Newport Beach, California sits just south of Los Angeles.

It's 2012, and the owner of a marijuana dispensary has been kidnapped, tortured, and left for dead in the Mojave Desert.

It began a decade-long game of cat and mouse between investigators and a perpetrator, a mastermind of escape.

He's a psychopath.

Oh, my God, they let Hannibal Lecter out?

Devil in the Desert is out now.

An all-new 2020 starts right now.

There's this photo at prom, their senior year.

Knowing how the story ends, it's really hard not to put really intense symbolism on it.

Today is April 16th, 2025. This is Brian Kramer, State Attorney for the Eighth

Judicial Circuit. We are at the Alachua County Jail.

I'm sitting here, please.

I'm shocked by the complexity of it.

The amount of lies in false evidence is beyond what we would ever see.

Is he asking you?

I want you to commit a very serious felony out of the goodness of your heart.

Once a student is officially reported missing, all hell breaks loose.

A forensic search.

There was dogs, helicopters, horses, four by fours.

One of the largest in Florida history.

How did you just manage? How is that possible?

Who did this mystery witness turn out to be?

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