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00:00Stephanie is a happy 9-year-old girl who prefers calico boots to dresses.
00:13We preferred playing in the mud with toy cars with the boys than playing with dolls.
00:19One night, she went bowling with friends and never came back.
00:24I remember that man looking at all of us, and then I realized he might be more than just a stranger.
00:34She was 9 years old, and if she were to run away from home, she would go to her grandmother's house, but her grandmother wasn't here.
00:41This story changed a small town forever.
00:45October 11th will always remind us of Stephanie. No one will forget her, she will never be forgotten.
00:51Missing
01:17October 11, 1993.
01:36Charles, Idaho.
01:38It is a rural town of a thousand inhabitants, located between two mountain ranges.
01:42And the nearest city is an hour away.
01:45Charles is quite small. There are few people here, so everyone knows each other.
01:51Everyone looks out for each other and worries about each other.
01:56Around 3 p.m., 9-year-old Stephanie Craney left school and went with her friends to the bowling alley across the street.
02:04We all went together to the bowling alley and to Charles's place to participate in our school bowling competition.
02:12We played 3 sets. Most of the time we ordered food and ate all together.
02:19Stephanie liked to mingle, so I know she played soccer and bowling.
02:25Stephanie was definitely not a girly girl.
02:30She was a tomboy. She would stay with her father all day, go fishing, hunting, collecting stones.
02:42I really liked nature.
02:44We were both raised in more or less the same way.
02:51We preferred playing in the mud, with toy cars, with the boys, rather than playing with dolls.
02:56Or dye your hair and get your nails done.
02:59We could hardly wait to be old enough to hunt.
03:04Stephanie always made friends easily, with both girls and boys.
03:08She always seemed to be playing around, smiling.
03:13She was always smiling and was very funny, very outgoing.
03:17He had no enemies.
03:18Unders liked nobody, it liked everybody.
03:21It was fun company.
03:25Ben, Stephanie's father, worked in the local mines and was also a taxidermist.
03:31The mother, Sandy, was a housewife.
03:33They had three younger daughters, aged two, four, and six.
03:37Stephanie was closer to her father than to her mother.
03:42Because she always had a younger sister and thought Sandy was busy with them.
03:47Friends said Stephanie had a unique relationship with her father.
03:51They were always joking with each other, teasing each other, telling jokes.
03:56Very happy, you know?
03:57Loving.
03:58Stephanie, being the first granddaughter, was very close to her grandmother, Hazel.
04:11Stephanie used to come here to spend time with me, since I stayed in the garden and she liked being there.
04:17She spent a lot of time with me.
04:20Stephanie took on the role of older sister to her three sisters with ease.
04:24I remember her taking her little sister everywhere.
04:28It was like she was our living doll.
04:31I remember her taking her little sister everywhere.
04:34It was like she was our real-life doll.
04:38And the young girl loved the freedom of being able to ride her bicycle wherever she wanted in Charles.
04:43We all rode bicycles in Charles.
04:46We went to every corner of the city, all over the city.
04:49It was one of those rare towns where nobody locked their doors.
04:55The children rode their bicycles through the streets and played in the streets without their parents.
05:01Our parents would pick us up sometimes, from certain places.
05:05Stephanie always walked back from the bowling alley, just like she walked back from school.
05:09At 4:45 p.m. on October 11th, Stephanie and her friends were finishing a game in the school bowling league.
05:20A friend's mother, Luanne Berry, was there to count the children's points.
05:24The girls' team, which included Stephanie and her two friends, was playing.
05:31And when they were finished, their parents came to pick them up.
05:34The two friends left together, and we were the last ones to leave the bowling alley.
05:41As she was leaving, Luanne saw Stephanie in the bowling alley parking lot.
05:45I asked Stephanie if she was going home.
05:48And she lived across the river, near the bowling alley.
05:51She said yes, that she was going home.
05:54So, I got in my car and then I reversed, but in my rearview mirror I saw that Stephanie was walking towards the river bridge.
06:05So I thought she was going to cross the bridge to stay at her grandmother Hazel's house.
06:11As they were also leaving the parking lot, Brandi Bennetts and her mother saw Stephanie in the parking lot as well.
06:18But now she was waiting to cross Highway 93 toward school.
