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[child giggling] No!

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-[woman] Oh, no!
-[child laughing]

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[Abdul Khan] My son was my whole world,

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and one day I'm gonna find him.

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[dark music playing]

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Everything had been thrown out,
and the entire place was cleaned.

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They were just gone.
There was nothing left.

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[Daphney Frederique] Oh, my God.

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He took the kids.

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[Abdul] Every day our hope was that
he's coming back, but there was nothing.

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He disappeared without a trace.

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[Rebecca Downey]
Everything was turned upside down,

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and everything that I believed to be true
is not true.

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There is no playbook for kidnapping.

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[mysterious music playing]

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[boy] Marty, you're up!

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You can't go down.

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You can do whatever you want!

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[Rebecca] When I dream about my kids,

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sometimes they're in trouble,
and I have to get to them.

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And sometimes we're just
spending time doing the things

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that we like to do together.

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For that moment…

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they're alive,

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and they're with me.

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[voice breaking] So I love dreaming about
my kids because they're actually there.

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[bittersweet music playing]

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I met Ahmed Kandil when I was 28
and he was 30.

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I was planning to go to medical school,

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and he was pursuing an MBA
in order to spend more time in finance.

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When we initially started dating,
all of our dates were sports,

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whether it was playing soccer,
going to volleyball group, racquetball.

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Gosh, we used to go dancing a lot.

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Every Friday, it was either
East Coast Swing, West Coast Swing.

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We did all sorts of great dance routines,
and it was really fun.

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Ahmed grew up in Cairo. He's Muslim.

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I grew up in Berlin.

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And my background was Christian,

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but what I felt really brought us together

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is that we both came
from a very middle-class upbringing,

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and so we had some of the same values

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even if we came
from different religious backgrounds.

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Ahmed and I knew each other
a couple of years before we got married.

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And then, nine months later,

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my daughter Amina was born
September 1st, 2003.

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It was just about three weeks
after I started medical school.

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Then right between second and third year,

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my son Belel was born
on January 4th, 2006.

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Amina is such a warm person.

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She's a little bit
more shy than her brother,

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but she has this core of inner strength
that comes through every once in a while.

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Belel is more outward and fun-oriented
in a lot of ways.

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And he engaged everyone.

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[Daphney] Rebecca and I met
first day of residency in Boston

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and subsequently followed each other
to Virginia for a job.

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And when Rebecca and Ahmed
first moved to Virginia…

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[child vocalizing and laughing on video]

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[Daphney] Every Wednesday
was dinner night.

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[child on video] Hey!

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[Daphney] We had
sleepover nights for the kids,

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game nights,

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and Ahmed was always very welcoming.

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He took good care of the kids.

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He was a good dad.

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[Rebecca] But he, at that point,
was actually not working.

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He had a job in Boston.

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And then, in the financial crisis,
had lost his employment there.

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After 2008, finance was just not
a very good area to be working in.

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From that point,

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Ahmed did not ever show interest
in getting a job.

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He smiled less, and he was less positive

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and not open at all
to any dialogue or discussion.

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He regarded me
solely focused towards the children,

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and within my function as a mother,

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more so than as a woman or a professional.

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So he really was not the same person
that he was when I met him.

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Ahmed would have just stayed together
the way that we were,

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but I was the one who was not happy.

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So Ahmed and I separated in June 2013.

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After we separated,

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I would get the kids for two weekdays

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and Ahmed would
have them the other weekdays.

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And then we would basically
split the weekends.

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But Ahmed tried to make it very difficult
for Rebecca to see Amina and Belel

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because Rebecca was the working parent.

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[Rebecca] He was also moving in a much
more conservative religious direction,

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and Amina and Belel were attending
the school at the mosque on Saturdays.

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So it became abundantly clear

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that Ahmed was on one trajectory
in how he wanted the kids to be raised,

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and I felt I was pretty squarely
on a very different trajectory.

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It was the Thursday before Labor Day.

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The children were gonna go with Ahmed
to Toronto to look at a college

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for their cousin.

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He said that he was gonna be returning
on September 1st, that Monday,

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which is Amina's birthday.

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She was turning 11 years old.

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So he expected to be
back in the country at that point.

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When Ahmed came to pick up the children,

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we were sitting on the couch,
watching something on the iPad.

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[knock on door]

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Belel immediately ran over
to the front door

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and had to show it to his father,
then immediately ran out to the car.

