TONIGHT, RICK KARLE BRINGS US THE STORY OF HEIDI’S SURPRI.SE ♪ RICK: WHAT WOULD THEY HAVINE COMMON? A RETIRING POLICE CHIEF AND ASSUMED TO BE EIGHT-YEAR-OLD GIRL FROM SOUTH CAROLINA. WHAT THEY HAVE IN COMMON IS HEIDI’S SURPRISE. >> I TOLD HER, YOU GET TO BE A SURPRISE. HE DOESN’T KNOW THAT YOU’RE COMING. WHAT? I GET TO BE A SURPRISE? RICK: A SURPRISE THAT IF NOT FOR RIVERSIDE POLICE CHIEF RICK OLIVER, MAY NOT HAVE HAPPENE IT WAS THREEEARS Y AGO WHEN BRITNEY TAUGHT AND THREE OF HER YOUNG CHILDREN WERE ATTACKED AT THEIR SOUTH CAROLINA HOME . BRITTANY LOCKED UP, KNIF,ED BEATEN, KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS HER ENTH FOUR-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER HEIDI ABDUCTED. BRITTANY’S HUSBAND KEVIN RUSHED HOME TO MAYHEM. >> TIME IS ALMOST IN SLOW MOTION BUT IT’S AZBLING BY AT THE SAME TIME. RI: A DAY LATER, FEBRUARY 14 2018, RIVERSIDE, ALABAMA RAILROAD WORKER MARK BURK NOTICED A CAR PARKED NEAR THE TRACKS. INSIDE WAS A MAN ASLEEP AND A YOUNG CHILD WEARING ADULT CLOTHE CHIEF OLIVER HEADED TO THE SCENE. HE PICKED UP THE CHILD AS THE ABDUCTORLE F >> SHE WAS LIKE A MAGN, EET LATCHED ON, AND I KNEW THAT SOMETHING WAS . RICK: FOUR-YEAR-OLD HEIDI DDTO WAS RESCUED. HER MOTHER STILL IN THE ICU. >> I KNOW THAT GOD PUT ME HERE . HE PUT ME ON THAT DAY, ON ATTH SHIFT AT THAT TIME TO GET HDIEI BA.CK >> WAS THE BEST WORST DAY OF MY LIFE, SHE WAS STILL INCUND I THAT WAS HORRIBLE. A HORRIBLE SITUATION BUT SHET A LEAST WAFOS UND. RICK: IT WAS FOUR DAYS AGO AND THE FOLKS IN RERIVSIDE WERE CELEBRATING CHIEF OLIVER’S RETIREMENT. HUGS, HANDSHAKES AND A KNOCK ON THE DO.OR THREE YEARS LATER, HEIDI’S SURPRI.SE >> I TURNED AND IT WAS HEIDI AND BRITTANY, I COULD NOT BELIEVE .IT >> SEEING HEIDI, IT WAS AN AMAZING EXPERIENCE. >> IT WAS JUST AN HONOR TO SEE HEIDI DAN BRITTYAN THERE, TO HONOR MY LAST HURRAH FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. RICK: CHIEF OLIVER AND HEIDI HAD SOME TIME TO CHAT OVER THE WEEKEN AND WHEN IT WAS TIME FOR THE TODD FILAMY TO LEAVE, >> ONE MORE HUG. RI:CK RICK OLIVER, AFTER 31 YEARS IN LAW ENFORCEMENT, NTWE OUT THE WAY HE DREAMED. >> IT’S AWESOME. IT’S ICING TONHE CAKE, NOTHING BETTER I CAN DO, SO I BOW OUT, RICK: AND T THEODD FAMILY? IT NOW HAS A THIRD GRANDPA WHO PROMISES TO VISIT SOUTH CAROLINA OFTEN. >> HE’S STUCK WITH US FOREVER. [LAUGHTER] RI:CK WHAT WOULD THEY HAVE IN COMMON? A RETIRING POLICE CHIEF OMFR ALABAMA AND A SOON-TO-BE EIGHT-YEAR-OLD GIRL GIRL FROM SOUTH CAROLI?NA WHAT THEY HAVE IN COMMON IS MORE THAN YOU THI.