8YO Girl Comes Back From the Dead to Take Down Serial Killer | The Case of Morgan, Tali & Robin

- The year is 1965. Thirteen years before the episode of "The Dating Game" is recorded, 13-year-old Morgan Rowan has just moved to North Hollywood with her family. The shy young girl goes to Catholic school and is enjoying the free-spirited life of California.

On this particular night, she's hanging out with a friend at her favorite spot, the Hullabaloo Club, a famous nightclub that attracts even the biggest celebrities. As they're standing in the parking lot, waiting to watch the bands come in, Morgan sees two older guys staring at them and smiling. Her friend tells Morgan, "Hey, that's Rod.

" - He was tall, attractive, he was very charismatic. He really drew people to him. Young girls loved him, they just loved him.

He kept looking over at us, smiling, winking, playful, and eventually kinda waved us over. - After a few minutes, Morgan's friend takes off to go meet someone, leaving her alone with the two guys. With Rod.

But Morgan doesn't mind as she finds him interesting. She even likes the extra attention he gives her. - I wanted his attention, and he put his arm around me, hugged me tight, smiled, and laughed.

- But while Morgan thinks Rod is simply flirting with her, she has no idea what his real intentions are. - He grabbed my arm and dragged me into an alley at the back of the club. I think he slammed my head against the wall because I was unconscious.

When I woke up, I had something pressing hard against my chest. - As she comes to, she's standing up straight, pinned against the wall. Morgan realizes Rod has pushed a dumpster against her.

She was badly beaten while she was unconscious, but Rod is nowhere in sight, so she's able to free herself. - I ran and pounded on the door and the owner of the club called his wife and she helped me. After that, I would make sure I stayed away from him.

- For the next three years, Morgan makes sure she doesn't come into contact with Rod. Her spirit is shaken, but with time, she begins to go out with her friends again, until late August of 1968. - When I was 16 years old, I found out that we were moving back to New York.

I was so upset by it and I didn't wanna leave my friends. - Four days before she's set to move back to New York, Morgan and her friends decide to go celebrate one last time on the Sunset Strip. - There were hundreds of people walking around on the street, singing or dancing, or whatever, and you would just talk to anybody.

Rod just suddenly appeared in the crowd and I was absolutely creeped out. - Morgan tries to ignore it and move on with her night. She doesn't want to ruin her last time going out with her friends.

- Maybe an hour or so later, my two friends came up and said, "Come on, we're all going to IHOP, you wanna go? " So we got in a car. My friend Mike was on one side, my friend Evie was on the other, and I was in the middle.

Then suddenly, Rod got into the driver's seat and just took off. - Morgan is terrified. She hasn't told her friends about the incident with the dumpster.

And as they're driving to the restaurant, Morgan isn't sure if she should run or pretend like nothing happened. - We went in the restaurant and he pretty much ignored me. I got up and I went to go to the bathroom and I passed a payphone, and.

. . My dad always taped a dime inside all of my shoes so I'd be able to call for help if I was in trouble.

So I took the dime and I just kind of stood there thinking about it. I had four days with my friends and I wanted to be with my friends, and I didn't call my dad. If I could go back, I would've called my dad.

- As she returns to the booth, Rod is telling everyone he'll drive them back. Morgan doesn't say a word, hoping this would be the end of it. And she gets in the car once more.

But as they're driving back towards the Strip, Rod suddenly makes a turn and stops at a house. He tells Morgan and her friends, "Come in, guys. I'm having a party.

" - My friends thought that was great. It was loud, loud music, people talking. I was anxious to leave and I didn't wanna sit down so I would just pace.

At one point, I walked away from my friends just for a moment and he just kind of appeared out of nowhere and grabbed me, and threw me into his bedroom. - As Morgan staggers on the bedroom floor, Rod grabs hold of a metal bar and drops it into some brackets on each side of the door, preventing anyone from opening it. - I started to know I was in trouble and I kept backing up until I was against the wall.

I tried to be brave and I said, "You know, you can't keep me here. " And he just punched me between my eyes as hard as he could. - Rob then takes out a knife and cuts the tie off her neck.

- I could feel blood start to flow, and I remember thinking, "He cut my neck, I'm gonna die. " - With the knife in hand, Rod cuts off the rest of her clothes, leaving her naked. As he gets up to take off his own pants, he puts the knife down onto the floor, just out of reach from Morgan.

