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[music playing]

NARRATOR: Tonight, on "Unsolved Mysteries."

[bomb blast]

ROBERT STACK: The terrorist bomb killed

one and injured more than 100 at the Atlanta Summer Olympics.

A series of deadly bombings aimed a seemingly unrelated

targets soon followed, but authorities now

believe a single man was behind each of these brutal attacks,

and they need your help to bring him to justice.

A young couple's long anticipated dream

of owning their own home tragically

unravels when their new next door neighbor allegedly turns

out to be a violent racist.

In the cases of Jessica Constant and Albert Wong,

looks can truly be deceiving.

They may appear to be typical young people, that they

are anything but typical.

Jessica and Albert, you see, are genuises

and their astonishing gifts make for a mesmerizing

mystery of the mind.

[music playing]

(YELLING) Molly?

Molly?!

ROBERT STACK: When her daughter, Molly,

disappeared from the local pond, Magi Bish

was paralyzed by grief.

Now, she will stop at nothing to find

out what happened to Molly.

In fact, she may even hold the key to solving the crime.

The day before Molly disappeared,

Magi believes she saw the man who abducted her daughter.

Join us for these stories and more on "Unsolved Mysteries."

[theme song]

[music playing]

ROBERT STACK: Centennial Park, Atlanta, during the 1996 Summer

Olympics.

[explosion]

ROBERT STACK: Six months later, at daybreak,

a clinic in suburban Atlanta--

[explosion]

ROBERT STACK: The Otherside Lounge,

a Midtown Atlanta gay and lesbian

nightclub, one month later.

Three seemingly unrelated bombings that authorities

believe have a common link.

Could the same man be behind each terrorist attack?

Millions of people around the world

were shaken by the Olympic Park bombing.

Security guard Richard Jewell, who was an early suspect,

was cleared of any wrongdoing, and the person

responsible for planning what the FBI called,

"One of the largest pipe bombs in US history,"

has yet to be caught.

For those in Centennial Park that fateful night, their lives

were changed forever.

[crowd cheering]

[music playing]

ROBERT STACK: Fallon Stubbs and her mother, Alice Hawthorne,

were visiting from Albany, Georgia.

The last minute trip was a 14th birthday gift for Fallon.

FALLON STUBBS: We're enjoying a moment, enjoying the people.

It was an experience like no other.

And to be in the kind of surroundings, it just kind of--

It was a beautiful thing.

ROBERT STACK: Just before 1:20 AM, Fallon and her mother

paused to take a photograph, a memento of a wonderful night.

FALLON (OFF SCREEN): One, two, three.

[explosion]

[screaming]

ROBERT STACK: The massive explosion knocked Fallon

and her mother to the ground.

FALLON STUBBS: After the explosion, it was chaos.

You never forget that moment afterwards,

and I ran towards anybody who could help.

(SCREAMING) Please, somebody.

Help me!

Hold on, hold on.

You need to calm down.

FALLON STUBBS: And I probably got

about 15 feet away from my mother,

and he was, like, lie down, lie down.

And I was like, my mother, my mother.

Somebody's gotta help my mother.

ROBERT STACK: 44-year-old Alice Hawthorne

had died instantly from injuries sustained in the attack.

Although hundreds were injured, she

was the only person killed by the bomb

planted at Centennial Park.

A task force of federal and state investigators

was quickly assembled to apprehend the terrorists

behind the vicious attack.

Over the next seven months Atlanta

was subjected to two more bombings,

but an even more disturbing trend had developed.

[explosion]

ROBERT STACK: The bomber was now planting a secondary device,

apparently designed to harm police

and rescue personnel who responded

to victims of the first bomb.

Adding to the frustrations of police,

investigations had not indicated a specific suspect.

CHARLES STONE: We're building a good prosecutable court case

based upon the forensic evidence we had,

where we could tie the bombs together,

but we still didn't know the identity of the bomber.

We didn't know who he was.

