Karen is gone. I dont know where she is. I just cried. One murder, one disappearance in the same small town but soon police could discover a creepier connection. One of the detectives had gotten his hands on an image of amyja amyjane. In the most of the moment most of us knew it wasnt a coincidence. Was someone stalking the women in this tight knit church. This sounded like a zodiac killer. A truth darker than anyone would image. I dont get that. This is evil. Im lester holt. This is date line. Heres Keith Morrison with someone is out there. Reporter there are children born into this world for whom the dance never ends for whom joy seems uncontained for whom exuberance is uncontainable. Amyjane what are we doing right now . Were riding on the roof of a car reporter there was this young woman. A sprite, really, in a young womans body, who loved adventure and people and who danced to music no one else could hear. Which is why it haunted me. This case haunted me. Reporter haunted the police. Haunted the whole town. Reporter is there a serial killer around . A serial killer with plans for two women in one particular church in one particular photograph . I was like this is insane and Everybody Needs to find this person reporter yes, but it began with that girl, that sprite. Just the freest spirit you can think of, like literally, not having a care in the world. Reporter kate cook is talking about her friend, and fellow missionary Amyjane Brandhagen. Talking about her now that its happened, that its all over. Kate and amyjane went to india and nepal together two short years ago. Small town girls. Kate from wisconsin, amyjane, from oregon. She was always ready to give and pour her heart out to people and give everything that she had to offer. Reporter they were 3 months for something called youth with a mission or ywam for short. Like tourists they went to the taj majal and like preachers they spread the word. To children, mostly. For whom amyjane was magnetic, irresistible. When they would see her they would run up to her and theyd go Dee Dee Deedee which means sister, sister. Yknow . Like so excited. And when the three Month Mission trip was over . She hated it she was like, i dont want to go home. Reporter home for amyjane was a universe away from vibrant, teeming india. Here it is. Pendleton, safely tucked into a small valley on the vast rolling flanks of eastern oregon. Cowboy country. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the pendleton roundup. Reporter home to one of the nations biggest rodeos, the pendleton roundup. Which, each september, celebrates the towns rough and tumble past as a brawlingandbordello filled cowtown. And then . Then good, conservative citizens wave goodbye to departing cowboys and settle into a safe and predictable life, and fill the pews every sunday morning without fail. People like bill caldera, who was like family to amyjane and her parents, dave and cathy brandhagen. They brought amyjane home when she was three days old, and we were there when she she was brought home. Reporter bill knew and adored the remarkable little girl from the very beginning. Reporter you watched amyjane grow up . Yes. Reporter and saw what sort of girl emerge . She was very carefree, loving, didnt know a stranger. Reporter the brandhagens asked bill to speak for them after what happened, when they sorely needed their Church Family at pendleton Free Methodist. Like youth minister jed hummel and his wife lisa, who encountered the dancing sprite when she was in middle school. If she got the feeling that you were left out, shed find you and make sure you knew that you had a friend. A little bit like Pippi Longstocking absolutely. Certainly. Thats exactly oh certainly and i always remembered she knew everyones name she was just fun. Reporter mind you, when she was far away in india, the people who loved amyjane worried a lot. And didnt breathe easy until she returned home to the safety and security of pendleton where she was waiting for god to tell her what to do next whether it was gonna be to travel the world, or go back to ywam or go to school. Reporter she wanted more freedom, too. So she moved out of her parents house and got herself a little apartment in downtown pendleton. Worked two jobs to pay for it including a job cleaning motel rooms at the travelodge across from city hall. She was excited to get this other job, but she wasnt so sure about working at the hotel. She was a little nervous about it. Reporter after all, shed never done that sort of thing before or answered to a boss who, well this one sounded gruff. But she went. And she scoured and scrubbed those little rooms that looked out on downtown pendleton. And then it was august 14th, 2012. 