06:22I remember my mother waiting for her to cross the street and she asked me,
06:26Ask Stephanie if she wants a ride, because she's going back to school.
06:31And I yelled, "Steph, where are you going?"
06:33I want a ride.
06:35And she said, no, I forgot my backpack on the soccer field at school.
06:39The school was five minutes away, and then another ten minutes for Stephanie to get home.
06:44She was supposed to arrive at five in the afternoon.
06:48His grandmother Hazel lived next door.
06:50But it was already past five o'clock and Stephanie hadn't shown up.
06:55Sandy, Stephanie's mother, called me at 5:15 to ask if she had come to my house.
07:02And I said no.
07:03But perhaps she was in the backyard playing with the boys.
07:07So I went to ask her friends.
07:10But none of them had seen Stephanie.
07:13Stephanie's mother and grandmother immediately began searching for her.
07:18I got in my car and went looking for her in the streets.
07:22And when it got dark, I knew she was somewhere.
07:27Because she wasn't going to stay out on the street after dark.
07:31The family said that everyone who knew her knew that the thing she feared most was the dark.
07:37She always asked me to spend the night with her, and I always agreed.
07:45As soon as the sun set, she wanted to go home.
07:50She spent very few nights with me.
07:54Even when Stephanie was home alone, it couldn't be dark in her room.
07:59We spent the night at her house once and she didn't turn off her bedroom light.
08:05I didn't know why.
08:07And she didn't say anything to me.
08:10The family wondered if she had gone to spend the night at a friend's house.
08:15Perhaps to escape the noise of her own house with her three sisters.
08:18We thought it was likely she had gone to a friend's house.
08:24So I started calling other people to find out if she had gone to someone's house.
08:30But Hazel's phone calls and the drive around Sandy's town came to nothing.
08:37At eight o'clock in the evening, there was still no news of Stephanie.
08:40And her mother became extremely worried.
08:44Sandy Crane, Stephanie's mother, arrived at the police station around 8:00 PM.
08:49to say that he couldn't find his nine-year-old daughter, Stephanie.
08:55So we sent the only police officer we had there.
08:58to see if she had fallen into the river near the bowling alley.
09:03It seemed like Stephanie wasn't in the river.
09:06Although it's difficult to be certain in the dark.
09:08The emergency operator, Linda Dubiel, called immediately.
09:14for the Custer search and rescue department and for the firefighters.
09:18Nearby residents also joined the search for Stephanie.
09:22There were about fifty of us at the time.
09:25And we all searched where we should have been searching.
09:29And we went back to meet at the bowling alley.
09:32They wanted to extend the search to the city center.
09:35Knowing that time is of the essence, the search teams used everything they could.
09:40They used police pickup trucks, horses, and cars in the search.
09:45They searched on foot.
09:48Custer's search and rescue team used a boat to search the Salmo River.
09:53But the teams found nothing of Stephanie's.
09:56We were supposed to be back at the police station at midnight.
09:59And when we got there, the police chief said he was going to cancel the search.
10:04With her best friend, who had disappeared at the time,
10:07Stephanie's last image now terrifies Brandi Bennetts.
10:11I waved goodbye to her when she was on the sidewalk.
10:15Returning to our school.
10:18I said goodbye and then spoke to her.
10:20I'll see you at school tomorrow.
10:22Nine-year-old Stephanie Craney never arrived home.
10:33after leaving the bowling alley in her hometown of Charlize, Idaho.
10:37She has been missing for 14 hours.
10:41The last people who saw Stephanie
10:43They say she was returning to school to pick up her backpack and go back home.
10:47News of Stephanie's disappearance spread quickly among Charlize.
10:53The following morning, her friend Brandi's mother gave her terrible news.
10:58She said, "They can't find Stephanie."
11:02No one has spoken to her at the bowling alley since yesterday.
11:05I didn't know what to think.
11:07Stephanie's parents and loved ones are worried about her disappearance.
11:11I found out the next morning that Stephanie hadn't returned.
11:15And that's when everyone bombarded me with questions.
11:17Her grandmother asked me, "Was Stephanie with you?"
11:21Do you know where she went?
11:25During the day, local police officers, firefighters,
11:29the search and rescue department
11:31And more than 100 volunteers helped in the search.
