she was amazing. i just can t talk about th feeling that went through my mind i can think of anybody tha would ever want to do what the did to her amyjane was an angel, traveling the world with her church to help children. they loved amyjane, the loved amy so much. back home, somethin sinister lay waiting it was a pretty horrific a white young lives snuffed out. it doesn t make any sense a all. months later, a mother ou for a walk vanishes. karen is gone i don t know where she is. it just, i just cry. one murder, one disappearance in the same smal town, but soon, police wit discover a connection. one of the tactics, amyjane brandhagen and karen wer together but that teenager and the missing mom, all in all. that moment, most of us kne that that was a coincidence. wassomeone stalking the woman of this tight-knit church? this sounds more like a zodiac type color. definitely. a race to connect the dot revealing a truth darker tha anyone im
feeling that went through my mind yes, almost like she wa your kid in a way? very much lieutenant caldera took i upon himself to notify amyjane s parents. and that was probably the toughest thing that i ever had to do in my career and i can tell you the feeling that we all had, we broke down in tears but why would anyone want t kill amyjane of all people i was just crushed. like, how is this even possible i was speechless and then, i just sat crying in the bathroom for probably th next hour, like, not understanding, like, the craziness. as word spread throug amyjane s church family, so di the questions. high school pastor quiz statur early on, was there any indication of who may be responsible? i don t think anybody had any idea and i think that what makes this so hard wa
mind so once again, detectiv jackson and the others scoured hours of video recorded by cameras around town. when amyjane was murdered in broad daylight, those videos turned up exactly nothing. but then, luck turned. they saw this. recorded by one of the cameras stationed around the reservoir karen lang going for her walk, and following her, a man watching her with what looks like a pipe hidden behind hi back right there. they crossed a smal footbridge, it s a short stretch there, maybe 50 or 6 yards, where there was just no visibility from any directio as you are on the path and right there is where h attacked her that where she was found? she was found around 30 p - feet down the path the then they found thi video.
we got our hands on an imag of amyjane brandhagen and kare lang together dated august the 14th oh my god amyjane brandhagen wa murdered on august the 14th. karen lang was assaulted o august the 9th one year afte amyjane s murder he was someone targeting him? or someone who has a strange motivation could be a member of th congregation or could be someone that they provided outreach services to in pendleton, at the free methodist church, word sprea quickly. i think, in that moment most of us knew. but that was not a coincidence and i can t tell you how w knew well, small town, sam church small town, same church, we all knew each other. in a town where murder is rare, two women, one photo, an dates that lined up like a message had to be a connection it certainly crossed my mind i think crossed everybody
into a safe and predictabl life and they fill the cues every sunday morning withoutfear people like bill caldera who was like family to amyjane and her parents they brought her home and she was three days old and we were there when she was brought home bill knew and adored that remarkable little girl from th very beginning brandhagen asked bill to speak for them after what happened when they needed their churc family in pendleton free methodist. like youth minister jed hummel and his wife lisa wh encountered when amyjane she was in middle school if she got the feeling that you are left out, she woul find you, and she would make sure that you knew that yo have it friends. and what she was far away i india, the people who love amyjane worried a lot, and did not breathed easy until sh returned home to the safety an security of pendleton. she s waiting forgot to tel