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 in the world, to grow up, to marry, to create a Closeknit Family like her own Parents had. We have six children, and brooke is number five. Always wanted to have a big family. We ended up with one. Kate Snow VoiceoverCammy Wilberger and her husband greg raised their children near beautiful eugene, oregon, a family that included brookes older Brother Bryce and sister, stephanie. We used to just had so much Fun Dressing her up. She was our little toy if you will. I know. Lets dress up brooke, right . Yeah, she was just fun. Kate Snow Voiceover little brooke didnt speak until she was four, and even then could be a bit hard to understand. But as brooke grew, her natural talents spoke loudly, she loved animals and 4h, played basketball, and ran track. She was good. She was better than most of the rest of us at the sports that we played. Kate Snow Voiceover she snowboarded on slopes around oregon, and as her little sister jessica remembers, took pride in being scrappy on the soccer field, she came home from soccer, and she had a black eye. And my brother had asked what happened, and she laughed and said, i got in a fight. And he goes, no, you didnt, brooke. You dont get in fights. And she laughed and said, youre right. I got hit in soccer practice, but isnt it so cool . Kate Snow Voiceover brooke was also an Honors Student at Elmira High who loved to bake, scrapbook, and see the sights on the west coast. This is my home. Yay Kate Snow voiceover she could be seriously silly or stylish, happy to shop for shoes or fashion. She was reliable, thoughtful, popular, and pretty, inside and out. She made people feel better about themselves. People wanted to be with her. Yeah. And she was nice. She was intelligent, and beautiful, but she was also really nice. Kate Snow Voiceover the minute she turns 16, when dads rules allowed her to start dating, she knew she wanted her Childhood Friend Justin to be her boyfriend. And when they graduated from high school, brooke decided to follow him to Brigham Young University in utah. She just really wanted to experience life outside of our community and just branch out. Kate Snow Voiceover the Girl Whod grown up saying words a little funny decided to study speech pathology. Brooke loved her new friends and byu, but returned home her Freshman Year for thanksgiving to spend time with her family and shop. We had gone to Meier Frank before it became macys, and she had really liked this watch. And it was a dressy watch. And she was pretty classy in the things that she chose to wear. So she sees it in the case, and she mentions it to you. Yeah, she says, i really like that watch, mom. Easy christmas present. It was. Kate Snow Voiceover six months later in the spring, her Freshman Year was history. Brooke returned home to oregon. She had a Summer Job in corvallis, about 30 miles from home, working at the Oak Park apartments, managed by her Sister Stephanie and Stephanies Husband. And on monday, may 24, 2004, she left the house where her sister jessica was getting ready for another day of seventh grade, shes in a rush, and she walked out The Door and left. And about five minutes later, she walked back in, and she just yelled through The Door, i love you, and walked out. And that was the last time i talked to her. Kate Snow Voiceover by 9 00 am, brooke was at the apartments, and an hour later hard at work. I could see through our apartment to the Back Window facing our patio. And brooke was bending over, filling up a bucket of water. And that was the last time i saw her. At what point did you realize that she wasnt out there anymore . Not until probably 1 00. I had fixed lunch for my children and for her, and she hadnt shown up. What starts going through your head when she doesnt come in for lunch . Its a large complex. Theres over 100 apartments. And so i wasnt immediately worried, because i thought she could be cleaning a Laundry Room somewhere. I even said something like, well, lets take out the search party, tongue in cheek, and took my little kids out with me, and we started just walking around, seeing if we could see her, just to tell her that her lunch was ready. Youre not in a full blown panic at this point. No, no. Kate Snow Voiceover but before long, stephanie would come upon these near a Lamppost Brooke had been cleaning. Her flipflops were on the pavement. The little piece of plastic that goes between your toe was ripped out on one, and there were muddy Toe Prints sliding down the actual sole of the shoe, so it was clear that she was trying to keep them. She was trying to stay put and stay grounded when she lost her shoes. You knew that right then. Immediately, yeah. Kate Snow Voiceover