48 Hours
48 Hours
CBS News
Dear Savanna
44 minutes Posted Mar 25, 2026 at 7:01 am.
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In 1994, Dorothy Lee Barnett was in the midst of a bitter divorce with then-husband Harris Todd. After losing custody of their child, Savanna, she fled the United States and eluded the FBI for over two decades until she was arrested in Australia. “48 Hours" Correspondent Maureen Maher reports.

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