ABDUCTED, RAPED AND LEFT TO DIE IN A FIELD AT 8 YRS OLD - JENNIFER SCHUETT'S STORY -FULL DOCUMENTARY

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[Music] from the archives we go back to 1990 where the survival story of Jennifer Xu it begins now all grown up she takes us back to the night a man stole her from her bed the night she was left for dead after 19 years the face in Jennifer's memory has a name and police have a man in custody the clues the waiting and what finally broke the case plucked from a child's memories police reports and even our own news coverage it all adds up to a journey to justice for one little girl has the story Jennifer's story in the summer of 1990 Jennifer xiulet was eight years old and she was counting down the days before starting third grade but Jennifer never made it to her first day back at school someone had left her tiny bruised and broken body in an abandoned lot I could through blades of grass see vehicles going by she was just feet from moving traffic within earshot children playing there was a dog that kept coming up to me barking and running away trying to tell us but the eight-year-old couldn't make a sound couldn't move I knew I was gonna die I knew I was and all I did was just lay there and pray August 10th 1990 beliefs say someone had taken Jennifer from her bedroom raped her cut her throat and left her bleeding in this field and while Jennifer lay here helpless four miles away her mother found an empty bedroom I didn't hear anything it just I got up in the morning and she was gone alain chouet says her daughter often slept with her but on that night sometime around 2:30 in the morning exhausted Hewitt sent a restless Jennifer to her own bed in her own room down the hall she's the only thing I have I mean that is my baby 1990 and do simple apartment call we have I mean it's just two together with no time to waste seemingly everyone started looking Jennifer is 4 feet tall she weighs 45 pounds she has dark brown hair and blue eyes but how does a child disappear in the middle of the night back then neighbors at the Yorktown Apartments told us since the air conditioners were often broken it wasn't at all uncommon to see windows left open overnight in the heat of a Houston summer it was the only relief but was it also an entry point a resident showed us just how easy it would be to reach in the guy with someone walk by who was drunk or on drugs the big question became where was Jennifer it affected this community and the surrounding communities everyone held their breath as the hours just ticked by just about everybody out here has got at least two kids heck you don't expect this to happen is it close to you you know then late in the afternoon some news on the other side of town Jennifer was found in a field off of a California Street by some neighborhood children who were playing behind their house so this field was just like you know one for them to run out and play and then they had their own little hideout for type of thing not too long ago it was last year I talked to one of the kids on the phone that had found me and it was really emotional for me I'm talking to him and he was telling me that it was kind of raining that day I think that they thought that I was dead she wasn't far from barely breathing hundreds of fire ant bites and tremendous blood loss I remember being put into the LifeFlight helicopter I remember them putting me into the elevator I remember the first officer on the scene talking to me telling me to stay with him that everything was going to be okay I remember hearing children's voices but I don't actually remember them you know coming up and finding me what I my first memory is the first officer on the scene paramedics rushed Jennifer buy life flight to John Seely hospital in Galveston she was left in that field probably to die and thank to thanks to Lord that's the only reason she has lived family and friends hurried to the hospital where no one seemed quite sure if Jennifer would survive her injuries are our laceration to the neck with an open trachea she's just a baby and it's not fair I shouldn't do these two kids with Jennifer found alive the next question to come was an empty field the site of the brutal rape and attempted murder of a child a story that rocked the very foundation of the small Dickenson community everybody wanted to know who had done it the best chance to catch the attacker laid in the mind of an eight year old girl a girl who couldn't speak KPRC local 2 anchor Joel Eisen Baum continues our story now with the artist police hope would unlock the clues hidden inside Jennifer [Music] word of Jennifers shouid subduction and brutal attacks spread through Dickenson mothers and children who called the Yorktown apartments home were frantic terrifying and it's scary to even live here anymore everybody's boarded the windows they bought guns could have been my little girl while the eight-year-old laid silent in a hospital room her friends and neighbors were back home worried [Music] Hospital worried not only about Jennifer's survival but what would happen next Jennifer says she knows why it hit home everybody knows everybody kind of thing that I mean I grew up playing sports with these people I went to school with these people and I mean since pre-k on up yeah so it's kind of like everybody knows everybody in it when something happens like that in a small community it affects everyone taken from her bedroom Jennifer was discovered less than four miles away police mowed the field where she was found with her throat slashed and they found a pile of clothes just three blocks away but remember it was 1990 DNA testing was not yet advanced enough to help Clues at the scene were limited no one had seen anything and the only witness couldn't speak she's in a lot of pain and she cannot talk so there are some details that we haven't going into it with her and we hope to later on this week police needed something to go on someone to search for they needed