911 what is your emergency . I am calling from travelodge. In pendleton. Theres a girl dead in the barth room bathroom. I dont know. A girl dead in the bathroom . I think shes passed out or okay im gonna get police and ambulance headed that way, okay . Reporter in his office down the hall from the 911 operator, bill caldera listened and felt the dread flood in. It just gave me a feeling in the pit of my stomach that something was not good about this call. Reporter bill, remember, was a close friend of the brandhagen family, attends the same church. But hes also a policeman and that day, with the chief on vacation, lieutenant bill caldera was the man in charge. As soon as one of my patrol sergeants arrived on the scene, he requested my presence. Which i knew then we were probably dealing with a homicide. Reporter but as he raced to the motel, he couldnt know what had just been started there, any more than whose life had just ended. What this veteran investigator was about to find would leave his stunned . I just cant tell you the feeling that went through my mind. 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Reporter lieutenant bill caldera prepared himself as he drove over to the travelodge and then climbed the stairs to room 231. All the preparation in the world would not have been enough. Lying on the bathroom floor, her lifeless body punctured by the startling scarlet of a dozen stab wounds was the sweet free spirit hed known since she was a baby. 19year old Amyjane Brandhagen. It felt like somebody had kicked me in the pit of my stomach. I just cant tell you [ crying ] the feeling that went through my mind. Reporter yeah. Almost like she was your kid, in a way. Very much. Reporter lieutenant caldera took it upon himself to notify amyjanes parents. That was probably the toughest thing ive ever had to do in my career and i just cant tell you the feeling that we all had. We broke down in tears. Reporter but why would anyone want to kill amyjane, of all people . I was just crushed. Like how is this even possible . Im just speechless. And then i sat crying in the bathroom for probably like the next hour, not understanding, craziness. Reporter as word spread throughout amyjanes Church Family so did the questions. High school youth pastor chris thatcher. Early on, was there any indication of who may have been responsible . I dont think anybody had any idea. And i think thats what made it so hard is that, so many of us, we know each other. Were family here. Reporter but there was the dismal work to do. Lieutenant caldera returned to the motel where amy was murdered. Itd be pretty hard for you to take part in an active investigation no. I wouldnt have. I couldnt have. Not with my relationship. Reporter lieutenant caldera turned the case over to detective Sergeant Rick jackson. It was a pretty, pretty horrific crime scene. Reporter it was obvious amyjane fought for her life. Her glasses lay in the bathtub. Blood spattered the walls. Dna of a male, presumably her attacker would be found under her fingernails. But the medical examiner said it was not a sex attack. And it wasnt robbery either. Amyjanes purse and cell phone were still right there on the bedside table. And nobody saw a thing. Even though this was during broad daylight with a motel room door, with motel room doors open. Reporter the only potential witness if he was a witness at all was a painter working at the motel. Who said he saw a young man with longer hair, darker skin, perhaps hispanic or native american, walking near the back parking lot. It may have been the person who did it or it may not have been. It might have been someone just passing by. Sure while we were there shoot, within the first hour of being at the crime scene, upwards of 50 people walked by. I mean this is a pretty busy area of town. Reporter busy, yes. And studded with cctv cameras. Banks. Bridges. City hall. Walking trails along the river that runs through town. Detectives painstakingly went through the footage. There was nothing. Reporter they took dna from dozens of motel guests to check against the sample taken from amyjanes fingernails. Wasnt any of them. So detective jackson went to the people who knew amyjane well, or or perhaps, romantically. Those stab wounds were all focused around her heart, which often indicates some kind of crime of passion, but i think most of the males we spoke to really viewed themselves as her protectors. Reporter Pendleton Police chief Stuart Roberts hurried back home from his abbreviated mexican vacation and encountered a case going nowhere fast. Everybody that knew her characterized her in the same way. She knew no stranger. She didnt have an evil bone in her body. Reporter as the investigation entered its second week, amyjanes family prepared a Memorial Service at the church where theyd raised their daughter. Amy loved thunderstorms. And it was one of her favorite things to do was to go out barefoot and dance in the rain, because she just loved it. And the morning of her Memorial Service there was a loud clap of thunder that came over town about 6 30. And several of us heard it. I think we knew. Up there dancin in the rain somewhere, huh . I think she was. And together we pray, in jesus name, amen. Reporter