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Elizabeth and Lyric

I need you back in my hands

In my heart My little tiny heart

I miss you, I miss you

I love you, I love you

Oh forever

To whom it may concern.

We don't know who you are.

Or maybe we do.

Maybe you are

someone who just
acted upon an impulse.

Maybe you planned to take them.

Taking the girls from
us has caused much pain.

Pain for them, pain for
us and our families.

Maybe you've wondered

how you could ever
make it right?

How to be a hero not a monster.

We want you to know

that we are praying for
you to do the right thing.

Please let our girls...

come home to us.

Dylan's interview in B cameras.

Get ready, let's start
at the beginning.

Tell me your... your name

and when did you first
hear of this story?

My name is Dylan Sires,

and I first heard
about this story

when I worked as a local
news photographer in 2012.

And a call came out
across the police scanner

about two missing
girls, in Evansdale.

They grew up in the area, my
family grew up in the area

and it's my hometown.

When Lyric and
Elizabeth were abducted,

it was absolutely shocking.

Elizabeth was eight,
and Lyric was ten.

You know, when
something like that

happens in your back
yard, it pisses you off.

Rumors were rampant

and misinformation
was everywhere.

This investigation was massive.

It was one of the
largest investigations

in Iowa's history.

So, in 2015, I started
to film and document

what was going on in Evansdale.

So, right, I'm rolling.

You know, I knew a lot of people

directly involved in the case.

I was able to get access,
inside information

to kinda have my
finger on the pulse.

I've shot over 300
hours of footage.

Right, I'm speeding.

Just tell me a little
bit about yourself.

I've done over 100 interviews.

And, you know,
countless conversations

with the families.

Interviewing them
multiple times over years.

I noticed people changed.

I've interviewed
I think a person

from every facet of this case.

Except for a suspect.

- Sound speed.
- Speed.

You ready for this?

Ah sure.

Tim, are you rolling?

Alright, can you just say
your name, who you are,

basically what you can remember.

My name is Heather Collins.

I am Heather Collins.

I have four children.

And I'm Elizabeth's mom.

My name's Drew Collins.

And Elizabeth Collins
is my daughter.

My name's Dan Morrissey
and I don't know,

I'm just a simple guy.

Just trying to make
it through this life

figuring out something

that's worthwhile or meaningful.

Lyric is my daughter
and God chose me

to be her father.

I was married to her mom Misty,

who's my high school sweetheart.

Just talk about yourself.

I don't know.

OK.

My name is Misty.

And I'm Lyric's mom.

Lyric and Elizabeth
were cousins.

Lyric was ten,
Elizabeth was eight.

And they were good buddies,
liked hanging out together.

A lot of that took
place at my mom's,

which would be
their grandmother's.

Or at Heather's house.

Misty's my sister. A
little bit under a year.

Her and I are 100
percent different.

She has always been
outgoing, outspoken.

I have always been
quiet or reserved.

But Elizabeth and Lyric,

it was almost like
they were sisters.

They did everything together.

Elizabeth loved life.

She was a very
very social child.

Here's one more tip.

Act cool.

Elizabeth was real
bubbly, always smiled.

Super playful.

Full of joy.

I do remember her

getting her hair cut like mine.

I had got my hair cut short,

and she wanted to look like mom.

Elizabeth would call

like every single
night before bed,

and just wanted to talk to
us and tell us about her day.

Hear about our day,

tell us how much she loved us.

Here.

What you got Lyric?

- That my brella?
- Yeah.

Lyric was gentle.
She was loving.

- I love you.
- I love you.

Lyric liked to sing.
She was always off key,

but that didn't matter
because it was the heart,

and not what comes
out of the mouth.

Lyric was a fighter.

Definitely more adventurous,

tough as nails for sure.

Yeah, for sure.

Lyric was trusting and fearless.

You know, it was just a
blessing to be around her.

Evansdale is a small town.

Everybody knows everybody.

You let your kids out and play.

You don't lock your doors.

You trust everybody,

because they've never
given you reason not to.

I had never been to Evansdale

prior to this case.

My first impression was
it's a very small town,

a very quaint town.

If I lived there,

I don't think I would
have any problems

letting my kids go
for a bike ride,

or go for a walk,
and go to the park.

It seemed like a
very safe community.

So that day,

Drew got up, went to work.

