Somebody Knows Something (2026) s01e01 Episode Script

[ominous music playing]
[dispatcher] 911.
[young Marlene] I need the police.
My baby's been kidnapped.
My baby's gone out of her crib.
[dispatcher] How old is your baby?
[young Marlene]
My baby is five months old.
[reporter 1] Her new baby and her favorite
yellow blanket both gone without a trace.
[reporter 2] The Hillsborough County
authorities have followed
more than 700 leads.
[Chamberlain] It's been almost 30 years
since Sabrina Aisenberg went missing
from her crib in a suburb of Tampa
in the middle of the night
and people are still talking
about this case.
How does a tiny baby disappear from
their home in the middle of the night?
There was no dust disturbed.
There were no footprints
underneath the window.
Police weren't buying their story that
this baby was just taken out of her bed.
[Chamberlain] Since then,
there have only been two possibilities.
A stranger took her…
Please bring our baby back to us.
She needs her mother and her father.
We all miss her.
[Chamberlain] Or something happened
in the home.
[reporter 3] The investigation
kept bringing police back
to Marlene and Steven Aisenberg.
[Chamberlain] Law enforcement
and the Aisenbergs have not commented
on this case for years.
But to uncover the truth,
I'm getting exclusive access.
My biggest hope in this case is maybe
this triggers someone to give us
the information that they've been holding
on to for 30 years.
[Chamberlain]
Is it possible that baby Sabrina
might still be out there somewhere?
[Marlene] We work with the National Center
for Missing Children
and this is the new one.
[Steven] What she might look like now
at 28, 29 years old.
A couple of weeks ago,
somebody came forward
that looked a little bit
like her baby pictures.
[Steven] We were thinking
that she could be Sabrina.
We believe that we're gonna get her home.
[tense music playing]
[Chamberlain] Every year,
more than 600,000 people go missing
in the United States.
[newscaster 1] The story of Jaycee Dugard
shocked the nation.
Amy Bradley simply disappeared
without a trace.
[newscaster 2] Asha Degree went to bed
one night and was gone in the morning.
I'm Kara Robinson Chamberlain,
and in 2002,
I was one of those victims.
[reporter 4] At just 15 years old,
Kara was abducted by a serial killer.
[reporter 5] Assaulted and tortured
for 18 hours
but somehow she managed to escape.
[Chamberlain] I went on
to a career in law enforcement.
[officer] Then she wanted
to be a victim advocate
and show them how they can be
a survivor like her.
[Chamberlain] Now, I'm investigating the
cases true crime fans are obsessed with,
because there are people who don't know
what happened to their loved ones.
Somebody knows something.
Somebody saw something.
And if I can bring one person
some answers,
then it's worth everything.
[typing]
[waves lapping]
[suspenseful music playing]
[Chamberlain] So Sabrina Aisenberg.
She was five months old
when she went missing.
The youngest of three children.
I also have children
and when I think of my daughter,
who's two, I can't imagine
what it would have been like
to miss the last year and a half
of her life, let alone 30 years.
This case was huge in the media
when it happened.
[reporter 6] It was November 23rd, 1997.
A Sunday night.
The next morning,
her new baby gone without a trace.
[Chamberlain] And still, to this day,
there are people discussing it
because it's just so mysterious.
How does a five-month-old child
just vanish
from her crib without a trace?
This is Sabrina Aisenberg
and when she was five months old,
she was taken from her crib.
She went missing on my street in 1997.
[Chamberlain] Amara Cofer is a podcaster
who specializes in cases
that haven't been solved.
Hey, Amara.
I understand that you've kept
some tabs on this case.
Yeah, it's just one of those cases, like,
it-it-it's set with me ever since I heard.
We hear about missing
children cases all the time,
but it's something unique
about a… a five-month-old baby
going missing from inside her home,
in her crib, in the middle of the night.
It's just something that's really,
like, disturbed me.
It's like, where did she go?
So, it happened in Valrico, Florida.
What can you tell me about Valrico?
[Cofer] It's a suburban community,
you know, relatively safe.
Family, green lawns, kids playing outside.
