but of that awful night, she had no memory at all. what was the sense 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 didn t know what was wrong. i didn t know why i was in a hospital. i didn t know i was in portland. the langs troubles are not over. a few months after dan brought karen home from portland, he was diagnosed with cancer. so a skeptic s question. you know, you two have been through so much in the last year that, i mean has this not damaged your faith? you re not angry at god for picking on you? no. i mean, if there s a plan for you is your plan to be so brutalized by an attack and by cancer? well, the beauty is that we also see the blessings, see how
if she d been over. and i said, no, haven t seen her. and i had looked outside and sure enough the car was still there. so we went out to the car and she wasn t there. so jed and lisa grabbed flashlights and walked a couple of blocks from their house down to the river levee. there in the parking lot sat a pendleton policeman. what should they do they asked him. he just thought it was unusual enough that he got ahold of dan. as the officer left to talk to dan, jed and lisa kept looking through the dark along the riverbank. there s a fear of not finding anything. and there s a fear of finding something. when i got to 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 there s something if there s something bad that happened to her, i could be a suspect.
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two years later, karen found hers in the arms of the community again when dan died and pendleton was once again a smaller sadder place without dan and 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, isn t he exactly the sort of person she would have sought out? i find that very ironic. and it s also the same person that if she were here today, she would say take the way of forgiveness, it s the better way. let s pray. 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, at least in memory. amy s life was great.
hundreds of leads. and themselves. i knew it was having an impact on my physiological health as well as my mental health. 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 amyjane s church announced to her husband dan she was going for a walk. and she came down. and i ll never forget what she said. she said, well, you know, i was thinking that we can maybe go out for dessert afterward. 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 river walk, was almost a daily habit. it was 4:30 p.m. lots of sun left on the warm august afternoon. and the last words she said to me were, well, i guess we ll just have a nice boring evening.