The evil in mankind

I just have to tell you all this. I was watching tv over the weekend, and happened upon a 20/20 episode that really upset me... This family was camping in Montana, at a park. Now, this was in the 70's- that's the reason I started watching in the first place, because the pics of the old 70's cars, reminded me of my friend's parent's car... Anyway, back to the story. They were camping. The parents in a camper, the kids in a tent. Someone came in the middle of the night and stole the youngest daughter Susie- they had cut a hole in the tent. The parents stayed there for 5 weeks, and no sign of Susie. The mother had one very bad nightmare where she saw Susie in this old ram shackle building, being assaulted. The mother is very religious, so she put that out of her mind. Profiling was in it's infancy at this time, and the FBI brought on a guy who basically started it's use. He told the family to get a tape recording device, because the guy who stole their daughter would call.

Well, exactly one year later, in the middle of the night, the family gets a call. The mother picks up the phone. The guy asks if this was Susie's mother. She said yes. He then said, it is exactly one year, to the minute that I took Susie from you. The mother kept him on the phone for an hour- she was telling him she was praying for him, and could she have Susie back. She never lost her temper.

Gradually, more evidence was picked up. They now had a suspect. But, this guy had passed the truth serum and lie detector tests- and back then, they didn't know you could beat them. Turns out, the profiler had determined this guy to be a simple schizophrenic- which means you have two personalities- normal (good) and abnormal (bad). You can beat these tests when your normal personality is prevailing at that time.

So, finally, this guy calls the family again. Now they had him. He let details slip. They bring him in for questioning. His attorney asked what would the D.A. have for his client- and the Sheriff asked what did he have for them. The answer? Four murders.


They searched his house and found human remains in the freezer. They found Susie's remains burned and spread throughout the property.

They were then brought to the place where Susie met her demise. The SOB took her to this place, molested her and strangled her. Now, this is where it gets very unsettling...

This place was the same place that the mother had seen in her dream- exactly. In fact, Susie was killed at about the same time she had this dream. This SOB lied and said she was still alive when he called that year later, but in truth, he killed her right away.


So, you all can probably see why it was so hard to watch this. A prayer for Susie Yaeger is in order. A prayer for all the children who are met with such evil is in order.