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on a bright summer day an unimaginable crime horrified california a young girl was snatched from her neighborhood by an unknown assailant hundreds of officials and volunteers combed acres of farmland searching for the missing girl the fbi soon joined the hunt hoping that a quick response would improve the odds of finding her before her young life was extinguished [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] on july 2nd 1994 a 12 year old girl was abducted from her home in northern california based on experience the fbi had learned the hard lessons act fast search wide enlist volunteers but as the hours slip by agents also realize their chances for recovering her alive grew slim i'm jim calstrom former head of the fbi's new york office agents and local law enforcement needed to scour miles of rugged terrain to find the girl before it was too late the small city of lodi california is nestled in the heart of the golden state's warm central valley just south of sacramento it is surrounded by some of the world's richest farmland orchards and renowned vineyards most who settled here found lodi's tranquility and low crime rate preferable to the frenzied pace of larger cities on saturday july 2nd 1994 three of its younger residents escaped the heat of the day in front of the television a 16 year old girl was watching her young sister and her sister's friend the girl's parents were away in michigan for the long 4th of july weekend at about 4 p.m a visitor stopped by a shirtless man covered in tattoos was inquiring about the house which was posted for sale he asked if he could come in to check out the place the teenager told him to call the realtor's number on the sign and to make an appointment when her parents returned in a few days the man said he didn't have a pen and asked if he could come in to write it down wisely the girl refused to let him in and offered to write it down for him instead on a piece of her father's stationary she jotted down the realtor's number she handed it to the stranger who left reluctantly i'm sorry no come on hi i'd like to go on a carry-out a large half performance since it was getting close to dinner time the older sister called to order a pizza thanks bye the closest takeout place was 10 minutes away i'm going to get a pizza the girls didn't want to leave their movies so the teenager let them stay she'd only be gone 20 minutes leaving the children alone for such a short time didn't seem too risky just moments after she left the doorbell rang again maybe your sister forgot her keys the young sister answered it hi i was here a little bit earlier the shirtless man had returned your phone number and i just want to know if i can borrow a phone book the girl went to fetch him a phone book from the kitchen moments later the older sister returned home with the pizza she called to the younger girls but they did not answer got pizza with a knife to her throat the shirtless man attacked you he forced the teenager upstairs to a bedroom where the younger girls were already tied up [Music] like the others he secured her hands and feet none of them knew what would happen next trembling the young friend felt the intruder pulled a knot from her ankles [Music] then he dragged her out of the room in a second bedroom down the hall the man threw his young victim onto the bed threatening to kill her and her friends if she screamed he bound her feet again [Music] [Music] then left the room while alone the young girl tried to work free from her restraints [Music] for the sisters their situation appeared [Music] hopeless after a few grueling moments the friend managed to free her hands but the bindings around the friend's legs tripped her when she tried to stand [Music] up she heard the man's footsteps and her friend's cries coming down the hall the girl slipped into an open closet [Music] dragging the younger sister the man burst into the room he didn't see the friend lying motionless in a recess on the closet's back wall the tattooed man had no idea where the girl could have gone hearing no more movement the girl's friend risked leaving the safety of her hiding place the intruder likely figured the child had managed to escape and call the cops since he had lost control of one of his three hostages he decided to focus on only one [Music] the kidnapper forced the young sister into the family's car and sped off [Music] the girl who had hidden in the closet found the older sister in the room next door and untouched the teenager called 9-1-1 and reported that a tattooed man had abducted her sister taking their red sports car the information was relayed to lodi officers who sped to the home a quick response was essential since the chances of finding an abducted miner alive greatly decrease after the first 24 hours lodi police chief larry hansen was called in right away to take charge of the case the agony of having your child taken is a fear of every parent i think it's a fear of every community you know we want our children to be safe and we particularly want them to be safe in our own homes so it is the worst type of violation that can occur to have a child kidnapped out of a home officers attempted to contact the girl's parents in michigan but they were not immediately reachable their parents were vacationing in a remote cabin so michigan deputies were sent to inform them of their daughter's abduction the two girls left in the house were taken to a hospital for an examination before they could be interviewed police dispatched all points bulletins for the sports car's license plate and a description of the missing child my greatest fear was that this case was going to end up like so many others that we would have a homicide you you try not to focus on that but you recognize time is really of the essence and that individual kidnapped that little girl for a specific reason a reason that we were only speculating but he knew in his mind and heart what he was going to do and so we were just trying to do everything we could to recover