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Someone Was Out There

Dateline NBC

NBC News

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

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

When a young missionary is murdered and another woman goes missing in the same town, police investigate a deadly connection. Keith Morrison reports.

Transcript

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0:00.0

She is very carefree, loving.

0:04.0

She was amazing.

0:06.0

I just can't tell you the feeling I went through,

0:10.0

went through my mind.

0:12.0

I couldn't think of anybody that would ever want to do what they did to her.

0:20.0

Amy Jane was an angel, traveling the world with her church to help children.

0:26.0

They loved Amy, they loved Amy so much.

0:28.0

But back home, something sinister, lay waiting.

0:32.0

It was a pretty horrific crime scene.

0:34.0

A bright young life snuffed out.

0:36.0

Who would do that? It doesn't make any sense at all.

0:40.0

Months later, a mob out for a walk vanishes.

0:44.0

Karen Skahn, I don't know where she is.

0:46.0

It just cried.

0:48.0

One murder, one disappearance in the same small town.

0:52.0

But soon, police would discover a creepier connection.

0:56.0

One of the detectives had gotten his hands on an image of Amy Jane Brandhag and Karen Lang together.

1:02.0

Oh my God.

1:02.0

The dead teenager and the missing mob, Arm and Arm.

1:06.0

In that moment, most of us knew that that wasn't coincidence.

1:10.0

Was someone stalking the women of this tight-knit church?

1:14.0

This sounds more like a zodiac type killer.

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