It was early in the morning.

Elizabeth came and
crawled in my bed,

which she did often.

It was just sweet, always
to have her come in

and snuggle next to me.

After dad got out of bed.

I was living at my mom's,

and Lyric lived with me.

Dan and I were at odds,

we weren't together at the time.

I had to go to
work at 9:00 am.

So, Lyric went with
my mom to Evansdale.

My mom was coming
over with Lyric,

Elizabeth was still in
pajamas when I left.

I was at Heather's.

I was gonna make
lunch pretty soon.

Lyric and Elizabeth,
they wanted to go

for this bike ride, and I said

"Well, don't go very far Lyric,

because your mom's
gonna be coming."

They said they wouldn't.

When I left, I told
the kids I love 'em,

and kissed 'em, and...

that was the last
time I saw her.

I love you by the way.

Hi mommy.

Hey daddy, miss you.

Bye, love you.

I love you.

I got off at one o'clock.

And I was going down
to pick Lyric up

and we would be
going to the pool.

My mom called me, she was like

"Misty, are you coming?

Because I can't
find the girls."

And I was like,
"What do you mean?"

She's like, "Oh, they
went on a bike ride,

and they're probably
just down the street."

And I needed to come down there

and help look.

I figured they'd be close by.

I got back and my mom said

that the girls still
weren't back yet.

I just knew something
was wrong immediately.

I came home, and Heather's like,

"The girls went on a bike ride,

and they're not home yet.
I'm starting to get worried."

And I said,

"Oh, they're probably just
stopped at a friends."

Got in my vehicle,

went and looked
at several places.

And we drove everywhere.

Every imaginable place we drove,

we drove like for an hour.

We couldn't find 'em.

They're nowhere to be found.

Nowhere.

I just felt it. I felt sick.

And went to the police station.

Friday the 13th of all days.

At 2:42 Heather came
to the front doors,

and told me that
she couldn't find

Elizabeth and Lyric.

It was unbelievably
hot that day.

Temperatures high
90s, my thought was,

the girls had stopped
at a friend's house,

were inside, where it was
cool with air conditioning.

And had lost track of time.

We had started checking
their friends' houses.

We'd gone door to door

in some of the
neighborhoods looking.

People from the Fire Department,

people from the city,
went out and did a search.

I remember it was a Friday.

And the call came
across the scanner

of two missing girls.

And actually, my first
initial thought was like,

"Oh.

I'm gonna have to
work late tonight.

Probably won't get home
till seven or eight

and they're gonna find
these girls at 7:45."

Because kids go missing a lot.

I wanna say around five o'clock,

we got a call from the police

and then they came
and picked me up,

they wanted me to identify
some bikes at Meyers Lake.

Meyers Lake is a little
over a mile away.

Elizabeth has been there.

But it was always with an adult.

I just knew that
there was no way

that she could have
remembered how to go there.

We went down to the park

and they drove down to
where the bikes were found.

There was a few people
out there and...

saw the bikes.

I was sitting on the
couch with Heather,

Drew called and said the cops
and him were at Meyers Lake,

and they found the two bikes
that Lyric and Elizabeth

had been riding around on.

I knew I needed to get
down there right away.

And we were kinda
just looking around

to see what we could
find and then we ended up

finding Elizabeth's purse
with her phone in it.

And it looked like
it had been like

tossed over the fence.

I got a picture, Drew
sent me a picture.

It was of Elizabeth's purse,
her Hannah Montana purse.

And I went "They're gone.

They're gone."

Thank you for joining us.

We're following a search.

It's for two missing
girls in Evansdale.

Police are searching
for Elizabeth Collins

and her cousin, Lyric Morrissey.

Family members gathered
near the boat ramp

at Meyers Lake and could
only watch helplessly

as rescue crews
searched for the girls.

Authorities found the
girls' bikes off a trail

on the southeast
corner of the lake.

The bicycles where we found

were right at the gated entrance

to the overflow, which
was a little peninsula

that runs off of the
south side of the lake.

At that point, my heart
sank because the overflow

is a gated access and
the gate was found open.

I felt that the
girls had gotten hot,

decided they were gonna
go walk in the water.

I immediately thought
"We've got a drowning,"

and so, I notified
the fire department

to bring their boat down
with the dragging equipment.

