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Sandy Harvey hasn't seen her daughter Liesel since 2012.

At that time, Liesel was 23 years old. She was happy and healthy and working in her dream job, caring for horses.

But it was horses that brought her into contact with James Church, a much older man with whom

she fell in love.

After her disappearance, Sandy discovered Liesel's relationship with Church was one of cruelty and heartache.

For one thing, Liesel wasn't the only woman he was seeing and she knew it.

Ten years after Liesel's disappearance, Sandy and the rest of her family thought they might finally be on the verge of some kind of breakthrough.

But James Church had one more cruel twist up his sleeve.

Tell us about Liesel then, what sort of kid was she?

A very individual child.

She lived in her own world.

I think she was more like me than any of them because she was an animal lover and as long

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