Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 3, Episode 8 - Full Episode | Forensic Files

this program is about unsolved mysteries whenever possible the actual family members and police officials have
participated in recreating the events what you are about to see is not a news broadcast tonight on unsolved mysteries
the Pony saga of Amelia Earhart 53 years ago she vanished in the South Pacific during around-the-world flight but
eyewitness accounts suggest that a döner Earhart may have survived and been captured by the Japanese Navy in
Woodstock Illinois Colleen Ritter on which church were typical highschool sweethearts until the
romance went sour now Colleen's parents are dead and Ric Church has disappeared using an electronic stores of front FBI
agents in Florida go undercover and capture the kingpins of a South American drug ring a real-life story of Miami
Vice [Music] also we will present a follow-up to our story about a popular sixteen year old
girl who mysteriously vanished most Sable forks in new york last year she was apparently in Los Angeles at a
concert for the musical group New Kids on the Block and they even have been captured on film in their Rock video
perhaps you help find Carrie Lynn Nixon [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] two years ago we examine the strange
disappearance of a 16 year old girl tonight an update on our case an emergent appeal from her family and
members of the teenage recording group New Kids on the Block Kerry Lynn Nixon's an above average student and well known
and liked in a small community of Au Sable forks New York at around 10 p.m. on June 22nd 1987 Kerry was returning
home after running an errand for her father a few minutes later at only 700 feet from her doorstep Kerry Lynn Nixon
disappeared my immediate reaction was terror and has been a nightmare ever since was Kerry's
disappears the result of foul play or had she simply run away Kerry wrote some letters to a friend and in these letters
she indicated she would like to live in Hawaii live moved to Florida possibly California and in fact leave the town of
our Sable forks when she turned 18 my theory on this case is Carolyn Nixon was abducted her father gave her $20 for
groceries she went to towns to store for her father left Thomas's door with the bag of groceries if she was a runaway
she would have done none of those things she would have been dressed better she would have taken money with her that she
had in her bedroom after we searched her bedroom she is a victim of a kidnapping
authorities investigated dozens of reported sightings of Carrie but were unable to confirm her identity nothing
has been found not one thing she's walked off the face of the earth as far as we're concerned as the years in the
investigation dragged on Carrie's pairs began to give up hope of ever finding their daughter but all that changed in
March of this year when they saw video tape of a concert given by the popular singing group New Kids on the Block
On June 5th 1989 the group filmed their hangin tough live concert in Los Angeles
California [Music] among the crowd of teenage fans Kathy and Gary Nixon saw a familiar face
we couldn't believe how much that girl looks like our daughter so we just kept rewinding it and going over and over and
over and we just couldn't believe it because we never really had any hope that she was alive and then there's this
girl that looks so much like her I'm not 100% convinced but it looks like our Carrie find viewing the tape
I picked the girl out immediately the first time it rained through which is obvious to me that this girl did look
like Kari Nixon and appeared to be her this the tale enhanced photographed was made from the videotape and compared
with a picture of Carrie taken shortly before she disappeared there's obviously many similarities the hair length the
hair color the shape of the face the chin the mouth and had displayed a multiple of earrings in the right ear in
which Kari Nixon has four earrings in her right ear and two in her left so the photo enhanced finished product further
convinced the Nixons that this could be their daughter members of the new kids on the block did
not recognize the girl in the crowd but after hearing Carrie's story wanted to make a personal appeal well I just like
to say to carry that if you're out there the best thing to do would just be to call somebody and you know even if you
go to your local police and just just tell them your situation then maybe they can help you out or if any of you
viewers out there who have seen her at a new kid show or just seen her on the street if you could contact someone you
know to let them know where she is if she's alright it or anything that would be a big help we need to find this girl
find out who she is whether it's Carrie or not just so that if it's not we can go on to something
else to try and find her I love you Carrie and I need to talk to you [Music] six decades ago Amelia Earhart is one of
the most famous women in the world she had the figure of a movie star in the face of an angelic tomboy the first
woman to pilot an aircraft across the Atlantic in 1932 immediate defied labels and definitions our all-american girl
park daredevil she was a perfect hero for her time but she was also ahead of her time a self effacing yet outspoken
champion of women's rights a pilot the pilot I hope that such equality could be carried out in other fields so that men