Crews dragged part of the lake,

and did at least

two searches by air
using infrared sensors.

Police have been going

door to door asking if
anyone's seen the girls

or anything suspicious
in the area.

It's very difficult but
we're trusting in the Lord

and just trying to be patient.

And let everybody do their job.

And we're just doing
a lot of praying.

When I was down
there at the lake,

I'm just thinking,
"Man, she's in trouble.

She's in trouble."

And it wasn't until
a certain point

where it was just
like, "I'm in trouble.

Where is she? It's
getting dark."

I'll never forget that feeling.

There was a cop standing
there on the lakeside

and I said "Well, who's looking

in the island in the
middle?" and he was like,

"Ma'am, we'll get to
that when we get to it."

I said, "I'm going right now."

And we just got in the water
and started looking ourselves.

Divers in the water,

all of a sudden,
they're coming out.

Why?

You know, like why
are they stopping?

The divers spent maybe
an hour in the water

and came out and told me

"Those girls were not
in that overflow."

That changed things.

I knew we had a
missing person's case.

We were getting
an uneasy feeling

that whatever had happened
with the girls, wasn't good.

After more than nine hours

of searching, tonight,
police at Evansdale

have had no luck in
finding two missing girls.

We looked till about like
nine or ten that night.

And then...

they told us to go home.

Well, it's getting dark,

and we're stop, and we need
to go home and get some rest.

And I said, "What do
you mean that's it?

There's two little
girls that are missing.

They went missing today.

Why does anybody need

to go home and go
to sleep tonight?

And I screamed.

There was no way

I could lay my
head down to sleep

knowing that they
could be going through

something horrible.

When it hit around like ten,

11 o'clock at night,
that's when you knew

like something really
heinous happened,

like they would have found us,
they would have found a store

or a phone, or knocked
on a door or something,

if they were lost.

So that's when it
started to become

like really surreal that like,

someone really did get them.

It's just horrific.

Just praying that
someone will just,

just drop them off, you know?

You know, I wake
up the next morning

and she's still not there.

I wanted us to be able
to hit the ground running

as soon as daylight
popped up on Saturday.

We had detectives in
from Waterloo police,

Cedar Falls police,
Blackhawk County,

FBI had come in.

The DCI offered their assistance

and we eagerly accepted that.

At the time of the abduction,

I was a special agent in charge

with the Iowa division of
criminal investigation.

It's the largest law
enforcement agency

in the state of Iowa.

And their mission is to
assist smaller departments,

or any department that
asks for assistance.

The best potential
crime scene we had

at that point was that location.

I remember on the 14th,

it was really hot.

And I got called in

to work on the
weekend, overtime.

I remember just showing
up at Meyers Lake,

you see the FBI's
there, you see, I mean,

there's so many cops.

The response was huge.

And I just couldn't
believe how quickly

the case had
escalated media wise,

and we had national news there.

Breaking news tonight live.

Cedar Falls suburbs.

A massive search underway
for two little girls.

The only evidence found so far,

the girls' bikes and purse
have been processed for clues.

Rescue crews say time
is their worst enemy.

Bring our kids home.

Bring them home,
bring them home now.

Lyric, if you're out
there, I love you baby.

Stay strong, I
just, I just pray,

I just pray that you're OK.

A double abduction
is extremely rare.

Throughout the United States,

I think there's been
maybe 15 since the 1970s.

Extremely rare anywhere
in the United States

to have two children
abducted at the same time.

So many people came

to the search of...

I don't even know
how many miles.

Hundreds of volunteers

lining up to help.

Spent the next two
days walking fields.

Walking for hours and hours
and hours in the heat.

And through the
weeds and the grass

and searching for them.

I got my four wheeler,
and we just went

all the places where
people can walk.

People that didn't have homes,

that were staying
off in the woods,

trying to look and see
any kind of evidence

of anybody over there.

The plane came,
it was flying over

and it had the thermal imaging.

They said they would be
able to pick up a squirrel.

And they didn't pick up
anything bigger than like a...

a groundhog or a chipmunk.

So that was rough.

We got to that lake

early Saturday morning,

I believe as the
sun was coming up.

And the lake was nasty.

Green and nasty.

There was algae in it.

I've got little girls.

I said "There's no way
any of my daughters

would go swimming
in that lake."

I was convinced the
girls were abducted.

