5. Catch and Release
The Unforgotten
Free Range Productions
4.6 • 961 Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Six years after Dolores disappeared, the pressure from her family pays off when a suspect is charged with her murder.
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| 0:00.0 | Six years. |
| 0:05.0 | That's how long Dolores Wolf's family waited for justice. |
| 0:09.0 | Six years of heartbreak, harassment, and unrelenting turmoil, but no real answers. |
| 0:16.0 | At first, they gave authorities time. |
| 0:19.0 | But as weeks turned into months with no progress, |
| 0:21.9 | they grew increasingly impatient. |
| 0:24.7 | Much of the family's ire was directed at Yolo County District Attorney Rick Gilbert, |
| 0:29.5 | who you heard from in episodes 2 and 3. |
| 0:32.6 | He was a fast-rising young lawyer, admitted to the California bar in 1972. |
| 0:38.1 | He was elected to Yolo County DA at just 30 years old and took office the year Dolores went |
| 0:43.4 | missing. |
| 0:45.0 | Gilbert would hold the DA role for four years before becoming a superior court judge. |
| 0:50.5 | For a time, Gilbert gave the family hope. |
| 0:54.4 | They started showing up at his office and pleading for action. |
| 0:58.5 | Here's Dolores' cousin, Debbie Baker. |
| 1:01.5 | It was every two weeks, oh, we're going to arrest him in two weeks. |
| 1:04.7 | We're going to arrest him in two weeks. |
| 1:06.2 | He'd have the family come and have meetings, and he'd sit there and talk and we'd ask questions and he |
| 1:12.6 | he would say oh we're going to arrest him in two weeks gilbert found himself in a difficult position |
| 1:18.7 | he told us he agreed with the family he thought carl wolf had murdered dolores but he was not |
| 1:25.4 | confident he could win a murder conviction without a body. |
| 1:29.3 | We've laid out a lot of the strong circumstantial evidence that existed, but Gilbert felt the |
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