a lead so they called on one of their newest employees Lois Gibson I'd been on the job less than one year when I got the call a painter for most of her life Lois had turned to forensic art to help victims put a face on their attackers quite frankly she was still trying to convince the police department she was useful I don't think people took my sketches seriously and I understand back then I had just started maybe not but law enforcement was calling her more and more and she got one of those phone calls August 14 1990 four days after Jennifer's attack Lois found herself heading south to Galveston it was unspeakable I drove down I just kept thinking this is impossible that this girl's alive I can't this happened Louis made her way to John Seely hospital to the pediatric intensive care unit you could see the mother sort of willing her to live and everybody that the staff everybody like she's gonna live Louis says the only thing you could see through the tubes and bandages were Jennifer's eyes when I turn around and look at her great big beautiful blue eyes and just get punched in the stomach with I can't believe that this happened to her but that's part of my job so I keep happy I'm gonna want to cry don't cry and I just I just went through that struggle and she at least wanted to engage in this which sometimes children don't she wanted to draw the picture she knew what I was gonna do that was more true than Louis could have known at the time locked and tortured silence because of the wound on her neck Jennifer says what she couldn't tell anyone then is she had a plan ever since I was in the hospital that's what I've always wanted and thought about is him being caught so that he couldn't do this to any anyone else and that meant remembering everything one of the nurses had a daughter and as soon as I knew that she had a daughter I kind of attached to her was so afraid that he would even go after her daughter you know just thoughts of that at eight years old thinking that he would just go for anyone that he could or even come back for me you know and finish me off I mean I just I always have wanted to remember because I've always wanted him to get punished for what he did she was so urgent about wanting to do a drawing so Louis picked up her books and the two of them started I have a book with noses and lips and eyes and all kinds of features and I show the witness I showed her these these pages and slowly allowed her to point at the different features of course it was frustrating and she was so injured and her mother was there and she couldn't talk and nobody believes I can do this and I was a rookie and I didn't have any confidence of course it was frustrating that's just normal even today Louis remembers at all I'd ask a question and she'd need their mouth some words and she'd write and she'd point it it was very frustrating and I'm sorry that she experienced that she remembers the frustration that's normal but she didn't know it nothing was normal about her about what happened to her she was strong and she was a determined and she was gonna work hard she's willing to work hard and she was just so beautiful heartbreaking beautiful eyes I was really upset it out bright as she was in the end this is the face they created it seemed like it took forever but I probably did this take a long one really long long torturous hour and Louis and Jennifer weren't done Jennifer remembered something else I hate doing cars it's the worst thing for me to draw I'd rather draw anything but she did it and so did Jennifer and I have no idea how I did that well I think one of the detectives got me a photograph of some kind of make that she thought it was like they drew the car Jennifer remembered from that night and it was kind of like it's not perfect but it's really close and then to get the color I just kept scribbling different colors and blending them together the two spent the most on getting that right so I kept mixing colors till she said that and I circled it and you can see a little fingerprint [Music] in the end Louis walked away with what would be the first public glimpse of the little girl's attacker and his car when I showed up for that sketch I knew the pressure was so big that the that the payoff would be so huge if I could do a good sketch because this guy was a monster and I'd be able to find a monster and the pressure was unbelievable no matter how many years you've been on the job you're not gonna be ready for that in the days after that sketch Jennifer continued to improve she is improving as of yesterday she began talking on her own we feel with each day she is progressing and she is remembering more and more each and every day I had no voice and they said that I would never be able to talk again by the grace of God I started talking one day in the hospital and I haven't been quiet since wow it has been 19 years now since Louis first walked into that hospital room today the entire experience is tucked away in a well-worn file folder a folder among thousands of other folders faces without names wanted men and women who've never been found that memory is one that every time I hit it I pulled back like it touch a hot hot pot and you try not to burn yourself I pull away and change the subject in my mind no I pulled away I pull away the special health for me is I remember everything I'll never forget this case looking at Jennifer's shoe it you see a vibrant young woman a small scar on her neck is really the only outward appearance of the horrifying event that has shaped her life tonight she takes us back 19 years to the night a man stole her from her bedroom and tried to kill her KPRC local 2 anchor Joe Liza mom talked with her and the two men who are now trying to find justice for Jennifer [Music] that bright eight-year-old who survived a brutal attack as a kid is now 27 years old Jennifer Xu it has grown into a woman while waiting for justice there's been times when it's been hard but I like to think of myself as a strong