11:35State and federal police also went to Charlize to offer assistance.
11:38A photo of Stephanie along with a description of what she was wearing was sent to the Idaho police.
11:46and to all police agencies throughout the state.
11:54We thoroughly searched the entire area we walked through the previous night.
11:57And then, suddenly, a curious find near the school caught the attention of the investigators.
12:09A vehicle that residents did not recognize was parked in the parking lot.
12:13a few meters from the entrance to Stephanie's school.
12:16We received several reports of a yellow pickup truck near the school.
12:21People found the suspect.
12:25In a city the size of Charlize,
12:27Residents claim to recognize each other's cars.
12:31But this one didn't belong to anyone in the city.
12:34When the police went to look for the car, they ran into a problem.
12:38The pickup truck that had been seen near the school was not there when the police arrived.
12:43and nobody knew the license plate.
12:48While the police were trying to locate the car,
12:51Local residents organized themselves to spread the news of Stephanie's disappearance.
12:56The group formed what they called Stephanie's Friends.
12:59And they started sending out various pamphlets of her in letter envelopes all over the country.
13:05We sent pamphlets all over the United States.
13:09We made a lot of pamphlets.
13:11and we started hanging it everywhere we could find it.
13:14near where we lived in the city.
13:19A police sniffer dog from Idaho
13:21He was taken in to search for any trace of Stephanie.
13:24He went from the bowling alley to school.
13:28and then to Reza's house where Stephanie was staying.
13:31The sniffer dog identified Stephanie's scent.
13:35But he lost it a few meters from the bowling alley.
13:40On the third day after Stephanie's disappearance,
13:44The residents searched the roadsides on foot.
13:47Luani Barry and her son Brando joined them.
13:51In a ditch near the road, they found a car license plate.
13:54The car's license plate was on the grass.
13:58where the bushes and everything else were.
14:01And she was there.
14:03They told us to leave our belongings where we found them and call the police.
14:06Thinking the license plate might have come from the car involved in Stephanie's disappearance,
14:12Luani noted the nearest kilometer marker on Highway 93.
14:16Then, a truck took them eight kilometers south to continue the search.
14:22He found another license plate and told me,
14:25Mom, I found another license plate and it has the same number as the one we found.
14:32I notified the police.
14:35And then they went there to collect the evidence.
14:37About five months later, Idaho state police called Luani and her son.
14:47to talk about the license plates they found two days after Stephanie's disappearance.
14:52They asked if they were covered in soil or if they were hidden among the plants.
14:57They seemed to have been there for a long time.
14:59whether they were facing down or facing up.
15:05But the license plates didn't lead to any suspects.
15:11Amidst all the efforts, Stephanie's friends said they tried to return to their own lives.
15:18But nothing would ever be the same again.
15:21She was sitting to my left.
15:23I remember when we arrived at school and could go to our desks,
15:27But I couldn't touch Stephanie's.
15:29There was something around her, and it was meant to stay exactly that way.
15:34I stayed in the room, but Stephanie didn't show up.
15:38And when another child got sick, everyone knew why, what had happened.
15:43So that was really strange.
15:46I remember there was something on her desk that I wanted.
15:49But I don't remember exactly what.
15:52Maybe a ticket.
15:53We were at the age where we were passing notes back and forth.
15:57I think I wrote something embarrassing in a note to her, or something.
16:01I wanted that in the trash.
16:04But I couldn't take it.
16:11Four days after Stephanie's disappearance,
16:15The investigators questioned the children she was with that night.
16:19And several of them realized something worrying.
16:22I saw a strange person I had never seen before.
16:27And he was terrifying.
16:28According to the children, the stranger seemed fixated on the bowling game.
16:34I remember that man clearly looking at all of us.
16:38And I realized, I truly felt, that he could be more than just a stranger.
16:44Following the new lead, the police asked Stephanie's friend, Chase, for more details.
16:55That's when I decided to tell them everything I could remember from that day.
17:00They even wanted to know what kind of cigarettes the guy smoked.
17:04The FBI brought in a professional sketch artist to create a composite sketch of the suspect.
17:10They asked, did he have a round face or an oval face?
17:14But he had a very thin face.
17:16Then they asked about his cheeks, and they always showed me how the drawing was coming along.
