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There are over 100,000 cold cases in America.

Only 1% are ever solved.

This is one of those rare stories.

Thank you. is one of those rare stories. It's 2 a.m. on October 13th, 1991, in the town of Tyler, Texas.

A single set of headlights creeps down 29th Street, towards a house set back among the trees.

A shadow slips through a door and down a hallway towards a back bedroom.

Inside, an eight-year-old boy named Chad Choice sleeps.

He never makes a sound as the intruder gathers up the boy and carries him into the night.

The following morning is Sunday and Chad's mother, Karen, gets ready for church.

That was my birthday that day. And I was getting ready for church, coffee, and reading,

as I always did. And I decided not to wake the children.

The mother of four allows her children to sleep in and heads off to church. Just minutes into the

service, Karen gets a call from home. It was my daughter. And she asked me if Chad was with me.

And I said, no, I left him at home.

And she said, well, we've looked everywhere and we can't find him. Within the hour, Karen and

family and friends are walking the neighborhood, looking for Chad, hoping he is just playing a game

of Hide and Seek. We were just looking up to see if he was just playing a joke on us,

and we were walking around the house, looking up in the trees to see if he was there.

But all in the same time, there was just something that just kept...

I just had this feeling something was wrong.

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