >> it could be a member of the congregation or it could be somebody who they provided outreach services to. >> in pendleton at the free methodist church, the word spread quickly. >> i think in that...
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dated august 14th. >> oh, my god. >> amyjane brandhagen was murdered on august 14th. karen lang was assaulted on august the 9th one year after amyjane's murder. >> you think somebody's targeting them or someone within the church has some strange motivation? >> it could be a member of the congregation or it could be somebody who they provided outreach services to. >> in pendleton at the free methodist church, the word spread quickly. >> i think in that moment most of us knew that that wasn't coincidence. and i can't tell you how we knew. >> well, small town, same church. >> small town, same church. we all knew each other. i think we just knew. >> in a town where murder is rare, two women, one photo, and dates that lined up like a message. had to be a connection. >> certainly crossed my mind. crossed my mind. >> so they scoured hours of video recorded by dozens of cameras stationed around town looking for a suspect. good luck. when amyjane was murdered in broad daylight, those videos turned up exactly nothing. but then, then luck turned. they saw this. recorded by one of
dated august 14th. >> oh, my god. >> amyjane brandhagen was murdered on august 14th. karen lang was assaulted on august the 9th one year after amyjane's murder. >> you think somebody's targeting them or someone within the church has some strange motivation? >> it could be a member of the congregation or it could be somebody who they provided outreach services to. >> in pendleton at the free methodist church, the word spread quickly. >> i think in that moment...
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trying to determine what connection is there between karen lang and amyjane brandhagen. >> it seemed very likely to the police and the d.a. the man seen in the surveillance video was the one who attacked karen lang, and that he might also have been the killer who stabbed amyjane to death in that motel room one year earlier. but who was it? the chief asked his street cops to look at that video. anybody recognize him? and what do you know? one of them did. second and said that's danny wu. >> how did he know? because he'd encountered him four times in the previous year. minor infractions, though. so they never confirmed that his name actually was danny wu. but there was one thing that might help i.d. him. >> he had a very distinct tattoo on the inside of his left wrist which read, semper fi. >> he's a marine. >> that was my initial reaction. >> while chief roberts didn't know who the man really was or where he was now or why he targeted two women who once taught bible school together, he knew they had to track him down right away. >> this is a community on edge. >> and now he's out ther
trying to determine what connection is there between karen lang and amyjane brandhagen. >> it seemed very likely to the police and the d.a. the man seen in the surveillance video was the one who attacked karen lang, and that he might also have been the killer who stabbed amyjane to death in that motel room one year earlier. but who was it? the chief asked his street cops to look at that video. anybody recognize him? and what do you know? one of them did. second and said that's danny wu....