if you have a feeling in your gut and in your heart, fight, and don t ever give up. a few feet from the city limits of toledo, ohio, a car swings around a corner on a dusty stretch of road. it s, dark we hours, just stabs of light spilling from the house. most people are asleep, he could so easily have missed line in the grass on the side of a road, her feet drawn up to her chest, barely breathing, first drove right by her, the story went and then doubled back for a 30 year journey from one lonely child. there s all these lives that have not been answered, why hasn t she forgotten for all these years? a daughter determined to find out what happened that night. what s making you go forward? when i just let it be. something inside of me, i wouldn t stop, no matter how ugly the truth. she s knocking on every, doreen every phone. a daughter who wasn t afraid to make enemies. you were his nine nemesis? yes, and will never go away. brittani stork grew up in
and such a confusing trail of clues, even the calls to 911 were silent. no voice, no struggles could be heard. this could be kind of eerie. yes, it is. in my heart, i knew she s not coming back. one of the suspects had an alibi, until a camera caught him in a lie. he lived a life of a lot of smoke and mirrors. and the strangest clue of all. there in an empty parking lot. six perfectly stacked cardboard boxes. why were they there? what was in them? it was right adjacent to a lagoon. wow. i watch enough dateline to know that s probably not a good sign. hello and welcome to dateline. when nailah franklin vanished, her close-knit family was frantic to find her. a woman with a thriving career and a handsome new boyfriend. she was building the life she d always dreamed of. then suddenly there was silence. which was quite unlike her. a trail of clues led detectives to one of chicago s most exclusive neighborhoods. but would those clues lead them
all away. and i was like, jessie? nothing? i juggled her a little bit. and then i knew, this is not. good my daughter, won t wake up. she had been murdered in her own bed after coming home from a pool party. a party that hadn t been all fun and games. she was 19 and these men were in their 40s. we wanted to talk to. them did something happen at that party? what was happening around this small town. i heard somebody running behind me. then i noticed he had a knife in his hands. someone was stalking young women. it was either, i try to save myself or i let this guy do whatever he wants to me. his dreams were there nightmares. the research is on search is on bond. could he be caught before he killed again? and then we knew he done it. now we just had to prove it. hello and welcome to dateline. and a small wisconsin town, a 19 year old girl came home from a party, said goodnight to her mother and went to bed, safe for the night. but, the next day she was
than anything i d ever seen in my life. i cried for my dad. was this a murder? every day i think of that. all i could think of was my kids. what about my kids. it was in the dark that the fear began, in the dark, and it grew. it terrorized our family, our friends. who was out there, in the dark? here, miles and miles in the woods. so far from safety. from civilized protection. they could just come, onto our property, and invade our lives. but on the summer night, deep in the california sierra, the terror came out of the dark. came after them. to take everything. the terrible, desperate chase. it s awful. and now the question, what really happened, out there in the dark? i still feel like i need to go help him. it looks so innocent now. closed up, quiet, empty. here in its place at the end of 100 yard dirt track, that sneaks off this lonely country road. deep in the sierra nevada but this was not how it was. or was ever meant to be. no. before it happened
middle of the night. haunted for more than two decades, he would make a chilling discovery that would unlock this mystery. now you know the whole story. yes, sir. everything kind of clicked. it s just so unbelievable. i knew he was telling his mom s story. hello and welcome to dateline. aaron fraser was only 3 years old when his mom left the house, never to be seen or heard from again. police soon learned that aaron may have witnessed the unspeakable, the murder of his own mother. the boy would become a man before the whole truth was revealed. and though memories faded, the evidence pointing to the killer couldn t stay buried. here s dennis murphy with she never left. she d been gone from his life, unaccounted for, for more than 20 years. his mother, bonnie. it was odd to be the one that found her. because you d spent a lot of your life looking for her, right? yes, sir. there s a poignant video of the mother and child s last christmas morning toget