17:22When I said, "Yeah, that one looks like him."
17:25Then they printed it out and put up a wanted poster.
17:32The investigators showed the drawing throughout the state, but received no calls.
17:36They also spoke with the owner of the bowling alley.
17:41Over the next ten days, no further information was received regarding Stephanie's case.
17:49Even the $50,000 reward, half raised by residents and half by an anonymous source, came to nothing.
17:59Stephanie's family continued to grapple with the grief and confusion of her sudden disappearance.
18:06According to friends, Stephanie's parents were devastated, but they tried to hold onto hope.
18:26The father, Ben, became much more reserved.
18:32I remember him becoming quieter.
18:35Almost, almost mute.
18:37Upon seeing one of their residents disappear like that, the people of Chalice began to live in fear.
18:49You think these small communities are safe, but then you get the unsettling feeling that nothing is safe anymore.
18:56We were terrified, all of us.
19:02Parents, children, we've become even more reclusive than we were, more cautious.
19:12Residents said the carefree days of children walking alone were over.
19:18Ted was in the third grade, so I would take him to school, and in the morning I would walk him to the classroom door.
19:26I used to pick him up from the living room; I didn't trust anyone to take him to the bus.
19:31And when I arrived at the school, there were 10, 15, 20 other parents there picking up their children from the classroom.
19:38The police continued searching door to door, trying to determine if anyone had seen anything suspicious on the night of Stephanie's disappearance.
19:53Including someone who is a stranger in the city.
19:56Or the mysterious pickup truck parked in front of the still unidentified school.
20:00Their task became more complicated, since Stephanie disappeared in October, in the middle of the hunting, archiving, and wipe cheese season.
20:11Throughout the month, hunters from other states went to Charles, via Highway 93, the city's main road, where Stephanie was seen attempting to cross.
20:21Hunters come from other cities in the south, you understand?
20:25From Idaho Falls and Pocatelo.
20:27So, it was quite crowded.
20:31The investigators had to imagine the worst and most frightening scenario.
20:36A hunter passing through town kidnapped Stephanie on the side of the road.
20:44On October 15th, four days after Stephanie's disappearance, a clue emerged suggesting this possibility.
20:52On the night she disappeared, an unfamiliar vehicle was seen in the city.
20:57A blue van parked on Highway 93, half a kilometer from the bowling alley.
21:03And 45 minutes later, another person saw that blue van, 45 kilometers south of Charles.
21:10One of the reports that the Custer police received from a convenience store clerk was that there were two men fighting.
21:17Four days after Stephanie Craney's disappearance, authorities received a promising lead about a blue van spotted in Charles, Idaho, with two men fighting nearby.
21:32Let me go! Why did you do that?
21:34Police tried to locate the van where it was last seen, on Highway 75, southeast of Charles.
21:42When the police arrived, the van had already left.
21:46According to what the Custer police officers said, the van was no longer there.
21:50They discovered that, just like the last time they saw a van, nobody had noted the license plate or the model.
21:56And there wasn't any security video to help either.
22:01Over the next three months, the police found no new leads.
22:07The composite sketch of the bowling alley man also led nowhere.
22:21On September 27, 1994, one day before what would have been Stephanie's tenth birthday,
22:29The residents decided to celebrate with a symbolic gesture.
22:33Her favorite color was purple.
22:35In remembrance, Stephanie, her family, and other residents released purple balloons.
22:40Already grieving the loss of Stephanie, her family went through even worse situations in the following years.
23:08In 1995, a year and a half after Stephanie's disappearance, her parents, Sandy and Ben, decided to divorce.
23:17They eventually separated, and I didn't find that strange.
23:23I think Ben tried to forget or move on, and Sandy suffered more.
23:32In May 1995, Hazel's daughter-in-law, Sandy, moved to Reno, Nevada, and experienced health problems.
23:42I don't think her life was good.
23:44She ended up dying from blood clots in her lungs.
23:47Stephanie's father, Ben, stayed in Chalice and raised his three daughters alone.
23:55According to the grandmother, the Crane family mourned Stephanie's loss every day.
24:03Hazel says that her husband Earl, Stephanie's grandfather, was angry and frustrated by the complete lack of answers about his granddaughter's disappearance.
