Speaker 1: My older sister woke up to get Bella ready for school,
Speaker 1: and she wasn't there.
Speaker 2: Tension began rising as Amanda couldn't find a trace of
Speaker 2: her sister.
Speaker 1: Her dad stopped at the elementary school to say, hey,
Speaker 1: did Anna Bala get dropped off?
Speaker 2: But no one had seen Bella. Panic set in for
Speaker 2: Bella's dad. It was as if she had vanished into
Speaker 2: thin air.
Speaker 3: This is The Miracle Files.
Speaker 4: I'm Emily Jones and I'm Holly Worthington.
Speaker 5: We're two sisters who love a captivating true story, but
Speaker 5: we're also seeking more light in our lives.
Speaker 2: So we're on a mission to find and share unforgettable,
Speaker 2: uplifting stories of God's miracles. We hope you'll join us
Speaker 2: on this journey.
Speaker 4: Welcome back to the Miracle Files.
Speaker 5: I don't often use this word, and I don't use
Speaker 5: it lightly, but this episode is truly special.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I love all of our episodes, but this is one
Speaker 2: that I guarantee is going to stick with you for
Speaker 2: a long time.
Speaker 5: It will and please stay after because we have some
Speaker 5: really important things to share with you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and before we get started, just a little parental
Speaker 2: heads up. This one does deal with some mature topics
Speaker 2: like abuse and crime, but I let my kids listen.
Speaker 2: It provided some really good teaching opportunities.
Speaker 4: So it's up to you. Okay, let's get started.
Speaker 3: Let's go.
Speaker 2: Our story starts in June of two thousand and three.
Speaker 3: Five year old.
Speaker 2: Bella lived between two homes because her parents were divorced.
Speaker 2: At her dad's house, she lived with her older sister, Amanda,
Speaker 2: who was twelve. They also had another sister, Clara, who
Speaker 2: was nine.
Speaker 4: And lived with their mom.
Speaker 2: Though Clara didn't have the same father, the three sisters
Speaker 2: shared a strong bond, and Bella loved it when Clara
Speaker 2: would visit her and Amanda at her dad's house. Bella's
Speaker 2: single father was doing his to care for his two daughters,
Speaker 2: but was struggling to make ends meet, so when his bandmate,
Speaker 2: Bill Mix, offered to move in and help with the
Speaker 2: kids and household expenses, Bella's father gratefully accepted. Soon Bill
Speaker 2: began moving his stuff into the house, including bringing his
Speaker 2: pet parrot with him. Bill was soft spoken and sweet
Speaker 2: with the kids, especially five year old Bella. In fact,
Speaker 2: he would often take Bella and her two sisters, Clara
Speaker 2: and Amanda, out to dinner and would buy them gifts,
Speaker 2: although he bought more gifts for Bella. When Clara visited
Speaker 2: her sisters, she began to notice a trend. Bill was
Speaker 2: doing more and more with five year old Bella, such
Speaker 2: as dropping her off at school in the mornings, and
Speaker 2: as time went on, it became clear to Clara that
Speaker 2: Bill was giving Bella significantly more attention than the other girls.
Speaker 1: Here's Clara, and I was over there for a Memorial
Speaker 1: Day and we were out in the front yard playing
Speaker 1: like a kiddie pool or something, and he called her
Speaker 1: inside and I just kept playing and she comes back out,
Speaker 1: but instead of coming out to the pool, she went
Speaker 1: and just sat on a chair on the porch, and
Speaker 1: I remember thinking it was weird, and I went and asked, Hey,
Speaker 1: what did he say? And she went to go say
Speaker 1: something and said, oh, I forgot.
Speaker 2: Bella seemed a little off, But though the moment fell
Speaker 2: strange to Clara, she didn't think too much of it,
Speaker 2: as most kids would do. She went back to playing
Speaker 2: in the pool, and then things took a darker turn.