survivor and I don't really play that victim role from those darkest days in the hospital jennifer has had one thing on her mind finding the man responsible for leaving her in that field to die so she embraces those awful memories no matter how painful they may be yes I want closure but it makes me stronger and keeps me going knowing that I can help other children that are out there possibly being victimized and I mean there might be little girls out there that didn't make it out of his attack as far as Jennifer knows her attacker could be a million miles away in jail or maybe someone she sees every day it could be anybody could be my neighbor it could be you know a guy at the grocery store someone driving next to me but I can't let it run my life so I don't live in fear I just know that one day justice will be served and the he'll be in jail I don't let it run my life I can't because it drive me crazy Jennifer's clues like the description of the man his car with the dents in the driver's side door the tear in the front seat she hasn't wavered on a single detail since she told police in 1990 knowing who he is is what I want I just want to be able to look him in the face I don't really want to ask him why because I just don't think there's any valid answer for that knowing that he's in jail and that he can't hurt anyone else is what I want more than anything we're coming down that was the way he actually drove me even today Jennifer says she drives the route they took that night and she still remembers every detail I was always terrified of the dark as a little girl and why I have no clue but I always slept in bed with my mother and that right I woke up and went into my own room and the next thing I knew I was being taken by him and he put me in his car and drove off with me had my nose and mouth covered so I couldn't really breathe I couldn't scream for help she remembers he was calm he offered me candy you know he seemed like he was very comfortable in what he was doing he asked me at one point if he was scaring me she remembers the knife he held against her throat and that he told her he was an undercover police officer I said well where's your gonnna and he told me it was in the backseat so I leaned over the backseat to look for the gun and he ripped my panties off [Music] after that it gets blurry there are just vague but agonizing images of the attack and the trip to the field I was unconscious and all I remember is waking up time dragging me through this field and he left me over there and in between some trees where he slit my throat basically from ear to ear and left me there today she could hear the children playing a dog barking but she couldn't lift herself up and she couldn't make a sound I was basically being devoured by fire ants I was just helpless and I finally had the strength to reach up and touch my neck and that's when I knew that he had slept my throat but I couldn't really do anything about it I just laid there until some children playing found me and I think that was about 12 hours later Jennifer took us back to the apartment complex where she was abducted I've actually never been out of the car and come back so I mean it's a little weird but you know it's fine I'm not emotional or anything the first memory from that night is right here I wasn't awake till about this point because I remember looking back looked up and saw his face and I immediately tried to scream but he covered my nose and mouth Jennifer could have put those memories in a box and buried them but she says that's just not who she is I've always wanted to remember every detail that I could I've always actually been scared of things being blocked out of my memory she wants it all crystal clear because one day she plans to sit in a witness chair face to face with the man who tried to kill her and tell her story one last time and I look forward to it back in August Jennifer shared the story with us for the first time on television but she had said these words before she's been instrumental in some parts of the investigation she tells it again and again every time her case has passed to another hopeful investigator the last time was more than a year ago when Dickenson police investigator Tim Crowe me an FBI Special Agent Richard Renison were assigned Jennifer's case like any crime if it's not kept in public high people start to assume it was solved people start to assume there was a conclusion and after time it does fade away so what can change in 19 years in a word science on the evidence that we're testing right now there's no way that could have been tested in processed back in 1990s you see in that evidence box along with those sketches in Jennifer's account of what happened he's a pile of clothes a little girl's shirt and a man's pair of underwear in 1990 DNA was basically in its infancy and in order to obtain a DNA sample you needed a large quantity of whatever blood some bodily fluid or semen you needed a large quantity today you can get DNA from a single skin cell so Renison and Crowe me through a Hail Mary pass they were about to put all their faith in a tiny piece of decades-old clothing we're retesting those and hope hopefully we're going to be able to get a DNA profile of the offender if there's ever been a case with an opportunity to get to closure this would be one of those cases as the pair of investigators waits to see if their works paid off the pressure to solve this case is overwhelming it's frustrating because you won't you want closure you want to do something we all want to do more than what we're doing right now for Jennifer it's not that we're not trying it's just we're not we're not finding the right information we're not getting the right clues we're not getting that break that we need and that's frustrating because we know that Jennifer's wants closure we want closure for her [Music] the thought of being the one to get that answer to name him to arrest him that's what they wanted would look very forward to that that