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WEBVTT THEY CREDIT THE BRILLIANCE AND THE TENACITY OF THE TEENAGER FOR CAP -- FOR FINALLY GETTING RELEASED. >> WE DID NOT HAVE ONE PIECE OF EVIDENCE THAT POINTED TO HIM. ADAM CANDOR -- AMY: CANDOR FROM ONE OF THE MOST EXPERIENCED CRIME SOLVERS IN THE STATE. THEY RAN HIS NAME THROUGH THE DATABASE AND THERE WAS NOT A SINGLE TRACE. DESPITE HIM DRIVING BY THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO AND FROM WORK EVERY DAY. AMY: HE MUST HAVE PASSED THROUGH THE VEHICLE CHECKPOINTS AND SEEN THE GRID SEARCHES COMBING THROUGH THE AREA WHERE THE HIGH SCHOOL FRESHMAN WAS LAST SEEN WALKING HOME FROM SCHOOL OCTOBER 9. WITHIN SECONDS OR MINUTES, HER LIFE CHANGED FOREVER. AMY: H BOOTS WERE NEW AND HURTING HER FEET. SHE WAS REGRETTING HER DECISION NOT TO TAKE THE BUS HOME THAT DAY FROM HIGH SCHOOL. >> AS SHE TURNED INTO A CUT THROUG STREET, A CAR PULLED UP AND SHE HAD BLISTERS. THE CAR PULLED OVER AND OFFERED A RIDE. AND SHE THOUGHT IT WAS STRANGE HOW GOD ANSWERED PRAYERS. AMY: INVESTIGATORS SAY THAT SHE KNEW BETTER THAN TO GIVE HER HOME ADDRESS AND SHE ASK TO BE LET OUT AT A SANDWICH SHOP CLOSE TO HER NEIGHBORHOOD. THE FANEUI KIBBY DROVE INSTEAD TO A HOME IMPROVEMENT STORE. >> SHE WEN TO UNBUCKLE HER SEATBELT. THAT IS WHEN HE PULLED A GUN ON HER. AM IT IS UNCLEAR IF HE TARGETED THIS PARTICULAR YOUNG WOMAN BUT HE UNQUESTIONABLY HAD A PLAN. >> HE HAD ZIP TIES AND A TASER AND A PISTOL. AMY: JOE EBERT IS A 17 YEAR VETERAN IN CHARGE OF MAJOR CRIME AND SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS. HE CALLS THIS CASE A CAREER GAME CHANGER. >> FOR ME, IT HAS CHANGED THE PERCEPTION I HAVE OF EVE CASE THE AS WAS SO OUT OF THE BOX. AM FOR NINE MONTHS, NATHANIEL KIBB UNLEASHED OVERTURE AND THE PROPERTY ON THIS YOUNG GIRL INSIDE THIS TRAILER 30 MILES AWAY IN GORHAM. HE PUT A SHOCK COLLAR ON HER. TIED HER TO A BED WHILE HE WENT TO WORK. ADULT DIAPERS FOR A TOILET. SUBJECTED TO DAILY RATES. WHY DID SHE NOT RUN --CALL FOR HELP? SHE WAS DISORIENTED. >> AND SHE BELIEVED SHE WAS UNDER SURVEILLANCE. AMY: SHE HELPED HI MANUFACTURE COUNTERFEIT MONEY. THE COUNTERFEI BILLS PASSED TO A PROSTITUTE IN A HOTEL ROOM IN MADE -- IN MAINE LED TO HIS DOWNFALL. THE BILLS WERE FLAGGED AT WALMART. POLICE QUESTIONED THE PROSTITUTE. NATHANIEL KIBBY REALIZES IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME UNTIL INVESTIGATORS CATCH UP TO HIM AND HE TOLD HIS CAPTIVE -- >> WE HAVE TO GET RID OF EVERYTHING. AMY: THEY CREDIT THE SURVIVOR FOR HER STRENGTH. SHE CONVINCED NATHANIEL KIBBY THAT SHE WOULD NEV REVEAL THE TRUTH. THEY PRACTICE A FALSE DESCRIPTION AND FOR SEVEN DAYS AFTER HER RELEASE, SHE MAINTAINED HER COVER STORY WITH HIS THREATS HANGING OVER HER HEAD. HE WOULD HARM HER FAMILY AND LAW ENFORCEMENT. SHE CARRIED THAT FOR A WEEK. AMY: THIS YOUNG WOMAN, A SURVIVOR IGNORED ADVICE TO STAY AWAY FROM COU DETERMINED TO LOOK HER CAPTOR IN HIS FACE WHEN HE WAS ARRAIGNED ON 205 CHARGES INCLUDING 160 COUNTS OF POLONIUS SEXUAL ASSAULT - FELONIOUS SEXUAL ASSAULT. >> TO KNOW THAT SHE THRIVES IN LIFE IS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT TO US. THE HUMAN WILL TO SURVIVE IS INCREDIBLE. AMY: HE DID NOT WANT THE FACTS OF WHA HE DID TO HIS YOUNG VICTIM READ ALOUD IN COURT. HE PLED GUILTY TO SEVEN CRIMES AND IS NOW SERVI 4