- I could see it next to me and I kind of fixated on it and I kept thinking, "If I can move to where I can get on top of the knife, he can't pick it up and kill me with it. " And he raped me, I fought really hard. I was a virgin, this was devastating.

I started to feel like I was falling down a well, just a really long dark well. I was praying for it to be over, praying because I knew that I was gonna die. But suddenly, there was a whole lot of commotion.

- Although the loud music has prevented anyone in the house from hearing what is going on in Rod's bedroom, Morgan's friends have noticed she's missing. As they're banging on the door, Rod gets furious and takes it out on Morgan, violently. The young girl is losing track of reality, barely clinging to consciousness, when suddenly, the window beside her shatters.

- My friend Mike, had broken through the window. I could feel air, cool air, everybody ran into the room and he was just standing there, naked from the waist down, with my blood all over his shirt, and he said, "Take her. " If my friend Mike hadn't broken the window, I would definitely not be here today.

- Morgan runs out into the streets with nothing but a ripped blouse on her. Her friend Mike catches up to her and begs her to get help, but Morgan is adamant, she doesn't want her parents to know what happened. - I just knew I could never ever tell my mother or my father.

I could never do this to my mother, ever. My mother was fragile. My mother would not have been able to handle it.

- She agrees to go to Mike's house so she can be taken care of. - A police officer appeared, I'm not sure who called. I really didn't wanna talk to him because I didn't want my parents to know.

I wasn't cooperative at all, and he left. - Regardless of whether she wanted to pursue it or not, the officer had plenty of information and it should have been reported, and it wasn't. - When I got to New York, the person I had been was gone.

I was morose, and quiet, and troubled. My parents just thought, you know that I was sad from leaving California and I was upset. - It's October 1968, Morgan has been living in New York for the past few weeks, doing everything she can to forget the attack on her life, when she gets a letter in the mail from one of the girls who was there that night.

- When I opened the letter, a newspaper clipping fell out onto the floor and it said that Rod Alcala had raped and almost killed an 8-year-old girl. I was overwhelmed, it was my fault. I hadn't done anything, I could have stopped it.

I should have told my parents, I should have done something. I should have gone back to that house and killed him myself. So I tried to call back to LA, tried to get ahold of somebody, but I had no name to track.

I didn't even know if she lived. It broke me. I dreamt about her all the time.

She had no name, no face, she was just kind of a ghost. I would go to the library and look up, "LA Times" on microfilm and look for anything that told me whether she lived or not. - Rodney Alcala, the man Morgan knows only as “Rod,” is in every newspaper she finds, and yet there is no news of his arrest.

The man, it seems has vanished. What she doesn't know is that Rodney Alcala has also traveled to New York. - Senator Kennedy has been shot.

- The shot apparently came from an apartment building. - This is Bill McCrary in North Tarrytown with a story about the discovery of the body of a millionaire's daughter missing for the past 11 months. Right now, the body of Miss Hover is in the medical examiner's office up here, where they're trying to determine if foul play was involved in her death.

- The year 1971, three years after the attack on Morgan, two young girls walk into the post office in New Hampshire, less than 300 miles from where Morgan lives. The girls notice a picture up on the wall wall behind the counter that says "FBI's Most Wanted. " On it, is a picture of their summer camp counselor, a man they know as “John Berger.

” But the paper says, “Rodney Alcala. ” - I get a phone call and it's the FBI in New Hampshire. They say, "Hey, we've got your guy in custody, Rodney James Alcala.

" I said, "You've got him in custody, fantastic! " - It seems too good to be true, but Alcala has in fact been arrested after moving to the other side of the country and changing his name to John Berger. - He was actually working at a teenage girls camp, and I had some information about, he was dating the owner of the camp's teenage daughter.

- As it turns out, Alcala had purposely found a job as a photography teacher in a summer camp exclusively for girls. Police can only imagine he was planning for his next victim. - On the 12th of August 1971, I picked him up, took him to the airport, flew him back.

“We got our guy, he's going to prison for at least 20, 30 years. ” - Detective Steve Hodel is convinced this is an open and shut case, that he's removed Rodney Alcala from the streets for good, but this couldn't be farther from the truth. Alcala is brought on charges of kidnapping, rape, and attempted murder.

With the physical evidence found in his home, with multiple eyewitnesses, and with the victim's identification of Rodney Alcala, the case against him falls apart because one key witness is missing. - Around that time, I went down to the library and looked it up and it said that the 8-year-old girl had been unable to testify. That broke my heart.