would be that would be one of the highlights of my career I'm hoping he's in jail but if he's not um I'm confident he will be soon and that gives me a sense of relief [Music] fer shouid case had so many clues a detailed sketch of the suspect a drawing of the car even an eyewitness who remembered everything all those details details that for 19 years led nowhere until one day last october when police got something they thought impossible a name KPRC local 2 anchor joel isin bomb continues our story as today I received a phone call in my case had been made that at 6:50 this morning detective Tim Crowe me an agent Renison with the FBI arrested Dennis Earl Bradford without incident and thank you wholeheartedly for keeping my case alive throughout all these years the formal complaint was filed in Galveston County charging Dennis Earl Bradford with the attempted capital murder of Jennifer Shu it I hope that my case to all victims of violent crime to never give up hope in seeking justice on October 13 2009 the 19 year-old cold case involving the abduction rape and attempted murder of eight-year-old Jennifer Shu it got a whole lot warmer it was without question one of those one of those moments that all of us in law enforcement live for after almost two decades Dickenson Police detectives and really anyone who had touched the jennifer shouid case were blown away by the announcement a 40 year-old man named Dennis Earl Bradford had been arrested in Arkansas do you hope yes do you believe days like this makes you believe captain Arnold Moreno worked Jennifer's case for 10 years he says the arrest is like a ton of bricks being lifted off his chest one of the things that I told Jennifer is that we're not gonna quit don't think because I've run into these obstacles that this is it it's just an exciting day from Dickenson Police Department to solve this crime sound balupu news traveled fast and so did the excitement louis Gibson the artist who had drawn the image of Jennifer's attacker all those years ago couldn't believe it that made my day month year life I mean if that's the only case I ever do the arrest was big news and things were about to get a whole lot more interesting Dickenson police chief ron morales revealed a driver's license picture of bradford from that long-ago summer you can compare this for yourself we find them remarkably similar amazing the talent of one year on the job and my hands did that that close I still don't believe it I get it out and I look at it and I gloat feelings of deja vu continue with another picture remember that sketch of a car this is Bradford that very same summer sitting in a blue car that's eerily similar to that chalk drawing but that to me when I saw that right there done get too much closer than that no and the hits just keep on coming as investigators continue to fill in the blanks it turns out Bradford lived in these apartments just blocks from Jennifer's shoe it's home and just miles from the field where she was left to die as part of investigation we didn't want to give away too much information before we got the affidavit and let anybody know that we were looking at him putting aside the pictures the most damning evidence the piece that really landed Bradford in jail his own DNA the DNA profile that was submitted and matched in this case it matched a known person in that CODIS database the officers who caught up with Dennis Bradford say the real heroes in this case are the crime scene investigators here in Galveston County you see they collected evidence for tests that didn't even exist yet and not only that they kept it and preserved it for nearly two decades you have to understand that evidence was almost 20 years old and to still have the DA up 20 years that was just unbelievable the Galveston County Sheriff's Department collected the evidence at the scene and processed it and stored it and it could not have been done any more perfect in 1990 labs needed large samples to even try to get a match today all it takes is a single skin cell I don't know how they had the foresight or if it was luck or a little bit of both but whichever the cases they did it perfectly that's music to John Pruitt's years see he's one of those Galveston CSI guys who collected that evidence it's important that we collect it preserve it to when we have to present it in court there's no question about its integrity Pruett is just one in a line of people who feels a sense of relief that this case may someday soon finally be closed we all did a good job that you know we did what we originally would set out to do and then now that there's gonna be justice for her Dickenson police officer Tim Crowe me an FBI agent Richard Renison did what all those investigators before them had tried to do Crowe me and Renison did what they promised they made an arrest in that room that day you could not help they'll be moved by by their determination and their dedication to Jennifer's cold case now it's up to Galveston County to try and get a conviction the quality of the DNA evidence is truly I believe to be outstanding in this case I mean it put us over the edge as far as being able to proceed with obtaining the affidavit for arrest so combine that with with obviously with Jennifer knowledge about the events of the night and what happened to her her drawing and her recollection specific things that we can't really discuss at this time we're very comfortable with the charge and we're looking forward to prosecuting the case and it looks like the star witness is ready to testify but today 19 years later I stand here and want you all to know that I am okay I am NOT a victim but instead victorious so Joe you were at that press conference what was that like probably the most memorable press conference I've ever been to first of all it was a tiny room we were all jammed in there we're talking about journalists photographers police and then really a grand entrance from Jennifer Xu it nobody was quite sure what she was going to say but you