ROBERT STACK: FBI and ATF technicians meticulously

reconstructed the devices and found forensic links

between all three bombings.

In the wake of the third incident,

authorities received letters from a so-called Army of God

claiming responsibility for the last two bombings, attacks

on a family planning and abortion clinic,

and on a gay and lesbian nightclub.

CHARLES STONE: In the letters he got

in into the components of the bomb, which had not

been made public at that time.

So we knew the letters were written by the bomber.

MAN: Those who participate in any way

in the murder of children may be targeted for attack.

We will target sodomites, their organizations and all

those who push their agenda.

We will target all facilities and personnel

of the federal government.

CHARLES STONE: You've got three fairly

distinct different groups of people that were targets,

and so we began to wonder exactly who his targets were.

ROBERT STACK: An FBI profiler analyzed

the letters and the details of all three bombings.

His conclusion?

The bombers true target was law enforcement.

Birmingham, Alabama.

11 months after the third Atlanta bombing.

Head nurse Emily Lyons arrived early for work

at a women's health and abortion clinic.

Off duty police officer Robert Sanderson was working

there as a security guard.

- Hey, Sandy. - Hey, Emily.

- How are you doing? - Good.

EMILY LYONS (VOICEOVER): We met on the sidewalk

in front of the clinic, and we talked for a moment.

ROBERT STACK: Just then, they spotted something that

looked strangely out of place.

EMILY LYONS: There was an overturned flower pot

kind of buried a little bit, and that was not anything

we would have ever had.

So at that point Sandy knew something was wrong.

Why don't you stand back.

ROBERT STACK: Apparently sensing danger,

Sanderson instructed Emily to back away.

[explosion]

ROBERT STACK: The explosion killed security guard

Robert Sanderson instantly.

Emily Lyons lost her left eye in the explosion.

Dozens of masonry nails and screws

tore through 90% of her body.

Robert Sanderson left behind a wife and two sons.

He had been a Birmingham police officer for eight years.

Task force members immediately believe the man

they were hunting had achieved his objective, the murder

of a law enforcement officer.

But this time the authorities caught a break.

Forensics would later reveal that the bomber

had detonated this device by remote control,

which meant one thing.

The bomber was there.

[beep]

[explosion]

CHARLES STONE: That increased his chances of killing police

officers, but it also directly increased his chances

of being identified and caught.

ROBERT STACK: Just after the explosion,

a witness saw the man walking away from the scene.

When the man removed a wig and discarded it,

the witness became suspicious and began pursuing him on foot.

The witness observed the suspicious man

getting into a pickup truck and before losing

him relayed the license plate number to police.

A small pickup truck.

ROBERT STACK: The gray Nissan truck

was traced to a man named Eric Rudolph, who resided

in western North Carolina.

A warrant was issued for the arrest

of the 31-year-old Rudolph.

[door breaks]

(YELLING) FBI, search warrant!

Come out with your hands up!

ROBERT STACK: Investigators learned

where Eric Rudolph lived.

An FBI SWAT team raided Rudolph's trailer.

Last one's cleared.

ROBERT STACK: The trailer's air conditioner was still running

and food was still on the table.

Investigators believe they missed Eric Rudolph by minutes.

He's definitely been here.

TODD LETCHER: He told friends and associates

when he was a teenager that if he got

in trouble with law enforcement, he would

disappear into the mountains.

And we feel that this is something that he

was planning for a long time.

250 law enforcement officers converged on the Nantahala

National Forest after Rudolph's truck

was found abandoned nearby, but Eric Rudolph had vanished.

TODD LETCHER: He grew up in the woods.

He knew the terrain much better than we did.

And there are places that we knew very well that we could

have walked within five feet of him,

and we would not have seen him.

ROBERT STACK: Eric Rudolph would prove a formidable adversary.

Investigators learned he'd been raised

in a family that reportedly preached white separatism.

