oh, i have progressive, so i just bundled everything with my home insurance. i would not want to pay that insurance bill. and we welcome back gary, who's already won three cars, two motorcycles, a boat, and an r.v. coming up - it was a story two sisters had waited a very long time to hear. "dateline" was happy to broadcast it all around the country on march 25th, 2011, no idea that something quite unbelievable would happen because one of the people who tuned in that night was a woman named geri, and oh, what a story she had to tell.
renee joined them for rhonda's birthday and the christies' 38th wedding anniversary. barbara had terminal cancer and she would die a year later, but still back then, they celebrated. > not only did we get a daughter but a granddaughter. it was really - i would - it just brings me to a sad place. tell me what it feels like when you know you have to go to an official and ask for something that you really, really, really need and you kind of know, you think how it's going to go. their departments of vital records with perhaps predictable results. if only she could find her birth certificate. she was in her mid-20s, a single mother by then. so it took a little while for determination to come back. because of that woman and what she did, pepper was officially, at least, a nonperson. and everywhere pepper went from then on, shirley's poison gift followed. soon pepper showed up at their apartment, homeless and nowhere else to turn to. renee, now 19, got on with life, moved in with her boyfriend. she was buried here, this cemetery, in an unmarked grave. she left the lies behind and took the truth to her grave. knew the whole bizarre story, but she looked pepper in the eye through her obvious pain and told her nothing. > never gave me a concrete answer, nothing. > but would she be missing much longer when "lost and found" continues. > it triggered a lot of my own personal memories, you know, and how come i didn't get found. the question was, what could see do with that answer? coming up - if jaycee duggard could be found after 18 years, certainly there must be hope for pepper. > and shirley had a response for the girl she renamed pepper. any of that happen? did you ask? > oh, yeah.
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as she was dying, did you try to find, do you know, maybe she'd make a deathbed confession and say, i did take you and here are what your parents' names are and how to find them. one last opportunity to find out who she was. but there was another terribly important reason to see her then. > with shirley on her death bed, pepper tried to act like the dutiful daughter, went to see her regularly, tried to make her comfortable. When they diagnosed her with pancreatic cancer and she literally died quickly after that. and then - how did you find out that she was sick? > she turned completely yellow though she was enrolled in school under the name rhonda smith at shirley's urging, she had no way to prove this was her legal name, and without some cooperation from shirley, her search for such documents seemed hopeless.
the inevitable trouble that comes with having no real name, no birth certificate, no i.d. now she began to encounter a more immediate problem. > by 1986 and on her own now, pepper had all but given up hope that she'd ever find her real parents. renee who so needed pepper and was alone now with shirley. but that meant she left renee behind, too. and then finally by the time she turned 16, pepper left for good. the second time she took a chance, moved out with the family and a second time had to return. > still, having tasted freedom once, pepper was determined to get away from her kidnapper for good. > i remember when i was trying to so-call run away, plot my escape, before it went into action, i was in my mind going, she - i'm going to show her. Motel, even though, by then, shirley didn't seem to care much what she did. > she's taking a long time and i'm getting scared because i'm thinking she left or she's died or something. and alone and frightened, they held on to each other and watched the shadows of strange men pass by their car until the night when, terrified and unable to sleep, renee followed shirley. the girls would bed down in the car and watch shirley sneak off to do - well, they didn't know. when money ran out, as it often did, shirley drove to the nearest truck stop. > and so they lived a life of packing up and fleeing state to state, one flop house to the next, searching for the cheapest place to stay and then skip out of. we'd do something wrong, and she would say, well, you stop doing that or i'm going to send you off to geri's house. did she ever threaten to do that? > yeah, many times. but kept renee in line by threatening to abandon her. that shirley saved baby renee, raised her as a daughter. Shirley told her, says renee, she was born to a prostitute drug addict named geri.
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