hundreds crowded into amyjanes church and many, like jed and lisa hummel, were amazed by the strength of amyjanes parents. They were hurting deeply. But they werent looking for vengeance. Me, on the other hand, i was just ticked. I was like, this is insane and Everybody Needs to find this person. oh, they were certainly trying. Even at that very moment. We had about 10 or 12 undercover officers in and about the Memorial Service looking for anybody that would strike us as odd. Reporter but no one stood out. A month after the murder, the famous roundup filled the streets as usual. And then they emptied again. And as the autumn wind turned raw, detective jacksons investigation chased down every lead and got nowhere. We call them rabbit trails. We ran hundreds of rabbit trails down. Reporter the holidays came and went, holidays for other people. Not detective jackson. Not chief roberts. It haunted me. This case haunted me. Reporter and then . A spring breeze dipped into the pendleton valley, curled its warming fingers into secret corners and came out whispering a name. Coming up. Weve gone more months with nothing and now this. Out of the blue, a tip that had cops found their killer. We go out and find his girlfriend and shes i always believed he could have done this. When dateline kins. Continues. Get up to 50 offsears outerwear for the family, and members get up to 100 back in points on Samsung Galaxy tablets. Plus get 50 off all diehard workboots. Start your search at sears. To make dinner more delicious. With eleven plump tomatoes in every jar, our sauce is richer, thicker and more delectable than ever. And bursting with so much taste, it brings families together. Ragu. Make dinner taste better. Reporter six months after the murder of Amyjane Brandhagen, investigators finally caught a break. A county jail inmate looking for a deal got word out to the cops. He claimed to know who killed amyjane. I mean weve gone for months with nothing and now this. Reporter there were two of them, said the inmate. Ira draper. And eric torres. Both, well known to local Law Enforcement who soon confirmed the men were in the area the day of the murder. They found torres first. And . Looked like they were onto something. Torres said yes, he was in on it. But he didnt kill her. It was the guy he was with he said, draper who went into the motel room and came out very bloody. He basically tells em, yeah i was driving the getaway car. Reporter it was his buddy who did the killing, he said. Ira draper. So we go out and find his girlfriend and shes going, i always believed he could have done this. Hes aggressive. And he has these journals they are journal entries about defiling women and killing and burying them. Reporter they found and questioned draper who said he understood why he was a suspect. Have you ever thought about killing anybody . Ive never really planned it out. But maybe thought about, yeah. Reporter but after a few minutes with draper, jackson had a familiar, sinking feeling. He was very much so enamored by the fact that the police were giving him attention. He was playing you. He was playing it for all it was worth . He was getting a little street cred for it. Reporter and the dna confirm. It was all an act. Two unpleasant men, police said, who seemed to be enjoying themselves at the expense of the cops. So back to zero. By august 2013, it had been almost a full year since Amyjane Brandhagens murder in pendleton. Investigators had exhausted hundreds of leads, and themselves. I knew it was having an impact on my Physiological Health as well as my mental health. Reporter on august 8th, the chief took his family out of town for some r r. And the very next day, a woman named karen lange, happened to be a member of amyjanes church, announced to her husband, dan, she was going for a walk. She came down, and ill never forget what she said. She said, well, you know, i was thinking that maybe we can go out for dessert afterward. Reporter karen was an accomplished singer and pianist, dan, Vice President of the local community college. Her walk along the river levee near downtown pendleton the riverwalk was an almost daily habit. It was 4 30pm. Lots of sun left on a warm august afternoon. And the last words she said to me were, well i guess well just have a nice boring evening. reporter dan went back to tinkering on his motorcycle lost all track of time. It was dark when his son walked into the room and asked an innocuous question. Wheres mom . i said, hmm, well, i dont know. Ill give her a call. So i went and i tried to make the phone call and i couldnt get ahold of her. Reporter but it was after 9 30 p. M. Karen usually walked for less than an hour she had been gone for five. In some people, anxiety stokes panic. Dan is not like that. Its a coping mechanism. He stays calm. He made another call. Long day. Ten oclock at night. My phone rings. And so, hey hi dan. reporter remember jed and lisa hummel . Friends of amyjanes from church . Karen