The experienced outdoorsman and survivalist

had also served in the US army.

Deborah Rudolph was married to Eric's brother

and had known Eric since he was a teenager.

DEBORAH RUDOLPH: I never really heard

him talk about positive things.

It was a lot of hateful things.

A lot of negativity about authority and our gun laws

and government and politics.

ROBERT STACK: The last known sighting of Eric Rudolph

was made by a man who had known Rudolph for years.

[wrench tightening]

ROBERT STACK: George Nordmann was

a local health food store owner who lived

in a remote mountain cabin.

What the hell are you doing here?

MAN: I need your help man.

CHARLES STONE: When Eric approached about food stuff,

George made the decision not to help Eric,

and I believe he became somewhat frightened of him.

ROBERT STACK: Two nights later, Nordmann's home warehouse

was raided of several hundred pounds of food

and his truck was stolen.

It was believed Rudolph had made a return visit.

Eric Rudolf has not been seen since July 1998.

TODD LETCHER: Eric Rudolph was not a joiner.

We found no evidence that he ever was a member of a militia.

He was someone who had a streak of paranoia about him.

He also like being alone, so we don't believe

that any group is helping him.

DEBORAH RUDOLPH: I think this is a game to him.

He wanted to be in special forces.

He wanted to be a mercenary.

He is a one man army, and he has got the authorities

running around looking for him.

Spending millions of dollars.

[explosion]

[screaming]

ROBERT STACK: The alleged victims of Eric Rudolph's bombs

have moved on, but we'll never forget.

FALLON STUBBS: The end for me will be to find him.

And it will be a beginning of a whole other book,

but it will be an end to that book.

And I'll just sigh and be, like, it's a long time coming.

A long time coming.

[music playing]

[theme music]

ROBERT STACK: As they struck out for their new life in Denver,

Colorado, Deborah Loiselle and her fiance Jason Horsley

were brimming with optimism about what

this move would bring.

Having been raised in rural areas,

the college sweethearts were excited

by the prospects of living in a big city for the first time.

Deborah and Jason would eventually

purchase a house in one of Denver's tree

lined inner city neighborhoods.

They quickly fell in love with her new surroundings,

and all was well until one afternoon a short time

after they moved in.

Deborah had a strange encounter with a neighbor.

Hello?

What's going on?

WOMAN: What's wrong with your dog?

Your dog is crazy.

I saw you harassing her.

Ain't nobody harassing that dog.

OK.

Listen, let's start over, all right?

We're going to be neighbors, so let's get along.

ROBERT STACK: Deborah would later learn her angry neighbor

was Malaika Griffin, a woman who rented a room in the house

next door.

DEBORAH LOISELLE: When you can't talk to someone,

it's kind of scary.

It just made no sense that someone should

start attacking us this way.

You crazy.

Jason Horsley and Deborah Loiselle

had realized every young couples dream of buying their own home.

But their optimism would soon dim with the discovery

that their innocent purchase had caused

them to cross paths with irrational neighbor on Malaika

Griffin.

As, police later discovered Griffin

was a ticking time bomb that could go off at any moment.

ROBERT STACK: Deborah and Jason we're

committed to making the best of a bad situation,

happily pouring time and money into transforming

a former crack house into their new home.

They had actually put the incident with Malaika Griffin

behind them, when without any provocation

she became enraged again.

MALAIKA GRIFFIN: (YELLING) Hey, you need to move your truck.

What? I'm in a normal spot.

There's no other parking places.

ROBERT STACK: Although she didn't own a car,

Griffin didn't want anyone parking in the public space

in front of the house.

(YELLING) Move your truck!

ROBERT STACK: Attempts at reasoning

with her proved futile.

DEBORAH LOISELLE: You can't live in fear in your own house,

and there wasn't anything about the neighborhood.

I mean, there was this one woman, you know?

I never felt threatened in my neighborhood.

Within days, Jason was confronted again.

MALAIKA GRIFFIN: What are you doing?