I thought that she was badly brain damaged. I didn't think she would have a life. I was really, really hurt.

- When the prosecution learned that this 8-year-old girl would not be availed to testify, they decided to give him what is known as a plea deal. - Alcala accepts the charge of child molestation in exchange for a reduced sentence, but the sentence the judge decides to give him shocks everyone, one year to life, which means Rodney Alcala could be released any time after 12 months if he can convince the parole board that he's rehabilitated. - In August of 1974, after only 34 months in state prison, the parole board released this man into the wild, into society.

- I think that because he was as smooth and slick as he was, I think he worked his mental magic on the psychologist and that recommendation came out: “He's all well now, he's cured, he can go back into society. ” - But Rodney James Alcala has yet to show the world what kind of monster he really is. But before we continue this story, this video is brought to you by BetterHelp.

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Now, back to the story. It's June 20th 1979, five years after Alcala was released from prison. 12-year-old Robin Samsoe and her friend Bridget are doing cartwheels down at Huntington Beach when a man walks up to them.

He says he's a professional photographer and asks if he can take their picture. - This is the type of thing that Rodney Alcala would do. He would seek out girls and convince them that he was a legitimate photographer, and he was gonna do a magazine layout.

- As the man is taking their picture, a neighbor comes up to the girls and asks if they're okay, worried about this strange man talking to them. As soon as she arrives, the photographer turns his face away from her and sprints away. - He approached two 12-year-old girls, who does that?

It's just as creepy in 1979 as it would be today. - Shortly after, Robin leaves her friend Bridget, so she can be at her ballet class at 4:00. Bridget lends Robin her bike so she won't be late.

One hour later, Robin's mother gets a phone call from the ballet studio, her daughter never showed up. Right away, Robin's mother, Marianne, calls Bridget's house, the friend she was last seen with. This is when she learns about the strange man who approached her.

Police are called, and Bridget meets with a sketch artist, providing authorities with this drawing. The sketch is shared with every media outlet. Everyone is on the lookout, searching for this man, and for 12-year-old Robin, to no avail.

- It was probably the most horrifying time of all, you know, not knowing. - Robin Samsoe was a 12-year-old blond, blue-eyed, poster child for healthy lifestyle. - She always had a spirit about her.

I mean, everybody that met her fell in love with her. - She was probably the most loving child a mother could have. Everything she did, she did to please me.

- July 2nd, twelve days after she went missing, Robin's body is found in the foothills of Sierra Madre, more than 40 miles from where she was last seen. - I said, "Let's go see her. " He said, "We can't do that.

" I said, "That's my baby, of course I can see her, why not? " He said, "Because it took us three days to identify her. " I said, “What's wrong with you people?

How many little girls with long blond hair disappear that it took you three days? " He shook my shoulders and the tears were coming down his face, too. He says, "There was no hair.

" - Marianne, Robin's mother, is shattered. The loss of her daughter has forever changed her. Los Angeles is troubled by the murder of Robin Samsoe as police struggle to find a single suspect.

- Detective Jenkins with the Huntington Beach Police Department gets a phone call in the late afternoon from a parole officer who says, "Hey, I've got a parolee who looks awfully similar to that composite sketch. You need to look at him, his name is Rodney Alcala. " So, this is towards the end of the day, these police are working 18 hour days, if not longer, and Jenkins needs a break.

- Detective Jenkins plans to take a look at this man named Rodney Alcala first thing in the morning. But for now, he's headed home for the night, but he can't shake the idea that his suspect might have been identified. The name “Rodney Alcala” lingers on his mind, even as he sits down at home in front of the television and stumbles upon a rerun of "The Dating Game.

" - Well, let's see, Bachelor Number One is a successful photographer, his father found him in the darkroom at the age of 13, fully developed. [Laughter] Please welcome Rodney Alcala. Rod, welcome.

- There is Rodney Alcala on TV, winning “The Dating Game. ” - Number One, would you say hello to Cheryl, please? - We're gonna have a great time together, Cheryl.

- In retrospect, it has gotta be one of the creepiest moments on TV. - Bachelor Number One. - Yes?

- What's your “best time? ” - The best time is at night, nighttime. [Laughter] Nighttime's when it really gets good.

- The arrogance to actually go on television in front of the whole country, looking for more women. - Detective Jenkins cannot believe that Robin Samsoe's killer is on TV. He finally confirms, this is the man from the drawing.