and women may achieve equally in any endeavor they set out on May 20th 1937 Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred
Noonan prepared for takeoff from Oakland California Amelia was 39 years old this flight was
designed to be the capstone of her brilliant career as an aviator she was attempting to become the first person an
or woman around the world at his widest point the equator today 53 years later new
evidence has deepened the mystery surrounding Amelia Earhart's last flight the first leg of Elena's flight was via
Burbank to Tucson from there she went on to New Orleans Miami Puerto Rico Venezuela and Brazil Emilien Fred then
crossed the Atlantic landing in Senegal on the African coast they made several short hops across Africa then headed for
Karachi in what is now Pakistan from there to Calcutta rangoli Singapore and two stops in Java then
Australia and finally lay New Guinea [Music] Amelia and Fred had flown almost two-thirds of the way around the world
and they done it fairly quickly they must have been very tired when they got to lay New Guinea they had two days
there they tried to rest up but after that amount of flying time they must have been exhausted and here they were
facing the most difficult leg of their flight from New Guinea Amelia and Fred faced a grueling 18 hours in the air
they also had to hit an inconceivably tiny target Howland Island Howland is just a mile and a half long and a half
mile wide at his highest point the island is only 20 feet above sea level about half the height of a telephone
pole the difficulty factor on a scale of one to ten piloting from lay new Guinea to
Howland Island in 1937 in that aircraft make it a ten the most difficult it would be like flying across the United
States and locating the 18th green of a golf course in New Jersey on July 1st 1937 Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan
prepared to leave New Guinea squalls were predicted along their route they decided to postpone takeoff Amelia wired
her husband that she would not make it back to Auckland on the 4th of July as planned at the cisely 10:00 a.m. on the
2nd of July Amelia and Fred took off they planned to cross the International Dateline and land on Howland Island 18
hours later though she had the best navigator in the world setting beside her Fred Noonan she
was responsible for running that airplane she had to fly the head and she had to watch the weather she had to
watch the fuel flows she had to watch some mixtures the carburetor air make sure they weren't getting carburetor
rice she was responsible for the airplane maintaining altitude maintaining trim all these things were
constant plus she had to do the radio transmissions Amelia was not competent where radio was concerned she would
never take the time to learn properly I think it can be honestly said that the radio was the Achilles heel of that
flight it may seem incredible now but in 1937 before radar came in to use a battery-powered radio was Amelia's only
link with the world flying the waters around Howland Island the Coast Guard Cutter at Aska stood ready to
communicate by radio with Amelia as soon as she came within range with a radio barrier the attacker could rescue Amelia
and Fred at sea should anything go wrong for 16 hours nothing did then Amelia's lack of radio expertise came into play
about 17 hours and 14 minutes into the flight now we're really getting to the critical part she reports that she's
approximately 200 miles out and she wants them to take a radial bearing on her and she whistles into the microphone
what bearing on 3105 [Music] she stopped whistling amia did not whistle long enough to give the attacker
consistent signal what Amenia failed to understand was that whistling wasn't necessary simply allowing an
uninterrupted radio signal to play for 30 seconds would have been enough please repeat last transmission on 7500 I
repeat 19 hours into the flight and one hour behind schedule Amelia and Fred calculated that they should be directly
above Holland Island where they had also established clear radio contact looking
down they saw only oh sure [Music] something was badly wrong only one said of me to indicated that she could hear
the ataxia even though they could hear her perfectly again all Amelia had to do was open her
radio line to let a signal play so the attack occurred take a bearing and find out how far off course she was instead
emedia stopped her radio transmissions she had overused the radio and drained her battery on a flight the year before
so she was reluctant simply to let the transmitter run they know they've missed the island gone past it but they don't
know which side to have no way of knowing they have to take a radio bearing so a media does the only thing
she can 20 hours and 13 minutes into the flight Amelia sends her last message her
voice is talking very rapidly and very tense in her final radio message the media said she was switching frequencies
to 6210 kilocycles the attachment could not reach her on that frequency they assumed that Amelia
once again unfamiliar with emergency radio procedure had turned her radio dial to the wrong setting
frantically the AtTask 'try Qin sees with no luck come in over we have an emergency notify all the
ships in the area Amelia Earhart's plane may be going down we may be losing her that was a last verified transmission
