This is Deborah Roberts. Welcome to the 2020 True Crime Vault. Each week we reach back into our archives and bring you a story we found unforgettable.

Only a true psychopath could do this.

Pull of blood coming from his head.

Somebody had been paid to kill me.

Why would you want your husband killed?

Take a listen. listen. Coming up.

He said,

He said now I can blow your, excuse my language, but I can blow your

your brain

brains out then I saw a gun.

The 14 year old girl who simply vanished walking home from school.

Please come home when they see so badly I think about you all the time.

People just don't disappear off the face of the earth. It fit the definition of

kidnap. So how did they miss the madman hiding in plain sight?

I felt this stammering pain in my leg.

I thought, oh my God, I've been shot.

The girl who survived nine months in captivity in a cargo container shackled.

I just really wanted to live.

The mind games he played.

He told me, called me Master. But she had some mind games of her own.

Okay, I gotta work with this guy.

The bizarre twist ending that no one saw coming.

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