Speaker 1: It was early June. My older sister woke up to
Speaker 1: get Bella ready for school, and she wasn't there, so
Speaker 1: she's running all over the house looking for her.
Speaker 2: Tension began rising as Amana couldn't find a trace of
Speaker 2: her sister. She ran into her dad's bedroom to see
Speaker 2: if Bella could.
Speaker 1: Be there, and you know, she's not here. Where is she?
Speaker 1: And they didn't know. So her dad sent our older
Speaker 1: sister to school, and he stopped at the elementary school
Speaker 1: to say, hey, did Anna Bala get dropped off?
Speaker 2: But no one had seen Bella. It was as if
Speaker 2: she had vanished into thin air. Bella's father ran back home.
Speaker 2: He searched the house again, this time checking Bill's bedroom.
Speaker 2: What he found there made his heart race with fear.
Speaker 2: A letter sat on Bill's bed. It said that Bill
Speaker 2: had kidnapped Bella. Bill explained that he took Bella to
Speaker 2: give her a better life. Even more chilling, in the letter,
Speaker 2: Bill offered Bella's father a disturbing exchange for Bella.
Speaker 1: And in return, her dad my sister's dad could keep
Speaker 1: the parrot, Bill's pep parrot, and he would understand if
Speaker 1: her dad strangled this parrot out of anger, but that
Speaker 1: was his to leave and return.
Speaker 2: The letter gave an instant glimpse into the maniacal thinking
Speaker 2: that was taking place in Bill's mind. Panic set in
Speaker 2: for Bella's dad, and he hurried to call the police.
Speaker 2: When Bella's mom got.
Speaker 3: The news, she cried out in terror.
Speaker 2: She immediately dropped to her knees and began begging God to.
Speaker 4: Save her baby.
Speaker 2: The officer put in charge of the case set out
Speaker 2: an Amber alert for all of California and Nevada. With
Speaker 2: little Bella in his car, Bill drove north across the
Speaker 2: California border. He was already heading through Nevada and would
Speaker 2: soon be beyond the reach of the Amber alert. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: over five hundred miles away from Riverside, in the small
Speaker 2: town of Richfield, Utah, Lisa Hilton was having a bad day.
Speaker 2: She had three young children and was supposed to be
Speaker 2: meeting up with her mom and two sisters to help
Speaker 2: her sister move at one but everything seemed to be
Speaker 2: going wrong.
Speaker 3: Here's Lisa.
Speaker 6: The babysitter backed out, and I'm like, oh great, Now
Speaker 6: what am I going to do? I honestly thought I
Speaker 6: had another babysitter, and she backed out on me like
Speaker 6: twenty minutes before I had to go. So I called
Speaker 6: a couple other people and nobody was able to help me,
Speaker 6: So I'm getting a little frustrated.
Speaker 2: Lisa finally called her sister in law and asked if
Speaker 2: she could help babysit. Her sister in law couldn't do
Speaker 2: it right away, but said she would be available later
Speaker 2: after teaching piano lessons. That's fine, Lisa thought. Nothing was
Speaker 2: going according to plan anyway. As Lisa scrambled to find
Speaker 2: a sitter. Back in Riverside, California, Bella's nine year old sister, Clara,
Speaker 2: was surprised when her grandparents picked her up early from school.
Speaker 1: My grandparents picked me up from school early and I
Speaker 1: didn't know why, and they just were picking you up early.
Speaker 1: We're going to go home to our house. We're going
Speaker 1: to play. And I got there and I went into
Speaker 1: a family room and they said, you know, you can
Speaker 1: watch TV, but please don't change the channel. If you
Speaker 1: need to, please come get us. I thought there was
Speaker 1: some adult movie on. I'm like, okay, but no, it
Speaker 1: was an Amber alert on the news ark.
Speaker 2: Bella's parents didn't want Clara to know that her sister
Speaker 2: had been kidnapped, but they were sick with worry themselves.
