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
coming back happy, healthy and grounded would have to raise some questions, you know reporter: samantha has gone on record as saying she neve saw anything wrong with he mom. she had a lovin childhood. great relationship. it really flies in the face of everything that we heard early on well, there s a saying. w don t know who discovered water, but we re certain it wasn t fish. and a lot of times you can be raised in an environmen and not necessarily know wha it was until you happen to get outside of that environment an look back in reporter: savanna returne home to a big welcome, as lee old friends gathered around to see her baby daughter all grow up now. to patty roth, lee s close friend who had hel savanna the minute she was born hannah and ivy and laney. reporter: and patty s daughters, who would have been her friends. and to charleston