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
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But she went. and she scoured and scrubbed those little rooms that looked out on downtown pendleton. and then it was august 14th, 2012. 911, what is your emergency? i am calling from travelodge, in pendleton. there s a girl dead in the bathroom. i don t know. a girl dead in the bathroom? i think she s passed out. okay. i m going to get the police and ambulance headed that way, okay? in his office down the hall from the 911 operator, bill caldera listened and felt the dread flood in. just gave me a feeling in the pit of my stomach that something was not good about this call. bill, remember, was a close friend of the brandhagen family, attends the same church. but he s also a policeman. and that day, with the chief on vacation, lieutenant bill caldera was the man in charge. as soon as one of my patrol sergeants arrived on scene, he requested my presence, which i knew then we would probably be dealing with a homicide.
If she d been over. and i said, no, haven t seen her. and i had looked outside and sure enough the car was still there. so we went out to the car and she wasn t there. so jed and lisa grabbed flashlights and walked a couple of blocks from their house down to the river levee. there in the parking lot sat a pendleton policeman. what should they do they asked him. he just thought it was unusual enough that he got ahold of dan. as the officer left to talk to dan, jed and lisa kept looking through the dark along the riverbank. there s a fear of not finding anything. and there s a fear of finding something. when i got to where the policeman was, we were talking, and he said, you seem to be awfully calm for your wife being missing. and at that point i thought, holy mackerel, you know, if there s something if there s something bad that happened to her, i could be a suspect.
Of bonded like, hey, this is part of lisa now. i m craig melvin. and i m natalie morales. and this is dateline. she was very carefree, loving. she was amazing. i just can t tell you the feeling that went through my mind. i couldn t think of anybody that would ever want to do what they did to her. amyjane was an angel. traveling the world with her church to help children. they loved amy. they loved amy so much. but back home something sinister lay waiting. it was a pretty horrific crime scene. a bright young life snuffed