Summary
A twelve-year-old girl claimed she had been abducted and sexually assaulted. She recounted what happened in such a flat, unemotional voice that police found it difficult to believe her. Fibers on her clothing would prove she was telling the truth, and help police to find her attacker.
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| 0:00.0 | A 12-year-old girl claimed she had been kidnapped, |
| 0:05.0 | but police weren't so sure. |
| 0:09.0 | Her memory was too clear, her manner too unemotional, |
| 0:13.0 | her heroism too unbelievable. |
| 0:18.0 | Until some fibers on her clothing force police to reconsider. |
| 0:33.0 | It happened on a Wednesday afternoon in Freeport, Texas. |
| 0:39.0 | 12-year-old Dana Stinson walked to her Bible study at church |
| 0:43.0 | just a few blocks from home. |
| 0:46.0 | Two hours later, when the class was over, |
| 0:50.0 | Dana didn't return home. |
| 0:52.0 | Her mother went looking for and was advised by the teacher |
| 0:55.0 | that she had never appeared in class, and then police got involved. |
| 0:59.0 | I knew it right away. My stomach went into knots. |
| 1:02.0 | My legs were shaking. I was dis... certain something had happened. |
| 1:08.0 | Their neighbors joined in the search, but found no sign of the young girl. |
| 1:13.0 | Dana's father was a local prison guard, and he feared that her next convict |
| 1:18.0 | had taken revenge by targeting his daughter. |
| 1:22.0 | That one of the offenders might have a doctor or the first thing |
| 1:25.0 | came for us in my mind. |
| 1:27.0 | Might have been wrong or right about it at the time, I don't know. |
| 1:30.0 | Several hours passed. |
| 1:34.0 | Then shortly after 10 p.m., a few miles away in Oyster Creek, Texas, |
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