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And I told Amina that it was time to go.

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And right at the door, she gave me a hug,
gave me two kisses.

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I told her that she should have
a good weekend in Toronto with her cousins

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and that I was looking forward
to wishing her a happy birthday

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not too much longer after that.

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-[ominous music playing]
-[car starting]

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I watched them driving off.

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That was the last time I saw my kids.

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[suspenseful music playing softly]

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On Friday, the day after
the kids got picked up in the evening,

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I texted Ahmed and told him
that I want to call Amina on her birthday.

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He confirmed that
he was gonna be back on the first.

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I didn't have any contact with them
on Saturday and Sunday,

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but on Monday, I tried to call him
multiple times on his cell phone,

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and he wouldn't pick up.

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And at that point, September 1st,
he really should have been back.

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It was infuriating
not to be able to reach my children.

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I called multiple times from the hospital
and couldn't get a response.

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It was a little disconcerting,
although it wasn't unusual for him.

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Just a passive-aggressive move

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not to let me talk to my daughter
on her birthday.

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So that night, I texted Ahmed
to please tell Amina happy birthday.

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That Tuesday, September 2nd,

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Amina was gonna go to middle school
for the first time,

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and Belel was going back
to elementary school.

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So my sense was that
if the kids were in school,

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then everything was fine.

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But I called both schools in the morning.

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They told me that they weren't there
and that they hadn't shown up that day.

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At that point, I got really concerned,

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and panicked, and angry, and…

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ugh, just hurt,
and really concerned about the kids.

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The problem was
that I was at my remote clinic,

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where I'm the only anesthesiologist around
and there was still patients to be seen.

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And I can't leave.

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I contacted the police that day,
and I called every hospital in Toronto

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just to see if maybe they had
possibly gotten into an accident.

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And then I called Ahmed's father in Egypt,

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and I asked him where Ahmed was
and what had happened.

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He didn't know what I was talking about.

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And he wasn't concerned,
which concerned me.

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And that, to me, was a real warning sign
that he must have known something.

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So I called Daphney

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and I asked if she could
please check Ahmed's house for me.

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[ominous music continues]

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[Daphney] When I went to the house,
there were no cars.

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And nobody was home.

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And the windows were blocked.

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So I went to the back of the house.

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There was a curtain that was pulled aside,

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and I looked through a glass door,

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and I knew that
something bad had happened.

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I called Rebecca and I told her,

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"The house is empty, completely empty."

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She told me that everything was gone.
There's nothing left.

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[dramatic music playing]

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The bottom just fell out…

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and I was in a free fall.

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There's just no other way to describe it.

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I mean, everything is torn away from you,
and everything was turned upside down.

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I don't know what's going on.

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But moments later, they'd said
that we needed to intubate a patient.

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So I remember going right back to work.

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I was in tears. I couldn't stop crying.

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The surgeon and entire team
looked up and said, "Are you okay?"

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And I said, "I'm really not."

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"I don't know where my kids are."

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[sighs] It's just like simultaneously
being crushed, and panicked,

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and just sliced open.

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[tense music playing]

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On that Friday,

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the James City County Police Department

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explained that
the flight records had been found,

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and it was clear that Ahmed and the kids
did not in fact travel to Canada.

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They actually flew from JFK through Kyiv,

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and from Kyiv then to Istanbul,
then in Turkey.

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That was really shocking,

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and that frightened me
in ways I can't even describe to you.

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[Stacey Sullivan] The FBI became
involved with the case in September 2014,

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and immediately
after the FBI was tipped off

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that Amina and Belel
had been taken by their father,

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a federal arrest warrant
was issued for Ahmed

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by the Eastern District of Virginia

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for two counts
of international parental kidnapping,

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one for Belel and one for Amina.

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And one of the first steps to
the initial part of the investigation was

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to do a thorough review of his financials,

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looking for anything
that would lead to Ahmed and the children.

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[Rebecca] When I looked
through bank records

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and credit card records from the FBI,

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it was shocking to me.

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Ahmed had gone to a survivalist camp
that was up in the mountains.

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He went to a shooting club
to learn how to shoot guns multiple times.

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He was never a gun fanatic.

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Survival training
would be helpful to anyone

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if they were crossing through borders,
doing some things on foot,

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spending a couple days outside.

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He also bought
different types of camping equipment,

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such as sleeping bags,
boots for the children,

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and he sent them overseas.