her as quickly as possible and hopefully avoid that the chief wasted no time in calling in the fbi special agent charles reilly of the fbi sacramento field office knew he had to act quickly if there was any hope of finding the young girl sometimes the kidnappings go interstate and sometimes they don't the problem is we don't know and if you wait until you know there's an interstate nexus to the crime sometimes it's pretty late in the game to get good information so we generally jump early on a kidnapping by 8 pm more than an hour after the child was taken from her home crime scene technicians from the fbi's evidence recovery team in the california department of justice processed the rooms where the girls had been held captive for the next 12 hours they collected hairs and fibers throughout the house technicians also dusted surfaces for fingerprints they hoped that trace evidence left behind could help identify the unknown perpetrator [Applause] at the hospital the missing girl's older sister and friend though still shaken told a lodi detective they had never seen their attacker before the girls described him as five seven tan and muscular with many tattoos they also provided detail of the terrifying events that had occurred just a few hours earlier the younger girl said that she felt scared when her friend didn't respond to her calls after she'd left the room to answer the door [Music] the girl found her in the kitchen with a man holding a knife to her throat instinctively the girl tried to protect her friends he forced both girls out of the kitchen to the bedrooms upstairs and then the older girl when she arrived moments later the girls said he threatened to kill them if they didn't do as he demanded they feared what he might have already done to the girl who he'd taken as the only witnesses they would need to give more detail to a sketch artist as soon as they were released from the hospital's care for residents of northern california this crime was unfortunately all too familiar less than a year earlier a 12-year-old petaluma girl named polly class had also been kidnapped and was later found murdered our case had such eerie similarities to the poly class case there were three girls in the home in our case there were three girls in the home of the poly class case both suspects were armed with a knife both suspects took a grill and left the home with them though polly class's murderer was already behind bars police hope that the outcome of their current case would not prove as tragic lodi investigators called upon the poli-class foundation for help created after polly's death the foundation assists law enforcement with disseminating information on child abductions as quickly as it develops it was one of the first phone calls that i made i contacted them because they have resources to assist in this type of investigation that we do not they have their own network system they have 24-hour um gas stations and 24-hour convenient type stores that they will um fax you know copies of a flyer and those will be posted so that if people are traveling through you know they can be aware of this particular incident at the lodi police station the girls provided a description of the suspect to a sketch artist as they had told police at the crime scene each of the perpetrators upper arms were covered in tattoos and in the middle of his back the man bore the unfinished outline of a skull's face he had blonde hair blue eyes a mustache and a scruffy beard investigators sent the sketch to every law enforcement agency and media outlet in the area 20 miles away on a desolate road in the rural area of san joaquin county a rancher was on his way home at about 8 30 p.m when he noticed a brush fire in one of his pastures [Music] just beyond he saw a sports car apparently abandoned with its doors left open he called 911 firemen were first to arrive on the scene the brush fire in the arid region of northern california can spread quickly with devastating results they were able to contain the blaze to an isolated area before it reached the red sports car san joaquin sheriff's lieutenant mike padilla arrived moments later we received a radio call that there was a fire and it was a suspicious fire a fire was on scene and there was a vehicle abandoned in the area when we saw the car it did fit the description that was being aired um on a be on the lookout by lodi police it was very similar to that vehicle we were when we finally got close enough to read the tags on the car we called them in to our records division they were able to confirm that was the vehicle the car had apparently sparked the fire as it careened through the ranch's field before it was halted by debris but police found no signs of her or her abductor they could only hope that they were close by and that the girl was still alive [Music] by 8 30 pm on july 2nd 1994 an hour and a half after a girl was abducted from her lodi california home in a stolen car investigators had found the vehicle in a burning pasture of rural san joaquin county the girl and her kidnapper were nowhere to be found san joaquin sheriff's lieutenant mike padilla was joined by police from neighboring lodi and the fbi the lodi lieutenant arrived and met with us on the scene it was at that point that we determined that there's a possibility that our victim might be in the luggage area of the vehicle although it's a small vehicle it would be large enough to put a small female in the keys were missing so firefighters carefully cut the hatchback's lock they heard no banging or screaming and feared what they might find the luggage compartment was empty though they found nothing in or near the vehicle to indicate the subject's present whereabouts the car had become the nexus of the search according to fbi special agent charles riley we didn't know whether the victim and the subject were close to the car or their location we were acting upon the premise that they could still be very close our highest concern was to find the victim safely and also to find the subject if we could [Music] since