out. who would do that? it doesn t make any sense at all. months later, a mother out for a walk, vanishes. karen s gone. i don t know where she is. i just cried. one murder, one disappearance in the same small town. but soon police would discover a creepier connection. one of the detectives had gotten his hands on an image of amyjane brandhagen and karen lang together. oh, my god. the dead teenager and the missing mom arm in arm. in that moment most of us knew that that wasn t coincidence. was someone stalking the women of this tight-knit church? this sounds more like a zodiac-type killer. absolutely. a race to connect the dots revealing a truth darker than anyone imagined. i don t get that. i mean, it s just evil. hello and welcome to dateline. pendleton, oregon, nicknamed the real west, is steeped in cowboy tradition. but these days it s no rough and tumble down. so when a woman was killed in broad daylight, the community was stunned. and then an
she was amazing. i just can t talk about th feeling that went through my mind i can think of anybody tha would ever want to do what the did to her amyjane was an angel, traveling the world with her church to help children. they loved amyjane, the loved amy so much. back home, somethin sinister lay waiting it was a pretty horrific a white young lives snuffed out. it doesn t make any sense a all. months later, a mother ou for a walk vanishes. karen is gone i don t know where she is. it just, i just cry. one murder, one disappearance in the same smal town, but soon, police wit discover a connection. one of the tactics, amyjane brandhagen and karen wer together but that teenager and the missing mom, all in all. that moment, most of us kne that that was a coincidence. wassomeone stalking the woman of this tight-knit church? this sounds more like a zodiac type color. definitely. a race to connect the dot revealing a truth darker tha anyone im
But i think most of the males w spoke to really hear themselve as protectors. pendleton police chie stuart roberts hurried bac home from his abbreviate vacation, and encountered th case, going nowhere fast - everybody that knew her characterized her in the sam way. she knew no stranger she didn t have as the investigation entered it second week, amyjane s famil prepared immemorial service at the church where they raised their daughter amy loves thunderstorms, an it was one of our favorite things to, do go out barefoo and dance and the rain because she loved it and in the morning out of memorial service, there was loud clap of thunder that came over town about 6:30 and then several of us sa it, i think we knew. dancing in the rain somewhere? i think she was together we pray, in jesu name, amen hundreds crowded into
Hospital in portland for specialized care and as dan kept watch at her bedside, he remembered an od comment karen made a few day before she was attacked. her boys were in college nearly grown she wasn t sure what her purpose was anymore. as she told dan i really wish that i coul be, you know, more useful. if i m going to remain here. on planet earth. and i would assure her with, but god has a plan, and yo will be used what kind of use was this if she lived she might never regained consciousness if she regained consciousnes she might never meet be th same how useful could that be and then, suddenly, the case i the murder of amy brandhagen and the attack on karen lang seems to take on a new and terrifying meeting chief robert surgeon from hi vacation to be hated thi photograph by investigators. it had been taken for year earlier.
Had to do in my career. and i can t tell you the feeling that we all had. we broke down in tears. but why would anyone want to kill amyjane of all people? i was crushed. like how is this even possible? i was speechless. and then i just sat crying in the bathroom for probably the next hour like not understanding, like craziness. as word spread through amyjane s church family, so did the questions. high school youth pastor chris thatcher. early on was there any indication of who may have been responsible? i don t think anybody had any idea. i think that s what made this so hard is that so many of us, we know each other. we re family here. but there was the dismal work to do. lieutenant caldera returned to the motel where amy was murdered. it would be pretty hard for you to take part in an active investigation. no, i wouldn t have. i couldn t have.