What's the problem?

MALAIKA GRIFFIN: You got your ladder on my property.

We asked the landlady of the house

if he could put the ladder there,

and she said yes, go ahead.

Malaika didn't know, or she didn't want to know,

that the lady had said yeah, go ahead and put it there.

DONALD HORSLEY: He couldn't see the evil.

He just didn't understand evil.

His philosophy was you get to know me, you won't hate me.

And I tried and tried to explain to him some people

don't want to know you.

ROBERT STACK: Even though the anger behind the confrontations

was escalating, Jason still believed

he could win over Malaika.

I want to get some of my tools out of my truck.

DEBORAH LOISELLE: When we got home,

I said don't go out there.

Don't go.

And he said, no I'm going to clean my truck.

So I went out back to water the flowers.

[gun shot]

[music playing]

(YELLING) Jason!

Are you okay?

What happened?

Oh my god.

ROBERT STACK: There was no doubt in Deborah's mind

who was responsible. - What happened?

He's been shot.

He's been shot.

We've got to get him--

ROBERT STACK: A neighbor drove Jason to the hospital.

The bullet had caused extensive internal injuries.

[tires screech]

ROBERT STACK: While emergency room doctors

struggled to save Jason's life, Deborah

was questioned by police.

We just got word from the hospital, Jason didn't make it.

I'm sorry.

[crying]

ROBERT STACK: Investigators later

learned that while Deborah was being questioned,

Malaika Griffin carjacked an acquaintance several blocks

from the murder scene.

RICK SCHNEIDER: Malaika Griffin took the keys at gunpoint.

ROBERT STACK: She then fled Denver in the victim's 1988

Oldsmobile.

When Denver police searched the home of Malaika Griffin,

detectives were stunned by what they found.

We found books and paperwork that she had on how

to make bombs and booby traps.

We also found dummy hand grenades.

The fuse was intact, but the cores had been removed.

ROBERT STACK: "The Anarchist Cookbook" and "The Poor Man's

James Bond," manuals often found in the collections

of terrorists, are among the literature

recovered at the scene.

Notebooks filled with Griffin's ramblings,

advocating a coming race war and the killing of white people,

were also discovered.

Authorities now believe they had confirmation

a racially motivated killer was on the loose.

RICK SCHNEIDER: She eluded our dragnet.

The next time we found that car was approximately 2

and 1/2 days later in Iowa City, where the car had broken down.

She befriended a man in Iowa City.

He took her to a bus station and put her on a bus for Chicago.

ROBERT STACK: After Chicago Malaika Griffin's trail

grew cold.

Since then, there have been no verifiable sightings.

[music playing]

DONALD HORSLEY: When you lose a kid,

and you think about him all time.

Every hour, every day.

DEBORAH LOISELLE: I had future plans with Jason, you know?

He was an extremely positive person.

So I try to live my life the way he would.

I'm not going to feel sorry for myself, and I keep going on.

He would never hurt anybody.

And I don't believe I'll meet someone like him again.

[music playing]

[theme music]

On rare occasions, the world has been introduced to children

who possess seemingly mysterious powers to excel in the worlds

of art and science.

Mozart began composing at the age of five.

Bobby Fischer competed with chess grandmasters

when he was only six.

The incredible talents of such young geniuses

that fascinated and puzzle scholars for centuries.

What can possibly explain the phenomenon of child prodigies?

ROBERT STACK: Meet Jessica Constant of Queens, New York.

She may look like a typical teenager

but at 14, she is already a college student.

Jessica attends New York City Technical

College, where she has studied since she was 12 years old.

I used to hate the first days because I

would have to walk into class, and everybody be staring at me.

I was so scared, but now I'm used to it.

He's not going to put that on the exam.

No, I think he is.

JESSICA CONSTANT: I want to become a doctor,

but I'm going to become a nurse before.

Microbiology and child psychology

the only two courses I have left before I

enter the nurses program.