24:12He was angry, angry at whoever took her, angry at our legal system for not being able to find her, and angry at himself because he couldn't solve this problem on his own.
24:25Hazel says she tried everything to have a normal life, but that it's extremely difficult.
24:30I think you don't forget, you just do the things you have to do.
24:39There was one time when some friends came over to my house on a Friday for dinner, and they were all laughing and joking around.
24:49I broke down, left the house, went into the trailer and sat there crying.
24:55One of the things we complained about was the fact that we didn't know anything, they didn't tell us anything.
25:24And the prosecutor said, according to our office, there is no evidence that the crime was committed.
25:33And I said, do you think she evaporated?
25:36Yes, a crime was committed, but he replied, maybe she ran away from home, but I said that was impossible.
25:44She was only nine years old; if she were to run away from home, she would be at her grandmother's house, but she isn't.
25:49The case was shelved for another year, but in early 1997, the Idaho Department of Game and Fish alerted law enforcement to a massive lead.
26:03They were in the custody of hunter Keith Hascock for illegal possession of animals.
26:09Inspectors found a stash of pornography among his belongings, and it appeared to include underage girls.
26:18Furthermore, they believed Hascock had been in Chalice four years prior, when Stephanie disappeared.
26:24We knew Mr. Hascock was here on October 11th because he killed a sheep in the Morgan River in County Curia.
26:34Investigators also discovered that Hascock used to drive a pickup truck similar to the mysterious yellow one spotted near the school after Stephanie's disappearance.
26:45He was driving a yellow pickup truck, but we didn't have enough, there wasn't enough evidence to arrest him.
26:51But four years later, the police have been unable to locate the yellow pickup truck.
26:57Despite finding pornography and a possible link to the pickup truck, a search of Hascock's home yielded no evidence in the case.
27:06In the end, the police were unable to connect him to what had happened.
27:09No new leads have emerged in Custer County.
27:12Once again, the case was closed.
27:16And other changes occurred in the life of the Craney family.
27:19In 1998, five years after Stephanie's disappearance, her father, Ben, moved with his family to Orcas Island, Washington, about 2,000 kilometers from Idaho.
27:32Stephanie's grandparents, Hazel and Earl, stayed in Charles, still hoping that she would return someday.
27:38Two more years passed without any developments in the case.
28:01Then, in May 2000, almost seven years after Stephanie's disappearance, a new lead emerged in Nampa, Idaho, 500 kilometers east of Chalice.
28:15Sergeant Myers received information that an inmate at our prison possessed information about Stephanie Craney's disappearance.
28:24So, Myers interrogated this prisoner.
28:27The inmate told the detective that a friend of his had rented a room in a man's apartment in 1993, the year Stephanie disappeared.
28:36He stated that she told him the neighbors heard disturbing noises coming from a nearby window.
28:45They heard a girl crying and screaming in the basement, but no one could go in there.
28:50In the seven years since the disappearance of nine-year-old Stephanie Craney, police have had few promising leads.
29:03In the year 2000, the Craney case became famous within the state of Idaho.
29:09When I say I grew up in Chalice, I get listened.
29:12So that's where a girl was kidnapped?
29:15Yes, the repercussions were nationwide.
29:17And then, in April 2000, the closed case suddenly came back to life.
29:23after a clue appeared for the police in Canyon, 300 kilometers east of Chalice.
29:29Stephanie Craney's case was considered a major case, every time a little girl goes missing.
29:35It's important to do everything possible to resolve this, and our department worked very, very hard.
29:39We followed many leads and pieces of information for several months.
29:42The lead came from an inmate at a Canyon County jail, who told officials about a woman who claimed to know the man responsible for Stephanie's disappearance.
29:53The detectives questioned the woman, and she told them that seven years ago, in 1993, she lived with a man who traveled between Idaho and Oregon.
30:03When she lived with him in Nampa, Idaho, she found his behavior extremely suspicious.
30:10That's when we discovered this basement, and nobody was allowed to go in there.
30:15He wouldn't let anyone down there, nobody went there, but you could hear a girl crying.
30:20The roommate said the neighbors thought someone was being held captive.
30:25She said she asked him why the basement was always locked, and his answer was disturbing.
30:31He said she was his daughter, that she was being punished for running away, or something like that.