One part of the procedures
is to start looking

at the sex offender
registry and contacting them

and interviewing them.

Based on past cases

that's an obvious
place to start.

So in Iowa,

we have a sex offender registry

that anyone in the
public has access to.

If you look up sex offenders
in the Evansdale area,

you know, ten-mile radius,

you'd be surprised at
how many sex offenders

are in that area.

When you look at a
map on the registry,

it designates someone
who offended with a child

with the letter M.

The M stands for Minor.

Particularly if they have

offended against children,

we're sending agents
out to knock on doors

and say "Where were you?"

Try to get those people
eliminated as suspects.

The FBI was able to
bring in somebody

who just worked on cell phones,

to gather that cell
phone tower data

to try to help and
determine where people were.

So, a lot to hammer out, a
lot of alibis to try to get.

The days afterwards
were pretty...

pretty much just
kinda run together.

Like, everybody in town was
wearing the pink shirts.

We just want our babies back.

Drop 'em off anywhere.

You know, like what
were we supposed

to tell our other children?

Their sister can't be found?

Elizabeth and Lyric

I need you back in my hands

In my heart My little tiny heart

I miss you, I miss you

I love you, I love you

Oh forever

When the girls were missing

we just... really, I expected
they were gonna come home.

Every night, when
we'd get off work,

we would just sit outside
until maybe 11 or 12 at night.

That's when it would
get really hard for me,

knowing the day was over
and nothing had happened

and that it was
another day gone.

One of the pieces of information

that was collected was
a surveillance video

from an auction business

located near the home
of Elizabeth Collins,

where the girls left.

So that's the back of
the auction house there

with a surveillance
camera caught the girls

driving by on their
bikes. Shortly after noon.

That would be fair
to say it would be

the last known time
the girls were seen,

before they were
reported missing.

It gives us a time stamp,
it gives us a date.

Perhaps if anybody
following them

a short distance behind
'em in a vehicle.

It gives us a confirmation

of what they're
wearing at the time,

the clothing.

Those are the things
we're looking for

when we try to collect video.

There were both
surveillance cameras

and eyewitnesses the
day the girls went

on their bike ride.

They saw 'em at multiple
positions in Evansdale.

Sorry about that, Bob.

I interviewed them.

Just kinda run me
through the day here

when you saw the girls.

Well, I was standing over here,

raking, raking the
yard and stuff.

And the girls come
down Lake Avenue here,

they turned, went up
Gilbert Road here.

I was standing by the middle,

they come by on their
bicycle, and they go "Hi Bob,"

and I turned around
just quick enough

to say "Hi girls."

Probably have to be
close to noon or so.

But that's just guessing.

It's the last time
I've seen 'em.

I'm a truck driver.

I just love driving.

Somewhere right in here

about where I seen
the girls that day.

They were going
towards the tree area.

They were walking
towards the trees,

pushing their bikes.

It was around 12:30 that day.
20 to one, right in there.

I knew it was Elizabeth,
Drew's daughter.

'Cause I worked...
for his mom.

Well, then I got back that day

and didn't think nothing of it.

That evening, I
heard they had been

kidnapped or gone.

And that's when
it really hit me,

that I wished I would
have stopped that day

and talked to 'em or something.

Really, I was in tears.

It nearly broke my heart

when I heard they
were gone missing.

So, I'm driving down Gilbert,

going towards Evans,

and there was a guy
standing right here,

by the No Outlet sign

with a girl on his shoulder,

and another little
girl with him.

And the girl on the shoulder,

I think was kind
of fighting him,

but I thought, "Oh, it's a child

that doesn't wanna go
home from playing yet,

so they're mad at the
dad. No big deal."

There was a white van there
that day. Across the street.

I've tried remembering
what kind of van it was,

did it have windows?

I tried remembering all
that, and I can't remember.

I mean, you don't think,

"Oh my God, two little
girls are gonna go missing."

This is Evansdale
for God's sake.

This is a small town.

This is a town that
kids ride their bikes.

This is a town that kids go out

and have ice cream.

I think about that
day every day.

To be so close,

if that would have been them,

that I could have maybe helped.

I just hope and pray
that that wasn't them.

That's all I can say.

The Saturday after
the abduction,

I swear that day
two or three tips

came in about a white van.

So every house that we went to,

where I saw a vehicle like that,

piqued my interest.