ever heard from the Earhart and Reddington they must have ran and within a minute or two from a
thousand feet would have had to ditch the airplane into the ocean immediately a search effort began the
largest-ever mounted to look for a single plane ten ships 65 airplanes and 4,000 men covered this 250,000 square
mile area around Holland Island the search continued for 16 days experts agree that a media's plane where this
empty gas tanks would have floated for five to eight hours on the plane a median Fred had life preservers and a
two-person inflatable life raft equipped with emergency supplies so they could have been afloat for days
[Music] experts believe Emilia went down somewhere near Howland Island but incredibly unconfirmed sightings have
placed Amelia and Fred 2500 miles west-northwest of Howland on Saipan in the Mariana Islands on Amelia Earhart
and Fred Noonan disappeared Saipan was an important military headquarters for the Japanese intent on expanding his
empire Japan was about to attack China and had begun to build up military operations on key islands in the South
Pacific July 1944 seven years after Amelia Earhart's plane vanished the island of Saipan was now controlled by
American forces sergeant Thomas Devine was a member of the 240 fourth army unit I first became
aware of matter pertaining to Amelia Earhart soon after my arrival on the island lieutenant Lee big who was our
first lieutenant had secured a jeep and told me that I was to drive you in to us
we don't airfield which was a short distance away from our black area Devine in the lieutenant rove along a heavily
guarded road they pulled up in front of a padlocked aircraft hangar I'm sorry sir this is a restricted area
restricted to whom with all due respect sir that's none of your concern while he
waited timeless divine overheard snatches of conversation from a nearby group of Marines Amelia Earhart's plane
in that hangar suddenly an official in civilian clothes reprimanded the Marines people want to
knock off the chatter here you understand what's going on this is a classified project you've come about
that damn close to compromising the project right now I'm telling you I want you to sit down do your jobs and shut up
do you understand as we went back we dropped the subject because it was just a minor incident into place
later on that same day I heard a roar from the airfield but we didn't pay too much attention but till suddenly it came
overhead very very low and you could see the markings on it it was not a military
plane it was a civilian plane the marking was very evident than our sixteen or twenty we all looked up we
all wondered what in the world was going on Thomas Devine wrote down the identification numbers on the aircraft
they corresponded exactly to the numbers on Amelia Earhart's plane that same evening Tom saw the plane again now it
was on fire and I was aghast to see this light the so-called erhardt blank engulfed in
flames I saw that plane personally on three occasions that they the last time the plane was in flames
at about the same time Bob Wallach was one of the Marines stationed on Saipan claws and it's first Battalion 29th
Marines we were in the second wave going into Saipan there are a day time we got nothing to
do except look around souvenir hunt and we're looking through some government looking buildings brick buildings we
found this safe that was there one of the guys was a demolition person the noodle and he thought he could blow the
door off the safe and we'd have something [Music] we talk of millionaires but anyway there
was a briefcase that I grabbed and I thought I had it packed full of money or something like that to my surprise it
was something I didn't expect to see but it was full of a mini Earhart's papers hey Joe
come take a look at this you got wallet Amelia Earhart what's this stuff doing here I may have only been 18 years old
but I knew I had piece of history of my hand I think you're gonna have to turn that stuff in yeah
walnut turned the briefcase and his contents over to a commanding officer he never saw it again
that briefcase is still some place in this country I believe that because that officer just I gave it to was high
enough rank that he didn't just take it and throw it away he had something valuable too
I do not believe Amelia Earhart died at sea I think Amelia Earhart survived the downing on an island in the buddy
Brennan has been investigating the immediate air heart mystery for more than 11 years in 1987 he interviewed a
woman in Saipan who said she had witnessed Amelia's death unsolved mysteries went to Saipan and interviewed
the same woman what follows is exerted from both interviews news personnel Miranda bass woman was brought ashore by
the Japanese it was said they had captured two spy people the Japanese soldiers wrote the
spies into town many of us went there to see look at me look at it look at it I think they want us to strip the Japanese
cars made them take off all their clothes everything they had on their bodies [Music]
it was then we could see that one of the spice was a woman I had never known before a woman who wore men's trousers
Pusha Shinichi drinian AG palawan all the things that happen today the soldiers puto in jail they removed her
jewelry from her hands then the Japanese came and gave her rice she threw it out