30:37The woman told police that when the man left the apartment, she looked through his belongings and found several disturbing things, including children's underwear.
30:46Frightened and confused, she decided she needed to get away from this man before something happened to her or her children.
30:58Seven years later, investigators are still wondering if the girl in the basement was really Stephanie Crane.
31:05This was his apartment, number one, where the man lived, and it was from this window that the neighbors said they heard a girl crying and screaming.
31:18In April 2000, with the woman's testimony in hand, Keniel County detectives investigated the man's past.
31:27They discovered that 13 months before Stephanie's disappearance, in November 1992, he was arrested for sexual crimes against a minor.
31:37He was accused, at the time he lived in Portland, of abusing his own daughter.
31:44The man, whose name authorities have not released, was sentenced for the rape of a vulnerable person, but never served his sentence due to a plea deal with the police.
31:52He was sentenced to six months in jail, converted to three years of probation, and was allowed to move to Idaho.
32:01The judge also ruled that all future contact with his daughter should be supervised.
32:08In mid-April, detectives found him at his workplace.
32:11When I first spoke to that man, he was working as an ordinary person in Nampa.
32:18And I asked if he would agree to participate in the interrogation.
32:20The man agreed to take the polygraph test, and the investigators asked him several specific questions.
32:28They were the type to ask, "Did you have any involvement in Stephanie Crane's disappearance?"
32:33Did you kidnap Stephanie Crane?
32:35Three questions of that nature, and he answered no.
32:38But the machine indicated that he was being quite dishonest in his answers.
32:44When they were told the results of the polygraph test, the man became defensive.
32:48He got a little angry, argumentative, you know?
32:52He was trying to explain why the test indicated a lie.
32:55A week later, detectives obtained a search warrant for the man's apartment in Nampa.
33:06They inspected the entire apartment, where seven years ago, neighbors heard a girl's voice.
33:12And there were two mattresses in the basement.
33:16Some stains that looked like blood, which we cut out and labeled.
33:21We also found rope and some fibers with hair.
33:26The detectives sent the mattresses with bloodstains to the Boise laboratory.
33:34Two months later, the results came in.
33:38The traces of blood were inconclusive.
33:41Forensic detectives were unable to determine whether the blood was human or animal.
33:46The hair was human, but the lab didn't have the equipment to perform DNA tests, since there was no follicle.
33:53They needed one more piece of evidence to be able to confirm that the hair was, in fact, Stephanie Crane's.
34:00Although investigators believed they had evidence linking the man to Stephanie Crane's disappearance, they were unable to arrest him.
34:10So, the mystery of what happened to Stephanie Crane remained.
34:14It was a very old case.
34:16I'm sorry, but the more time passes, the harder it becomes to solve.
34:23A month later, Idaho state police and the FBI returned to Charles, still searching for evidence linked to the man.
34:31They showed a series of photos to Tina Foster, who was working at the bowling alley the night Stephanie disappeared.
34:40When asked if she saw the mysterious man there, described seven years ago by Chase, Stephanie's friend, Tina pointed to the suspect's photo.
34:49But he said he wasn't 100% sure.
34:54Without proper identification or DNA evidence, investigators were unable to arrest him for kidnapping Stephanie Crane.
35:03In June 2002, the name of a man, who had been questioned by authorities five years earlier, resurfaced.
35:13Bonneville police were pursuing Keith Hescock, the hunter arrested for illegal hunting and possession of child pornography.
35:22Now, Hescock was a suspect in a heinous crime.
35:27He kidnapped a girl from Idaho Falls, raped her, handcuffed her to a bed, and left for work.
35:36He said he had done this before and that he had killed another girl.
35:40She grabbed a fire extinguisher and hit the handcuffs until she broke free.
35:44Four hours after his 14-year-old victim escaped, Hescock was found by authorities at his home.
35:53When Mr. Hescock arrived home from work, the police were waiting at the door.
36:00He fled, and there was a car chase in Bonneville that ended in Madison.
36:06He went outside, shot, and killed a police dog.
36:09He shot a police officer in the leg and then killed himself.
36:14Hescock died from his injury.
36:21So the police never found out if he had anything to do with Stephanie's disappearance, but he's still a suspect.
36:30In November 2003, Hazel suffered another loss when her husband, Earl, died.
