A man canaps his own child. He says that he did it to save her from sexual abuse. Her mother says that he's brainwashing their daughter and using her to make money off of a sympathetic public. Sophie Long was last seen on July 12, 2021 in Seguin, Texas.

Her father has been on the run with her ever since.

Is he a hero who is doing whatever he can to protect his daughter from a predator in a broken legal system?

Or is he a mentally unstable man who may himself pose a threat to his daughter?

When a person goes missing, there's a special kind of pain in the not knowing.

I want to tell the stories of those who never came home.

I want to tell you the story of Sophie Long.

I'm Conan Gallagher.

And I'm Ethan Flick.

And this is, and then they were gone.

You know, The

The Welcome back, everyone back.

Hello.

Thank you for joining us once again.

This is part two of the Sophia Long case. So if you haven't listened to part one,

you'll definitely want to not listen to this and go back and listen to that one first.

We typically don't cover parental abduction stories on this show. Usually we cover cases

where there's a mystery surrounding the person going missing.

In Sophie's case, we know what happened. Her dad took her. He even showed up with her a few weeks later

to give an interview to the Daily Mail. To me, there is still a mystery.

It's not what happened to Sophie. It's the idea of who is the villain and who's the hero.

Or if we can even give those titles to anyone. Again, I do want to let you know up front that

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