could instantly feel it I mean we're talking about probably five feet between myself and Jennifer and you didn't even really have to look at her face you could just hear her words and you'd know that she had been waiting for that moment for 20 years you know when I saw that sketch and then the driver's license picture of the suspect I mean that's uncanny I mean it it really is it's it's almost a spitting image it really got me though was the sketch of the car right and you gotta keep in mind we're talking about an eight-year-old kid who's in the intensive care unit at a hospital critical condition throat has been slashed she can't talk and yet she has to figure out a way to communicate with a perfect stranger and try to ham around a decent sketch of the suspect in the car and what they came up with was amazing it's remarkable and I think a lot of people are wondering who is this Dennis Bradford the exact same question we had as soon as we saw that arrest video in Arkansas North Little Rock brought him in we saw him in the handcuffs we wondered if this is the guy who did this and police say that it is the guy we need to know what this man has been up to in the last 20 years so we went up to Arkansas essentially and we were charged with finding that out a lot of digging on your part Joel and when we come back we're gonna have much more about where Dennis Bradford has been for the last 19 years it's something you don't want to miss mystery that has haunted the Dickenson Police Department for almost two decades gets a break in the case new DNA results bring back a name that name takes investigators across state lines to arrest a man they say has been living on borrowed time KPRC local 2 anchor Joel Ison bomb follows the trail of Dennis Bradford from Dickinson to Little Rock Arkansas well the first day we were we were just in total shock the victim said that she never gave up hope on about it this is crazy yesterday I received a phone call that an arrest in my case had been made I said it's like a bad dream and you're waiting to wake up from Denis Bradford's arrest made national headlines a 19 year old cold case cracked 3040 years ago a case like this probably never would have been solved police say DNA did it and now the man police believe brutalized a child has been brought back across state lines to Galveston County a place he once called home he lived in the trailer part down the road and every now and again he'd come by you know and play his guitar that was in Dickenson in the late 80s five years before a young Jennifer shoe it would be left in a field just miles away he was calm not tempered you know he didn't have a bad temper or anything like that Melinda Armbruster says the then 16 year old Bradford was friendly after hearing his name and seeing his face on TV she realized the man in handcuffs was actually your old friend were you shocked when you put two and two together and you know yeah it's like you lived right down the street from this so if investigators are right and Bradford is their man where has he been all this time yeah over there on the portion plays banjo and how could a man accused of kidnapping raping and nearly killing an eight-year-old girl it seems so normal for so long to so many people the allegations don't nice match up let's put it that way I mean it's just it doesn't it's not it's not the guy that I know as the news spreads more shocked neighbors but this time in another state Arkansas that's where Bradford's been living right across the street from Bill Mushin Dennis is very outgoing very nice guy great neighbor but just the same 20 years after Jennifer's attack it is Bradford being escorted by police and FBI agents from Arkansas back to a Texas jail it's probably a shock to everybody was you know reading the allegations it's just it's bizarre it seemed probably a good way of putting he's just a big old teddy bear this is where Bradford worked as a welder right up until the day he was arrested only nobody at this North Little Rock fence company had a clue about his past but in hindsight there were hints I mean he's told me I've done some bad things in my days running that I'm not proud of for eight years Ronny McPherson worked side by side with Dennis Bradford and never once did he press his friend for details the Dennis he knew was helpful friendly and funny my grandkids loved him I don't see how he done it you know I don't see how I can keep something like that inside of him without telling somebody in fact shortly after the Jennifers shouid crime in Dickinson it appears Bradford essentially started over in Hot Springs Arkansas in the mid 90s he bounced between jobs met a woman married had two kids and was otherwise unremarkable but on April 16 1996 we know exactly where Dennis Bradford was this spot back then it was a local dive called Gators and that night he met a woman for some odd reason she feels that it's okay to go for a ride with this guy that decision proved nearly fatal for that woman in what would turn out to be an eerily similar crime to the shouid case police say Bradford kidnapped raped and terrorized his victim takes a knife and holds it to her throat telling her that he's gonna kill her but he didn't instead according to a police report Dennis Bradford after beating choking and ordering the young woman to clean the blood off herself let her go right here at this Hot Springs racetrack Bradford then drove home to his wife and children he was convicted of kidnapping back in 1996 and was given a 12-year sentence we asked on a tiler with the Arkansas Department of Correction to review the ex-cons prison record he had some rule violations but none of them was violent and all of them pretty much were for not following orders which was typical serving a third of his sentence at that time pretty normal in Arkansas Bradford was paroled in April 2000 had he been in violation of the terms of his parole he would have been revoked and sent back to the Department of Correction put an asterisk