they found 6-year-old paislee shultis, who was missing for more than two years, in a house in saugerties, new york, huddled in this cold, wet space under the stairs. >> one of my detectives walked up and down the steps a number of times during the course of the search. and he said there was just something about the steps that was off. he used a flashlight and where two of the stepboards came together, he looked through the crack and he saw what he believed was a blanket. eventually they saw a pair of little feet and when they got more boards off, they found the little girl paislee. >> reporter: paislee was 4 years old when she was abducted, police say, by her biological parents, who did not have custody. police had been to the home before, looking for paislee, only to come up empty. but late monday, a fresh tip, the child was being hidden at in a secret location inside the residence. police searching the home for more than an hour. >> nobody was leaving without that child. they -- we honestly believed that that child was there and,