Speaker 2: They hoped and prayed that someone would see their Amber
Speaker 2: alert but so far nothing they knew. The more time
Speaker 2: went by, the less likely they were to ever find
Speaker 2: their daughter. The worst part about it, there was absolutely
Speaker 2: nothing they could do. In Richfield, Utah. Lisa felt frazzled.
Speaker 2: Now three hours behind schedule, she was finally on her way.
Speaker 2: She drove across town and was nearing her sister in
Speaker 2: law's house when something caught her eye. Just before turning
Speaker 2: into her sister in law's cul de sac, she passed
Speaker 2: a church house. On the lawn of the church set
Speaker 2: two individuals.
Speaker 6: And I'd make the turn to go into the cult
Speaker 6: to sack, and right off the bat, I noticed this
Speaker 6: little girl and she's eating what appears to be a
Speaker 6: little happy mill or something, and this older gentleman and
Speaker 6: I thought, huh, really doesn't look like you should be
Speaker 6: a grandpa. I'm just kind of being judgmental, but it
Speaker 6: just it kind of struck me, like, what are you doing?
Speaker 3: Lisa kept driving.
Speaker 6: I said, I felt judgmental because he had long gray
Speaker 6: hair and kind of looked a little rough. And I thought,
Speaker 6: which I shouldn't be that judgment be because I had
Speaker 6: an older brother that kind of looked the same way,
Speaker 6: long hair and a little rough and the biggest teddy
Speaker 6: bear ever. And I honestly thought that too. I thought, Okay,
Speaker 6: you know what, he kind of looks like your brother.
Speaker 6: So quit that.
Speaker 2: Lisa shrugged off any concerns. But then something unexpected happened.
Speaker 6: Very strongly, miss where it said, she does not belong
Speaker 6: with him. I'm not what what do you mean? And
Speaker 6: I kind of looked back as I'm making the turn
Speaker 6: to go up her street, and it's like, she does
Speaker 6: not belong with him. And as I'm driving the few
Speaker 6: couple of blocks up the street to get to my
Speaker 6: sister in law's house, it became stronger and stronger. She
Speaker 6: does not belong with him.
Speaker 2: The voice in Lisa's head, both quiet and powerful at
Speaker 2: the same time, made her heart pound. Still, Lisa doubted
Speaker 2: herself and tried to shake the feeling. When Lisa reached
Speaker 2: her sister in law's house, she unfastened her son from
Speaker 2: the car seat. As her sister in law came out
Speaker 2: to meet Lisa. Her sister in law could immediately tell
Speaker 2: that Lisa was shaken.
Speaker 6: Up, and she's like, what's going on? Lisaid, there's this
Speaker 6: little girl and this guy down at the church, and
Speaker 6: I know she doesn't belong with him? And she goes,
Speaker 6: how do you know that? And I said, I know that.
Speaker 6: I can feel the spirit whispering that. And I started shaken,
Speaker 6: and she's like, what are you going to do? And
Speaker 6: I'm like, I need to do something.
Speaker 2: Lisa reached for the phone and began to die on
Speaker 2: nine one one, But then her fingers grose. What would
Speaker 2: she even say that a man was having lunch with
Speaker 2: a child. It's not like he was doing anything obviously wrong.
Speaker 2: Would they think she was overreacting crazy? Even as uncertainty
Speaker 2: crept in, that same quiet but insistent voice rose within
Speaker 2: her again, she does not belong with him. Whether it
Speaker 2: sounded ridiculous or not, Lisa knew she couldn't ignore it
Speaker 2: any longer. She settled on calling the non emergency number
Speaker 2: for the Richfield City Police Department.
Speaker 6: So I called that number and I said, hey, I
Speaker 6: just feel like somebody needs to check this out, and
Speaker 6: she goes, okay, we can we call it a welfare check.