always parked her car in front of their house when she took her Late Afternoon walks. He says is karen at your house . No. I just got home. And i asked lisa if shed been over. I said no, havent seen her. And i had looked outside and sure enough the car was still there, so we went out to the car and she wasnt there. Reporter so jed and lisa grabbed flashlights and walked the couple blocks from their house down to the river levee. And there in a parkiwhat should him . And he just thought it was unusual enough that he got a hold of dan. Reporter as the officer left to talk to dan, jed and lisa oo along the river bank. Theres a fear of not finding anything, and theres a fear of finding something. When i got to the where the policeman was, we were talking and he said you seem to be awfully calm for your wife being missing. and at that point, i thought holy mackerel, you know, if theres something something bad that happened to her, i could be a suspect. Reporter from his patrol car, the officer was able to pull up images from cameras stationed around the river levee. No sign of karen. Then, her cell provider sent a ping to karens phone. It turned up across the main road about a halfmile from the river in the parking lot at walmart. Where again, the officer could not find karen. What was going on . Around and around the riverwalk they went. Pointing their puny flashlights at a sea of dark. I did go home at about 5 00. I wrote an email saying karen is gone. I dont know where she is. I just have to go to bed. 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Its going to be a breath of fresh air for them. 19yearold Amyjane Brandhagen has been found stabbed to death. There have been few clues and no arrests. Now another woman in the same small town has disappeared. As we rejoin our story, police are about to discover a chilling connection between the two that will terrify an entire community, but will it help them catch a killer . Again, Keith Morrison. Reporter dawn took its own imperious time on the morning of august 10th, 2013. By that time, going on 6 00 a. M. , karen lange had been missing more than 12 hours. And then finally, the morning sun lit up the banks of the umatilla river. And. The policemen called. He said we found your wife. Reporter she was found and alive. But what the policeman said next was terrifying. Well, when he said we found your wife and shes alive, that was a great relief. But, he certainly made it sound like it was a tough, tough thing. Reporter oh, it was. Karen had been struck from behind by some heavy, blunt object. Her skull was crushed. The wound was massive. Right away the detective called the chief on vacation in the mountains 5 hours away. And described the way they found her. Did he think she was dead already . He thought she was dead. Tremendous amount of blood. He indicates that he reaches for her wrist to see if she has a pulse, and her leg moves, and she gasps. Reporter but it didnt look like shed be alive for long. The detective drove dan lange to the hospital. Told him, prepare for the worst. As he arrived at the emergency room, dan ran into a nurse he knew. And she took one look at me, and, of course, it was so heartbroken, that i, of course, broke down, and then i had a chance to see karen. Reporter the doctors gave her a slim chance. One in a hundred maybe. She was airlifted to a bigger hospital in portland for specialized care. And as dan kept watch at her bedside, he remembered an odd comment karen made a few days before she was attacked. Her boys were in college, nearly grown. She wasnt sure what her purpose was anymore. As she told dan. I really wish that i could be, you know, more useful, if im going to remain here. On planet earth . On planet earth, yeah and i would assure her with but god has a plan and you will be used. reporter but what kind of use was this . If she lived, she might never regain conciousness. If she regained conciousness, she might never be the same. How useful could that be . And then, suddenly, the case of the murder of amy brandhagen, and the attack on karen lange seemed to take on a new and terrifying meaning. Chief roberts returned from his vacation to be handed this photograph by investigators. It had been taken four years earlier. One of the detectives had gotten his hands on an image of Amyjane Brandhagen and karen lange together dated august the 14th. Oh my god Amyjane Brandhagen was murdered on august the 14th. Karen lange was assaulted on august the 9th, one year after amyjanes murder. Like somebodys targeting them, or somebody within the church has some strange motivation. It could be a member of the congregation, or it could be somebody who they provided Outreach Services to. Reporter in pendleton, at the Free Methodist church, the word spread quickly. I think in that moment, most of us knew that that wasnt coincidence, and i cant tell you how we knew. Well, small town. Same church. Small town, same church, we all knew each other. I think we just