He immediately starts calling the police department to tell the sergeant he's identified Rodney Alcala, but he can't help but worry for the contestant on the show. It was recorded one year earlier. The woman contestant is Cheryl Bradshaw, and if she chooses him, will she become his next murder victim?

- Will that date be Bachelor Number One, Bachelor Number Two, or Bachelor Number Three? Who gets the date? - Well, I like bananas, so I'll take One.

- Number One, Bachelor Number One, alright! [Cheers] - But backstage, once the cameras are off, Cheryl's instinct tells her something's not right, so she calls the producer of the show. - She called me at the office and she was like, "Ellen, I can't go out with this guy.

I mean, he is a creep, I'm not going, I can't. " - She got, as she said, very creepy vibes from him. She felt very uncomfortable.

- I went, "Oh God no, don't go, you don't have to go. " I think it may have saved her life. - It's July 24th 1979 when police arrest Rodney Alcala for the murder of Robin Samsoe.

All this time he had been hiding in plain sight, living at his mother's house just a few feet away from where Robin's body was found. - They obtained a search warrant for his mother's residence where he was living. - They don't find any forensic evidence linking Rodney Alcala to the murder Robin Samsoe.

But they do find a receipt for a storage unit in Seattle. - They get up to Seattle, they open it up, and it was a bonanza of evidence. - They found over a thousand pictures of young girls and boys that were in explicit and sexually provocative poses, and a lot of them were naked.

- And many photographs of potential victims that Rodney may have targeted, and recover many rolls of undeveloped film. - They also find various forms of jewelry, a bunch of different earrings. - Two of the earrings found were gold ball earrings.

Robin was described as wearing those earrings on the day that she disappeared. - Now we have something that links Rodney Alcala to Robin Samsoe. - February 1980, Rodney Alcala goes on trial.

Every seat in the courthouse is taken. Robin Samsoe's mother, Marianne, is there. As she's sitting behind her daughter's killer, she has a clear view of him, and her hand is inside her purse, clutching a gun.

No one in the courthouse knows that she's about to shoot Rodney Alcala. Not even Robin's oldest sister, Taranne, sitting next to her. - My mom just, she was never the same.

It's like her life just had this big empty hole and everybody else was just on the outside looking in. She really didn't care about anything else at that point. She wanted to avenge her daughter.

- I was gonna shoot him right between the eyes if I could have gotten a shot at him. - I do remember she was very calm. She just kept saying, "Everything's gonna be okay.

Everything's gonna be okay. " - But then, she felt Robin's presence. - All of a sudden I smelled her shampoo, and I felt this warmth on my hand and I couldn't get my hand out of my purse.

- I remember her telling me that she heard Robin's voice and told her not to do it. - April 30th 1980, the jury has reached a verdict. Rodney Alcala is found guilty and is sentenced to death.

- It's a poor exchange for my daughter's life, but maybe it'll save someone else's by him being gone. - But to the horror of Robin's family, the unthinkable happens. His sentence is overturned just four years later.

- Today, in a five to one decision, the California State Supreme Court ruled that Rodney Alcala did not receive a fair trial. - There's been a gross miscarriage of justice for being found guilty of something that I didn't do, and I think the case will be reversed on appeal. - Will Rodney Alcala ever be put to death in your estimation?

- Not if I can have anything to do with it. - I just can't believe that we have to be punished for what he did. He is got nothing to do but gain and all we have to do is be destroyed and be pulled down a little bit further.

I don't know if we can, really. - We the jury, find the defendant, Rodney James Alcala, guilty of the crime of. .

. [Marianne breaking down] - Death, that's the only penalty that could ever be rendered in a case such as this. - The second time he was found guilty, and he got the death penalty again, and we were extremely happy.

- But in 2001, in the most unlikely turn of events, Rodney's death penalty is again overturned, dragging the family back into the horrors of another trial and risking his liberation. - My mom really kinda lost it then. - We've gone through a lot of hell because of that animal.

A lot of hell, a lot of hell. Every time this happens, it's like losing Robin all over again, you know? I don't know if you've ever lost a child, but there's nothing.

. . nothing that hurts like that, nothing.

- This case was assigned to me back in 2003 when my boss came in and essentially gave me the rundown on it. He said that it was gonna be a tough one. - That's when Matt Murphy decided to go back to the evidence and he had that pouch of jewelry that was recovered in the Seattle storage locker reanalyzed for DNA - After successfully petitioning for his conviction to be overturned, Rodney Alcala is awaiting his third trial.

