Evil Was Watching

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🗓️ 4 May 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Two young girls in Washington are snatched in broad daylight while riding their bikes. The case goes unsolved for decades, until a new detective with a local connection to the story tries to solve the mystery that haunted her childhood. Keith Morrison reports.

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0:00.0	Any time a child goes missing, it's a scary thing.
0:04.0	You know there's evil out there.
0:07.0	She was almost 13.
0:09.0	Do you remember what that was like?
0:11.0	It was terrifying.
0:12.0	It's this sickening feeling that just overtakes you.
0:19.0	Bloodhounds came. Police were there.
0:21.0	This was a little girl that was doing nothing more than riding her bicycle in a park.
0:26.0	The similarities.
0:28.0	Blonde, blue-eyed, riding a bike.
0:31.0	Somebody who's targeting young girls.
0:33.0	Exactly.
0:35.0	I would have a suspect that I was working and I would wonder,
0:39.0	okay, could this guy be responsible?
0:42.0	My working theory was this guy has somehow slipped through the cracks.
0:46.0	How many names did you have?
0:48.0	About 2300 names.
0:49.0	So how many names?
0:50.0	Yes.
0:53.0	It's really the first big development in human identification in 20 years.
0:57.0	I knew it was a big step in the case.
1:00.0	I was like, no way.
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