the area was so remote it was unlikely that the assailant had stolen another vehicle and left the area yet because he was probably on foot there was a greater possibility that he had disposed of his 12 year old victim in order to move more swiftly through the rugged terrain lodi police lieutenant gerald murray was aware that the odds of finding her alive were beginning to dwindle statistically usually a victim does not live very long once they get in a rural setting and the suspect has control and is like it is in this type of situation so you know we were very very concerned about her living through this experience and basically we had to focus on what we did know and what we did knows we had the resources we had the training and we had the personnel that were going to diligently search and look for this person by 8 45 pm the fbi and local police had helicopters on the scene from above they would help guide investigators to the girl or her abductor if they responded in order to penetrate the blackness of the landscape the pilots relied on forward-looking infrared detection or fleur fleur is a sophisticated heat sensing device that illuminates anything radiating heat including people or the engine of a car on the ground canine units were called upon for assistance investigators hoped they could follow the subject sense to indicate the direction they may have headed the dogs led the searches into the brush but after about a mile the trail turned cold it didn't take long for san joaquin sheriff's lieutenant mike padilla to realize that to cover such a wide rural expanse they would need far more personnel although we're a larger department than lodi this was even too broad of an area for us to handle alone so we activated mutual aid which is something we do in california we can activate as many counties as we need to to receive assistance in this case i believe we activated 10 counties and the response was astounding the san joaquin county sheriffs also dispatched their mobile command center bus to help coordinate the massive search the bus would act as the field headquarters to receive and disseminate the most current information and to pass out assignments for the interagency effort it could be moved anywhere at a moment's notice if necessary san joaquin sheriffs and fire departments provided road and topographical maps of the entire region their familiarity with the area would be an invaluable resource to assist the fbi and lodi police in containing two square miles the maximum distance they could handle with limited personnel their first task was to set up a perimeter as fbi special agent charles riley recalls we didn't know the time frame from when the car first arrived until we were there looking for the victim in the subject so we tried to set up a perimeter on a spot we could function on in this case we chose roads circumventing the area where the car was found and unfortunately those roads were a great distance it was in excess of a mile in every direction around the car and we had to try and run a perimeter to make sure no one left that area california highway patrol units san joaquin sheriff's deputies and the lodi police conducted rolling and stationary surveillance along major routes into and out of the area the perimeters stretched like mile long spokes of a wheel emanating from the abandoned car and ranch several helicopters remained in the air hoping to glimpse the young girl or the fugitive of their infrared radar within the perimeter teams of searches began to canvas the homes and ranches scattered amongst the hilly terrain they considered the possibility that the suspect may know someone in the region agents and officers provided a description of the kidnapper and just victim and asked homeowners if they had seen anything unusual in the past hour they found no one who had and most were surprised to learn of the extensive manhunt [Music] with the assistance of deputies from the calvary county sheriff's department we were able to assign them to do basically a property to property search to first of all search all the structures on that property second of all account for all the vehicles farm equipment atvs that sort of thing and also to inform the residents there what was going on in the event that they would see the victim or suspect there were many outbuildings and barns located a short distance from the abandoned car [Applause] landowners directed officers and agents to where they were located and allowed them to search every structure [Applause] over the next two hours dozens of teams found no trace of the tattooed man or the young girl because the area was vast officers fastened yellow ribbons to structures at the front of the properties they had been to so the next group would know that the location had been searched but as thorough as the teams were the uneven terrain favored the suspect as the teams would come back would ask them in the area that you searched is it possible for someone to be hiding in there and unfortunately oftentimes they said it's possible he would have to sit still sit quiet and sit hidden but it's very possible by 11 pm over four hours since the girl had been taken from her home searchers still had no way of knowing if the child was alive or dead and no indication if she or her abductor were still in the area investigators hoped that alerting the public at large on the 11 o'clock news would prompt leads lodi police chief larry hansen held a press conference and faced questions from the community including his own children [Music] i have five children my youngest was five years old at the time and she was aware that this kidnapping incident had occurred and she saw me on television she was talking to my wife asking questions you know have they found the little girl have they found the little girl [Music] unfortunately the chief's wife had to tell their daughter that they had not [Applause] and as the hours increased from the time of her abduction survival for the missing girl did not seem likely by 5 am on july 3 1994 more than 10 hours had