We discovered some stuff
that just didn't pan out.

There are so many
white vans out there.

You'll find in almost any
unsolved case like this

there always seems to
be something in a report

about white vans.

I mean, white vans

just lead these types
of cases unfortunately.

We have, and we continue
to sometimes get

white van leads, and
we'll follow 'em out.

I'll never say, until
the case is solved,

and we know exactly
what happened,

that a white van
wasn't involved.

I could walk into a store

and could feel the tension.

This was eating
at our community.

The community changed.

You didn't see the
kids out playing

without a parent
right on top of 'em.

And we just learned minutes ago

that investigators will
drain a lake in an area

where the girls were last seen.

One of the newest efforts

in the Evansdale search
for two missing girls

Elizabeth Collins
and Lyric Cook.

The FBI has bloodhounds,

trained to track a scent.

Bloodhounds were brought in,

taken down to the area
where the bikes were found.

They apparently alerted
on a scent, by the water.

Since the dogs picked
up their scent,

at the water's edge,

why they're draining the
lake to rule that out.

We were 90 percent sure

the girls were not in the lake.

We had the divers in the
lake, we'd uncovered nothing.

And I wasn't gonna
walk away and say

"Oh there's still
a possibility."

If the girls had
been in the water,

perhaps they'd
been weighted down.

We didn't know.

So, I talked with the
mayor, said, you know,

"Is there a way we
can drain the lake?"

You know, they
would have devoted

all their resources to say

you know, investigating
the neighborhood

and knocking on doors

and it turns out the
girls are in the lake?

That would be a pretty big...

Mishap.

It could take several days

before the lake is
drained completely.

Elizabeth knew
that she was never

to be in water without an adult.

Like in my heart, I just knew
that they weren't gonna find

anything in that lake.

I just knew.

And they didn't.

You wanna find where they're at.

And you don't know like
at that point you're...

you're like, "Are they
alive or are they dead?"

So, it's...

and it's the same thing when...

oh

Damn.

I got a tattoo.

I got a tattoo. Right mom?

No.

Anytime you have
a violent crime,

you have to rule out the
family as a possibility.

I mean it's just kinda
like... investigations 101.

They questioned me and Drew,

and Misty and Dan.

Unfortunately,
sometimes parents do

bad things to their kids,
or siblings do bad things

to their siblings.

So you have to try to
rule those people out.

We did the interviews and
the... the lie detectors.

They got our
fingerprints and our DNA

and so they also did
that with the kids.

Here you go kids. Hang
on there, you'll fall.

They wanted all the computers,

like the laptops and our phones.

They wanted to see

if somebody was
talking to the girls

on some sort of a chatline
or something like that.

Whatever they want, you
just give it to 'em.

You just want your kid back.

Heather and Drew

were very forthcoming
to talk with us.

Dan and Misty...

not quite as much.

FBI spokeswoman Sandy Breault

says there are some roadblocks
in this investigation.

Unfortunately in this case,

law enforcement has not
received total cooperation

from all family
and close friends.

Drew and Heather,

they got treated a little
different, you know?

They were more
treated like victims.

We weren't treated
like, what do you say?

Villains?

Villain of the story, you know?

"Ooh drugs. Shady."

Misty and Dan are
currently separated.

They've both done prison time
for felony drug convictions.

I know it's no secret
you dealt with addiction.

Allegedly.

When I was eight months

pregnant with Lyric,

I got a federal indictment
for my criminal activity

prior to my pregnancy.

I got three years
in federal prison

for conspiracy to
manufacture methamphetamines.

My sister Misty ended
up going to prison

in West Virginia.

And so, I would just
take the video camera

wherever we would go,

and wanted to get as
much footage as I could

for Misty while she was gone,

so she would be able

to look back and see
the kids growing up.

- Hi Lyric.
- Hi Kerry.

I went in 2003, Lyric
was 18 months old.

When I got out, she was four.

That's me and Lyric.

Investigators also had said

they're frustrated
with Lyric's parents,

Misty and Dan Morrissey,
who are now separated.

Both have been in drug
trouble in the past,

Dan is awaiting trial

on charges he made
and dealt meth.

I was a meth cook

before the abduction
of Lyric and Elizabeth.

I was facing charges for
conspiracy to manufacture

and marijuana intent to deliver.

