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Thank you for joining me for today's episode of What's Upon a Crime.

We're in the series Tunting Terrorists,

where I detail cases of victims' families

who were taunted and terrorized by their loved ones killers

through anonymous phone calls or messages.

In this episode, a young girl is snatched away

while on a camping trip with her family,

and anonymous calls come in soon after demanding a ransom.

But the trail would grow cold until exactly one year later

when the kidnapper would call her mother

to brag about taking her daughter.

It would be largely due to the mother's ability

to show amazing forgiveness and compassion towards her daughter's kidnapper

that would help authorities to catch a serial killer.

This is the case of Susan Yeager.

In late June 1973,

the Yeager family was on a month-long vacation.

Maryetta Yeager, her husband and their five children,

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