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Dateline NBC

Finding Savanna

Dateline NBC

NBC News

True Crime, Culture, Social, Society & Culture, News

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, a woman disappears with her 11-month-old daughter after losing a hotly contested custody battle. Andrea Canning reports. Originally aired on NBC on August 7, 2015. (Additional Footage: SEVEN NETWORK AUSTRALIA)

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0:00.0

He said it's like a bloody movie and it is.

0:02.8

It's just so intense and so deep.

0:05.5

You go through all these reins of emotions that you don't know, you know?

0:09.1

That's the first time I started to hear about my life.

0:12.0

I could have been an entirely different person.

0:16.6

It was a mind-boggling mystery for almost 20 years.

0:20.6

A child who suddenly vanished.

0:23.4

The most important thing in my life was taking for me.

0:27.2

Just instant horror of where is she.

0:30.8

What had happened to baby Savannah?

0:33.2

The answer would come decades later and astonish the world.

0:37.4

It happened so fast.

0:39.4

I couldn't fathom what was going on.

0:41.2

Imagine your mother a fugitive, your father a stranger, your home, your name, your past, was any of it real.

0:51.2

The first thing I felt, I just pipped my stomach, I just felt like it was my fault.

0:55.2

A mother's crime, a father's pain.

0:58.2

What kind of emotions did it stir up when you would see that crib?

1:01.2

You just made the car.

1:02.2

A daughter forced to face the shattering truth.

1:06.2

I was shocked and I was just terrified.

1:09.2

I'm lester-holed and this is Daydeline.

1:12.2

Here's Andrea Canning with Finding Savannah.

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