The last place where you would think
something like this would happen.
So pretty much from the beginning, um,
the police were suspicious
of the Aisenberg story.
There was no forced entry.
There was nothing in the, uh, house that
showed that something else had been taken.
It seemed like specifically the only thing
that was missing was Sabrina.
Then they thought the Aisenbergs
weren't emotional enough,
you know,
your five-month-old baby is missing,
um, their demeanor just didn't sit right
with police.
The parents often are involved, right?
I think that we know statistically
that can be the case.
So if the Aisenbergs hurt Sabrina,
is there any solid evidence
that points to that?
[Cofer] I really don't know.
It's either a stranger that came
into the home and took Sabrina
or Steve and Marlene had something
to do with their daughter's disappearance.
And right now,
we don't have proof of either one.
[Chamberlain]
Are the Aisenbergs the victims
or the perpetrators
in their daughter's disappearance?
I want to hear their version of
what happened when Sabrina went missing.
-Nice to meet you.
-Hi, nice to meet you, too.
-Have a seat.
-All right.
Thanks for having me in your home.
Oh, sure.
I appreciate you coming and doing this.
[Chamberlain] Yeah, absolutely.
Tell me a little bit about you two.
-Uh, we met at University of Maryland. Um…
-Yeah.
-Yes.
-And then you got married here?
-Yep.
-It's where we're both from.
This is the house Steve grew up in.
So then when did you move to Florida?
We were married about two years.
-[Marlene] William was born in '89.
-[Chamberlain] Okay.
[Marlene] So, then, when he was,
like, 18 months, we moved to Florida.
I was working for a children's
play program, like a Mommy and Me.
And then I got a job selling new homes.
Okay.
-'93 is when Monica was born.
-[Steven] Yes.
[Marlene] And then four years later,
we were lucky and I got pregnant again.
[gentle music playing]
[Marlene] Sabrina was a-a wonderful baby.
[young Marlene] Come here, gorgeous.
Come see Mommy.
Come see me.
The most amazing thing, she wasn't quite
five months and she was already crawling.
[young Marlene] She goes over that way.
Here she goes. Come on.
[Marlene] I was like, "Oh, my God.
This is one strong little girl."
[Chamberlain]
She had to chase after those siblings.
-Yeah, she's…
-It was just adorable, you know?
So tell me about the night
of November 23rd, 1997.
That night, we watched a movie together
as a family.
Sabrina was on my chest
in-in the recliner and then,
you know, we-we went to bed,
midnight, 1:00, something like that.
And then, uh, I woke up the next morning,
hearing Marlene scream,
"Sabrina's missing. Sabrina's not here."
[Chamberlain] Tell me your perspective.
[Marlene] I remember walking
across my living room
to go wake William and seeing my door
to the house open and then looking through
and then seeing my garage door open.
I was like, "What's going on?"
And then I go in
and I see Sabrina not in her crib
and I'm like, just hysterical.
And I screamed for Steve.
He came running out.
I ran and called 911.
[dispatcher] What do you mean your baby's
been kidnapped?
[young Marlene]
My garage door was wide open.
My house…my door was wide open
and my baby's gone out of her crib.
Oh God help me.
We ran out front of the house.
I was in the driveway.
"Has anybody seen my baby?
My baby is not here."
It was just disbelief.
Just like, what is happening here?
Where-Where is Sabrina?
[Chamberlain]
It's literally a parent's worst nightmare.
It's… It's every parent's worst nightmare.
I remember when we were all
in the hallway,
I… I believe
I urinated all over the floor.
-I was… terrified.
-[Chamberlain] Terrified.
I mean, I… I was still in…
I-I wore a night shirt and that was it
and I'm, like, urinating on the floor
and I just didn't understand
h-how my baby couldn't be home.
-I had William get the mop…
-[sobs]
-…and mop up the floor where she went.
-[breathing shakily]
Then, you know,
the police started to come.
The tape was around the driveway.
There were reporters standing outside.
[reporter 7] Detectives
swarmed the Aisenberg home.
Dusting for prints,
searching the neighborhood.
[Rosen] That first morning, TV crews
and local reporters were all showing up.
