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 i
door, i love you. and that was last time i talked to her. i said worth broke, he said we can t find her. a college student vanishes. i had this chill go through my whole body. they asked us do of the crime scene? no we don t, we have flip-flops in a parking lot. we had a community that was scared, who is going to be the next victim? 1000 miles away, another student in danger. she said he s got a knife and trying to kill me. there was a girl there and there was blood. this is not the first time that he s done this. one case would help solve the other. one man behind two mysteries. this was dynamite to us, that is the smoking gun. you re not going to believe what we found. we ve gotten so close. i want to know where she is. some images are eternal. timeless. one moment of the future seems immeasurable, the possibilities endless. but, in an instance, you can be left with only memories to hold until the end of time. brooke wilbur lived as if she had
thing that gets your adrenaline going and you re investigating a case via elimination of all these other tips and you re just sitting there, getting to them, it s frustrating for the team. it can be discouraging. how hard is it to face the family with that? very hard. you want to be able to give the family answers. and then that very week, the last week of november 2004, it happened. nearly 1,400 miles away in new mexico, a place aptly known as the land of enchantment, the break that they had been praying for. in albuquerque, in one of the city s tougher neighborhoods, a waitress named dara finks, was driving her suv down the street with her three daughters just after dusk when they saw a young woman. we were sitting at the light, and the girl comes running across the street and my daughter in the front seat says
joel patrick courtney was sitting in jail in albuquerque. it was december 2004. the married father of three was facing decades in prison if convicted of kidnapping, sexual assault, and battery charges. he had been caught carrying a knife and a crack pipe hours after a university of new mexico student said joel courtney abducted her near campus and sexually assaulted her. miraculously, she had escaped. this is an incredibly brazen crime. he abducts her in broad daylight. 6:45, it s just about dark. that s either incredibly stupid or insane. no, it s experienced. he knows what he s doing. he s done it before. he knows how to make it happen. he picked his spot really well. it s a very quiet street. it was dinnertime. as awful as it sounds, it s a smart move for what he s trying to do. but it didn t work and with joel courtney safely in custody, albuquerque police begin a routine background check on their suspect. they found that in addition to new mexico, he had lived in several sta
incredibly detailed description of the man and of his car. she described the car seats down to the detail. she described the tinted windows. she described the fact that the car was two-door, that it was red. and the victim remembered something else, a small, stuffed animal on the car side window. enter albuquerque police officer ed taylor. he showed up at the scene, ready to help track down the bad guy. first stop, the apartments where the victim escaped from her kidnapper. so you go to the door of the apartment. who answers? it s a female. but we went inside the apartment and right off the bat, you could tell she was not going to be helpful at all. not cooperative? not cooperative. she did tell us that she knew him as joe and he spoke spanish and that was about it. the name joe, he spoke spanish, would it be enough to find him? and four states away, as you re about to see, would it be enough