Speaker 6: We can do that. Where are you at? And I
Speaker 6: told her the location. I said, it's on the church
Speaker 6: Haslon at the end of fourth and it's a little
Speaker 6: girl and the guy. And she goes well, how well
Speaker 6: is a little girl? And I says, I don't know,
Speaker 6: maybe four or five years old. She's pretty little, and
Speaker 6: I said, but she just I just don't feel right
Speaker 6: about it. And she goes, well, is there a vehicle there?
Speaker 6: And I said, well, you know, I actually have to
Speaker 6: drive past there again to get out of this cul
Speaker 6: de sap. So I get back in my car and
Speaker 6: I'm talking to hers.
Speaker 2: I'm driving nervously. Lisa neared the church house again. She
Speaker 2: wasn't even sure if the older man and little girl
Speaker 2: would still be there, and she didn't know what to
Speaker 2: do if they were. As she came around the corner,
Speaker 2: she instantly spotted them. She gripped her steering wheel with
Speaker 2: shaking hands. Lisa described what she saw to the dispatcher, and.
Speaker 6: I told her, I said, hey, I'm coming up on it.
Speaker 6: They're still there, and that feeling was still just so intense.
Speaker 6: I mean, I was just shaken and it really upset me.
Speaker 6: I told her it's a gray and burgundy pickup truck
Speaker 6: with a camper shell. They're from California, and she's like,
Speaker 6: can you read me a license plate?
Speaker 2: Lisa gave the dispatcher the license plate number in relief.
Speaker 2: Lisa watched as a police car approached the church. Whatever
Speaker 2: the situation was, it.
Speaker 3: Was now in the hands of the police.
Speaker 2: She drew in a deep breath, steadied herself, and continued
Speaker 2: the drive to her sister's house.
Speaker 6: I get out of the car and I am still
Speaker 6: just shaking. And I walk in the door and my
Speaker 6: mom and one of my older sisters said, and they're like,
Speaker 6: what's going on? And I said, there's this little girl
Speaker 6: and this guy at the church house lawn and I
Speaker 6: said she doesn't belong with them. And my sister kind
Speaker 6: of teased me, and she goes, so, did you call
Speaker 6: the cops? It is, yes, I dad. She goes, it's
Speaker 6: probably some grump and how many of you just kind
Speaker 6: of being funny? And then she looked at me and
Speaker 6: she goes, no, I can tell now she's you're right,
Speaker 6: something's wrong. And she says, just the way your parents says,
Speaker 6: the way you're acting, and I said, I know, I'm
Speaker 6: just sick about it.
Speaker 2: Just then, Lisa received a call from an unknown number.
Speaker 6: And I picked it up and I answered it and
Speaker 6: Officer Trent Lloyd was his name. He's like, Lisa, how
Speaker 6: did you know? I said, what and how did you know?
Speaker 6: Her name is Annabella and she is kidnapped at a riverside, California.
Speaker 6: This morning. There was an ambrolert in California, Nevada, but
Speaker 6: there was not one in Utah. My mom and my
Speaker 6: sister came down in the hall and I was crying,
Speaker 6: and they're like, what's the matter. She was kidnapped. This
Speaker 6: guy kidnapped her. I just my Mom's like, hey, just
Speaker 6: take a breath. And I couldn't stop shaking. And my
Speaker 6: sister said, how did you know? And I said again,
Speaker 6: this spirit was so strong, she does not belong with him.
Speaker 2: In riverside, Bella's and Clara's family sat anxiously, waiting, praying,
Speaker 2: wondering if they would ever see their sweet Bella again.
Speaker 2: And then the phone rang. They couldn't believe what the
Speaker 2: police told them. Bella had been found. Clara's parents finally
Speaker 2: explained to her what had happened and that her sister
Speaker 2: Bella was no safe. Their tears and rejoicing were beyond
Speaker 2: anything Clara had seen before. The Next day, back in Utah,
Speaker 2: Lisa received a call herself. On the other end was
Speaker 2: a calm but serious voice informing her that Bella had
Speaker 2: been placed in protective custody, and that her mother was
Speaker 2: on the way to the police station and asking to
Speaker 2: meet the woman who had saved her child.
