It's a strange and extraordinary tale of two sisters who?
Disappeared from their home in Minnesota one evening as their parents were caught up in a hostile divorce
the mother and the girls claiming abuse but the courts
Unconvinced where did these sisters go did their mother have a hand in the disappearance ABC's Elizabeth Vargas has this twisting tale?
It is 70 m on a 30 degree april evening in the suburbs of Minneapolis
And while most families are settling in for dinner one family is about to fracture forever
When two children living at this home vanish. No shoes no coat
No, backpacks, nothing poof. They're gone
Thirteen-Year-Old gianna and 14 year old Samantha rucky disappear the only trace
Footprints in the snow their parents are embroiled in an ugly divorce and custody dispute
But they insist they are united in their desperation for the girls where did they go who are they with and?
Why does our journey begin by asking questions to their mother?
Inside the Ramsey County jail. Did you have anything to do with your two daughters running away?
No
Do you sit here and think how did this happen clean record never humming my word and here you are in Jail on a million?
dollars bail
What's going on? I have to this shouldn't be what happens in a divorce
This divorce is more like Guerilla warfare than a legal proceeding but for every
Documented Grievance in this harrowing tale. There is documentation two of the good times
Yes, 20 years worth of home movies featuring both the rookies and starring roles as an affectionate feisty couple
So you're figuring it out now and doting loving parents to their five children
Nikko Samantha, Gianna Nia and Gina sounds like a busy home
They are wonderful with my dreams. She says despite those smiling faces
There was a shocking ugly secret in the family
Years of emotional and physical abuse by David what would he do throw things hammers at me if he got mad?
There was black eyes. It was broken ribs. I'm gonna lock ourselves in the bedroom because we scared
We just didn't know how his behavior was going to be from one day to the next and she claims David didn't just Target
Her but would after the children's - how often did that happen once is more than enough
It happened a lot after 20 years of marriage Sandra says she reaches her breaking point and finally files for divorce
She says frightened for her life
She also gets an order of protection against David and then she calls police on him at least 20 times
Claiming he continuously violates it he broke into the house came running up the stairs jumped onto the bed that I was at
Started choking me and then took a pillow started suffocating me the children now ages 8 to
14 remain in Sandra's custody and refused to even see David rebuffing all of his attempts to connect
the Family Court Judge David Knutson appoints an advocate for the children and several
Therapists trying to facilitate a relationship with their father
The children say they don't want one gianna and Samantha make audio recordings to support what their mother says
This is Gianna Rocky's voice being in the same houses my dad things were really bad. He was abusive
He had anger issues
He obviously screaming and yelling but in a surprising twist the judge determines that there has been no
Evidence of abuse and based on the findings from a psychologist he appointed that it is Sandra
Who was the real problem here that the children are showing signs of Parental alienation syndrome?
Meaning the reason the children are adamantly opposed to seeing David is not because he's abused them or their mother
But because Sandra has brainwashed them I've never done anything, but be there for my children
My kids are my life. This is where the judge takes a drastic and for Sandra
Devastating step he order Sandra out of the house and all five of her children removed from her custody
David's Sister Tammy becomes the children's temporary guardian
She moves into the rookie home to take care of them
But the you oldest trucky girls Samantha and gianna are having none of it and on that day the sisters
Disappear without a trace. What was your reaction? What any mother's reaction would be I'm concerned
I am worried everything was going through my mind when Sandra's Ex-husband David finds out his daughters have disappeared he is
Terrified what was your biggest fear these young girls you don't want him hitchhiking
We live by a truck stop we don't you think of all these terrible scenarios?
Have you ever raised a hand against Sandra or your children have you ever struck them?
Have you ever physically abused them in any way?
No, David begins to suspect that Sandra knows more than she's saying about their missing daughters
Did you think she might have something to do? Yeah?
Oh yeah, one month after the girl's disappearance
There is a bizarre twist in the story they show up
But in a place, no one expects the rucky girls say they want to be heard on local television
They met with us at a hotel
We don't know who brought them here the local fox 9 station airs this story and right there
Sitting in front of the reporter are the two missing rookie sisters coming for this day. That's Gonna
I'm really badly glad to see my girls
but you know what I was hearing coming out of their mouths was hard and
As quickly as you can change the channel the girls are gone again
Vanishing back into the night the search continues for the Rookie girls their parents epic divorce drags on
Until the judge finally makes his ruling in a painstaking
60 page order he drops a bombshell
awarding full custody of all five children
To David writing of Sandra's allegations of abuse that the court has not received any
Evidence to support her very serious allegations for David it is total vindication
But Sandra's legal troubles were only about to begin
The search for the two missing girls shifts to one of Sandra's staunchest supporters
Didi evev old an activist who was vocal about what she says is corruption in Family courts
Detectives searched her home and find us cellphone photo of one of the girls on a farm
They trace that photo back to White Horse Ranch
Jeana and Doug Dolan owned the ranch which offers 90-minute therapy sessions with their animals our mission is to reach
children and families
And to bring healing at home as through the animals the Dahlen say it was
Sandra along with dede who dropped the girls off at the ranch one night with no more than the clothes on their back
then Sandra left and never returned days turned into months and then
Astonishingly Years was it a secret that the girls were here no. No it was not everybody knew they were here
But it all came to an end last november when authorities arrived at doug's front door
Simply following the trail from Dede Evev old cell phone not realizing the girls are actually there
When David finally sees the girls for the first time it is not the reunion he imagined are you nervous I?
Ran out of the room. I started crying I
didn't recognize him because
You know you know your children you remember what they sound like?
You remember how they looked I?
Didn't recognize my daughters saying are you making any comment today Sandra is now out of jail?
She was released in February after 130 days behind bars. We appreciate the air and the sun
That but she says there was no cause for celebration
I'm in prison without the bars
Is what I'm in now?
Because as part of her release Sandra is not permitted to have any contact with Samantha and gianna
She is allowed to see her other children with conditions. Oh
As for the girls David says they are happy to be home and doing well
And it might surprise you to hear how David sees his family's future
Will you fight her ability to see the children?
here's my
Children's mother it's important that to have a mother
now - the
Unraveling of a long winding and weird custody battle it's the story of a 24 year old thought to be missing for decades
Now found a grown married man. How did police track him down after all these years and what exactly happened?
here's Abc's John Muller
It's a lot for me taken 24 Year-old Richard Landers, Jr.
Just received a bombshell police say his grandparents who reportedly raised him nearly all his life
actually abducted him when he was just five years old, but until I actually get to walk up and
Say hello to him again. I
Don't know there's gonna be real his father Richard Landers senior is shocked
His mother Lisa Harder was apparently
jumping for joy when she heard her little boy not so little anymore was out there alive and well now married and
Expecting a child of his own landers incredible story started nearly two decades ago after his parents went through a bitter divorce
His mother reportedly living in a car
Police say his paternal grandparents unhappy with the custody proceedings took him from his home in Walcott Ville, Indiana and brought him
675 Miles away to Long Prairie, Minnesota police say all three changed their names
But forgot Richard's social security number and that's how police finally tracked him down young man living in the state of, Minnesota
Actually was using the social security number of doing further checking out who this person was he had the same exact date of birth
Authorities trace the numbers to this property in Browerville, Minnesota where Richard Landers, Jr.
Was residing as Michael Jeff landers his grandparents also living on the property
Police say it appears there were no signs. He was ever abused
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