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So those are little things
that showed that Ahmed

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didn't just take his children on a whim.

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He had a well-oiled plan
before he left the country.

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[Rebecca] But now
I needed to find my children.

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I checked Amina's email account
multiple times,

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and the tablet that the children had

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was used to check Amina's email address
in December 2014.

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When I looked at the IP address
of where that tablet was,

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it was in the Hatay province
close to the city of Reyhanli,

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which is in
that little southern tip of Turkey

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that's right on the border to Syria.

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That was close to a war zone.

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[artillery shells firing]

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That frightened me.
That really, really frightened me.

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Because I thought, "What does that mean?"

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Has Ahmed joined something that he
was not supposed to…

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that he was not supposed to join
and pulled my children into?

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That maybe he was in a really unsafe place
with my kids right now,

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and I don't know where they are.

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I can't keep them safe anymore.

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[Stacey] We don't know where he was going.

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And whether Ahmed has changed his name,
his children's name,

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created new identities.

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These are all possibilities.

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And potentially that's a reason
they can't be tracked.

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[Rebecca] I was actively involved

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in just trying to find
any way to reach my children.

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I've hired three different
private investigators,

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and I've contacted
congressmen and senators.

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I set up a web page
that allowed me to say,

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"I am looking for my children."

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"If you know anything,
please get in touch."

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But nothing seemed to be substantive…

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until September 2015,

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about a year
since Ahmed had abducted the kids,

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I received an email that was simply called
"Kids are okay."

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And it was from Ahmed.

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"Just wanted to let you know
that they are well and doing great."

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"We live on a small farm,
and they are loving it."

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"They got all kinds of animals,
and it's keeping them busy."

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"I understand you must be angry at me,
but you left me no other choice."

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"I knew long before you asked
for a divorce that it is coming,

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and I wasn't going to wait
till you find a job somewhere

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and take full custody of them."

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"So once they're old enough
and can distinguish right from wrong,

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they will contact you."

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"And at the right age, they can decide
where they want to live."

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It was an infuriating email.

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On the one hand, it was a relief
to hear that my kids were alive.

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It was also clear to me that
the kids were being heavily influenced

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to adopt whatever approach to life
Ahmed felt was appropriate,

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and he was gonna influence them

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to the point that they probably
would never want to contact me.

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What was found out about the email
was that the recovery email address

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was one of Ahmed's known email addresses.

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It was clearly from him,

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and it originated
in that same area in Turkey

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where Amina's email address
had previously been checked.

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That same small part
that's close to Syria.

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I got the contact of a Turkish detective

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who went down to Southern Turkey
that's close to the Syrian border,

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looking for the kids there,

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looking for the IP address
of this particular email.

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He found an Internet café
that this might have been attributable to,

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but he really did not find out
any information over and above

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what the state department, the police,
and the FBI were able to recover.

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So there had been absolutely nothing
for quite a while.

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That was a really hard period of time.

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And then I found out that Ahmed applied
for an Egyptian ID card in 2016.

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And he registered his ID
at his parents' address in Giza.

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If that is true,
and along with Ahmed's email in 2015

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saying they're on a farm
surrounded by animals,

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tied with Rebecca's understanding
that Ahmed's father also owned a farm

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located midway between
Cairo and Alexandria.

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It's probably the best clue that we have
that they are possibly in Egypt.

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[Rebecca] So I hired an investigator

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trying to work together
with people in Egypt

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to see if there was any trace of the kids

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or if they were seen anywhere
around Ahmed's parents,

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but they didn't come up with anything.

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I really wanted to go to Egypt,

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but I've been intently
warned against going there.

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I am not protected overseas.

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Anyone can come up
with any kind of charges.

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So it's, from what I hear,
a very unwise idea.

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[Stacey] The fact that
we believe Ahmed is overseas

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makes things a lot more challenging
because, specifically in Egypt,

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parental kidnapping
is not considered a crime.

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He's a biological parent
of these children.

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They're his children,
just like they're Rebecca's children.

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[Rebecca] The father can decide
what he wants to do with those children.

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I, as a mother, don't have any possibility
of getting those children back

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or even forcing communication with them.

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There's really no recourse…

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and that's so unfair.

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[Daphney] I don't know
why they haven't contacted Rebecca,

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but I'm wondering if
he didn't stage some accident

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and told the kids she's dead

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or just banned them from the Internet

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because there's absolutely no way
in the world

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Amina and Belel
would not have contacted Mom.