passed since a lodi california girl was abducted from her home [Music] the fbi and a dozen local law enforcement agencies maintained a two square mile perimeter in rural san joaquin county where they believed her kidnapper had fled with her the previous evening over a hundred officials including lodi police lieutenant gerald murray grappled with what to do next as they faced devastating uncertainty we were really concerned i mean do we even still have them in the area are we wasting our time here are they south of highway 26 and we've missed him you know is he going to further victimize her is he going to commit a homicide is what's he going to do is he going to go to a house and abduct another victim or get another hostage you have all these emotional things going on in your mind and how can we best and humanly you know prevent that as the search continued in the farming region the team of lodi police and fbi agents remained at the expanded command center in the lodi library it coordinated dozens of incoming officials and volunteers who wanted to assist uh yes fbi special agent charles riley helped direct the search effort how old do you think she was cut off well the search was organized breaking everybody into uh small teams and then assigning the teams to sectors of the search i think at least four or five persons per team so they could spread out and cover an area and we would assign areas uh usually adjacent to each team to only cover the area like patchwork and then it would report back in the command post as soon as the sun came up teams took advantage of the light they began conducting linear grid searches of the vast farming region hoping to find any sign that the girl or her unknown assailant were still in the area fbi agent charles riley helped coordinate these meticulous searches we advised teams before they left that we could find things that would be evidence in the case we could find clothing we could find anything that might relate to it one of the problems was we didn't know what things might and might not relate so we didn't want to take a chance on bypassing anything that might be evidence and told them anything they found that might be connected to the case make sure they mark it call it in by 11 that morning searches had covered all the territory down to the southwest perimeter established at highway 26. they moved south of the highway to an area with even more places for someone to hide there were fruit tree orchards thick brush and wide pastures eight dogs horse patrols and searches on foot continued to scour the challenging terrain the area is becoming so expansive beyond the perimeter that the job of searching it would be much less thorough and a chance of finding someone particularly someone trying to hide from us would be very difficult and we weighed that against the fact that he may have escaped during the night either through the large perimeter because it wasn't extremely tight or was outside the perimeter before we even got it set up and which would make the whole search for naught those two thoughts were pounding on us all day long hoping for a lead investigators canvassed the neighborhood in lodi where the abduction had occurred 15 hours earlier since the suspect had approached the house on foot perhaps he lived close by or had been hired by one of the neighbors to do yard work they found no one who knew him actually come here but several people did remember seeing the tattooed man young girl confirmed that she had spoken to the suspect about an hour before the abduction occurred [Music] he had been walking through the neighborhood targeting homes with for sale signs outside like he had at the victim's house he said he was interested in buying and asked to come inside to take a look around she refused and told him to call the realtor's number on the sign but the scruffy man wasn't satisfied as he continued to insist on coming in the girl's father came in to see who his daughter was talking to come back startled the would-be intruder quickly left the property the daughter's description of the man exactly matched that of the other witnesses it appeared that the drifter had been hunting for an opportunity to assault young girls according to lodi police chief larry hansen it's become a very difficult thing to realize that indeed there are people in our world who prey upon children um who abduct them and who kill them and that they're out there they exist today as we are living our everyday lives there are people who are plotting to to steal someone's child and it's a very frightening dose of reality to realize that that occurs in and around the community of lodi hundreds of volunteers posted flyers of the missing girl which also included a sketch of her abductor with the help of the poly class foundation they were able to saturate the area with over 20 000 flyers in a matter of hours one of the leaflets finally hit home a woman and her friend believed they recognized the sketch of the suspect she immediately called police [Music] is this the lodi police department the woman told a detective that she thought the man in the composite may be her 25 year old son stephen rhys cochran from the expanded command center in the lodi library an officer dispatched investigators to her home to take a full statement okay the woman's address was a short distance from the missing girls neighborhood [Music] he in fact told his mother um prior to this kidnapping incident that he had a fantasy of kidnapping a young girl of having his way uh with her and then of killing her and so i believe that that was a strong possibility she said her son stephen usually stayed at a shelter in town but would sometimes take a bus to visit her at about three o'clock on the day of the abduction he had left her house walking towards the neighborhood where the crime had occurred he was wearing cut off shorts and no shirt the photo of her son the woman provided officers matched the sketch of the suspect steven reese cochran had been in and out of jail for much of his 25 years less than two months