her name is pepper. i lived a secret life. she was kidnapped at age four. we got in the car, and we never went back. she spent decades trying to find her way home again, and she finally made it. or, so she thought. i said, i think that i am rhonda patricia christine. i said, do you know her? and there was a long pause. her story had many ups and downs. when i looked at the email, i just could not even believe it. but after so many tears, so many years and so many turns in her story. i was like, wow. there are still more stunning twists to be revealed. it is amazing, the best gift ever. welcome to dateline. a four year old girl was adopted and raised by her kidnappers. for decades, she searched for her family, and her identity. her story has an extraordinary ending, but as it turns out, that ending was just the beginning. here is keith morrison. our story begins with this much mother of a teenage daughter. a woman who had spent much of h
four. we got in the car, and we never went back. she spent decades trying to find her way home again, and she finally made it. or, so she thought. i said, i think that i am rhonda patricia christine. i said, do you know her? and there was a long pause. her story had many ups and downs. when i looked at the email, i just could not even believe it. but after so many tears, so many years and so many turns in her story. i was like, wow. there are still more stunning twists to be revealed. it is amazing, the best gift ever. welcome to dateline. a four year old girl was adopted and raised by her kidnappers. for decades, she searched for her family, and her identity. her story has an extraordinary ending, but as it turns out, that ending was just the beginning. here is keith morrison. our story begins with this much mother of a teenage daughter. a woman who had spent much of her life trying to figure out who she was. what was her name? where did s
and then normal teenagers. all i wanted to be is loved. that s it. and i never got any kind of love. that i wanted. instead, they were trapped. truck stop nomads in the care of women who had seem clear had kidnapped if not one if not both of them. and they drifted one dump to another, across any number of state lines for years. and then, sometime in the early eighties, they settled down. here. shirley pulled up to this motel in los angeles county, and took a job as the motels cleaning woman, in exchange for a free room. and if it wasn t much, at least give them some measure of stability. and they signed up at a little school school, junior high for pepper. high school for renee. much to shirley s disapproval. i shirley will tell us, girls don t go to school, they get married. why do you want to go to school?
us. verbally abuse us. and threaten to send you away? right. i just took the belt because if you take it, this is hard to explain, but if you just take it, it she gets out of the rage faster, so to speak. they went to school when they could. made very few friends and lost the ones they did make. struggled to be ordinary kids and then normal teenagers. all i wanted to be is loved. that s it. and i never got any kind of love that i wanted. instead, they were trapped. truck stop nomads in the care of a woman who it seemed clear had kidnapped at least one if not both of them. and they drifted one dump to another across any number of state lines for years. and then some time in the early 80s they settled down, here.
streets shooting heroin and a prostitute. firaids were frequent, neglect, part of life. verbal and physical abuse a regular occurrence. she would whip us with the belt, slap us, verbally cuss at us, verbally abuse us. and threaten to send you away. right. i just took the belt because it just if you take it, this is it s hard to explain but, if you just take it, she gets out of the rage faster, so to speak. they went to school when they could, made very few friends and lost the ones they did make, struggled to be ordinary kids and then normal teenagers. all i wanted to be was loved. that s it. and i never got any kind of love that i wanted. instead they were trapped. truck stop nomads in the care of a woman it seemed clear had kidnapped at least one if not both of them. and they drifted across any