Speaker 4: Was such a.
Speaker 6: Tender mean because the officers were there. The lady that
Speaker 6: answered the phone, well, they're just crying. And I started crying.
Speaker 6: And the mother walked in the room and she said,
Speaker 6: when I received the phone call that my daughter was taken,
Speaker 6: she says, I hnt my knees and just pleaded with
Speaker 6: God to find an angel to find my baby. And
Speaker 6: she said, and you were that angel. You were that angel.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, Bella had already gone through some trauma, but it's
Speaker 2: absolutely chilling to think about what would have happened to
Speaker 2: her if she hadn't been found. When she was inside
Speaker 2: the camper that Bella had been kidnapped in. The police
Speaker 2: found photographs and evidence of the terror that poor Bella
Speaker 2: had had to endure.
Speaker 1: They also found love letters written to her, songs about
Speaker 1: written that he had wrote about her. I think he
Speaker 1: thought he was in a romantic relationship with a five
Speaker 1: year old. He was forty eight.
Speaker 2: Bella had gone through a nightmare and would now need
Speaker 2: time and therapy to heal but her family was so
Speaker 2: incredibly grateful to have their sweet little girl home again.
Speaker 3: And fortunately Bill Mix.
Speaker 2: Would be going to prison where he could no longer
Speaker 2: hurt any child again.
Speaker 1: So it was taken to trial and he was sentenced
Speaker 1: to three hundred and fifty something years forty seven felony.
Speaker 1: Accounts the judge that sentenced him, there is a quote
Speaker 1: essentially saying he would do anything he could to virtually
Speaker 1: guarantee that Mix would never see the light of day
Speaker 1: outside of a prison for the rest of his life,
Speaker 1: and then he goes on to say if that were
Speaker 1: to happen, civilization as we know it would have ceased
Speaker 1: to exist.
Speaker 2: Bella's family considers it a miracle that their daughter and
Speaker 2: sister was seen by Lisa on that fateful afternoon. Lisa
Speaker 2: was truly their angel.
Speaker 1: I'm on the I don't necessarily believe in God. I
Speaker 1: am spiritual. I don't want to say religious, but I
Speaker 1: don't disbelieve. But if there was ever a time that
Speaker 1: I believed in an act of God, it was then
Speaker 1: something in the universe just said this is not okay,
Speaker 1: We're going to stop this no, And I just think
Speaker 1: it's it is. I think an act of God, if there,
Speaker 1: if I were to ever believe that, that's what that
Speaker 1: would be, That's what that is.
Speaker 2: Lisa credits the experience to God's define intervention with the
Speaker 2: clarity of passing time. What Lisa thought was an inconvenient,
Speaker 2: frustrating morning became something entirely different.
Speaker 6: So I finally sat down and started writing it out.
Speaker 6: And I can tell you from the moment I got
Speaker 6: up that morning, I told you my day was planned out.
Speaker 6: I had my day planned exactly how it was supposed
Speaker 6: to go, and there were so many things that got
Speaker 6: in my way, so many things that changed, besides just
Speaker 6: the babysitter needing to run and help a neighbor with something,
Speaker 6: taking phone calls that I wasn't planning on taking, you know,
Speaker 6: just all these things. I'm like, why is my day
Speaker 6: going this way? But as I sat down and wrote
Speaker 6: it out, I now saw that my Savior had placed
Speaker 6: me where I needed to be at that time. If
Speaker 6: I had been ten minutes sooner, they wouldn't have been there,
Speaker 6: not yet. I think the officers said they'd been there
Speaker 6: less than five minutes when I saw them to let
Speaker 6: her eat her little meal, and they said, then he
Speaker 6: probably would have just got back on the freeway.
Speaker 2: The timing of Lisa's day had come down to a
Speaker 2: matter of critical minutes to put her in the.
Speaker 3: Right place at exactly the right time.
