instant horror of where is she what had happened to baby savanna? the answer would come decades later and astonish the world. it happened so fast, couldn t fathom what was going on imagine, your mother fugitive. your father stranger. your home, your name your past was any of it real? the first thing i felt, jus a pit in my stomach. i jus felt like it was my fault. a mother s crime. a father pain what kinds of emotions di it stir up when you would se that crib? it would just make me cry a daughter forced to face the shattering truth i was shocked and i was jus terrified. hello and welcome t dateline a father left childless and daughter left questioning he very identity. it was a case that started as custody battle, but turned int an international mystery tha spanned two decades and took investigators nearly 10,00 miles around the world all driven by a determined dad searching for answers and hi daughter here s andrea canning with finding savanna. in
haunting crime but only one caller was tellin the truth. father versus son. i grabbed him, i said stop. he throws me to the ground he s very good at making up stories, but that is not true. each is accusing each other of the crime yes and you have to figure ou who the killer is? that is the problem broken glasses, a pair of sandals, specks of blood what investigators get it right? no one on our side of the family had any doubt we may have the wrong guy i jail here. what a jury it was such a battle, bot sides coming, both sides blazing. hello, and welcome to dateline a woman was brutally murdere in her own bed but, it was what came next tha shocked investigators. her husband and son both pointing fingers at each other police knew that one of them had to be spending a incredible tale. but, what story would th evidence tell? here is dennis murphy with tru lies bill kyne now he was a luck man. the single data five kids wa getting a second cha
what tickled her she just had a big heart. and she would reach out to family and friends, anyone who was in trouble they could always count on her and the person who counte on her most, was her son kevin. i am an only child. they re my whole childhood, was nate raised by my nana my mom, she worked full-time was a single parent. he could be helpful, but he was always a bit of a mama s boy. and diane doted on her younger son. me and my mom, every da when we woke up, every night before i go to bed we would sa that we love each other. and we loved each othe immensely. they were best friends things moved quickly fo diane and bill tevin thought they seemed just right for each other he was a kind person, he di do a lot for my mom. he gave her what she wanted an they lived a happy life. bill and diane married in 2002 kevin was 15 years old when he walked his mother down the aisle.
other still professing love fo diane, but one of them still defiantly lying about having killed her that is all for this editio of dateline. i m craig melville, thank yo for watching hello, i m craig melvin, an this is dateline he said it s like a blood movie, and it is, it s just so intense and so deep. you go through all these range of emotions that you don t know, you know? that was the first time i started to hear about m life. i could have been an entirely different person. it was a mind-bogglin mystery for almost 20 years, and she was at the center. i m john walsh. 1-year-ol savanna lee barnett is missing from isle of palms, sout carolina a child who suddenl vanished the most important thing in my life was taken from me. jus