knew. Reporter in a town where murder is rare, two women, one photo, and dates that lined up like a message, had to be a connection. Oh it certainly crossed my mind. I think it crossed everybodys mind. Reporter so once again, detective jackson and others scoured hours of video recorded by dozens of cameras stationed around town looking for a suspect. Good luck. When amyjane was murdered in broad daylight, those videos turned up exactly nothing. And then luck turned. They saw this. Recorded by one of the cameras stationed around the Riverwalk Karen Lange there she is right there out for her walk and following her a man watching her with what looks like a pipe hidden behind his back right there. They cross a small footbridge theres a short stretch there of maybe 50 60 yards where theres just no visibility from any direction unless youre actually on the path, and right there, where he attacks her. Is that where she was found . Roberts she was found about 30 feet down the path. Reporter and then they found this video, recorded by another camera about an hour after the attack. Same man enters a park bathroom and minutes later, emerges to use a drinking fountain. I immediately said, its the same guy. Weve got to show its the same guy reporter wait. The same guy as who . Chief roberts remembered after amyjane was murdered, the only witness who saw anything reported a young man with dark hair wandering near the motel. Basically the description was fairly generic. Male 20something, dark hair, a little bit longer, with dark toned skin, now we have the second crime almost a year later, almost to the anniversary, and heres a male profile, or image on our Network Camera system that fits. It fits. Reporter but who was he . And why was he targeting women from the same church . Within hours, a very unusual kind of pendleton roundup was under way. The order was clear. Find him, fast. Coming up. The evidence that was about to send this case into overdrive. It gave me chills. When dateline continues. Thats the healing power of vaseline. If youre suffering from constipation or irregularity, powders may take days to work. For gentle overnight relief, try dulcolax laxative tablets. Ducolax provides gentle overnight relief, unlike miralax that can take up to 3 days. 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Secondly, we can send our children to school. Its really that first step that allows them to get out of poverty and most importantly have money left over to plan for the future they want. When the Free Methodists of pendleton, oregon, went to their Weekly Worship Services that sunday in august 2013, they offered their prayers for karen language lying in a portland hospital in a coma. Her husband dan a constant presence at her bedside. The prognosis was poor. But dan, optimistic by nature, struggled to hang on. Its just the faithful attitude that says, no matter what happens, its gods plan. And his plan is to prosper us. Even if i were to lose karen i had to hold onto that and realize that. Reporter in those first two days since karen was found in the brush alongside the pendleton river walk, shock spread like bad electricity. Someone came up to our Senior Pastor and said, you know, i think im glad im not part of your church after all these things have happened. Youre thinking is there a serial killer around . Reporter not fear, exactly. Not yet. But someone was out there, was among them. Had killed once, perhaps twice. And so the unease grew, dark places were avoided. The odds of a stranger picking two people that were as connected, difficult to wrap your mind around. Reporter Umatilla CountyDistrict Attorney dan primus. Yeah, this sounds more like a zodiactype killer. Its like one of those weird puzzles. Absolutely. As youre working these investigations, youre thinking of all those things and trying to determine what connection is there between karen lange and Amyjane Brandhagen . Reporter it seemed very likely to the police and the da that the man seen in the Surveillance Video was the one who attacked karen lange. And that he might have also have been the killer who stabbed amyjane to death in that motel room one year earlier. But who was it . The chief asked his street cops to look at that video anybody recognize him . And what do you know . One of them did. He looked at the image for a second, said thats danny wu reporter how did he know . Because hed encountered him four times in the previous year. Minor infractions, though, so theyd never confirmed that his name actually was danny wu. But there was one thing that might help id him. He had a very distinct tattoo on the inside of his left wrist which read, semper fi. Hes a marine. That was my initial reaction. Reporter but while chief roberts didnt know who the man really was or where she was now or why he had targeted two women who once taught bible School Together. He knew they had to track him down right away. This was a community on edge. Now hes out there. Hes out there. Weve