And I was in jail
for six months.

And then I bonded out.

I've only been out for
like not even a month,

I don't think.

The day before the
girls went missing,

Dan Morrissey was
negotiating a plea deal

that he ultimately didn't take.

They offered me 30 years.

He said "Take it
today or leave it,

and if you take it today,

I want you to be
taken into custody.

Today." And I'm
like, "No, my kids,

they don't know I'm
gonna go to jail today.

And I just bonded out and
spent all that money."

I was like, "There's no
way. I'm not doing it."

So rather than
accepting the plea deal,

and go to immediate sentencing,

they were now gonna have
to reset that for trial.

And I walked from the courthouse

back to my house,
and I was bummed out,

sitting there just
completely depleted

and next thing I know, Lyric
come flying in my room.

And hugged me, you know,

and just wanted to be
an encouragement to me.

And she said, "I love you."

And that was the last
time I seen Lyric.

Dan withdrew his plea

the day before the
girls went missing.

So, we wondered about that.

Was that playing into it?
Was he looking for sympathy?

Was he somehow involved
in hiding the girls?

And wanting to make a
plea for, for compassion

from the courts, from
the community that,

you know, how could we send

a father of a missing
girl away to prison

while his daughter
is still missing?

Dan and Misty,
considering their past,

and their drug usage, you
do have to focus on them.

The Feds were on top
of Misty and Dan hard

because of their drug usage.

They wanted polygraph tests.

I was not using
drugs, I'd been clean

for quite a long
time at that point.

Well, first we went
and did the polygraphs.

Dan was still getting
high, he told them that.

The polygraph, the, the
first one I told 'em

I'd just smoked a blunt
before I come down here

to calm down.

And I had been using meth,
'cause I just stayed up

like three days or something.

I did not stop looking.

And they said, "Oh
it shouldn't matter."

Hooked me all up and asked
me all these questions.

He said "Just wait right here,

and then we'll be back
in a minute, you know?"

Two other officers come back,

and they start
trying to turn on me,

and tell me that I'm lying.

Both Dan and Misty
took a polygraph

and the results came
back inconclusive.

Things began shifting
really fast into

"You must be involved somehow"

and I knew that shift.
I felt it, I saw it,

you know what I mean?

I'd been under interrogation
before by police.

It just began to be
very just overwhelming

and, and so you know, walls
did go up at that point.

That's when they
terminated talking with us.

That brought up red
flags, why would,

why would you wanna not
talk with the police

who are trying to
help find your kids?

It's like, "OK,

if you're gonna make
yourself uncooperative,

you're gonna make yourself
a person of interest,

then we're interested."

We were sleeping,

it was the middle of the night.

And there's a
pounding on the door.

We opened the door.

And then they're
yelling at me, like,

"We know you thought you
were being a good mom.

You just wanted to do

what was right
for your daughter.

And things got out of control.
They got out of hand."

Then they start screaming
"You killed your kid.

You killed your kid.

You better tell
us what happened."

They're screaming at me.

Imagine that, huh?

If your kid was missing and
they're investigating you?

Investigating you.

Bombshell tonight.

Daddy storms out on police

after they accuse him of murder.

All the while troubling
details coming out

about the family's past
drug use, prison time.

Dan and Misty's lifestyle,

that exposed those kids
to a lot of bad people.

So it could easily be
one of those bad people

that was involved in this.

Did they owe somebody money?

Did they sell something
bad to somebody

and they're just
there to get 'em back?

So for whatever
reasons and dynamics

beyond my control,
some type of chasm

was opened up
between our families

and there was definitely
a different experience

that Heather and her family had.

So I have to ask you,

do you think Misty
was involved in this?

I can't answer that question
'cause I don't know.

I pray she wasn't.

I love my sister Misty.

And to think that she
could harm my niece,

and her daughter,

just like broke my heart
to even think about it.

But like, just, you
just don't know.

And you know, Dan...

I've never liked
him, so, you know,

for me to think about
that wasn't really,

just being honest, just
wasn't that hard for me

to think about.

The time when Misty
had went to prison

in the early 2000s, she
had worked with the police

and... I think some real
big people went down

and when that happened,
I was really concerned

that someone would retaliate.

Dan has a history,

a long-term history of meth use.

Would Dan ever
harm his children?

