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
me and ran. so, the first thin that popped into my head, said, does that mean dad isn my dad? reporter: as far back a savanna could remember, juan geldenhuys had always been b her side. she believed he wa her biological dad, somethin lee kept reinforcing mom would relay things, you know? like, you sleep like you dad. or you know, you look lik your dad. so, i ve always grow up with that reporter: but tragedy struc in 2011, when juan, by the divorced from lee, fell sick with cancer. the man savanna thought was her dad died just week before lee was arrested he fought very long and ver hard, but it was inevitable. but i m happy because the last words i said to him was, love you , and the same with him. reporter: savanna said sh had barely begun to mourn he father s death when the news came that she was someon else s daughter. i ve never heard harris todd. i ve never heard savanna i found out that i was