got to find him. There could be more victims. Reporter the chief cancelled all time off. Called in every available officer. A manhunt was on. And then a bit of luck. Sharpeyed detective who found karen noticed something odd nearby. A wooden panel on the back of an old batting cage beside the riverwalk looked not quite right. So the officer reached behind the loose panel and found a pipe, that appeared to have blood on one end. The dna confirmed it was karens blood. And then when the crime lab compared a dna sample from the other end of the pipe, with the material found under amyjanes fingernails . I get that call on a sunday afternoon. Now weve connected the dots. Reporter the man who assaulted karen and Amyjane Brandhagens killer were one and the same. Right away the police chief shared the news with the d. A. I was at home. Chief called me and asked if i was sitting down. He told me that the dna from the pipe matched the dna found underneath amyjanes fingernails. And. Uh it gave me chills. Reporter but though chief roberts officers scoured the town even distributed flyers with wus pictures on it. They found nothing. Hours piled up. Days, more than a week. No danny wu. But anxiety . Oh, yes. You didnt leave garages unlocked. Sheds, doors windows, cars. You do. You feel kind of like theres a serial killer in town reporter and then . A call from the local convention center, two Catering Company employees told the dispatcher they had gone in through a side door to the kitchen. And here sits this person who they readily recognized as this danny wu that we had disseminated the images of, and he was sitting there drinking a coke. And he basically picked up his stuff and disappeared into the facility. So hes in the building somewhere. Its a big building. Its a big building. Reporter within minutes, the police sourneded the convention center. A search dog trained to bite soon joined in. They set up a command post outside one f the centers windows. The dogs just woof, woof, woofin at the door. And the oregon state trooper behind us says i can see a leg hanging out of the ceiling. And there was this. Looking through a window . I take about two steps back from where im standing and i can see it. So i give em the command to enter. They go straight to this location in the stairwell and there he is. Reporter minutes later, the suspect the man known as danny wu the man who may have murdered one woman possibly even two and terrorized the town of pendleton walked out in handcuffs and into the flashing cameras of the local paper. Later, officers took this video of his hiding took this video of his hiding spot in an air conditoning duct in the Convention Centers ceiling where he had a blanket, a radio and some clothes. It looked like a nest. Looked liked hed been there for awhile coming and going hiding in plain sight. He had been here all year. Reporter but now what . Would he talk . Lawyer up . Or even would he reveal who he really was and why it appeared that hed targeted the women of the Free Methodist church. Coming up. Inside the heart of darkness. I didnt understand that. I had never heard that before. 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Reporter jackson was out hunting elk when they caught danny wu, and rushed in still in his camo, hoping to final get answers to a year of questions. Are you willing to talk to me . To a certain point. Reporter the chief and the d. A. Watched from a nearby office. I didnt expect him to say anything. I expected him to ask for a lawyer. I wasnt sure how he was going to respond to any of the questions. Reporter but da primus and all of them were in for a big surprise. Whats your name . My name is luke ka chang. Im going to write it down. Whats your last name . Chang. Chang. Reporter sure enough. Not danny wu. Lukah chang. 23 years old. The son of christian missionaries. A deserter from the u. S marines who drifted into town without any plan. And stayed briefly at that Downtown Motel where he encountered a maid named amyjane. Did you talk to her . No. Only in passing. Like, she would knock on doors and say, hey you want your room cleaned . Like, no. Reporter soon chang was broke, living on the street, spending his days at the town library, across the street from the travelodge. So you walked by and you saw her. . I saw her working and its, oh, look, a target of opportunity. Attack i just walked in and waited. 