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They adored their mom,
and their mom adored them.

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00:20:27,976 --> 00:20:29,978
[somber music playing]

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[Rebecca] "January 4th, 2017."

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"Belel, today's your birthday,

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and though I'm sad that I'm not with you,

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I hope you're surrounded by happiness,
hope, fun, and kindness."

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The loss of not having my kids
is so great.

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It would be crippling
to feel that emotional impact

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every time I enter the house.

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So, I write in a journal
to them every day,

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and that's when
I really allow myself to feel.

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And to feel close to them again.

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[somber music continues]

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[Stacey] She writes to them
every single day.

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She made it very personal.
These are her children.

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She didn't deserve
to have them taken from her.

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So my heart breaks for Rebecca,
and the fact that she has gone so long,

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and that we haven't
been able to provide the answers for her

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that she and her children deserve.

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It's not their fault,

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and they deserve to know
that their mother cares about them.

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[kids chatting indistinctly]

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[kid] Mom! Mom!

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[indistinct chatter continues]

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00:21:55,105 --> 00:21:59,359
[Rebecca] I miss both of you,
Amina and Belel, so much.

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And…

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I hope that I have an opportunity
to see the people that you've grown into,

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the people that you are now,

332
00:22:13,206 --> 00:22:16,877
and how lovely you must be,
and how curious about the world.

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00:22:17,461 --> 00:22:18,837
[thunder breaking]

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00:22:24,634 --> 00:22:26,636
[sinister music playing]

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00:22:41,777 --> 00:22:44,446
[Abdul] Aziz was
born on November 13, 2010.

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And that day changed my life.

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[Rubina Khan] We were all there
the day that he was born,

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and Aziz was the greatest blessing
to our family.

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00:22:58,877 --> 00:23:02,464
He brought such joy to our house…

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00:23:02,547 --> 00:23:04,549
-[Rubina on video] Yay!
-[Abdul laughing]

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00:23:05,050 --> 00:23:06,009
[Rubina] Yay!

342
00:23:06,093 --> 00:23:09,554
[Rubina] …and Abdul
really loved spending time with him.

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00:23:10,597 --> 00:23:12,891
-[Abdul] Go! Catch him!
-[Rubina] Oh, my God! Catch him!

344
00:23:12,974 --> 00:23:14,518
-Catch him!
-[Abdul] Go left! Go left!

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00:23:16,686 --> 00:23:19,856
[Abdul] Aziz's mother, Rabia,
was born in Columbus, Georgia.

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00:23:19,940 --> 00:23:22,734
Her family's originally
from India and Pakistan.

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00:23:23,443 --> 00:23:25,862
We met in Alabama when we were in school,

348
00:23:26,696 --> 00:23:29,157
and, uh, it was
actually my mom introduced us.

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00:23:29,741 --> 00:23:31,660
Rabia was in undergrad.

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She's a very strong personality.

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She's somebody that makes it a point
to know what she wants

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00:23:38,708 --> 00:23:40,544
and demand what she wants.

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00:23:40,627 --> 00:23:42,963
And for someone
who also has a strong personality,

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we were attracted to each other.

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00:23:46,299 --> 00:23:50,345
Over the course of a few years,
we realized that we wanted to get married.

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00:23:51,054 --> 00:23:55,851
And when Aziz was first born, we actually
lived with my parents in New Orleans.

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[Rabia on mic] Oh, wow!

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00:23:57,185 --> 00:23:58,437
[all laughing]

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00:23:59,271 --> 00:24:00,522
[Abdul on video] Oh, wow!

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00:24:02,774 --> 00:24:05,652
[Abdul] But Rabia had a hard time
getting along with them.

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And it was very clear
that we couldn't live in the house.

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00:24:09,239 --> 00:24:10,699
And so we moved out.

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00:24:15,162 --> 00:24:18,498
I'm a pulmonologist
that works in an intensive care unit,

364
00:24:18,582 --> 00:24:22,002
and Rabia initially worked at
the same hospital I did

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00:24:22,085 --> 00:24:25,046
for a very short period of time,
and then she quit that job.

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00:24:25,130 --> 00:24:29,259
And then she worked
at a local cancer agency.

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And then she left that job.

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00:24:32,095 --> 00:24:35,098
She would always find a reason
to change her jobs.

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She didn't like somebody.
She didn't like her boss.

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00:24:38,643 --> 00:24:43,315
Her personality was, um, very guarded.