I'm a linear aggression when they took or out of the prison they tied our hands they blindfolded work
[Music] I was working on the farm I saw a Japanese motorcycle [Music] the woman was in a little seat on the
side of the motorcycle citizen under I watched and they took o to this place where a hole had been dug
they made her kneel in front of the whole circus Rhonda then the shuttle we did [Music]
ah he muffled I planted a breadfruit tree near her grave in 1987 buddy Brennan conducted Mexico
vation of the gravesite he was only allowed to dig for 12 hours we got down to six and a half feet below what they
said would have been the surface in 1944 which is the date miss Blas gave us of having witnessed the execution and
that's where we retrieved the blindfold Brennan believes this tattered fragment of cloth was a blindfold worn by Amelia
Earhart however no human remains were unearthed what really happened in Saipan was
Amelia Earhart executed here buzzer aircraft burned here on American airfield if so who burned it and why or did
Amelia Earhart and Fred Newman go down with her plane and perish somewhere in the vast South Pacific I am convinced
that the most probable end to the Amelia Earhart flight ended with them running out of fuel just like Pete said on the
radio and just like the official accident investigation report indicated from captain noise on the Lexington that
they were forced to ditch northwest of Howland Island after their fuel was exhausted and they couldn't find Howland
Island because of a navigational error [Music] tone Jim long believes Amelia Earhart
and Fred Luna got into three properties the United States nautical charts Fred was using at Miss located Howland Island
by six miles a faulty compass on their aircraft have come seven miles farther off course finally wind rifts and
related factors pushed them another 22 miles west according to Elgin long Emilien Fred
ended up a full 35 miles off course I stick with where the airplane went down what happened to Amelia I'm pretty not
positive Oh Bob we won't know until they locate the airplane I think if we can raise her airplane and
prove once and for all the solution to the merrier air are at mystery it will be something very very worthwhile for
our heritage we can't afford to throw our heroes away many believe that the mystery of Amelia Earhart could be
solved simply by a deep-sea diving expedition perhaps so or perhaps Amelia Earhart is destined to remain a
legendary figure a hero suspended in time at the apex of an unsolved mystery [Music]
when we return the chilling tale of a teenager who apparently embarked on a murderous rampage when his girlfriend
broke up with him [Music] ray and Ruth Ann Ritter grew up in Woodstock Illinois a small town north of
Chicago they married 1968 and had three children Colleen Steve and Matthew the Raiders
were a close-knit family strong churchgoers and community workers on fifteen-year-old Colleen began a date a
childhood friend Rick Church it seemed only natural Colleen and Rick were both students at a small Catholic High School
at first their relationship seemed like a typical teenage infatuation school I first started dating Rick when I was a
sophomore at that point he was a senior if I didn't care my test yeah Rick was really good-looking he was involved in
sports activities he was real quiet though he had a lot of friends but he was real quiet
I know it's not a fun position a year after Colleen and Rick began dating Rick quite away to college Colleen the
romance began to cool a waning of young lovers of everyday occurrence fortunately most teenage hearts been
quickly in the case of Colleen Ritter and Rick Church our or something went wrong berry room Rick seemed unable to
accept the idea that the courtship might be over from his college dorm he called
Colleen nearly every night upset and on edge no one suspected that Rick Church was coming unhinged
no I rec I'm fine yeah what are you doing I really haven't studied much I just called 30 for a second that's not
true look I'm sorry I just I really have to study I'll have to call you tomorrow
okay fine well good luck on your math test [Music] Rick I have been doing a lot of thinking
in June of 1988 Rick came home from college to find that his parents had separated and his girlfriend had reached
a decision so what are you getting at I think we should see other people I'm not
good enough for you at the beginning of this that summer he became very possessive you know where are you going
who are you gonna be with you know that type of thing they're just like crowded me too much I couldn't stand that you
were calling me all the time really sorry if I inconvenienced you we took possessor
I found it was really hard breaking up with Rick I still wanted to be friends we had known each other you know
practically all our lives and I did consider him a good friend so I thought maybe this just wasn't it was like a
French up trying to turn into a romance and it just didn't didn't cut it you know it just didn't work so then I just
wanted us to be friends once again because he really didn't he really needed somebody and I wanted to be you
know a friend for him but I just couldn't be his girlfriend anymore it was too hard anyway two months later on
the night of Saturday August 20th Colleen had a friend sleeping or as did her brother Matthew ray and Ruth Ann
