Samantha Geldenhuis
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Initially, agent Chris Quick thought they'd find her in some motel within a week.
From then on, it was Alex and the baby she renamed Samantha.
How do you leave your family, your friends, your country, never pick up the phone, never be in touch, just walk away from it?
She wrote to Sam in her diary that the hardest part was the loneliness.
I wrote, I hope one day that I meet a man that loves you like I love you, and that's all I ever ask.
Seven months later, she did, in South Africa, her next stop on the run.
There, she met an engineering geologist named Joanne Geldenhuis.
I got married to him because he was madly in love with my daughter.
Soon, Samantha had a baby brother named Reese, and the family moved to Botswana.
While Alex Geldenhuis was growing her family in Africa, back in Charleston, Harris Todd was grieving the daughter taken from him by Leigh Barnett.
He says he had wanted a family, and he wanted his daughter.
Five years after Lee Barnett vanished with his daughter, Harris Todd decided to take matters into his own hands.
If I spend the rest of my life doing this, so be it.