Speaker 2: Today, Bella continues to work on healing from the wounds
Speaker 2: of her past. But through the grace of God and
Speaker 2: an earthly angel who originally thought she was just having
Speaker 2: a really bad day, Bella has grown strong and has
Speaker 2: a beautiful family.
Speaker 3: Of her own.
Speaker 2: Bella chooses to live her life in anonymity now, but
Speaker 2: Clara shared that today Bella is a devoted and loving
Speaker 2: mother with a vibrant imagination and a sharp sense of humor.
Speaker 2: And we want to add one more descriptor to Clara's
Speaker 2: list about Bella. To us, Bella and the courageous life
Speaker 2: she's chosen to live is a miracle.
Speaker 4: I have chills.
Speaker 2: I know. Isn't that amazing that Lisa listened.
Speaker 3: To that voice?
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, I know.
Speaker 5: And before we get into that, we have some really
Speaker 5: really crucial news to share with you all.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you are not going to believe this, but Bill Mix,
Speaker 2: who it turns out his full name is Charles William Mix,
Speaker 2: He actually was a multiple offender. He was sentenced to
Speaker 2: basically an eternity in prison. The crazy thing is there
Speaker 2: is still a possibility that he could get out of prison.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's so unbelievable.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: California passed an elderly parola, which basically allows inmates to
Speaker 2: have an automatic parole hearing if they're over a certain age.
Speaker 2: And there was just one day where Bella was having
Speaker 2: this weird kind of gut feeling. She checked the status
Speaker 2: of Bill's incarceration and saw that Bill had a parole
Speaker 2: hearing set for September of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: And here's what Clara had to say.
Speaker 1: And she called my mom and I in a panic.
Speaker 1: And that's when I said, that's okay, we're going to
Speaker 1: figure this out. Let me make phone calls. You don't
Speaker 1: worry about it. I've got up. I called CDCR, said
Speaker 1: why is this happening? What's going on? And they told
Speaker 1: me it was because of the elderly pearl. An elderly
Speaker 1: pearlong California states that if an inmate is over the
Speaker 1: age of fifty and has served twenty or more years
Speaker 1: of their sentence, then they become eligible for a parl
Speaker 1: suitability hearing. Therefore, if they're granted pearl, then they get out. Now,
Speaker 1: twenty years out of three hundred and fifty is not
Speaker 1: a lot, So that's a big shock. This law has
Speaker 1: very little stipulations. If you murder a police officer, you
Speaker 1: don't get elderly parole, or if you are a three
Speaker 1: strike felon, then you don't get pearl. That's about the
Speaker 1: extent of their stipulations. So we found this out about
Speaker 1: early spring twenty twenty four, and I spent the rest
Speaker 1: of spring, summer, and fall contacting anybody I could, writing
Speaker 1: opposition letters, reaching out to other organizations, asking for help,
Speaker 1: asking people to send in letters of opposition to his parol.
Speaker 2: H can you believe that twenty nine years sall he's
Speaker 2: been in twenty years of his sentence.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, It's truly shocking because this man horribly abused Bella.
Speaker 5: And in preparation for the pearl hearing, Clara and Bella
Speaker 5: gathered a lot of support, including letters from Bill's prison
Speaker 5: cellmate who said that Bill is still a dangerous man
Speaker 5: and should not get out.
Speaker 4: And Bill's parole was denied. Fortunately, yeah, thank heavens.
Speaker 2: But yeah, Bella still had to go relive all of
Speaker 2: these horrible memories. It's like she was victimized all over
Speaker 2: again because she had to have all these feelings brought
Speaker 2: back up. I mean, she's still worried about her own
Speaker 2: safety if he gets out at the safety of others.
Speaker 4: It's just very trumficent for her.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and as the law stands right now, she will
Speaker 5: have to go through that again, potentially every five to
Speaker 5: seven years for the rest of Bill's life.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's terrible, but Clara is such a good sister
Speaker 2: and she is doing everything in her power to make
Speaker 2: sure that doesn't happen. She's trying to pass a lot
Speaker 2: in the state of California called the Mary Bella Law,
Speaker 2: named after Bella, her sister, and another young victim named Mary.