We're all standing around and saying
like, "What the hell?"
The Aisenbergs lived in Valrico.
A very quiet, middle-class suburb.
Kids didn't disappear
from homes in Valrico.
When I got to the scene,
there were cars already blocking
the driveway
from the Hillsborough County
Sheriff's Office.
Our patrol units were on scene
within 15 minutes
and then our detective units.
Sabrina was not walking at the time.
So that we know
that either Sabrina moved on her own
in a limited capacity
or something else happened.
So, we checked the residence
very thoroughly for forced entry.
No signs of shattered windows
or broken locks were seen in this case.
But there were points that were open
within the residence
and there were open access points
and so we took that into consideration.
[Rosen] When Marlene called 911,
she told the police the garage door
had been left open that night
and the back door was unlocked.
So, anybody could have just walked
into that house.
Deputies found a boot print
in Sabrina's room
that didn't track back
to either of the parents.
They found a blonde hair in the crib
that also didn't track back
to anybody in the family.
But there weren't any big things.
There wasn't a big handprint someplace
or a spatter of blood.
There was nothing like that.
[Blair] After the initial report,
every neighbor was talked to
in detail and at length.
But in this case, the evidence didn't take
us outside the home.
[Rosen] Nothing came out about somebody
who shouldn't have been
in the neighborhood or a vehicle
that shouldn't have been there.
And that was reason enough
to suspect that somebody
in that house knew something
about what happened to the baby.
[somber music playing]
[Chamberlain] Right now,
I am going to speak
to a former neighbor of the Aisenbergs.
He was one of the first people
that law enforcement talked to.
I wanna know what he observed that day.
So, tell me about, um, the Aisenbergs
as neighbors, as parents.
Was there anything that stuck out to you?
You know, my wife would go
over to their house occasionally.
The kids were always over at the house.
And as far as I knew
they were good parents.
But the day it happened,
everything just changed.
That morning, we got a knock
at the door and it was Steve.
-He's got a blanket in his hands…
-Okay.
…and he said, uh,
"She's missing." "What do you mean?
Who took her?
Where-Where's the baby at?"
You know, and he was just,
"Well, we don't know." You know.
"She's not there."
I'm a retired cop
and I've dealt with these type of cases
in the past where a child's missing.
And when I was looking at Steve,
there was no urgency
in his voice or in his demeanor.
There was no hysterics.
There was no crying.
There was no emotions.
It just wasn't the norm.
Marlene was out there with a neighbor
and she just waved over
like nothing was wrong.
And, uh, I went, "Something ain't right."
So, I spoke with the detectives
that morning,
and I told them, "I don't have any proof
to any of this,
but I didn't see parents that acted like
they were missing a child."
[reporter 8] After questioning
the couple for hours,
detectives took the Aisenbergs
downtown for more interviews.
And for the public, you know, the media
is showing the interesting things.
[reporter 9] The Aisenbergs televised
pleas for the safe return
of baby Sabrina weren't convincing
to their next-door neighbors.
This morning, someone came into our home
and took our baby Sabrina Paige
out of her crib
and took her out of our home.
And I'm begging that person
to please bring our baby back to us.
She needs her mother and her father.
She tries to force cry.
We need her to come home to us, please.
That's odd.
Definitely a little strange…
but I feel like it could also be
that they're dissociating.
Like, I don't know how to handle this.
Was there anything else that you told
law enforcement about that was strange?
Well, Brownie, their dog.
He was like he was on sugar all the time.
-You know, it's 100 miles an hour.
-Yeah.
Just go.
-And barked at everything, you know?
-Really?
-Except for this night.
-Okay.
So, there's not a lot that would prove
that somebody did come into the house.
Right.
[reporter 1] Hillsborough County
authorities gave the Aisenbergs
a polygraph test.
[reporter 1] Marlene's polygraphs
come back inconclusive.
That didn't sit well
with the public or the police.
[Chamberlain] After Sabrina went missing,
media is all out in the driveway,
there's a video and you're seen laughing.
Do you remember what was
happening in that video?