Absolutely not.

The media, they just
treated us like,

like we were the next story.

We were the next,

we were the next
thing to talk about.

"Oh we found out
he's out on bond.

He's out on bond, he's
facing drug charges.

Oh, we got a story here.

Alright, let's get, let's
start asking questions."

Then they turned on me.

If you're involved
with methamphetamine,

the chance of having
dangerous people in your life,

increases dramatically.

Yeah, I mean, that is
not a newsflash Jane.

It's not uncommon if you
owe drug dealers money

or you owe somebody a lot
of money for your meths

that you're trying to use
to feed your addiction...

maybe your kid gets
taken as punishment

'cause you didn't pay?

Social media and
the news and stuff,

like, it got to us too.

There's like comments
and stuff on Facebook

and all over the place
saying that like,

"Oh that aunt,

that aunt's the one
that killed them."

And these were
just random people

who just like, "Oh you're
Lyric and Elizabeth's cousin?

Oh that, you obviously like,

you know that your
aunt and uncle did it."

Because of Dan's
withdrawal of his plea,

were people that
Dan associated with

now becoming nervous
thinking that Dan

was gonna turn state's
evidence against them?

And so were they thinking
that "We've gotta do something

to make sure this guy
doesn't say anything?"

What about the
notion that someone

was holding the girls

so you wouldn't turn the
states evidence again

and it's part of a plea deal?

It's the most stupidest thing

I've ever heard in my life.

That theory, saying
something about you

and being a meth cook

and everybody knows
you're telling

and the Mexican mafia,

and there's, and if
you don't tell on them

then they'll release
Lyric and stuff.

Like has no truth
at all, period,

connecting me in any way,

in any aspect of
any of that stuff.

Never dealt with
the Mexican mafia,

never owed money,

never had any evidence
against anybody.

I cook my own drugs,

got high myself, I
did it to get high,

I didn't do it to make
money. I didn't have money.

I live with my mom.

They were saying that
it was the drug mafia.

No, it wasn't the drug mafia.

You know, he was,
he was a meth make,

he made the stuff himself
and sold what he needed

for his own use.

And a little money to get by.
Where's the mafia in that?

As a parent who knows I
got nothing to do with it,

how do I convince you

that I have nothing
to do with it,

so you can get after
what's really going on?

Within the next couple of days,

they agreed to come back
in, take polygraphs again,

and talk with us in
a little more detail.

I said, "I'll take
that same test,

do another polygraph
and I'll get clean,

and I guarantee you

it has something
to do with that,

because I told you I
was under the influence

and you guys said
it doesn't matter."

That's the only thing
I could think of.

Your test is wrong,
and that's lying.

Said OK, three days
later I came back,

answered the same test,
everything passed it.

And then they wanted to
ask me other questions.

I passed that. And
at that moment,

then they let me
in on everything.

On everything.

At that moment they knew
that I was telling the truth,

and everything was good.
But it wasted time.

Instead of looking over here,

and potentially
finding the right guy,

I'm wasting all kinds of
time, all kinds of resources,

all kinds of manpower,
trying to deal with you,

because you don't
like the police.

Or you've got a history

of bad relations
with the police.

And now I've gotta
send resources

to rule you out

when I could have
ruled you out easily

if you'd just cooperated

because you're
being a knucklehead.

Well, we're all villains.

And we're all
heroes and you know,

we're all different
characters in a movie

at some point in
time in our lives.

You know?

Doesn't mean that
I'm the villain.

I'm, I'm the victim.

Who's the hero in this story?

Lyric, and Elizabeth.

New hope tonight in the search

for two missing girls from Iowa.

We believe these
girls are alive.

And we are not discouraged
by the passage of time

since their disappearance.

I can't tell you
all of the factors

that went into that decision
to make that statement,

maybe it's... in part
for the families,

say "Hey, we're still
hopeful they're alive.

We think they're alive."

Maybe it's for the bad
person, you know, the suspect,

the perpetrator.

"We believe they're still alive,

if they are still alive,

maybe keep it that way."

It gave us a lot of hope.

With them saying
that they thought

that they were still alive.

At four, during the week,

Monday through Friday

we would meet at
Evansdale police station

for we'd call like a debriefing.

We would be limited
what we could tell them.