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And you never got the feeling
that you really knew who she was.

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[Abdul] As Aziz grew older,
we started having lots of problems.

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You know, fighting was almost daily.

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There were arguments in front of Aziz.

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00:25:00,457 --> 00:25:03,251
So in April 2014, we decided to separate.

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She requested that she go back to Atlanta

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00:25:08,006 --> 00:25:10,175
because that's where
her family support was.

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00:25:10,258 --> 00:25:12,385
I really agreed with her initially

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because I thought
if she needs help with Aziz,

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that it might be a good idea.

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00:25:16,681 --> 00:25:18,225
And she made it seem like,

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00:25:18,308 --> 00:25:21,228
"We're still working on this marriage.
Let's try to make this work."

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00:25:23,355 --> 00:25:24,231
It was hard for me,

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but we basically had an agreement
where we did every other weekend.

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So I just thought, "This is temporary."

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00:25:31,821 --> 00:25:36,368
[Rubina] And after several months,
out of left field,

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00:25:36,451 --> 00:25:39,829
-Abdul was served with divorce papers.
-[menacing music playing]

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00:25:39,913 --> 00:25:41,873
And it was a shock.

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00:25:44,042 --> 00:25:45,252
[Abdul] It all changed.

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00:25:45,877 --> 00:25:48,505
Rabia would put up hindrances
and roadblocks,

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00:25:48,588 --> 00:25:51,299
trying to stop me from seeing Aziz.

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00:25:51,383 --> 00:25:53,802
She would schedule soccer games
during my weekends

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00:25:54,678 --> 00:25:57,847
and would make up excuses
about him being sick.

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00:25:57,931 --> 00:26:00,559
She would try to prevent him
from seeing me.

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00:26:02,435 --> 00:26:04,938
[Rubina] It seems
that during that whole period,

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00:26:05,021 --> 00:26:06,565
she was meeting with lawyers.

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00:26:06,648 --> 00:26:08,441
She was finding out about custody.

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00:26:08,525 --> 00:26:11,653
She was figuring out what she needed to do

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00:26:11,736 --> 00:26:15,031
in order to keep Aziz in Atlanta.

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00:26:15,657 --> 00:26:18,034
[Abdul] Ultimately, Rabia wanted Aziz

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00:26:18,118 --> 00:26:21,871
to have nothing to do
with his life in New Orleans.

402
00:26:22,664 --> 00:26:25,333
[Rubina] And then
once she filed divorce papers,

403
00:26:25,417 --> 00:26:28,962
Rabia blocked Abdul from seeing Aziz,

404
00:26:29,045 --> 00:26:31,923
and he had to go to court,

405
00:26:32,007 --> 00:26:34,050
and have her served with papers…

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00:26:34,134 --> 00:26:35,343
[man] Rabia.

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00:26:35,427 --> 00:26:39,472
[Rubina] …to have them inform
her that he had a right to see his child.

408
00:26:45,353 --> 00:26:48,565
The divorce was finalized in 2015.

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00:26:50,859 --> 00:26:53,653
But Rabia still kept Aziz from his dad.

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00:26:54,738 --> 00:26:58,408
[Abdul] And that's what led me
to push hard for a custody evaluation.

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00:26:58,491 --> 00:27:03,079
I wanted to have the right
to spend as much time with my son

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00:27:03,163 --> 00:27:04,331
that was allowed.

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00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:08,752
And it was right about a year later
when the custody evaluators recommended

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that I get primary custody of Aziz
because they felt like Rabia

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00:27:13,340 --> 00:27:17,761
was not allowing me to spend my due time
and be a good dad for Aziz.

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00:27:19,304 --> 00:27:20,764
[Rubina] When Rabia found out

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00:27:20,847 --> 00:27:24,976
that Abdul was going to be awarded
full primary custody of Aziz,

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00:27:25,060 --> 00:27:26,519
she went to the courts

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00:27:26,603 --> 00:27:31,608
and made these horrific, baseless
abuse allegations against Abdul.

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00:27:33,318 --> 00:27:36,863
[Abdul] She went into
the criminal court system

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00:27:36,946 --> 00:27:40,325
making accusations
that me and my family were abusive

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00:27:40,408 --> 00:27:44,162
in order to delay the court evaluation
from happening,

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00:27:44,746 --> 00:27:48,708
and it turned into this whirlwind
where a lot of lawyers got involved,

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00:27:48,792 --> 00:27:52,629
and it became about
a year and a half of investigation.