36:40For the next three years, there were no new developments in the case.
36:44In December 2006, 13 years after the disappearance of nine-year-old Stephanie Craney, an unusual new lead emerged.
36:58A man in Torn Creek, 430 kilometers from Charles, left a suicide note saying that some years ago,
37:05A friend of his named Kevin Mooney told him that he had kidnapped a girl named Steph, in Charlize, and killed her.
37:14Charlize's police followed the lead.
37:17After the Custer police station received this information, we contacted Idaho state law enforcement and the FBI.
37:24They discovered that Kevin Mooney was 42 years old, frequently changed jobs, and had several minor criminal charges against him.
37:34Mr. Mooney was contacted and brought to the FBI office in Boise for a polygraph test.
37:41Mooney told police he didn't remember being at Charlize's on October 11, 1993.
37:46The police conducted a thorough search of his house.
37:51We found several dog carcasses near Mr. Mooney's property, but nothing came of it.
37:59Mooney told investigators that he didn't know why his friend would say that he killed the girl.
38:04When he passed the polygraph test, the detectives no longer considered him a suspect.
38:09The investigation has died once again.
38:16On October 11, 2012, 19 years after Stephanie's disappearance, the Craney family suffered another loss.
38:27Nineteen years after the day we lost Stephanie, we lost Ben.
38:33He had a heart attack.
38:36Ben, Stephanie's father, was 48 years old.
38:39Reis, I said that facing the loss of your first granddaughter forever changed the way your family was.
38:49Never leave without hugging each other or saying I love you.
38:55Even if it's over the phone.
39:00Don't be angry with each other, okay?
39:03Because life is short.
39:06And everything Hazel remembered about her granddaughter, Stephanie, was something to be treasured.
39:13I have a willow tree in my garden.
39:17It has a strange branch sticking out of it.
39:21My husband took some planks and built a little house there for her to climb up and stay in her treehouse.
39:32Several people have already come wanting to trim my tree, wanting to cut this branch.
39:41And I say, no, that's Stephanie's treehouse branch.
39:47According to Hazel, she received news about the investigation into Stephanie's disappearance over the years.
39:54But she understands why they don't tell her about all the leads that come into the department.
39:59If I had known everything that was going to happen when I got there, I would have ended up on an emotional rollercoaster and gone crazy.
40:11So they protected me by not telling me everything.
40:15Linda Dubiel, who responded to Stephanie's mother's missing person request 24 years ago, has never forgotten the young and lively 9-year-old girl.
40:25I just want to know what happened to that girl who disappeared while I was serving.
40:32Where is she? Why can't we find her? It seems like she just vanished.
40:36Then, in June 2016, the search for Stephanie heated up again.
40:45This time, Linda Dubiel and a new group of investigators went to Chalice to interrogate the man who allegedly hid a girl in his basement in 1993.
40:57Custer's department did not provide details of the interrogation because Stephanie's case is an open investigation.
41:03Detective Wayne Chris, who questioned the man in 2000, says he was close to solving the case.
41:12We were convinced that this man was involved, but we couldn't get a confession.
41:21He came close, but he never actually admitted everything.
41:24Stephanie's grandmother, Hazel, says she does what she can to live in the present.
41:42But there's one fact about Stephanie's disappearance that she can't accept.
41:51I've thought for years that someone must have seen something.
41:55Or someone is unsure of what they saw.
41:59Or he doesn't want to talk about what he saw.
42:04After so much time has passed since her disappearance, I think if anyone knew anything, they would have spoken up by now.
42:11Recent news about kidnapped girls who escaped their kidnappers years later gives hope to the people of Chalice.
42:20When I saw the story of three girls kidnapped in Ohio,
42:25And then there's the story of Jace Lee Duggar from California; every now and then I think, maybe she's still alive.
42:32Hazel says that after all these years, she still can't imagine what happened to Stephanie that October night.
42:41I don't even know if she died, and I don't even know if I want to know.
42:46Her loved ones still say, even after 24 years, that Stephanie is still alive in their hearts.
42:53October 11th will always remind me of Stephanie.
42:58In the fall, I think about Stephanie.
43:01That's a fact.
43:02She will never be forgotten by any of us.
43:07And there
43:09And there
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