What he doesn't know is that forensic science is catching up. After entering Alcala's DNA into the database, District Attorney Matt Murphy, along with police in California and New York, are trying to find matches in cases that were never solved. What they discover is far more shocking than what they expected.

DNA links Alcala to four Los Angeles murders, Jill Barcomb and Georgia Wixted in 1977, Charlotte Lamb in 1978, and Jill Parenteau in 1979. Investigators in New York will later link him to the murders of Cornelia Crilley in 1971, and Ellen Hover in 1977. Six women, four of which were murdered before his appearance on “The Dating Game.

” - Right at that moment, we realized that not only is Rodney Alcala a vicious murderer, but in fact, he is the serial killer that we always suspected him to be. - The year is 2010, nine years since Rodney Alcala's conviction has been overturned, when finally, his third trial reaches its end. This time, he will not only be charged with the murder of Robin Samsoe, but with the total of five murder charges in the California State Court.

However, there's one witness who will shock the courtroom. The 8-year-old girl, who in 1968, survived the serial killer. - It was the first time I ever had a name for her, first time I'd ever seen her face, and it was pretty overwhelming.

I was just so happy to see her alive. - My name is Tali Shapiro. I am one of Rodney Alcala's first victims, and one of the only living victims.

I remember the morning was nice and warm because I wore the dress that my nanny had crocheted for me. And I was supposed to take the public bus to school because it was only blocks away. But I didn't like taking the public bus by myself.

A car approaches me and I guess asked if I needed a ride to school. So he had his window down, I'm on the sidewalk, and I'm talking to him through the passenger window. - And she says, "My parents told me never to accept rides from strangers.

" And he says, "I'm not a stranger, I know your parents. " - Which is totally possible, there were so many people in and out of my house. My father was in the music business, so we had a lot of colorful characters in and out of our house.

I just took it like, well, it could be, you know? I mean, I wasn't gonna be rude to the guy. I didn't know to fear people.

I got in the car, that's when he asked what time my school started. And then that's when he realized that we had plenty of time and he was gonna swing by and show me a poster. I really didn't feel comfortable at that point.

And we headed off to his house. I followed him in and that's all I remember. He obviously hit me over the head right after that.

So that was it. - Tali wakes up from a coma a month later. She has no idea what happened to her.

- My parents never spoke about any of this, and neither did anyone else. I remember walking into my classroom and everyone looking at me like I was supposed to be dead. - After her ordeal, Tali's parents moved to Puerto Vallarta in Mexico.

They want to start a new life for her. In 1971, when Rodney Alcala's trial for her attempted murder takes place, they refuse to let her testify and traumatize her further. - I'm so grateful my parents did not have me testify.

None of this was my knowledge and I didn't need to know about those things. It would have totally messed up my childhood. - But she has no idea how she survived the attack.

Only that she had two guardian angels watching out for her. One is a cop, the other a simple Good Samaritan. - In 1968, I was a sales representative and I drove a lot.

That day, I drove up to Hollywood and I was going along Wilshire Boulevard, and I wanted to turn around, but there was a car in the crosswalk. Inside was a man and he was talking to a young girl, evidently on her way to school. And he was smiling and talking to her, just fixated on this little girl.

That disturbed me. All the warning signs were there. - Donald Haines is at the right place at the right time.

He sees Tali get into the man's back seat. He can tell something's not right. So he decides to follow the car.

Right away, he notices the car has no license plate. His mind is racing, not knowing what will happen to the little girl and unsure of what his next action should be, until the car stops in front of a house. He watches as Tali walks out of the car and into the man's house.

- I thought, "What the hell do I do now? He may have a gun, who knows? ” And so I thought, "Well, I'll go find a payphone and I'll phone the police.

" - And I received a call to see the man about a possible kidnapping at Las Palmas and Sunset. There was a gentleman right on this corner, waving me down. - Donald Haines tells Officer Chris Camacho exactly what he saw, shows him the house they got into.

Camacho immediately calls for backup. - I went to the front door and started knocking. I could hear someone running around.

The suspect appeared, moved the curtain back. I looked him in the face, I said, "I need to talk to you, please open the door. " He relayed to me, "I just got out of the shower.

Give me a moment. " And I am looking at him, he is not wet, doesn't have a towel, and he's nude. There was a rage about him, he wasn't calm.