425
00:27:52,712 --> 00:27:57,509
But what made it so hard
was that I wasn't allowed to see Aziz.

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00:27:58,051 --> 00:27:59,386
That was really tough.

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00:27:59,886 --> 00:28:03,640
And then as
all of the court stuff progressed,

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00:28:03,723 --> 00:28:08,144
we became aware that Rabia had been
in a relationship with someone else.

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00:28:10,105 --> 00:28:13,942
[Abdul] Elliot Bourgeois was
a friend of hers that she knew in college.

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00:28:14,025 --> 00:28:16,820
Towards the end of our marriage,
when we were having problems,

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00:28:16,903 --> 00:28:19,614
there were some phone calls between them.

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00:28:19,698 --> 00:28:22,409
So at some point,
when our marriage was ending,

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00:28:22,492 --> 00:28:23,952
was when they were reconnecting.

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00:28:24,035 --> 00:28:26,913
Elliott started coming to court
with Rabia.

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00:28:27,956 --> 00:28:32,502
And that's how we found out that
Elliott and Rabia were actually married.

436
00:28:34,003 --> 00:28:37,716
[Abdul] He wasn't a lawyer,
but she fired three or four lawyers.

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00:28:37,799 --> 00:28:40,009
Her and Elliot became their own lawyers,

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00:28:40,093 --> 00:28:43,012
and they represented themselves
when they came to court.

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00:28:43,096 --> 00:28:46,516
And with time, every judge
that they went in front of

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00:28:46,599 --> 00:28:49,185
started seeing their lies
and manipulation.

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00:28:50,311 --> 00:28:54,399
And then finally,
after 18 months of thorough investigation,

442
00:28:54,482 --> 00:28:58,945
the DA in Atlanta realized
that all the accusations were all false,

443
00:28:59,028 --> 00:29:01,656
and I was going to get
full custody for Aziz.

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00:29:03,491 --> 00:29:07,662
We were to meet on November 28, 2017
in an Atlanta courtroom,

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00:29:07,746 --> 00:29:10,832
and that's when all the restrictions
were gonna be lifted.

446
00:29:10,915 --> 00:29:13,209
It was really gonna happen.
So there was this joy.

447
00:29:13,293 --> 00:29:15,295
[sinister music playing]

448
00:29:17,505 --> 00:29:20,925
We get to the Atlanta courtroom.
We're waiting for our case.

449
00:29:21,509 --> 00:29:26,723
The judge shows up,
and Rabia is not there.

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00:29:29,100 --> 00:29:32,896
[Rubina] There was a momentary panic
amongst our family,

451
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:36,775
but we just thought,
"Okay, this is Rabia being Rabia."

452
00:29:36,858 --> 00:29:40,862
"She's gonna try to throw something else
at us to try to prolong this."

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00:29:43,031 --> 00:29:47,327
[Abdul] We waited several hours
thinking or hoping that there was a delay.

454
00:29:49,204 --> 00:29:50,705
But Rabia didn't show up.

455
00:29:50,789 --> 00:29:53,374
[tense music playing]

456
00:30:00,465 --> 00:30:02,091
I left the courthouse,

457
00:30:03,009 --> 00:30:06,137
and I didn't have my son.

458
00:30:14,771 --> 00:30:17,524
At this point, I'm very worried.
I'm calling his school.

459
00:30:17,607 --> 00:30:20,652
His school says that
they haven't seen him for a week.

460
00:30:20,735 --> 00:30:23,446
He didn't come to school
the week before Thanksgiving.

461
00:30:23,530 --> 00:30:26,533
The last time they saw him
was the Friday before.

462
00:30:27,116 --> 00:30:30,912
I make phone calls to her family
and we don't get any response.

463
00:30:31,955 --> 00:30:34,749
And then finally,
we realized that she kidnapped him.

464
00:30:34,833 --> 00:30:36,584
That's what was happening.

465
00:30:37,669 --> 00:30:39,212
She kidnapped him and ran.

466
00:30:44,259 --> 00:30:45,426
Devastating.

467
00:30:46,886 --> 00:30:48,054
Horrific.

468
00:30:48,137 --> 00:30:49,889
It was confusing.

469
00:30:49,973 --> 00:30:52,058
You know? It didn't seem real.

470
00:30:54,352 --> 00:30:56,396
And Abdul was terrified.

