Kate Snow Voiceover a College Student vanishes. I had this Chill Go through my whole body. They asked us, well, do you have a Crime Scene . No, we dont, other than flipflops in a Parking Lot. We had a community that was scared whos going to be the next victim. Kate Snow Voiceover 1,000 Miles Away, another student in danger. She said hes got a knife. Hes trying to kill me. There were guns, and there was a girl there, and there was blood. This is not the first time hes done this. Kate Snow Voiceover one case would help solve the other, one man behind two mysteries. This was dynamite to us. Thats the smoking gun. Youre not going to believe what we found. Wed gotten so close. I want to know where she is. Kate Snow Voiceover some images are eternal, timeless. Happy day Kate Snow voiceover one moment, the future seems immeasurable, the possibilities endless. But in an instant, you can be left with only memories to hold till the end of time. Brooke wilberger lived as if she had all the time i
the evidence pointed to an abduction, but investigators started with questions for the people closest to the victim. first question, where was brooke s boyfriend, justin? it turned out he was serving a two-year mission for the mormon church 4,000 miles away in venezuela. next, brooke s family. we needed to go through, is the family a suspect? and we had to get that work done and we had investigators doing that. stephanie was just grilled about, you know, where was she? why don t you know where she was? and did you do it? that had to be awful. it was awful. it was it is awful. it was terrible. we made the decision that we as a family, we would do anything to get brooke back, whatever the police asked us to do, we will do it. if they suspect us, that s okay. we don t care. we want to find brooke. and soon a community came together. within hours of brooke s disappearance, dozens, then hundreds of people showed up, many from the wilberger s church. others, concerned citiz
and grab them in your car when you re almost 40. that s not the way the criminal mind works. the new mexico prosecutor didn t know yet how right she was. and back in oregon, the wilberger family knew nothing yet of these developments as they faced the holidays still hoping brooke would walk through the door and take her place on the stairs for the family s annual christmas pageant and pictures. smile, angels. that s exactly what we kept thinking. this can t happen. this just can t happen. this is brooke, you know, she s too full of life. she s too dynamic and too much a part of us. i ve got to keep hoping. and i ve got to keep thinking positive. this is my home, yay. where was brooke? six months had passed. was she still alive somehow, somewhere? her sister stephanie was dealing with a lot of guilt. brooke was working for her when she disappeared.
when did they call you, bryce? it was mid afternoon sometime. i think we knew something was seriously wrong when the comment was, we can t find brooke. it didn t take anything longer than that. bryce picked up his mother, who was trying not to panic. a lot of people talk about that maternal feeling that you sometimes get inside. did you get a feeling? i just kept thinking, you know, maybe she met up with one of her friends that was going to osu. no, brooke wouldn t do that. it s not brooke. by late in the afternoon with brooke now missing for hours, cell phones started buzzing. i was sitting at my son s tee ball game and i got a phone call from one of our patrol lieutenants at the time who said, john, we have a missing girl. captain jonathan sassaman and
brooke s disappearance, another search in a dramatic middle-of-the-night raid captured on videotape taken by police, an oregon state police s.w.a.t. team blew open the front door of the home that kim shared with his parents. 15 officers stormed inside to serve a search warrant looking for physical evidence. hair, body fluid, or more, evidence of kim s possible involvement in brooke s disappearance. they found no physical evidence but what they did discover drew their attention. on kim s computer, investigators found tens of thousands of photos and thousands more videos, what police termed a vast collection of pornographic images, including a small number of staged scenes depicting tortured, raped, and mutilated women. then there was this, a document labeled osu, as in oregon state university.