next to that statement because we dug up a North Little Rock police report from 2001 it turns out Bradford was convicted of misdemeanor DUI but it didn't bust his parole Bradford caught another break that year brother and sister Billy and Cheryl Briggs decided to hire him to work at their fence company they say Bradford made it clear he was a convicted felon what quickly fit in flirting with the girls but really they weren't alone Bradford found a new love he got married again and started another family and inherited three stepchildren one of them answered the door the people in Bradford's life or left wondering just who the man was they were calling their friend and neighbor for some seeing him as anything else just as impossible I wouldn't wait to say and I certainly hope it isn't true but we'll see what happens with the court system how the evidence lays out and just take it from there if the evidence is as strong as the FBI says it is Dennis Bradford's likely never to set foot in Arkansas again 19 years of borrowed time Jennifer shoe it says she paid for I hope that my case will remain as a reminder to all victims of violent crime to never give up hope in seeking justice no matter how long it may take or how hard it made me I just I feel sorry for everybody involved if he if he's one you know I'm glad they they were able to solve the case if he's the one what's so striking is that this tragedy is not just Jennifer Shu it's but everybody who was connected to Dennis Bradford I mean they all got blindsided yeah you're right and there are a lot of people who are connected to Dennis Bradford not just his co-workers but we're talking about his family he's a father of five essentially he has two of his own children and then three stepsons imagine that being going through a situation where your dad is suddenly taken away from you supposedly for something he did 20 years ago I mean each of these kids his wife even his ex-wife is now going through that situation his best friend I talked to in Arkansas said I can't believe it that's not the dentist that I knew I just can't believe it one person who wasn't in your story was Dennis's first ex-wife what was her take on all of this I did meet she didn't want to talk on camera per se but I did meet her in hot springs and she said look I'll tell you what I know and that is I remember perfectly when Dennis was arrested for that crime in Hot Springs I remember that night to the tee Dennis didn't come home and that wasn't all that uncommon but what was different this time is that police came looking for him and she said that was essentially the end of our marriage have you had a chance to talk to Brett Dennis Bradford at all I haven't talked to Dennis Bradford but it's not for lack of trying I've written him letters I've tried to get ahold of them through his lawyer but but to know when that's not to say though that I haven't been following the case in fact just a few weeks ago there was a pretty interesting two and his lawyer has apparently filed a motion now for examination regarding insanity so this could very well be part of their defense when that trial comes up all right excellent work Joel well I'll bet somebody else who's counting down the days leading up to this trial is Jennifer shoe it and we're gonna find out how she's using her story to help others so be a survivor takes a huge strength of will to find that in an eight-year-old is inspirational you can see it in this picture still connected to tubes and IVs she stands victorious KPRC local 2 anchor Joel Eisen bomb ends our story where it began with a girl now a woman named Jennifer suet they used your boys shirts to encourage others to speak out along with me use your voice that's Ben Jennifer Xu its mission statement since she was 8 years old when a brutal attack ended with her throat being cut doctors thought the little girl singing just days before would never speak again but young Jennifer was bound and determined to catch her attacker I've told my story to so many people in hopes of remembering everything and never forgetting anything because I just want to be able to get this case solved and I know that the more I can remember the easier it might be she started a website called justice for Jennifer and I used my website this is a tool you know so that everybody can read about my story I mean I even have my website on the back of my car just so people will go to it what began as a way to get the few pieces of evidence from her case out in the cyberspace has become a light in the dark for other victims those too afraid to use their own voices people email me through my website and remind me that I told them my story back in sixth grade and got them to open up and that they had you know been molested and that even and you know sixth grade I was encouraging people to go to the police I helped them and now they're writing me and reminding me of those things 19 years later you can still see the marks left by her attackers knife still see the hole left by the tubes in the hospital people asked me if I wanted to get plastic surgery to cover it up or anything like that I would never do that it's just a survival story now a story jennifer has kept close but not just to be ready for her day in court I do feel like being a survivor that I owe that to other victims you know to not be quiet because being quiet and my head means that I'm letting him win he's not going to that's for other people a man has been arrested a court date is on the horizon but it could be another year of waiting for another call to tell her story but this time she will be in the witness chair feet away from the man charged with kidnapping raping her and then trying to silence her forever Jennifer says she can't wait to tell her story one last time not leave my story and everything which is kind of knowing that he's in [Music] the trial of Dennis Bradford could start as early as November [Music] [Music] [Music]

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