471
00:30:57,814 --> 00:31:01,943
[voice breaking] It was as if…
removing his heart.

472
00:31:02,777 --> 00:31:05,655
He always said
the nights were the toughest for him,

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00:31:06,990 --> 00:31:08,116
like in the quiet.

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00:31:08,199 --> 00:31:09,284
That's when he

475
00:31:10,535 --> 00:31:13,621
has time with his thoughts, you know…

476
00:31:15,248 --> 00:31:17,375
to think about his life with Aziz.

477
00:31:17,458 --> 00:31:19,460
[somber music playing]

478
00:31:21,546 --> 00:31:24,424
[Abdul] I remember
the last time I saw Aziz.

479
00:31:25,174 --> 00:31:27,343
It was March 2016.

480
00:31:29,262 --> 00:31:30,972
It was just a normal weekend.

481
00:31:33,516 --> 00:31:36,227
He had a lot of fun.
We took a lot of pictures.

482
00:31:37,729 --> 00:31:40,732
But I said, "Hey, Aziz,
it's time for you to leave."

483
00:31:44,152 --> 00:31:45,820
And I put him in her car.

484
00:31:47,238 --> 00:31:48,865
And he used to always, uh…

485
00:31:49,657 --> 00:31:50,742
[voice breaking]

486
00:31:50,825 --> 00:31:53,036
…he'd put up his hands, and he'd say,

487
00:31:53,119 --> 00:31:56,164
"Baba, how many days
before I see you again?"

488
00:32:00,460 --> 00:32:02,545
[stifling tears]
I was like, "Five more days."

489
00:32:07,550 --> 00:32:09,928
They drove off, and my thought was,

490
00:32:10,011 --> 00:32:13,097
"Hey, I'm gonna see you in five days,
'cause it's my weekend."

491
00:32:13,181 --> 00:32:14,641
"I'm on spring break."

492
00:32:15,224 --> 00:32:17,852
That was, you know, four…
four-plus years ago.

493
00:32:18,770 --> 00:32:20,772
[dark music playing]

494
00:32:22,774 --> 00:32:25,735
[Rubina] We thought Rabia was crazy.

495
00:32:25,818 --> 00:32:30,031
We thought that she was vindictive,

496
00:32:30,114 --> 00:32:34,619
but we never thought
that Rabia was capable of this.

497
00:32:36,704 --> 00:32:39,040
[Abdul] We hired private eye
after private eye

498
00:32:39,123 --> 00:32:41,334
in Atlanta, in New Orleans,

499
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:46,089
in other places around the country
to find any information about Aziz.

500
00:32:47,048 --> 00:32:49,884
The first thing that everyone said was

501
00:32:49,968 --> 00:32:52,887
that I need to get
national law enforcement involved

502
00:32:52,971 --> 00:32:55,390
to investigate Aziz's abduction,

503
00:32:55,473 --> 00:32:59,560
but there has to be a felony warrant
out for Rabia.

504
00:32:59,644 --> 00:33:03,314
And, initially, there was some
disagreement between police departments

505
00:33:03,398 --> 00:33:06,109
that the jurisdiction
is in Atlanta or New Orleans.

506
00:33:07,986 --> 00:33:10,113
Finally, after two years,

507
00:33:10,196 --> 00:33:13,574
the court gave a felony kidnapping warrant

508
00:33:13,658 --> 00:33:16,619
against Rabia for the abduction of Aziz.

509
00:33:18,496 --> 00:33:21,374
Once there was a felony kidnapping warrant
against Rabia,

510
00:33:21,457 --> 00:33:24,002
the US Marshals got involved in the case.

511
00:33:25,753 --> 00:33:29,257
[Brian Fair] The US Marshals
got involved in early 2020,

512
00:33:29,757 --> 00:33:31,634
and the US Marshals involvement

513
00:33:31,718 --> 00:33:35,638
was about three years or so
behind the actual disappearance.

514
00:33:36,639 --> 00:33:39,767
So we're basically starting off
way behind already.

515
00:33:40,435 --> 00:33:44,188
We conducted multiple interviews
in several states.

516
00:33:44,272 --> 00:33:46,858
Deputy US Marshals
from the Northern District of Georgia

517
00:33:46,941 --> 00:33:48,026
went out to Duluth

518
00:33:48,109 --> 00:33:51,029
and attempted to interview
Rabia's mother and father.