Ritter were out with friends and their other son was away at 11:30 p.m. Rick Church telephoned upset because he
wanted one last Saturday night with Colleen's he was kind of depressed he was 17
question I'm very depressed and very silent really quiet like he he knew something he didn't want to tell me or
something and he immediately then I said well you know don't talk to me like that
if you're gonna act like this you don't want to talk to you tonight I'll just talk to you tomorrow then
so well fine he just hung up on me I don't I don't know exactly how the fight started but it ended up where he just
hung up I know I don't think there was very there was anything really unusual about that we had gotten in arguments
before and he had hung up on me before and I had done the same it wasn't unusual I don't think in any
circumstance it was just a basic fight [Music] around 5:15 a.m. Ric Church entered the
Ritter's house what the police believe happened next is based on their investigation and eyewitness accounts
[Music] ray and Ruth Ann Ritter were asleep in their ground-floor bedroom [Music]
by 5:25 a.m. they were both dead upstairs 11 year old Matthew Ritter awoke he was stabbed twice
[Music] how incredibly died written broke into the room she rat Rick never spoke he began to stab
Colleen was like laying on a cedar chest just pretending I was dead so he would staff or just trying to do anything so
he would stop I was like playing dead and that didn't work he kept attacking me I told him I just yelled out I love
you just so I thought maybe he would stop I was trying anything at that point [Music]
[Applause] [Music] Rick fled when two neighbors came to Kylie's day inside the house young
Matthew Ritter had managed to get to the telephone and give his address to the 9-1-1 operator the police arrived almost
immediately operating into the false impression that Rick had run back into the Ritter house the police concentrated
their initial search efforts there Matthew bloody and in shock huddled with his friend who was unharmed
Colleen's girlfriend had also escaped uninjured in the downstairs bed they found the bodies of Colleen and Matthews
parents meanwhile Rick Church had run the 12 blocks to his home and was hardly packing his things
[Music] at 5:45 a.m. Rick took his mother's truck and vanished less than 1/2 hour
had elapsed since the bloody attack on the Witter family a Woodstock police issued an all-points
bulletin this was not a criminal or somebody that's hanging out on the street or anything like that this is a
kid who'd gone to school here all his life and you know knew a lot of people and had a lot of friends and went on to
college and then all of a sudden you know was accused of a crime like this and I was thinking be totally out of
character for something like this and I really don't know today yet what the motive might have been you know
speculation is the breakup boyfriend/girlfriend relationship that's the do something like this
it's really something over that but you know that's what we have at this point the reason at the hospital police put
Colleen Ritter and her brother Matthew under 24-hour guard in case Rick Church showed up again
Matthew was treated and released the next day but Colleen was critically injured with more than 20 stab wounds
most of them in the back of her head some of Connie's doctors feared she would be permanently blind or suffer
irreversible brain damage two days later while Colleen was still in intensive care
her parents were buried the hardest part throughout all of this as I guess not having my parents there that's real hard
that's that's two of your best friends and they're gone so that's hard and not being able to say goodbye because I
wasn't it therefore you know that was hard so I did that in my own way and I still am next the story of a risky
undercover operation conducted by the FBI to capture Colombian drug lords in [Music]
South America the country of Colombia continues to fight for its life Hubley war against drugs the Colombian drug
cartels have taken full credit for making terrorism and political assassination our way of life in their
country and have made no secret of the fact that they want to increase their power in the United States a cartels the
leaders of the cartels the members of the cartels in South America and their representatives in the United States a
particularly vicious there is no premium on human life these people make the Mafia look like Boy Scouts they are
totally violent they will kill almost for the sake of killing Colombian drug cartels bring in more than five billion
dollars a year in an effort to stem the tide of the cartels influence inside our
borders the FBI three years ago mounted one of the riskiest sting operations in United States history because drug
traffickers need above all else efficient and unbuckled telecommunications the FBI said is
trapped in an electronic store [Music] the sting operation began in May of 1987 in Miami Florida its center was the
unassuming are a communications company which sold sophisticated telephone systems and electronic devices the first
customers weren't quick to arrive some information on your SAT phones okay well we sell in-service cellular phones we
also service beepers and sell beepers what's that you're interested in the reception is sandy and the manager Jay
were both highly trained FBI agents sandy do me a favor take messages okay the drug runners wanted the latest and
