Chicago P.D.

I'm investigating Sean for sex trafficking.

This is my child! How dare you!

There are girls out there who are being hurt right now,

and we're running out of time.

According to every report I've read,

you have nothing because there's nothing there.

He did rehab in Waunakee?

He spent his summers up there with his dad, up at the cabin.

Maybe this is where it all started?

Oh, my God.

This way.

We don't have an ID yet.

M.E. thinks the body's a decade old.

Whoever buried her used chemicals.

Lye, bleach, hydroxide.

Knew how to destroy evidence.

Learned that somewhere.

Patty, your son led us to her.

Sean is involved in this.

You can't protect him.

And you can't save him from this.

Help me bring in Sean now.

He's my son. You're not bringing him in.

Boss.

All right, tell me where we're at.

We got an ID. Body's that of Jodie Brown.

Listen, I'm going to put you on speaker.

All right, so Jodie was 12 years old

when she was reported missing

15 years ago out of Waunakee.

Family IDed her off her shoes and bracelet.

We're waiting on dental to confirm.

Jodie lived about a mile from that cabin.

She have contact with Sean?

Her parents don't remember the O'Neals,

but they said that before she went missing,

she was hanging with a new crowd.

Yeah. New crowd, older kids.

The mom thought they were teenagers.

Sean was around 17 then, Sarge.

Jodie disappeared August 15.

Now Chief O'Neal was in Houston at a police conference,

but we haven't confirmed Sean's whereabouts as of yet.

M.E. couldn't rule sexual assault,

couldn't rule time of death, but could rule cause of death.

It was a cracked hyoid.

Sean strangled her.

All right, keep moving.

Call ahead to ASA Chapman.

Let her know I'm coming.

All right, I'm on it.

If we want to get the charges for the murder,

then we need to connect Sean directly to that cabin

and directly to Jodie.

Real, physical evidence,

above and beyond the shadow of a doubt.

Okay, Sean used lye and bleach.

DNA's all gone now.

We've got no cams, no GPS, no tolls.

Cabin was in the middle of nowhere.

It was 15 years ago.

So right now, we got no witnesses,

no way to tie Sean to the location.

Okay, what about the sex trafficking?

- The other women? - Girls.

Guys, I got another connection out in Waunakee.

Her name is Isla Avers.

She's 20 years old now, but when she was 17,

she went to the same detox that Sean did back in Waunakee.

Same exact dates.

And then three weeks later, she was in Chicago

getting therapy at Safe Place.

She followed Sean to Chicago?

And I thought she'd just be another missing because

she became real hard to track after like

two months at Safe Place.

But on her 18th birthday, Isla changed her name

the moment the office opened.

And she's been moving every six months, exactly six to the T.

She's running.

Something happened to her, Sarge.

- You got an LKA? - Fuller Park.

Go with her.

Yeah?

Isla Avers?

No, sorry.

- It's OK. - Why do you know my real name?

- We're police. - No.

No, I don't need police. I didn't call anybody.

- I don't want any help. - We know about Sean O'Neal.

That's why we're here.

We just want to talk to you about him.

I don't--no, I don't know anybody by that name.

I've got nothing to tell you.

I don't. Okay?

I don't have to talk to you, do I?

We need you to come in with us.

Please. Please, I don't want to talk.

I don't have anything to say.

I'm sorry, Isla, but we need you to come in with us now.

I know you met Sean at detox,

and then you went to Safe Place.

He invited you?

You change your name,

you keep moving, keep changing your hair color.

It's like you're desperately trying not to be found.

Why? What happened?

Nothing happened to me.

- I don't believe you. - I don't care.

I don't care if you believe me,

and I don't care what happened to me.

- I just want to go home. - Why?

So you can pack up and run again?

It's got nothing to do with you.

It does.

It has a lot to do with me and you.

And all the other girls that have gone through Safe Place.

You know, Sean's still out there right now.

He's still running Safe Place--

Don't do that.

Don't put that on me.

You're right.

You're right. I'm sorry.

You know, you're the third girl

I've sat across from like this.

I sat across from Sean, too.

And I saw it,

how he looks like he can see right through you,

like he understands.

And I trusted him.

I'm police. It's my job to read people.

And I trusted him.

But you didn't.

You got away. You're here.

You're unbroken,

and I'm so glad.

I can't tell you anything.

You can. I know you can.

I can't.

Isla...

he doesn't have to know you talked to me.

Do it for you.

He used to have sessions with me.

Like, therapy.

I told him everything about me.

Everything.

He would listen. He cared.

But then one day, it was like

he just made a decision about me.

He took me to the woods. He...

He raped me.

And then, um, I--

I was just nothing anymore.

He put something over my mouth, and...

when I woke up, Sean was gone.

I was in a room with a lock on the door.

It was a prison.

There were girls there.

They told me what was going to happen,

that I was going to be sold.

I don't know how long I was in that room, but...

men took me out.

They washed me.

They put me in a van, and...

as soon as the doors opened, I ran.

I just ran. I ran, and...

And I didn't stop running.

I think we got him.

This is a firsthand account of rape,

of being held, of being trafficked.

- We got him. - It's still not enough.

It's he said, she said.

There's no documented evidence of trauma.

She never reported it.

She's got priors. She uses.

She's a bad victim. She's unreliable.

That girl-- that girl is not unreliable.

Look, you asked me here to tell you when you have it.

You don't have it.

Not to mention, you just practically promised her

you'd never make her testify,

and I could argue coercion in my sleep.

Coercion?

You implied she had no choice but to talk.

We're going ahead with the arrest anyway.

I don't care. It's the best we got.

I want Sean O'Neal off the streets now.

We're going to bring him in, we use the 48 in the box,

and just hope to hell we get enough to charge.

Let's go.

Chicago PD.

Hands up.

On your knees.

Get on your knees.

Jodie, she was your first?

You raped her, and then you strangled her?

How long you been attracted to children, Sean?

Is that why you started using all those years ago?

Oh, now you don't want to talk to me?

Sit down.