His eyes were fixated and angry. So that's when I told him, I said, "You need to open the door. I need to come in and talk to you.

" I put my ear to the door and I'm hearing moaning. Within seconds, I kicked in the door. To the right was a dining room, to the left was a living room, and straight ahead was a kitchen.

And here was this little girl, blood all over the place with this bar across her neck. That kind of violence, it still haunts me. We all thought she was dead, she wasn't breathing.

There was no pulse. - As Officer Camacho checks the rest of the house for the suspect, he sees him escaping through the back door. There's a chance he can catch him, but he has to make the choice, run after the killer or stay with the little girl who appears to be dead.

- I wanted to catch him. I desperately wanted to catch him. I just couldn't leave that little girl with that bar across her neck.

And that was breaking all protocol, because a crime scene, you're supposed to contain it and not touch anything. But I grabbed a towel and I took the bar off her neck and set it on the side. And that's when we heard the little girl starting to gag for breath.

“Oh my God, she's alive! ” - Right away, an ambulance is called and Tali is rushed to the hospital as she's barely clinging to life. - As we're searching the house, I found a wallet on an end table and I picked it up.

I opened it, I found ID belonging to a Rodney Alcala. I saw his face, I saw him, I knew what he was capable of. I wanted to go to the hospital and check up on her.

The doctor said to me, "Had you not taken that bar off her neck, she probably wouldn't be alive because you opened up her airway. " And it struck me profoundly. - Back in the courtroom, everyone is stunned.

Tali Shapiro's testimony has left everyone speechless. As she leaves her seat, she sees someone she's been waiting her whole life to meet. - I was with a group of people and she came running up to me and said, "Mr Haines, Mr Haines.

" And I said, "Who are you? " She says, "I'm Tali Shapiro. " And I said, "Oh, I'm so glad to see you.

" She said, "You're the only reason I am here. " That was really, really something. That got to me.

- I had some guardian angels around me, the Good Samaritan, and I had the policeman. Without those two people, I would not be here today. - As she exits the courtroom, reporters all ask Tali for a statement.

- He should be put down. I don't think he should breathe another day, honestly, so. .

. - She doesn't know it yet, but there's one person watching who has been following the trial more closely than most. Morgan is at home, looking at the brave young 8-year-old who survived.

Seeing Tali's courage brings Morgan to tears. - I blamed myself for so long. I wanted to contact her, but I felt so much guilt.

I thought she'd hate me. I spent a couple days trying to write the perfect thing to just apologize to her, you know? And I sent her the letter.

- I said, there was nothing to forgive. I don't hold you responsible for anything that happened to me. - Tali saying she forgave me, changed everything.

It was definitely a huge step to my recovery. When I went to see her, I told her, you know, I said, "For years I've wanted to hold you. Are you okay with that?

" And she said, "Yes. " And I just hugged her, I couldn't let go. It was just wonderful.

- It's March 9th 2010 when the trial for the five murders committed by Rodney Alcala in California, including 12-year-old Robin Samsoe, comes to an end. Finally, the jury has reached a verdict. - We the jury, find the defendant, Rodney James Alcala guilty of the crime of murder in the first degree.

- The jury found Alcala guilty of all five murders. - You know that those families in that moment have a piece of justice. After such a long wait of 30 years.

- We, the jury, determined that the penalty to be imposed upon defendant, Rodney James Alcala, to be death. - And I have prayed about this and I've given my hatred all to God, because. .

. I've let this feeling consume me for 31 years, and I'm not going to give him no more power over me. - But the story doesn't end there.

Following the conviction, authorities have released 120 photographs taken from Alcala's locker in the hopes of identifying possible victims and solving missing people's cases. In 2015, Kathy Thornton stumbles upon those pictures and identifies her sister Christine, 39 years after her disappearance. After spending her entire life looking for answers, Kathy can finally put her sister to rest.

- All right, here's a look at some other top stories this morning, convicted serial killer Rodney Alcala died in prison. - The so-called "Dating Game Killer" died early this morning while still awaiting his execution. - I feel like Robin's life meant something even in 12 years.

She stopped him from killing anybody else. And I believe that if you would have told her that God was gonna use her for this purpose, she would have been okay with it. - It took me a long time to realize that when evil touches you, it changes you, but it doesn't own you, evil will never own you.

You can also take a look at the 120 pictures, with the link in the description. We hope more victims can be identified, to bring peace to their families.