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48 Hours

The Kidnapping of Michelle and Breea Renee

48 Hours

CBS News

True Crime, News, Tv & Film, Cbs

3.97K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

A mother is forced to rob a bank to save her daughter’s life, then her abductor falsely claims the mother was in on the crime. "48 Hours" contributor Tracy Smith reports.

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0:00.0

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0:32.7

It's like ghosts.

0:38.7

You just see the ghosts of them everywhere.

0:46.0

If you close your eyes, can you still see it? All of it.

1:01.0

The focus of the case is Michelle Renee. She was living with her daughter, Brea.

1:07.8

They were living in a kind of a secluded house.

1:11.8

Does it feel like 22 years? Sometimes it does. Sometimes it feels like a lifetime ago.

1:18.0

Sometimes it feels like it was last week.

1:20.7

I asked the FBI to take Michelle back to the house to help reconstruct probably the most

1:26.3

traumatic night of her life.

1:29.8

We came in the door, I put the groceries away in the kitchen.

1:35.8

Michelle was a single mom. She was a bank manager. Somebody who worked hard to gain a job

1:40.4

of position of trust and respect.

1:43.0

It had been such a long day and I was just excited to be home with Brea. We were on the couch.

1:50.4

It was just the two of us.

1:52.0

I was sitting here. She was right beside me and we were playing Game Boy.

1:55.8

A group of individuals put Michelle into surveillance knowing she was a bank manager and they devised

2:02.2

a plan.

2:04.6

We just heard this huge sound, just the biggest noise from behind us.

2:13.2

I turned to look and just saw three people. They were all lined up one right after the

2:18.3

other, just rushing in, running in the door. That spot style and they had their guns.

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