Richard Schlesinger (48 Hours Correspondent)
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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They learned Donna could not bear children.
So when Donna and Mark adopted a baby girl in June 1995, they were elated.
Here's Grandma Drescher holding our little baby.
Mark and Donna doted on their daughter.
And they showed her off to everyone, especially Donna's best friend, Deanne Schultz.
But just three months later, the good times ended abruptly.
It all began when Donna returned from a visit to her mother and stepfather in Florida.
Donna Winger and her baby arrived here at the St.
Louis airport and got into a shuttle van for the hour and a half long ride back home to Springfield.
It was an unusual drive with an unusual driver.
A man named Roger Harrington, who'd been working for the van company for six months.
She said that he was very frightening.
He said things about killing people, setting car bombs, mutilating people.
He was telling Donna that sometimes while he drives, this godlike character would come to him, pull him out of his body, and he would be flying above the trees.