Uh, the-the police officers were talking
about this one reporter
and they made a joke to endear us to them,
it's like, they're there for us
where the media isn't and we laughed.
I'm very much like that.
[Chamberlain] You laugh when--
I laughed at… at our wedding
when I'm walking down the aisle.
It's not a typical thing a groom does
when he walks down the aisle…
-[Chamberlain] Right.
-…but that's what I did.
And that night, we thought it was
a funny comment so we smiled.
When you were on the way
to the police department?
To the police to-to have polygraphs done.
So, tell me about those polygraphs.
What were the results?
Mine was that I had nothing to do
with anything.
Didn't know.
-And Marlene's was inconclusive.
-[Marlene] Inconclusive is what they said.
-What does inconclusive mean?
-I have no idea.
All I know is I had nothing to do
with her disappearance
and they can tell me
it's inconclusive all they want
-but I had nothing to do with it…
-Right.
…and that-that was that.
[Steven] And then there was the plea.
-[Chamberlain] Tell me about that.
-Yeah.
[Steven] The police come in
and said, "We want you to do a plea.
Be strong for this plea.
Ask for her return."
Marlene did all the talking
and I think I just looked
like a deer in headlights.
-I was at a loss for words.
-Mm-hmm.
And I was forced to talk
about my daughter being taken
and be strong about it.
And then the minute I was done,
I burst into tears.
And of course,
the media wouldn't film that…
-Mm-hmm.
-…you know?
That wasn't what they were interested in.
I felt like I was having
an out-of-body experience
through this whole beginning of this.
Part of it is the feeling of,
"You should be looking for our daughter,
yet you're here with us."
After that, I was talking to my brother.
My brother
and sister-in-law are attorneys.
And he said,
"You need to contact an attorney.
You really should have somebody there
that's looking out for you."
[interviewee] In the beginning,
our hearts were out to them
because of the missing child,
but now, getting an attorney
and not wanting to speak
with the authorities…
I feel like they let everybody down.
[Steven] You know, people question us,
but we had to protect ourselves.
Because, what's happening as we go on,
law enforcement comes in.
Did they send
in investigators pretty quickly?
No, they sent
in, uh, two homicide investigators.
-Those were the first people that came?
-Yeah--
The first people that came were
homicide investigators?
[Steven] Yes.
Wow.
I had a baby that was taken
and then I had police look
for a body and not my daughter.
[reporter 1]
Police mount a massive search.
On the ground,
in the air and in the water.
[reporter 8] Divers work the 15-foot
deep water around Sabrina's house,
turning up nothing.
We're thinking, "Our daughter's out there.
Somebody has her.
You should be looking
for her and you're not."
[Chamberlain] At this point,
it's hard to know what to think.
Right now, I am going to speak
to a friend of the family.
I'm definitely curious to hear
what her perception is
of the behavior of the Aisenbergs.
Tell me about how you met them.
[Dotson] I met Marlene when she had
her business, Playtime Pals.
It was a playgroup
where we'd meet at the parks.
She, from the get-go,
just captured the kids' hearts
'cause she's so childlike herself,
you know?
Could talk to them,
could sing with them.
And then from there,
it grew to friendship.
'Cause her son and my son are
the same age and they were hanging out.
Tell me about when you found
out that Sabrina was missing.
I got a phone call from a neighbor
who lived around the corner from them.
I remember hanging up with her
and calling Marlene right away
'cause I couldn't believe it
and she was beside herself on the phone,
just sobbing hysterically
and saying she was gone.
It breaks my heart to know that they…
[sighs] …had to go through that.
For a long time, it was nonstop coverage.
[reporter 8] Teams of deputies fanned out,
searching on foot for the five-month old.
I'd read in the press about a messy house,
possible neglect of the kids…
[reporter 1] Two months after Sabrina
vanished, the Aisenbergs find themselves
in danger of losing
their two other children as well.
This time at the hands
of Florida's Child Protective Services.
People were talking
about Sabrina's bald spot.
You know, as a mom, you know,
it's like, every baby has those patches.
There was just so many "Oh, my God"
moments, like, please.
[caller] I'm sorry, I think this is phony.