519
00:33:52,155 --> 00:33:54,365
They were being evasive
during questioning,

520
00:33:54,449 --> 00:33:59,162
and they appeared to not be concerned
about where their daughter was,

521
00:33:59,245 --> 00:34:02,123
where their grandchild was,
or where Elliot was located.

522
00:34:02,206 --> 00:34:04,917
They just referred everything
to their attorney.

523
00:34:05,001 --> 00:34:07,420
[suspenseful music playing]

524
00:34:07,503 --> 00:34:10,214
[Abdul] After talking to the US Marshals,

525
00:34:10,298 --> 00:34:15,553
I found out that this was something
that Rabia and Elliott planned out.

526
00:34:15,636 --> 00:34:17,638
I mean, it was cold and calculated.

527
00:34:18,598 --> 00:34:21,100
Rabia and Elliot
had taken Aziz out of school

528
00:34:21,184 --> 00:34:23,895
ten days prior to November 28.

529
00:34:25,813 --> 00:34:29,108
They sold their cars to CarMax in Atlanta.

530
00:34:29,192 --> 00:34:31,444
Elliot had quit his job.

531
00:34:31,527 --> 00:34:35,281
They both shut down their cell phones,
closed their bank accounts,

532
00:34:35,364 --> 00:34:38,743
closed all their social media,
and they disappeared.

533
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:47,752
[Brian] If they assume new identities,
they could get new employment.

534
00:34:48,377 --> 00:34:51,672
Maybe establish lines of credit,
create a whole new lifestyle.

535
00:34:51,756 --> 00:34:53,674
It's obviously been done before.

536
00:34:53,758 --> 00:34:58,096
Or, if somebody were to finance them,
they could also be living off cash.

537
00:34:58,721 --> 00:35:02,600
Could be friends.
Could be family. I don't know.

538
00:35:07,688 --> 00:35:09,565
[Abdul] This is the day he was born.

539
00:35:09,649 --> 00:35:10,525
[Rubina] God.

540
00:35:10,608 --> 00:35:13,194
[Abdul] We've done
everything that we can think of

541
00:35:14,195 --> 00:35:17,824
to find some trace of Aziz, Rabia, Elliot.

542
00:35:17,907 --> 00:35:20,159
His laugh…

543
00:35:20,243 --> 00:35:21,285
Was contagious.

544
00:35:21,369 --> 00:35:23,329
-Was everything. Contagious.
-Yeah.

545
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:29,293
[Abdul] And outside of
when they sold their cars in 2017,

546
00:35:30,503 --> 00:35:36,425
we have yet to find
any credible link to them in any way.

547
00:35:37,301 --> 00:35:40,221
That's what makes this so hard.

548
00:35:40,304 --> 00:35:44,433
Four years later,
we still don't have any sign of them.

549
00:35:45,977 --> 00:35:48,312
But if you think that we're going away…

550
00:35:49,147 --> 00:35:53,109
If you think that Abdul, or me,

551
00:35:53,192 --> 00:35:57,238
or my family
is ever gonna stop looking for Aziz,

552
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:00,491
you are sorely mistaken

553
00:36:01,117 --> 00:36:05,454
'cause we will never, never rest

554
00:36:07,123 --> 00:36:08,583
until he's returned.

555
00:36:10,084 --> 00:36:12,086
[somber music playing]

556
00:36:13,921 --> 00:36:15,882
[Abdul] When Aziz disappeared,

557
00:36:16,716 --> 00:36:18,759
time literally stopped.

558
00:36:21,053 --> 00:36:22,471
So to me…

559
00:36:23,681 --> 00:36:24,974
he left yesterday.

560
00:36:26,350 --> 00:36:28,603
And so I think about him every day,

561
00:36:28,686 --> 00:36:31,397
and I do things every day
to try to find him.

562
00:36:32,064 --> 00:36:34,108
I'm gonna keep fighting till I see him.

563
00:36:35,943 --> 00:36:39,030
And one day
he's gonna walk through a door,

564
00:36:39,113 --> 00:36:41,282
and I'm gonna be standing
on the other side.

565
00:36:44,076 --> 00:36:45,912
It's time for him to come home.

566
00:36:49,582 --> 00:36:51,584
[somber music continues]

567
00:37:07,516 --> 00:37:09,477
WANTED
CHARLES VOSSELER - WARRANT: 4/3/1987

568
00:37:43,469 --> 00:37:45,471
[mysterious music playing]