Then after two years of that, I get my associate's degree.

Then I'm going to go on to medical school.

ROBERT STACK: But Jessica's interests are not

solely confined to academics.

Jessica is also an accomplished cellist

who attends the prestigious Juilliard School of Music.

Along with her two older brothers,

she makes up the Constant trio.

Jessica, Daniel, and Pierre have performed at the Kennedy

Center in Washington DC.

Remarkably, neither parent has any musical talent themselves,

and they are awed by the artistry of their children.

[chello playing]

DANIEL CONSTANT: Sometimes when I look at the kids playing,

I wish I could be the one playing

instead of having to listen.

[chello playing]

GESSIE CONSTANT: I never thought I

would have it in my own house.

When I see the kids doing trios together, it's fantastic.

It's kind of like a dream come true for me

[chello playing]

ROBERT STACK: What mysterious set of circumstances

contributes to a child having such extraordinary talents?

David Henry Feldman, professor of child development

at Tufts University, has studied the phenomenon

of child prodigies.

DAVID HENRY FELDMAN: What causes prodigies seems

to be a combination of timing and talent,

and the right circumstances all occurring

during the same moment and sustaining

itself for at least 10 years.

So a prodigy is a child with unusual talent,

who appears in a society that has value for that talent.

ROBERT STACK: Feldman notes that very

few scientific studies have been performed

relating to child prodigies.

The knowledge base is extremely limited.

Recently a change has been observed in relation

to the gender of the typical prodigy,

however that change may be a matter of media publicity.

DAVID HENRY FELDMAN: There have historically

been more boys than girls who have been called prodigies.

In recent years, that has tended to reverse itself such

that they're now pretty much an equal number of boy

and girl prodigies in music.

If you want to ask why such a change occurred?

The answer is because society has taken an interest

in finding girl prodigies.

ROBERT STACK: As amazing as Jessica

Constant is, once in a great while a child

prodigy will be born with even a rarer type of genius.

One which expresses itself in many areas at once.

At age 12, Albert Wong of Carrollton, Texas,

is so smart he no longer attends school at all.

[violin playing]

ROBERT STACK: Albert is already an accomplished violinist,

teaches himself a wide variety of subjects from college

textbooks, and is famous in the world of music

as a concert pianist.

[piano playing]

DAVID HENRY FELDMAN: It's very rare when

you find a musical prodigy.

It's very rare when you find a child who

is so talented at academic work, that they need

to move at such a rapid pace.

The combination of those two things in one child

is extremely rare.

Each appears separately, infrequently.

The combination appears almost never.

[piano playing]

ROBERT STACK: Albert Wong first displayed

his mysterious musical talents when

he was just three years old.

Yet by the time he was five, he had already

won the grand prize in a Dallas piano competition for children

up to 18.

[piano playing]

[applause]

ROBERT STACK: Wanting to nurture their only child's mystifying

gift, Albert's parents took him shopping for a concert

grand piano of his own.

ALBERT WONG: To test the piano, I

believe I was playing a piece.

It was about the third piano I was playing on,

and this gentleman just walked over.

CHI-PONG WONG: Actually himself is a professional musician,

so he came over, introduced himself, and said--

actually very directly said that Albert is very talented.

And I know just the right teacher for him.

Albert began taking lessons at once.

Eventually, Albert came under the tutelage

of renowned former prodigy Earle Wilde.

New York's world famous Carnegie Hall.

At the conclusion of Earle Wilde's performance

celebrating his 85th birthday, 10-year-old Albert Wong

was invited on stage to present his esteemed instructor

with the bouquet.

This is Albert Wong.

He's 10 years old, and he is a pianist also.

Mr. Wilde stunned everyone, especially Albert,

by announcing that Albert would be playing an impromptu piece.

Hummel's Rondo in e-flat major--

ALBERT WONG: And I had not practiced

the piano in six days.

And I mean it.