Where is the video of the parents out
in the lake, searching for that baby?
I know I would be searching
for my daughter.
[Marlene] We knew
the thing they were saying.
But Steve and I had nothing to do
with Sabrina's disappearance.
So we would go
and do what we were gonna do.
We would go grocery shopping,
we would take the kids.
I do remember going to dinner
with our friends
and everybody is whispering.
All the tables around you,
"Oh, look it. That's them.
Oh, look it. That's them."
Steve and I would drive in the car
with the kids.
We were always being followed.
I mean, that became our life.
It was horrifying.
It was absolutely horrifying.
We didn't do anything,
we just want her home.
[Dotson] In their community,
strangers had already made their decision
based on what they heard.
I know, with Steve and Marlene,
they didn't want their kids growing up
in that kind of environment,
so they moved.
We moved up to Maryland
in, like, March of '99.
My dad, who lived here, in this house,
came to us and said,
"Would you like the house?"
It's starting all over,
making new friends,
but once we got here,
we grew to love this home.
[Marlene] After we moved to Maryland,
one day, I was home
and noticed a bunch of policemen
come toward the door.
And then I heard knocking at the door
and knocking at the door
became pushing in the door.
Pushing in the door…
became me standing in the hallway…
[breathes heavily]
…with them pointing a gun at me.
[tense music playing]
[Marlene] Couldn't even believe
the things they were saying.
[reporter 8] FBI agents arrested Steve and
Marlene Aisenberg on charges they'd lied
about what really happened
to their missing baby, Sabrina.
In the weeks that followed
the disappearance of Sabrina Aisenberg,
we put audio listening devices
inside of their residence in Florida.
And the investigators at the time
had an affidavit of probable cause.
[reporter 10] A month
after Sabrina's disappearance,
investigators say they heard this,
"Marlene: The baby's dead and buried!
It was found dead because you did it!
The baby's dead no matter what you say,
you just did it!"
My name's Kevin Kalwary,
I was a private investigator
for Barry Cohen,
who represented the Aisenbergs.
They were charged with perjury.
We don't know when
the microphones were placed,
but police had a recorder
on the kitchen table, the bedroom,
they had days and days worth of tapes.
So we read the indictment
and we got the transcripts of the tapes.
The monitors of these tapes,
they heard all sorts of things come up.
For instance, "The baby's dead.
I think it was the cocaine."
[reporter 10] Prosecutors are claiming
drug abuse played a role in the case.
[Kalwary] But the thing
about the Aisenbergs,
neither of them used drugs.
It didn't even make sense.
Of course, when people hear
the story like that, it's like,
"I told you! Baby killers."
[reporter 11] Either one of you have
anything you wanna say?
The tapes were the key to the prosecution.
That's why I don't think
any of our team was worried.
Not one thing they highlighted
in the indictment was on a tape.
[reporter 10] A few of those tapes
were played in open court.
[recording]
The baby's dead and buried!
It was found dead because you did it!
Judge Merryday kinda
scratched his head, he said,
"How come only law enforcement
can hear these words on the tapes?"
[reporter 7] The federal judge
dismissed the charges
after declaring the wiretaps inaudible.
There was absolutely no evidence
on those tapes
to support one allegation.
It was a scathing rebuke
of the prosecutor's office.
I was certainly ecstatic
for Steve and Marlene.
There was never any evidence
that they did anything wrong.
We had no idea they bugged our house.
It was such an invasion of our privacy,
but we have nothing to hide.
They made up everything on these tapes.
It was so egregious that the judge
awarded the largest sum
to recover attorney's fees
that had ever been recorded.
[reporter 8] A filing in federal court for
reimbursement of attorney's fees
and expert witness costs that's bound
to run into the millions of dollars.
[Steven] And everybody thought,
"You guys just got two million dollars."
No, we didn't get anything.
My father was reimbursed
for the bail that he had paid
and then the attorneys got the rest.
All we want is Sabrina to come home,
so that-that'll be our payment.
[Chamberlain] The judge dropped
the charges against the Aisenbergs.
Why were they charged with
lying to police in the first place?