0 okay. How long did you have to wait . Probably half an hour. As youre waiting there a half hour, youre thinking to yourself. What . Im gonna do it. So you grabbed her, brought her into the motel room, er the bathroom, and then what happened . I stabbed her. With what . A knife. Reporter but, when detective jackson tried to get into this young mans head the conversation veered off to a cold and disturbing place. As a missionarys son, was lukah chang rebelling against his parents . Against god . Detective jackson asked the question on just about every mind in pendleton, oregon. Why . See how it felt. See how what felt . Taking a life. Why . I was curious. How did it feel . Empowering. Empowering, saddening. Empowering and saddening at the same time . Uh huh. Yes. Empowering because i took a life. Saddening because i realized at the same time, life is precious. Reporter that was it . To see how it felt . I didnt understand that. Ive never heard that from a killer before. Reporter but why the Second Attack . Did he target those two women because they taught bible School Together . Because they appeared in that photograph together . Not really. It was approaching the anniversary of the first time. Reporter and that was just about it, said lukah chang. She was walking by. I noticed, followed, attacked. Reporter he was a brick wall. If the real answer was buried in his religious past, or his failed military career or some other secret corner, we were not to know, ever. Do you feel remorse . Not really. Why is that . I got tired of feeling emotions and stuff like that. I got tired of feeling the feelings. So im like, all right, lets just cut that out. and so i did. Reporter and then, having had his say, the man the police had been chasing for so long, was safely tuck away in a jail cell, soon to plead guilty to murder and attempted murder and begin serving 35 to life. I cant even describe the relief its like the world is lifted off your shoulders. I didnt know whether to cry. I didnt know whether to scream. I was just kind of dumbfounded. Reporter across the state in portand, dan lange told his comatose wife, karen, they caught him. Though, of course, she couldnt hear that. And then . Then, a few days later, dan turned on his video camera, and, well, see for yourself. Karen, can you raise your hand again . Can you raise that hand up . There you go. Yeah. Very good. Reporter to the astonishment of her doctors, life flooded back. I was doing well. I feel great. Reporter and now, one year after that young man tried to murder her here she is karen language. The woman whose ordeal wound up catching a killer. Not exactly the purpose she expected when she talked to her husband dan that day like i told him not long ago, dont ever pray for more to do with your life. cause boy do you get answered on that reporter her recovery took a long time, of course. 3 hospitals, surgeries to rebuild her skull, months in a protective helmet but of that awful night she has no memory at all. What was the sense that you recall, at least, of coming out of this blackness into back up into life again . Well, a lot of it was just a feeling that i didnt know what was wrong. I didnt know why i was in a hospital. I didnt know i was in portland. Reporter the langes troubles are not over. A few months after dan brought karen home from portland, he was diagnosed with cancer. So a skeptics question you know, you two have been through so much in the last year. I mean, has this not damaged your faith . Youre not angry at god for picking on you . No i mean, if theres a plan for you, its your plan to be so brutalized by an attack and by cancer . Well, the beauty is that we also see the blessings. See how its had such a positive effect on people and how it could be so much worse for me. I see it as we need to go through it. It will be a season of recovery for us. Reporter and then, in september, it was pendleton roundup time again. And the emcees voice boomed through the arena. Miracles happen, said the announcer. No one knows that better than our singer today. For our national anthem, please welcome miss karen lange to the arena. [ cheers and applause ] [ singing the star spangled banner. ] i look at it as an opportunity to really just thank the people of pendleton for all the support, all the things that they did they for me and my family. [ cheers and applause ] reporter in pendleton, the world was back on its axis, though perhaps a smaller, sadder, place without the girl who always reached out to the lonely. The strangers just like the one who drifted into town. And killed her. Pretty remarkable, huh . I mean, isnt he exactly the kind of person that she would have sought out . I find that very ironic, and its also the same person that if she were here today, she would say, take the way of forgiveness, its the better way reporter and every sunday, the faithful still fill the pews at the pendleton Free Methodist church. And a barefoot sprite who loved to dance lives on, least in memory. Amys life was great. And i think the people who knew her would want to live better lives because of knowing her and knowing who she was. Thats all for this edition of dateline. Well see you again next friday at 8 00, 7 00 central and ill. Previously grimm. I have to see her. I dont have your baby. Victor were losing him. Time of death 1 34 p. M. Can i ask you something about the girl whos staying at nicks house . Theresa rubel. Shes a suspect in a double homicide, and im having a bit of a problem with this. 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