Speaker 2: And the purpose of this lot is to actually keep
Speaker 2: violent sexual predators in prison. And they're actually going to
Speaker 2: be presenting this law before the California State Senate in
Speaker 2: the next couple months.
Speaker 5: Yes, and Lisa has also gotten involved with this. They
Speaker 5: have a committee and they have weekly meetings to work
Speaker 5: on this.
Speaker 1: Every week that we do it, we start with like
Speaker 1: spotlighting somebody who we say use their voice, because that's
Speaker 1: the whole point of what we're doing. Is using your voice,
Speaker 1: being a voice for the voiceless victims who are scared
Speaker 1: to fight, too tired to fight, didn't make it to fight.
Speaker 1: And Lisa was one of our spotlights of a voice
Speaker 1: because she didn't have to call, but she knew she
Speaker 1: had to.
Speaker 5: So we know that we have amazing listeners and we
Speaker 5: know that you're sitting there like us, saying what can
Speaker 5: I do to help? So if you're in California, call
Speaker 5: your elected officials immediately. If you're not in California, you
Speaker 5: can still call the California Senators and bug them and
Speaker 5: share this story everywhere you can, post it on social media,
Speaker 5: let people know what's going on. This is such an
Speaker 5: important issue.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we will be posting updates on our social
Speaker 2: media so that you can follow along with what happens.
Speaker 2: But really, if you feel compelled, please get involved.
Speaker 5: Yes, but before we go, I just have to say,
Speaker 5: isn't the miracle in this story so powerful? I mean,
Speaker 5: how amazing is it that God was able to use
Speaker 5: this frazzled, busy mom in Richfield, Utah to save the
Speaker 5: sweet little girl.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Lisa is amazing. And we actually have a letter
Speaker 2: that Bella's father, Chris Clark wrote to Lisa and just
Speaker 2: a heads up. In this letter, he calls Bella Anna
Speaker 2: because Bella's full name is Annabella. But here's what it
Speaker 2: has to say.
Speaker 4: Hello.
Speaker 2: My name is Chris Clark, Anna's father. I would like
Speaker 2: to send a notice to everyone involved in the recovery
Speaker 2: of my daughter, especially Lisa Hilton. If I would have
Speaker 2: followed my deep gut instincts, this might not have happened.
Speaker 2: Mix has been a friend to me and my girls
Speaker 2: for two to three years. Everyone that knows us is
Speaker 2: shocked and in disbelief that he would do this. He
Speaker 2: is a sick man and nobody could see it. But
Speaker 2: I always had a feeling about his relationship with Anna,
Speaker 2: a gut feeling, but I didn't accept it. He just
Speaker 2: seemed too good hearted. That goes to show that we
Speaker 2: should all follow our gut feelings. Thank you with all
Speaker 2: my heart, Lisa. You saved my daughter and saved her
Speaker 2: family from what could have been much more grief. Thank
Speaker 2: you to the social worker I don't recall his name,
Speaker 2: and everyone else involved, please print this in your paper.
Speaker 2: I am getting ready to see Anna right now. Thank
Speaker 2: you again, and God bless you. Chris Clark.
Speaker 5: Wow, It's just so interesting that this dad didn't feel
Speaker 5: good about Bill the whole time and he just didn't.
Speaker 4: Trust his own fat Yeah. How often does that happen?
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: All I can think is just you got to listen
Speaker 2: to your gut, You got to trust those feelings.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: The older I get, I think, the easier it gets
Speaker 5: to trust those feelings. And I've kind of stopped asking
Speaker 5: myself if this is from God or not, Like, if
Speaker 5: I feel something like that, I really try to pay attention.
Speaker 5: And clearly Lisa is like an amazing example of someone
Speaker 5: who listened to the still small voice.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: Well, we want to thank Lisa, Bella and Clara for
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