I'm not gonna comment on
any specifics related to that,
that was all litigated
and is a matter of public record.
Even after those charges were dismissed,
uh, the investigation never stopped.
It hasn't changed course.
Our goal at the end of all of this
has been the same since November of 1997
which is, we either wanna find Sabrina,
or find out what happened to Sabrina.
[Chamberlain] Police definitely
did not have enough probable cause
to arrest the Aisenbergs.
There's a very good reason
why that case was thrown out.
What the court of public opinion said
about Steve and Marlene
just really doesn't hold much merit.
In 1997, we didn't know as much
about how people respond to trauma.
Around that time, when I was 15 years old,
everyone expected me to respond
to my kidnapping in a certain way.
People expected me to be timid,
cowering in a corner,
and none of that was how I processed
and experienced my trauma.
I was very analytical.
I was almost unemotional.
And that's my experience.
I don't expect everyone
to respond in that way.
There's no normal way
to respond to trauma.
If the Aisenbergs aren't guilty
of making Sabrina disappear,
then that means someone else
entered their home and took her.
It sounds crazy, but strangers do take
victims from their homes,
or off the street.
After all, it happened to me.
I'm going to meet Kevin Kalwary.
I have a lot of questions for him.
-Hey, Kevin.
-Hi.
-How are you?
-Good. I'm Kara. How are you?
I'm-I'm good.
-All right.
-Should I go around?
-Yeah.
-All right.
[Chamberlain] Here we go.
You wanna head to the neighborhood?
Sure.
The biggest thing that I'm looking for is,
are there more leads that came in?
-Is there more evidence?
-Sure.
Starting here, we are around the corner
from the, uh, Aisenbergs' cul-de-sac.
We're on their street.
They live, as you curve to the right,
almost the last house.
Were there any witnesses here that support
the theory that Sabrina was taken?
At that time, we started doing
an analysis of the neighborhood
and crimes within a two-mile
radius of the Aisenberg home.
There was a break-in attempt
at two houses on this street
where two babies live.
And then, the McDonald house
is this house right here.
[Chamberlain] Mm-hmm.
[Kalwary] The McDonalds had a dog.
The night that Sabrina was taken, the dog
wanted to go out about one o'clock.
At that time,
when Mr. McDonald let the dog out,
they heard a baby cry in the night.
Right behind their house.
Their backyard abuts a big retention pond.
This is the area where those cries
would've been coming from?
[Kalwary] Correct.
[Chamberlain] How could that play
into Sabrina being missing?
Well, if you go by the police theory
and a lot of the public,
who's gonna drive to a cul-de-sac,
park their car
and steal a baby with
only one way out? One getaway.
Mm-hmm.
But if you came in undetected
from a wooded area,
you could go very easily around the water.
And then, you could just walk
and walk up this street.
Three to five minutes, at most,
to the Aisenbergs' house.
And then walk back out
with a baby in your arms.
[Chamberlain] Mm-hmm.
-[Kalwary] So…
-[Chamberlain] Pretty easy.
[Kalwary] Very easy.
What I'm noticing as I'm standing here is,
every so often,
I get a glimpse of a car driving by,
which tells me you could
walk through there.
Absolutely. Well, clearly people were
walking there and parking there,
because they were living there,
or at least, camping there.
When I went over there,
I could see where there had been campfires
and there were plenty of bottles,
plenty of cigarettes.
Did anybody collect the cigarette butts,
or the bottles for prints? For DNA?
-I mean--
-It's… It was a different time, right?
-Like, 1997.
-It was a different time…
But some things haven't changed.
Fingerprints haven't changed.
[Chamberlain] There were fingerprints
found that didn't match the Aisenbergs?
-[Kalwary] Yes. In the nursery.
-That didn't belong to the family?
[Kalwary] It was not anybody
in the family's.
There were boot prints
found in Sabrina's bedroom.
Did they match any possible
footprints over there, or through here?
People who were back there,
you could track them down.
What did they hear
if they're living outside?
I mean, why not follow every lead
that you can follow?
How does someone even
know that they had a baby?
Well, Steve and Marlene, whenever they
went anywhere, always had their children.
