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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. There's a quiet morning.

There wasn't much happening in the Northeast District of Edmonton,

which is the district that we were working.

And this call comes in, it was about 1022 that we were actually dispatched.

It's 1992 in Alberta, Canada.

Dave Bittman is a constable for the Edmonton Police Service.

On a Sunday morning, he and his partner are called to Rundle Park Village,

where a six-year-old named Corrine, Punky Gustavson has gone missing.

My first thoughts were, come on now. It's a quiet morning. Perhaps this little girl

went to the local convenience store with another friend, and maybe there's trouble at home, and she didn't want to go home right away. Unit 148, or correction, 149 is the second unit in from the corner here.

And this is the Gustafsson residence.

Bittman arrives at the Gustavson home around 10.30 a.m.

I could see people inside.

I went up to the front door and knocked on the door,

and there I met Ray Gustafson. Gustafson tells Bitman, Corrine was outside playing with her friend

Lindsay, who reported that a man had taken Corrine. As Bitman Ray Gustafsson's statement, his wife,

Karin's mother Karen, arrives at home. I was really upset. I was bawling. I was going

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