The mystery bothers residents today.

Who are the victims?

Law enforcement investigators were working so hot to try.

Toe get a name and nothing was working because you can't connect the dots unless you know the victims.

So while the investigation in New Hampshire is going cold, Little did anyone know that across the country, a five year old girl could be the key to cracking this case.

So it's 1986 at an RV park in Scotts Valley, California Guy by the name Gordon Johnson was staying at the holiday host RV Park with his daughter, Lisa.

She was about five years old.

He was living as the kind of fix it up guy, handyman guy at this spark, and he had a camper on a pickup truck that he was living in with Lisa.

She was little, so she was, like, always running around the campground, playing with other kids, you know, bike riding.

He ends up befriending a couple Catherine and Richard Decker.

The deckers are there for of temporarily for a few months.

They begin to talk to Gordon Jensen, a little bit more, get to know him a bit more, and he starts to sort of confining him.

He says that he's having a really hard time raising Lisa on his own.

The doctor sent something was wrong.

They heard Lisa crying at night.

Her clothes weren't in the best shape.

She looks a little thin.

She's looks a little dirty.

He tells various stories about what happened to her mother.

I think maybe she died of cancer, he said.

Another story was they were in a restaurant.

It was robbed.

She panicked, ran out in the street and got run over in traffic.

He actually broke down and cried.

And he was incredibly convincing about his grief about him wanting Lisa to have a better life.

And Mrs Decker told him, You're so lucky.

She's so beautiful and Q T Q T pie and the couple starts thinking, Well, we have a daughter who has wanted it a little girl for a really long time.

Maybe something could happen.

Gordon Jensen eventually presented the idea of them taking Lisa on a trial adoption basis.

And so they take Lisa with them down to Southern California, where their daughter lives and have a sort of two week trial period.

An attorney basically told them, Have him sign here, here and here.

Have that notarized and we'll file it in the court.

And then she could be yours.

You know what I mean?

You can Your daughter can adopt her.

Once the deckers take Lisa with them down to Southern California, she starts to show signs that she's been a victim of abuse.

And, um, the Deckers contacted the authorities and she was interviewed.

She was just a innocent child.

She was just a innocent child.

It breaks you hard to see a child like that be traumatized about adult, and they reach out to try to contact Gordon Jensen back at the RV park, presumably in hopes of Bacon.

Get this adoption legalizing that they could keep was hatched when they went back up.

Thio have him sign the papers.

He quit his job and left.

Let's go.

He was nowhere to be found.

The next day, I started meeting folks at the mobile home park trying to find out where he waas.

There's no Gordon Jensen.

You know, there's nothing way Just knew that way had a guy and he abandoned the kid.

That's all we get.

San Bernadino detectives talked to the owner proprietor of the business and actually asked him, Is there anything in here that only that guy touched?

And he goes, Yeah, and he went out to the store.

I gave him money and he bought that the, you know, VCR surveillance system for the campground.

We went in the game room, he said he installed all this stuff in here.

I said, I wonder if he's got some friends in that panel Way took, first played off that.

Sure enough, it was wiped clean.

You could see where he had taken a cloth and wipe it on the inside.

We took the second plate off and lo and behold, but on the inside of that second place, there were eight fingers.

Way hit the jackpot.

Once he got this fingerprints back, it came back to another name.

Critic Kimball Curtiss Kimball Curtiss Kimble Gordon Jensen is Curtis Kimble.

It turned out that he had been in a drunk driving accident with Lisa in the car and Orange County in the mid eighties.

Once he made bail, he immediately absconded.

And then, two years after he flees the RV park.

Curtis Kimble is pulled over, driving a stolen vehicle.

When he was arrested, he gives in and Gerald Mark Urman, along with a matching Social Security number date of birth fingerprinting, confirms that he is the same guy.

Curtis Kimble, Gerald McCrimmon, Gordon Jensen.

And at that point, he's taken into custody for the charges of child abandonment.

He served a year and 1/2 in prison and was released on parole the day he was released on parole.

He fled and became a fugitive on.

It's gonna be almost 10 years before police see him again.

And because her father had absconded and purportedly the mother was deceased, the deckers couldn't keep her.

And so she went into Child Protective Service is it was heartbreaking for the deckers.

She really become a part of their families.

They become close their clothes.

I think it must have been hard for the deckers to rescue Lisa from this horrible situation on Lee to then have to turn around and give her away again.

I went to her home, picked the child up and took her into protective custody.

No one realizes it yet, but the story of Lisa is gonna be the beginning of so many things.

It's going to be the beginning of forensic genealogy.

As a technique.

It's gonna be the beginning of how the bear Brooke murders get solved.

This case is kind of the beginning of a whole era of criminal investigation.

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George Stephanopoulos here.

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