-[Chamberlain] Mm-hmm.
-So Sabrina was always on display.
She was at Playtime Pals
just a few miles down the road.
She was at soccer games,
so anybody could have seen her.
In fact, there was a tip
from a woman named Cindy McGee.
[Rosen] It was early 1998.
Cindy McGee called me
and identified herself as a nanny
who was caring for a child who went
to Marlene Aisenberg's play program,
which was also in the Valrico suburbs.
She had noticed,
a number of months earlier,
there was a truck, orange,
Michigan plates.
People with blonde hair, scruffy.
They kept showing up.
She started to think there was
something a little bit unnerving
about strangers parking
in front of a play school.
And then Sabrina vanished.
She called the sheriff's office to say,
"These people aren't showing up anymore,
could they be involved?"
Well, she said she never heard
back from the sheriff's office.
She called me to say, like,
"What's the deal with this?"
I had no idea.
Maybe they didn't wanna
find another suspect.
I don't know.
[Chamberlain]
Six months after Sabrina went missing,
police did follow up with Cindy.
I don't know whether
the encampment was looked into,
but I do know about the evidence
collected at the house.
Where's this boot print?
This hair? Fingerprints?
Has it been analyzed since 1997?
That's what I wanna ask Sergeant Blair
at Hillsborough County Sheriff's office.
-Hi.
-Hi. Welcome.
[Chamberlain] Was there anything
in the house that indicated that
someone that was not in the family
had entered into that home?
I'm gonna be cautious in what I say, um,
as it goes to specific things
that were found within the residence,
because it is still
a very active investigation.
I've heard about hair, a boot print.
Is that evidence still maintained?
We have every piece of evidence
that has ever been collected
from that incident scene.
I physically have put eyes on
99.9% of it, and we still have it.
There's so many amazing advancements
with DNA. Has that been tested?
Everything that we could have done, um,
as technology is known right now,
uh, we've done, because we stay
on top of this case.
We check every year. Any type
of unidentified fingerprints
we're constantly running
in the national databases.
There were many prints that were obtained,
however, a lot of them were not viable.
And some of that stuff that was collected
has since been ruled to be not evidence.
Specifics that were
collected at the scene, um,
I probably am going to hold on to that,
because our larger goal
is to make sure that we can
hold people responsible for this.
What I can tell you is that
there is no physical evidence
that we located then or now
that has taken us outside the home.
[Chamberlain] I wasn't satisfied
with those answers.
Police wouldn't elaborate, but I wanna
know why certain evidence was ruled out.
Obviously, they also don't have
enough evidence
to charge the Aisenbergs with anything,
or they would have by now.
I am just kinda seeing
what people are saying.
Just lots of different theories and posts
of people thinking they saw Sabrina
or knowing someone who
they think looks like Sabrina.
This is a post from 2013.
It says that "15 years ago,
in the springtime, it was 1997,
I saw a heavy-set redheaded woman
with a baby sitting by a pond
in Lake Ridge, Virginia.
As soon as she saw me, she left,
which I thought was odd.
The baby looked a lot like Baby Sabrina."
And then this, someone saying,
"I've seen her in Virginia at the mall."
It's hard to verify any of these tips,
but it does give me hope that
maybe Sabrina is still out there.
[young Marlene] Sabrina,
come crawl to Mommy.
[Marlene] We believe with all our heart
that she's gonna come home.
[young Marlene] Come here, gorgeous.
Couple weeks ago, a girl contacted Kevin,
and then through Kevin we spoke with her.
And I guess she was sick,
so she did some kind of…
-Genetic test.
-…genetic test.
And she came back as being
98% Ashkenazi Jewish like us.
And she's living with a family
-that said she was Catholic.
-She was raised Catholic.
Um, and so then
she's questioning everything.
She said, "I might be her,"
and then she describes the blanket.
Well, whoever took the baby
took the blanket.
[Marlene] We were really hopeful.
And that was on
Sabrina's birthday this year.
So we were like, "This is… This is it.
This is meant to be." This is, you know…
We believe that we're gonna get her home.