still, though, no panic, no cries for help for a couple of hours until 3 07 pm, when Stephanies Husband placed a very calm call to 911. A very calm call to 911. Where had Brooke Wilberger gone . Why couldnt anyone find her . Brookes mom was about to learn of her Daughters Disappearance in a Phone Call with one of her sons. I said Wheres Brooke . And he said we dont know. And i said, what do you mean, you dont know . He goes, we dont know where she is. And i said, spence, dont tease me. What are you talking about . And he said, no, seriously, mom, we cant find her. And right then i just had this Chill Go through my whole body. Kate Snow Voiceover coming up, a whole community turns out to search for brooke while the police start their investigation by focusing on her 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 where was she . Did you do it . 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Kate Snow Voiceover word was spreading among brookes five siblings, their sweet but feisty little sister had disappeared. When did they call you, bryce . It was midafternoon sometime. I think we knew something was seriously wrong when the comment was we cant Find Brooke. It didnt take anything longer than that. Kate Snow Voiceover bryce went to pick up his mother, who was trying not to panic. A lot of people talk about that maternal feeling that sometimes you get inside. Did you get a feeling . I just kept thinking maybe she met up with one of her friends, thats going to osu. Brooke wouldnt do that. Its not brooke. Kate Snow Voiceover by late in the afternoon, with brooke now missing for hours, Cell Phones started buzzing. I was sitting at my sons 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. Kate Snow VoiceoverCaptain Jonathan Sassaman and lieutenant tim brewer, both with the Corvallis Pd at the time, were about to begin a journey unlike anything they had ever experienced. I asked him, what do you think . Is this real . He had a natural Gut Instinct that this was not a walkaway. This was not a runaway. Something bad had happened. Kate Snow Voiceover when Captain Sassaman arrived at the apartments, he was struck by how few clues he had to work with. It is a Parking Lot with a pair of flipflops and a bucket with soap and some water under a lamppost. Kate Snow Voiceover also Left Behind brookes wallet, purse, cell phone, and car. Nobody, it seemed, saw anything, but someone heard something about 10 30 that morning, a bloodcurdling scream. The evidence pointed to an abduction, but investigators started with questions for the people closest to the victim. First question where was brookes boyfriend, justin . It turned out he was serving a twoyear mission for the Mormon Church 4,000 Miles Away in venezuela. Next, Brookes 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 where was she . Why dont you know where she was, and did you do it . That had to be awful. It is awful. It was. Its awful. It was terrible, and we had made a decision that well, as a family even, we would do anything to get brooke back. Whatever the police asked us to do, we will do it. If they suspect us, thats ok. We dont care. We want to Find Brooke. Kate Snow Voiceover and soon, a community came together. Within hours of Brookes Disappearance, dozens, then hundreds of people showed up, many from the wilbergers church, others concerned citizens and cops. I suppose she could be anywhere, and we just have to look everywhere. Kate Snow Voiceover they came in droves that first evening and every day after with one goal Find Brooke. By golly, come hell or high water, we are going to find her. Kate Snow Voiceover but for detectives, the sheer number of searchers presented a challenge. As an investigator responsible for this, were looking at, is our Bad Guy here . It is not uncommon for people who commit the crime to circle right back around, be present, learn, see whats going on. Kate Snow Voiceover by this time, the fbi had also entered the investigation. Supervisory special agent Joe Boyers first question had brooke been taken by someone who lived at the apartment complex, and could that person be among the Tens Of Thousands of Oregon State students whod soon be leaving town for the summer . Agent boyer asked Fbi Profilers for help. They asked us, well, do you have a Crime Scene . No, we dont, other than flipflops in a Parking Lot. Do you have any witnesses . No, we dont. Do you have a Vehicle Description . No, we dont. Do you have a body . No, we dont. And they said, frankly, theres very little we can do for you at this point. With so little evidence, investigators found themselves thinking back to another crime, a crime many here in corvallis barely recall. On another day in may, nearly 30 years to