earlier cochrane had been released from an arizona prison after assaulting an underage girl the fbi assisted us in getting a copy of steven reese cochran's fingerprints facts to us we had some good crime lab work from the department of justice they had lifted fingerprints from inside the house they compared them to the fingerprints of mr cochran and it was a perfect match police immediately released his photo to the media to alert the public [Music] at about noon 17 hours into the pursuit the citizen called police to tell them that he had spotted the fugitive in a store parking lot 25 miles from lodi there was a young girl with him who he was screaming at to get into a vehicle police needed to act fast if there was any hope of rescuing the girl before she disappeared once more [Music] more than 17 hours after a 12 year old girl was kidnapped from her home in lodi california police received a report that she and her suspected abductor steven reese cochran had been seen in a store parking lot in the town of manteca driver and children are abducted by a stranger their chances for survival dramatically decrease if they're not found in the first 24 hours the tattooed man resembled the suspect [Music] but his id showed he was not stephen cochran and the young girl was his daughter not the child who had been kidnapped the case of mistaken identity was one of many that added to the frustrations of lodi police lieutenant gerald murray we had reports during the search of the suspect which all turned out to be false sightings but still they had to be investigated and looked into which adds confusion to the whole process [Music] by now over 400 officers and local volunteers had joined the search in san joaquin county where the kidnapper had abandoned the stolen vehicle 18 hours earlier [Music] still they had found no signs no clothing not even a footprint from the suspect or the girl it was clear that even if the fugitive it spared the girl's life her condition was likely deteriorating in the heat of the northern california summer especially if she was tied up or injured you begin to as time progresses feel that obviously the worst is going to happen several conversations that i had with people that were there in the command post we would sit down and discuss all these feelings and emotions and and kind of bounce them off each other i guess for our own mental health and always when we concluded that we came with like a second wind we would call it another rush of hope another thing to do another search to organize another step to take to make it a good outcome at about two o'clock a car approached officers stationed on a road within the two mile wide perimeter the local man had been so moved by tv news reports of the missing girl that he felt compelled to do what he could to help he had taken it upon himself to drive up and down the area road scanning the fields for any sign of the suspect of a young girl fbi special agent charles riley recalls that the resident's effort made a difference the searches were still ongoing particularly in the area to the south uh the area around the creek and the heavy foliage search was going on that area when one of the cars going by in the road spotted a person out and it was an area we didn't have a team of searchers just after the driver had left his residence he spotted a filthy shirtless man staggering through a distant pasture the figure had blonde hair and was wearing cut off jean shorts as described on the news the witness was sure it was the suspect but the young girl was nowhere in sight still after 19 hours and hundreds of acres it was the first hope searchers had that the fugitive was still in the area one of the officers immediately radioed the command post to alert them to the suspect's location [Music] the speedy response was essential to confine him before he got far as agents and detectives called on all available personnel to converge they received another call this one from a fish and game officer a voice came over the radio and says oh we got a subject down here by the horse corrals you know and it's this fish and game guy who uses plain english instead of radio code so we all just kind of froze you know kind of like deer in the headlights did i hear what i just heard did you say suspect or subject i mean subject could be anything it could be a somebody not even involved yeah he sure looks like the guy you know so we're all your little antennas go up goosebumps and everything so an fbi agent my sheriff's counterpart and i we hopped in a car and we went down there those who were closest responded to the remote area where a lone windmill stood next to a feeding pen for livestock with guns drawn three officers took positions just beyond the wide pasture they watched silently as the tattooed man emerged from the wilderness without the child they were able to converge and hide before the suspect crested a hill the suspect appeared to be heading towards that area probably dehydrated and assuming he could probably get water from that area the fugitive appeared exhausted but police could not tell if he was still armed with a knife but he's stuck after almost 20 hours of pursuit authorities finally had steven reece cochran in custody the ex-convict claimed he didn't know why he was being arrested he said he didn't remember anything about the past 24 hours saying he was in a drug-induced haze when investigators asked him where the girl was he refused to answer for lodi police chief larry hansen it was a moment filled with mixed emotions i was very relieved that we had our suspect into custody but at the same time my heart dropped because our victim was not with him and that just really concerned me that they weren't together so i just didn't allow myself to get too caught up in the fact that we had him in custody we still had a little girl to find [Music] since cochran refused to cooperate the girl's location and her condition remained anyone's case but investigators would not rest until they recovered the young girl or her body on july 3 1994 20 hours