We may say "Well, we have
a pretty good suspect

we're looking at
today or this week,"

and without telling
them who they are,

or telling them why
they're a good suspect.

You know, trying
to not necessarily

get their hopes up.

You don't know what's going
on in the investigation,

you don't know what they know.

There's a few times
"Hey, we got something

that looks good."

Then they would
come back and say

"Oh, it wasn't nothing."
It's like a roller coaster.

Certainly in the
back of our minds

we were thinking of cases
where girls, young women,

have been abducted and maybe
held for long periods of time

and you know, occasionally
rarely they escape

or they're found, months
later, or years later.

And they're still alive.

If you're a person who prays
or praying for the fact

that the hope that they're found

and they're still alive.

Drew would have some
dark dark moments

throughout this whole period

and many times he
would just call me,

and I told him, I said
"You can call me 24/7

and I'll come pick you up
and we'll go for a ride."

And we would just drive around

and talk through it.

The saddest thing is
the parents' imagining

their children are alive

and what they're going through.

I mean, that's tough.

So, the things that were
going through his mind,

as to what his
daughter was enduring,

was very painful for him.

So, we'd drive around
and talk it out.

I got quite close to
him through this ordeal.

Hi mom.

It was raining outside,

and I sat out in the rain
because I didn't know

if they were inside
or not. You know?

And if they were
out in the rain,

I didn't wanna be in comfort

and that's how every
single day was.

'Cause you didn't know.

The police department,

I wanna say sometime in October,

they were like "We don't
need to see you everyday."

That was really hard.

'Cause we'd liked going
there and getting updates.

It just kinda slows down,
other things happen,

and they have to
work other crimes.

We wrote a letter as a family

to whoever kidnapped
Elizabeth and Lyric.

To whom it may concern.

We would use your name,

but we don't know who
you are, or maybe we do.

Maybe you are someone
who knows the girls,

maybe you are someone

who just acted upon an impulse.

Maybe you planned to
take them. We don't know,

because we don't
know who you are.

Maybe we can sort of imagine
that you must not have had

the things you needed to grow up

feeling safe and loved
because only someone

who hurts inside would
hurt another person

and their family.

Taking the girls from us

has caused much
pain, pain for them,

pain for us and our families.

Since the time you took
them, maybe you've wondered

more than a few times

how you could ever
make it right?

How to be the hero
not the monster?

We want you to know that
we are praying for you

to do the right thing.

By releasing the girls,
everyone wins. Even you.

Imagine how it would feel
to have everyone remember

that you were the one person
in all the missing cases

who cared enough to
let the girls go?

Our lives have not been
the same since July 13th.

Please let our girls...

Come home to us.

Please do the right thing.

Be a hero.

Sincerely, Drew and
Heather, Dan and Misty.

It was the last day
of the hunting season

and the weather was
on the warmer side.

Not your typical winter.

Came out and pushed from far end

all the way back this
way and I looked up

and I saw a fawn
off to the side.

And kinda signaled
to mom and dad

to post up, so I could
kinda flush 'em out.

Something just kept telling me

like "No, further
back, further back."

We were guided back here
by some other power,

bigger than ourselves.

That's when I seen
the pink cloth,

is kinda what stuck
out to me at first.

And then when I pulled
that cloth back,

and saw a very human
skull looking back at me,

kind of stumbled back
and just in disbelief.

That's when I saw
the other skull

and shoe right there.

The longer we stood here,
we'd just see more and more

remains strewn across
the whole area.

We called 911 and
basically just repeating

that "There's remains here,
there's clothes, shoes.

That we're pretty
sure it's human."

Then the first officer
came walking through.

"Yep, can confirm

we have remains of
two individuals here.

Looks like children."

I mean, when you
look at those girls,

they're beautiful.

Sweet.

Innocent girls

and this is a
monster who did this.

How do you snuff
out two little girls

and leave 'em

like they're trash?

You're not doing that to my kid.

It's never gonna end till
we find out who did this.

And there's no
forgetting that for me.

911 Boone County,

what's the location
of your emergency?

Can you please help me?

There's...

What's going on?

This dude picked
me and my friend...

I am worried and I need help.

15-year-old Kathlynn Shepardand

and 12-year-old girl

whose name has not
yet been released,

were abducted from a bus station

right near an elementary school.

And the 12-year-old
girl managed to escape.

She provided key information
to investigators.