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The following is a timeline for the Abby Hernandez kidnapping case, which led to the conviction of Nathaniel Kibby. Oct. 9, 2013Hernandez, 14 at the time, had last been seen leaving Kennett High School at 2:29 p.m. She walked through the field hockey field, down Eagles Way and into a power line trail near the school.Between 2:30 and 2:35 p.m. on Wednesday, she was seen walking on the power line trail near the school.The girl exchanged several text messages with a classmate until 2:53 p.m., which was when her last text was sent.At the time, the FBI said the last known contact between the cell phone and the cellular network was from a tower on the west side of Cranmore Mountain.Nov. 6, 2013Hernandez sent a letter to her mother that was postmarked Oct. 23, 2013, but did not arrive until Nov. 6, 2013. It was the first-known contact with her mother since her disappearance.March 2014Kibby was arrested and charged with criminal trespass and assault after following a Conway woman to her home after a minor car accident. Police said he pushed her to the ground in her driveway after she ordered him to stop taking pictures of her car.During Kibby's arrest on the trespassing and assault charges, Conway police seized the pistol he was carrying at the time. In a petition to the court to get the Ruger LC9 returned, Kibby called the seizure "an immoral and irrational unconstitutional restriction of my civil rights."April 2014Kibby was let go from his job at E.M.M. Precision, Inc., after five years. He was described as "good worker," but was let go from his job because work was slow.Earlier in July 2014Kibby was in court for sentencing on a charge of criminal trespassing. A simple assault charge that was connected to the March trespassing incident was dropped. Kibby had been accused of pushing a woman to the ground.“When I heard it on the news, I was beside myself,” said Tammy Shackford, who was the alleged victim in the March case. “He is not a normal person. He is not right.”July 20, 2014Hernandez, then 15, returned home to North Conway.July 28, 2014Kibby was arrested without incident at his home in Gorham, which is about 30 miles from Conway.Kibby has a criminal record dating back to 1998, when he was 18 years old and was found guilty of assault.July 29, 2014Kibby was arraigned on kidnapping charges and ordered to be held on $1 million bail.Court documents said the victim told investigators she learned her captor's name from a cookbook he had handed her during her captivity, which had the name Nate Kibby written inside. The documents also said he provided her with a ruler bearing the initials N.E.K.Dec. 17, 2014Kibby was indicted on more than 180 charges, including multiple counts of sexual assault, threatening and kidnapping in connection with the disappearance.The indictments alleged that Kibby threatened to kill Hernandez's family and dogs if she identified him. He was also accused of using a Taser-like device against the victim when she was writing a letter home.July 17, 2015Kibby was accused of making vulgar threats to harm Associate Attorney General Jane Young during a recorded phone call from the Carroll County House of Corrections. The charges were later dropped on Feb. 11, 2016.In late April 2016, Kibby sought to have his prior charge of threatening Young purged from the record.May 20, 2016A judge ruled that Kibby's lawyers could not interview the victim.May 26, 2016Kibby pleaded guilty to seven charges in the case, including kidnapping, felonious aggravated sexual assault and criminal threatening. He was sentenced to 45 to 90 years in prison. At the sentencing, his victim said she forgives him, even though what he did affects her every day.Sept. 2018Hernandez shared her story of survival publicly for the first time. Her interview on ABC's "20/20" will air on Sept. 7, 2018.