So, called her, and she went
and did a DNA test at a lab,
then I went to its sister lab and did
a DNA test, 'cause that way it was quick.
And sadly it came back
100-percent no.
It's an emotional roller coaster.
I mean, we're always so hopeful.
You're constantly looking at pictures,
and you're praying,
you're just hoping whoever
did this took her to love her.
[young Marlene] Come see Mommy.
[Marlene]
We live with this pain every day.
Every job that I have, when I'm hired,
I have to always tell my boss
that we have a daughter named Sabrina
and she was taken from our home.
And I always have armor on
because of how the media treated us.
But we live with the hope… [sniffles]
…every day that she's gonna come home,
which is why we're here talking with you.
It's the only thing we can do
as her parents. [sighs, sniffles]
[Cofer] So tell me everything.
What-What did you find out?
[Chamberlain] There's still a lot
of unanswered questions.
-Yeah.
-There was a lady,
uh, Cindy McGee,
who said that she actually saw
an orange truck outside
of Marlene's workplace, Playtime Pals,
for about two weeks
before Sabrina's disappearance.
Apparently, there were other people
in the neighborhood who had babies
or young children, and they had
suspicious activity, attempted break-ins.
It definitely lends some
credibility to this idea
that someone was watching
the area for a baby.
Yeah.
And one of the neighbors said that on
the night that Sabrina disappeared,
he heard a baby crying behind his house.
And then on the other side
of that was an area
where people had been kind of living,
and that was also an egress
out of the neighborhood.
So, did police ever take any DNA
or find any evidence at these encampments?
Not to my knowledge.
When I spoke with the police, they said
that they found evidence in the house
and they said that they are actively
testing that with new technology.
And I think, right now,
I have so many questions,
but the biggest question that remains is,
could Sabrina still be alive?
Could she be out there?
I mean, you know,
I know it's been a long time,
but that's definitely a theory
that can't be ignored.
To me, it's the best-case scenario.
[gentle music playing]
What are you doing now
to help find Sabrina?
[Marlene] We work with
the National Center for Missing Children,
and they did a rush on this,
and this is the new one.
What she might look like
now at 28, 29 years old.
We just need people to look,
take a really deep look,
and see if you have a friend the same age
or if you heard somebody that,
you know, maybe wasn't feeling
where they were in the right spot,
didn't feel like they belonged
where they were.
Ask them to have a DNA test done,
and we'll see if it matches,
and-and hopefully it will.
So that's our hope.
There's never been any evidence of any
kind that Sabrina was hurt in any way.
That is the hope that we've held on to,
and that is the only thing we can believe.
It's gonna just take any little thing
to help get her home,
and that's, you know, all we can ask.
She's with us every day.
We just need her home.
We just need her to know us.
Thank you for sharing her
and her story with me.
It's been an honor.
And it's my hope that we can find
some answers, and let's find her.
-Let's get her home. Let's get her home.
-Let's find her.
-Thank you.
-Thank you.
-Thank you.
-Yeah.
[Chamberlain] No matter
how you look at it,
this case is absolutely
a heart-wrenching tragedy.
[young Marlene]
Sabrina, come crawl to Mommy.
Come here.
[Chamberlain] Steve and Marlene believe
that Sabrina was taken
by someone who wanted a baby,
wanted to love her,
raised her in a loving home,
and you have to hope that
in a situation like this.
Thinking about not seeing
your child grow up,
I don't know how people survive that.
I imagine what it must be like
for Steve and Marlene to not only
be missing their daughter,
but to be doing that in a public arena.
It's death by a thousand cuts.
The biggest hope is that she's out there,
that sharing Sabrina's story
will stir someone's memories.
Visit the Somebody Knows Something
channel on abcnews.com
for further discussion
about Sabrina's case.
[music ends]
They were trying to say she was a runaway.
There was no reason for me to think that.
[Chamberlain] Lashaya was on the video
to the southeast of the school.
-[person 1] Gun and cell phone was found.
-Hugely concerning.
[person 2]
There are people that traffic them.
[person 1]
That camera captured two individuals.
-Could it be connected?
-There's just something more to the story.