reporter: time marched on harris continued working as financial adviser at merrill lynch. he had a fe relationships, but he neve remarried. after ten years, th fbi assigned a new agent, ed klimas, to the case, but nothing new turned up. i believe that the chance of success for this case wer probably very slim at that point. that they had disappeared to a foreign country that we would never be able to locate them. reporter: about the onl thing that changed were th images on the missing person posters. from the baby harri had loved, to a computer simulated image of a teen he barely recognized. if i die before i wake from this nightmare - reporter: he d stoppe filming his messages to savann long ago, but he wrote one las poem and please do keep an eye out across the fields. watch the end of the long driveway someday my daughter will b there asking for me.
with everything. and you know? so, it really, really show that everything that she s given to them, they re givin back to her. reporter: word of lee s capture had reached charleston savanna was flooded with supportive e-mails and phone calls from lee s former friend and from family. she had often wondered about her relatives i the united states, like he grandmother and her uncle. now suddenly, she was meeting them for what seemed like the ver first time beautiful house and m beautiful granddaughter. hi. oh my goodness. looks lik her mommy did. reporter: now, the bigges reunion of all seemed like i was about to happen, too. le was in an australian jai fighting extradition back to the u. s., and the man she wanted to keep away from savanna all those years wa just a few miles away asking t meet his long-lost daughter. the fbi interviewed m daughter and they informed her of me. i was told that she was
spending enough money or there wouldn t be anything for her t come back to reporter: fbi agent chris quick knew the chance savann would come back was gettin smaller and smaller. you wer kind of grasping for straws. to some extent, you r right. reporter: must ve felt cold oh yeah, definitely definitely. after the three or four years, it s considered cold case. reporter: harris tried to move on. tried to fill tha gaping hole in his life. one thing that helped, he said, wa his niece, who was just thre years younger than savanna i spent an awful lot of tim with her. i mean, from a ver early age. i did homework with her every day. would walk he to school, pick her up fro school reporter: did you think t yourself, i should have been doing this with my daughter? yeah, i thought about it. you know, when you go see your child in a thanksgiving play you see them sing in the christmas pageant. well, i was watching my niece instead of m daughter. but i was thinking about my daughte
said they had no comment a this time. we also reached out to the county commissioner, who apparently has his voice on th tape, we haven t heard bac from him but we will tell, you is certainly everyone in the stat of oklahoma, appears to be taking this matter rathe seriously, the publisher of th newspaper says he s turned ove these audio recordings to th fbi, the oklahoma attorney generals office, he says he also already had several conversations with federal investigators. we governor the state of oklahoma, has called on th officials heard on these recordings, to resign. again, the governor is calling on news county officials t resign he s also asking the oklahom bureau of investigation, t look into this matter. the state representative for the area, has also demande that the sheriff resign, and others resign, the local mayor has also demanded thes resignations now, look at this morning, mor than hundred people gathered around mccurtain count sheriff s office to protest, and demanded
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