carfon ship-to-shore radio beepers remote phones and airplane telecommunications devices we did
everything we could to provide them by so doing of course we knew how they were operating we knew what frequencies they
were operating on and it gave us the leg up the drug traffickers overriding need
was for untraceable means of communication the word on the street was RA had the best all the employees an RA
who are cooperating fully with the FBI we're men the drug runners trusted I'm gonna talk to the man in the moon right
now listen I got a no the men in the moons wife isn't listening they'll say I'm saying what you want to know is if
this phone is tapped able right I'm telling you listen to me now trust me there's no way you can tap into this
phone in your experience there's no I'm an expert I just told you this is the top-of-the-line
state-of-the-art unit we held ourselves out as being a service component of the drug business
we made it attractive for them to remain talk converse and that became a place to
congregate it took on an aura of a clubhouse type of effect our clientele probably six months into the operation
was entirely drug traffickers soon the really major players in the drug underworld began to
drop into the army Clubhouse one of them was Colombian national hey sue spaniel better known by the FBI to handle
regular shipments of cocaine worth as much as fifty million dollars hazus came to trust the undercover agents and
cooperative parties working in our a communications great that he'd been involved in some violent incidents in
Colombia South America talked about his desire to flood United States with cocaine he freely discussed with us the
movement from Colombia South America through the Bahamas and into the United States inside the clubhouse Pena of FL
safe enough to make drug deals using the company phone his conversations were videotaped and monitored by FBI agents
Hany Oliver's cronies joined him and in the clubhouse it was not uncommon to see
as many as three different drug traffickers doing business simultaneously into the early morning
hours one of those traffickers was cartel operative Julio Marco COO Julio Marco Cruz was a customer a purchaser
someone who was going to receive in excess of 100 kilos of cocaine Cruz had arranged to receive his large cocaine
shipment nearly November on a book called a tremolo through our ease personnel the FBI discovered The
Tremeloes route and time door at the United States Coast Guard [Applause] November 19th 1988 the tremolo entered
US waters and the Coast Guard moved in the letters of a massive shipment of cocaine
[Music] under the Tremeloes floorboards aegis discovered over 800 pounds of cocaine
their street value nearly forty million dollars the next day crews showed up at our a communications accompanied by his
bodyguards amazingly he seemed to know nothing about The Tremeloes capture Jay made a
quick decision to keep his cover intact he told crews about the drug bust on the
cruise was infuriated but he never suspected that the men who told him about the bust were in fact responsible
for it he continued to use the same telephones he had used before and the FBI continued to gather information it
appeared as if the are a sting might go on indefinitely but during the fall of 1988 his sous spaniel fair had begun
forcing his attentions on sandy the FBI fear that sandy eller other agents might
be in jeopardy the agents who are involved in undercover activity are exposed to
potential danger at any given time circumstances were different okay and really we very closely reviewed and
evaluated with the FBI headquarters and the other agencies have participated that we had accomplished a great deal
and it was the appropriate time to bring forward the matters to a prosecutor face
on December 6th 1988 the FBI brought charges against nearly 100 drug traffickers are a communications was
shut down we had a significant amount of arrests to undertake we had a very detailed plan of the 93 people indicted
throughout the United States we were able to apprehend 68 some people [Music] next week on unsolved mysteries in 1965
one of the first black deputy sheriffs of Louisiana was gunned down at cold blood while on duty 24 years later new
leads prompted the FBI to reopen the case for every mystery there is someone somewhere who knows the truth perhaps
it's you [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

Brief Summary

The episode discusses Amelia Earhart's disappearance, a teenage murder case, and an FBI drug sting operation.

Key points

The Disappearance of Kerry Lynn Nixon. A 16-year-old girl vanished without a trace, leading to a desperate search.
Unsolved Mysteries: A Father's Plea. A father appeals for help in finding his missing daughter, Kerry.
Amelia Earhart's Last Flight. New evidence emerges about the legendary aviator's mysterious disappearance.
The Breakup. Colleen decides to end her relationship with Rick, leading to unexpected consequences.
A Night of Horror. Rick Church enters the Ritter home and commits a shocking act of violence.
Colleen's Fight for Survival. Colleen bravely pretends to be dead during the attack, hoping to survive.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

I love you Carrie and I need to talk to you.

A heartfelt plea from a father to his missing daughter.

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