I didn't even have a chance to warm up my fingers.

ROBERT STACK: Albert's performance

of Hummel's Rondo in e-flat major brought down the house.

That same year, still at age 10, Albert recorded his first CD.

The work received rave reviews.

One critic wrote, "An impressive debut for any musician.

For a 10-year-old, it is astonishing."

Professor Feldman has reviewed many theories attempting

to explain talents like Albert's, ranging

from the scientific to the supernatural.

DAVID HENRY FELDMAN: The prodigy has always

represented the unexplained.

There are some who believe that the prodigy phenomenon should

not be studied scientifically.

In the absence of an explanation that

meets rational unscientific criteria,

we look for an explanation wherever we can find one.

And reincarnation is attractive because it seems to account

for some of the unbelievable and unexplainable

parts of the prodigy.

[piano playing]

ROBERT STACK: Could Albert Wong's musical gifts possibly

have begun a previous life?

The mere notion seems incredible,

but Albert himself does not dismiss

a possibility of his own existence in a past life.

I must have something good in order to deserved this.

I'm hammering in your king from all sides.

So it has no escape route.

ROBERT STACK: As astounding as Albert's musical gifts were

to his parents, they quickly learned

he also possessed an extraordinary aptitude

for math and science.

His mother feared he get bored with a conventional education,

so she gave up her career to home school Albert.

YEN-LIH CHANG: I used to get up at 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning

to prepare myself to teach Albert fast enough.

Now, I don't have to do it because Albert is

old enough to be independent.

So my life is much easier now.

ROBERT STACK: When Albert developed a strong interest

in science, his mother searched for someone

qualified to guide him to higher levels of learning.

Can you show me on your drawing the Y direction?

ROBERT STACK: She found that person in a professor

of physics at a local college.

That's X, to have an inverted coordinate system in order

to comply with the [inaudible].

JIM KNOWLES: I think the biggest thing in terms

of working with Albert is that you never

have to say something twice.

Whatever mistake he might make, he's made it the last time

he's going to make it.

Of the three sciences, physics, chemistry, and biology,

it's my own belief that physics is the most

central of all the sciences.

That every other science ranges from physics.

Biology is physics applied to living organisms,

and chemistry is physics applied to chemical reactions, atoms,

molecules, and macromolecules.

[piano playing]

ROBERT STACK: Albert's insatiable hunger for learning

is not limited to music and science.

ALBERT WONG: Well, I love the study and love to read books.

I love studying Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet."

Every time I study it, I uncover new literary elements

there are very tasty.

Delicious.

[piano playing]

ROBERT STACK: Where could the stirring talents

of an Albert Wong come from?

CHI-PONG WONG: Neither his mom or my family

had any clue or any relatives in the families who

had ever been a musician, or even good

in one instrument at all.

DAVID HENRY FELDMAN: We know that there

have been amazing prodigy cases through history.

So we know that from time to time such individuals appear.

What we don't know is what the causes

underlying the appearance of prodigies might be.

Are they genetic?

Are they evolutionary?

Are they cultural?

Are they historical?

Are they something that's a combination

of all of those things?

Those are questions we don't know the answers to.

[piano playing]

DAVID HENRY FELDMAN: Although we hope

to understand the prodigy better in the 21st century,

it remains a mystery.

[piano plays]

[theme music]

ROBERT STACK: There are a few places left in America where

doors are always unlocked, and parents

have no fear of letting their children run about freely.

Warren, Massachusetts, population 4,800,

is just such a place.

The town's rural charm and quaint

innocence seemed the perfect tonic to the Bish family.

Urban violence had suddenly invaded

their neighborhood in Detroit.

MAGI BISH: A young lady was followed one day after work,

as the facts unfolded, and she was abducted and was missing.

And my husband I thought let's move to the country

and find our peace and raise our children.

ROBERT STACK: The Bishes flourished in Warren.

15 years after the move, the two older children

went off to college.