after the search for a kidnapped california girl had begun the fbi and local authorities had arrested her suspected abductor steven reese cochran cochran refused to say if the girl was dead or alive or even if she was in the remote region where he had been captured though the child's odds of survival and the rugged terrain did not seem likely lodi police chief larry hansen tried to remain hopeful most children that are abducted we either never find them or we find them and they've been killed and as this was unfolding i was certainly aware of that but again we just tried to keep positive and and focus all of our attention on the belief that we were going to be able to find her [Music] authorities struggled with what to do next 400 searches 10 dog teams and 3 helicopters had been searching for her since daybreak but failed to find even the smallest shred of evidence that the girl was close by lodi police lieutenant gerald murray weighed the possibilities at that particular time we had basically two options attempt to follow the suspect's sent from where he was arrested back to the victim or start a line search from the fenced area along highway 26 and just walk north and hopefully run on to wherever the victim may have been a large group of volunteers had already assembled along the fence line near the pasture waiting for the word to proceed agents and detectives were concerned that if they allowed such a large group to enter the field the throng would likely trample evidence or might even walk past the small girl without seeing her it was a critical moment and like the eager searchers fbi special agent charles riley felt the urgency you think about the families a lot because everybody out there has a family and you try to keep it professional but it becomes part of you personally and you relate what if it's your sister your daughter and you always think those things investigators decided that the best approach would be to use fresh dogs to trace cochran's scent back from where he had approached the water trough the problem was it would take the canine unit at least 30 minutes to get to the location [Music] but the volunteers were not about to wait [Music] i noticed several civilians going over the fence into the crime scene area and just as i began to send somebody down to have them ask them people to leave that area i could hear sound and see the body language of people coming down the line from where these guys went over the fence and there was obviously something happening but at this particular point i couldn't distinguish what they were saying and as the sound reached me the crowd was saying there she is there she is [Music] like an apparition the tiny figure appeared from behind the brush onlookers couldn't believe their eyes [Music] the girl was alive stumbling toward the sound of the jubilant searchers [Music] the detective ordered officers out into the field to meet her [Music] when i first saw the victim coming over the hill it was like an emotional dam had released all the fears and worries and helplessness and hopelessness disappeared and frankly it took me about 10 minutes to get my composure and get back on track people were high-fiving hugging shaking our hands congratulating crying it's just amazing this was really not just a law enforcement thing but a community thing and it really really really showed up at that moment the emotion that was involved in it [Music] the girl was taken to the hospital where she was met by her distraught parents on the following day july 4th despite her 22-hour ordeal the girl felt strong enough to escort her father the detective and the prosecutor to the sites where cochrane had kept her hidden during the search [Music] she explained that to avoid detection cochrane had camouflaged her and himself with mud he had also forced her to lie hidden half submerged in the putrid water of a pond [Music] it was too ranked to drink and she had nothing to eat for over 24 hours [Music] cochrane kept moving never staying in one place for very long [Music] the girl then showed the group another hiding place at daybreak she said they had hidden under some straw what happened during the time they were at that last hiding place um a sheriff's deputy who was on an atv was going along a fence line no more than 30 feet from where they were located the victim during that time though even under threat of bodily harm attempted to stick her foot out of the grass area and get the attention of the deputies he drove by but she wasn't successful she said that at that location she fell asleep at some point when she awoke cochran no longer had his knife um several feet away police located the weapon that he had repeatedly held to her throat cochran's thumbprint was later recovered from god we've got the weapon definitely after being found mentally competent to stand trial stephen rhys cochran pled guilty to 23 counts including kidnapping assault burglary and car theft in san joaquin county superior court he was sentenced to 106 years in prison for his crimes even lodi police chief larry hansen's five-year-old daughter understood the importance of this case when it was over and i was able to go home and then finally able to fall asleep she came home later and was told that the little girl had been found and she walks down the hallway goes to my bedroom door kisses the door and says thank you daddy and when i talk to officers at conferences i make the point that if a five-year-old girl can understand the impact of that type of a case imagine the impact that it's going to have on your community the successful conclusion of the case in lodi california together with the legacy of poly class and the foundation for missing children became the models by which child abduction cases across the country are now handled [Music] with a quick response from citizens and officials alike communities are learning how to increase the percentages for survival when one of their own goes missing [Applause] [Music] you

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Published: Sat Jan 09 2021