And the baby of the family, 16-year-old Molly,

landed her first real job as a lifeguard at a nearby pond.

I could think of worse jobs.

MAGI BISH: Molly was very proud to be a lifeguard.

She worked very hard for that, and she did get this position

at the Warren Pond.

It's a beautiful location, but it's surrounded by woods

and it is somewhat isolated.

On June 27, 2000, Magi accompanied Molly to the park,

said goodbye to her daughter, and returned home.

Three hours later, Magi received an alarming phone call.

Hello?

No, she's not.

She's at work.

MAGI BISH: I got a phone call from the local police

who said that there had been no lifeguard all day--

No, I dropped her off there myself this morning.

MAGI BISH: -- And that Molly's belongings were on the beach,

but there had been no Molly.

ROBERT STACK: Magi rushed to the pond.

She found her daughter's flip-flops, chair,

and lunch sitting on the beach.

(YELLING) Molly?

ROBERT STACK: There was no sign of Molly.

(YELLING) Molly?!

Molly's not here.

MAGI BISH: This one lady came up and she had a whistle on.

And she said there's been no lifeguard.

I've been doing it all day.

There's nobody here.

MAGI BISH: And there's a lot of confusion.

It was like a bad movie, nobody knows what's going on.

(YELLING) Molly!

[helicopter sound]

JOHN BISH: It's hard for me to describe the sinking,

hollow feeling you have as divers are looking

for your daughter, as dogs are combing the woods,

and police officers searching and interviewing people.

And I almost immediately began to think that something

really horrible happened.

RONALD SYRIAC: There was no sign of any struggle at the scene.

There were no clues left behind.

Molly's chair, her lunch bag, her first aid

kit, and the two way police radio

was just right there intact.

Undisturbed.

So we had no clues whatsoever.

Magi Bish and her husband John had done everything

possible to ensure their daughter Molly's safety,

but apparently even that was not enough.

Now the energy Magi once poured into motherhood

is being channeled into discovering Molly's fate.

Magi's convinced her daughter was abducted.

In fact, she may have seen the man responsible.

It happened the day before Molly disappeared.

ROBERT STACK: On June 26, 2000, Magi

accompanied Molly to the pond for her seventh day of work.

Today's the first day the kids are coming.

Swimming lessons start?

MAGI BISH: We pull up at the pond

and there's a vehicle parked in the parking lot

right next to our car.

There's a man sitting in there smoking.

I somehow just feel uncomfortable.

I look at this man.

He doesn't nod or greet me.

I just felt uneasy.

I did not want to leave Molly with this man [sobs]

in the white car.

ROBERT STACK: Magi escorted Molly all the way down

to the beach and expected the stranger

in the late model white car to be gone when she got back.

MAGI BISH: Lo and behold, I think

I'd been gone a reasonable time, but this man who is

in this vehicle is still there.

I'm very upset that he's still there, so I lock eyes with him.

I am giving him a stare, trying I guess maybe scare him away.

But at the same time, he returns the stare

and just boldly stares at me.

Just cocky as all--

He squinted his eyes and he stared at me.

And just kept smoking, and he didn't seem to care.

ROBERT STACK: Fearing for her daughter's safety,

Magi waited for the man to leave.

The following day, Magi once again went with her daughter

to the swimming hole.

Have a good day, honey.

ROBERT STACK: The suspicious man was nowhere to be seen.

Instead, there was a truck unloading sand for the beach.

MAGI BISH: When I had seen the sand truck,

I realized that this was our local company.

We know that they're businessmen in town, and I felt relief

and that I could leave Molly, and that would be OK.

ROBERT STACK: But Magi never saw Molly again.

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ROBERT STACK: The police investigation

is centered on the man Magi saw in the white car.

The sand truck driver saw a similar car

in the pond parking lot just moments

before Molly and Magi arrived.

On the other side of the pond is a cemetery.

A worker there saw a similar white car

later the same morning.

A path leads from a graveyard to the swimming hole.

JOHN BISH: And it's my fear that this person

parked at that path, went to the pond, and had taken Molly--

took control of her, and took her out of the beach

through that path into his car and out of the cemetery

and down the road.

ROBERT STACK: Despite setting up roadblocks, searching crime

databases, and interviewing convicted sex offenders,

police are unable to identify the man in the white car.

A composite based on Magi's description

produced no reliable leads.

MAGI BISH: This is the picture that I chose

of Molly for the web site.

ROBERT STACK: Desperate to generate any information,

Magi and her husband took action.

I couldn't believe how long it took us to find--

MAGI BISH: We wanted to get an avenue

to get Molly's picture out to as many people as we could.

The computer.

We came up with the idea an email chain.

It would be a wonderful, wonderful explosive way

to make more than one person, you know, get this picture

and keep sharing it with others.

ROBERT STACK: 35,000 people were e-mailed pictures of Molly.

A website devoted to finding her received thousands of hits.

But one year passed, and the search for Molly had stalled.

Magi decided there was more she could do.

Magi?

Ms. Boylan.

ROBERT STACK: She tracked down fame sketch artist Jeanne

Boylan, who's worked on the Unabomber

and Paulie Klaas cases.

Did you have a good trip?

I did.

It was very uneventful--

ROBERT STACK: Jeanne agreed to meet Magi at a local bed

and breakfast with the hopes of producing

a more accurate drawing of the man in the white car.

So what was it about this man that

drew your attention to him?

JEANNE BOYLAN: When Magi came in to work with me,

what I tried to do, and what she was willing to do,

was to talk about the positive aspects of her relationship

with her daughter, which were plentiful.

When she finally could fit into my shoes--

JEANNE BOYLAN: It allows for that sense of relaxation,

and then with that comes new information.

Typical 16-year-old, huh?

Yeah.

What else can you remember about this man?

ROBERT STACK: For nine hours or two

women chatted, as Jeanne slowly weaved a portrait.

The mouth and--

ROBERT STACK: Finally the drawing was complete,

It looks just like him.

ROBERT STACK: Although impressed with its uncanny accuracy,

Magi still felt something was missing.

It's amazing.

The only thing that's missing is the cigarette,

and the way he held that cigarette the whole time.

Well, you know what?

You've had a really long day.

I don't want to put you through anything else today.

Why don't I work on that tonight, and then I'll bring

it down tomorrow morning and you can let me know what you think.

You want it that way?

Thank you.

JEANNE BOYLAN: And I had stayed up fairly late that night

using my own hand as a model of creating

the image of the hand holding the cigarette

and then added that to the drawing.

And I think that was just sort of the finishing touch that

really brought everything into focus.

Good morning.

Hi.

How did you sleep?

ROBERT STACK: The next morning, Jeanne show

the updated drawing to Magi.

Well, what do you think?

MAGI BISH: When I saw the completed

picture with the cigarette, I thought instant fear.

I mean, it was him.

You know, the eyes.

It was this cockiness.

It was this look.

The Bishes' hope the new composite drawing

of the suspect will lead them to Molly.

JOHN BISH: We want this person to know that we will never stop

searching for her, and that we will

never stop searching for him.

I'm very angry.

I'm very angry.

And that anger is going to drive me on forever.

I will not stop.

ROBERT STACK: Molly's disappearance

has transformed Magi and her husband

into staunch child safety advocates.

-- Somewhere knows something.

There's somebody out there knows--

ROBERT STACK: Their fight has now

expanded beyond Molly to help prevent any child

from becoming a victim.

MAGI BISH: We're educating people

and we're giving them tools, and the kids are

going to get smarter, and they're

not going to get our children.

Because [sobs] you can lose your keys,

you can lose your glasses, but how do

you lose your children in America?

[sobs] Something is wrong, very wrong.

And if it could happen here, could happen everywhere.

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