'20/20' Exclusive: Kati Kim on Her Family's Harrowing Ordeal


Kati Kim on Her Family's Harrowing Ordeal : The Kims went missing on Thanksgiving 2006. Husband James, wife Kati and their two young daughters, Sabine and Penelope, had been on a road trip when a wrong turn left them desperately lost in the Oregon wilderness.
"Sabine is seven months old and Penelope is four, so we're just really worried about the kids," James Kim's sister, Eva Kim, told the media at the time.
Watch a special two-hour episode of "20/20" tonight at an earlier time, 9 p.m. ET for more on Kim's story.
After nine days, the Kims' car was spotted from the air. But for the family that had captivated the nation, it was no happy ending.
In an exclusive television interview with "20/20", Kati Kim recounted her family's harrowing ordeal.
Kati Kim was a 21-year-old student in Seattle when she met James Kim, 26.
"I took a road trip to Northern California with some college friends and it was then that I met James," she said. "He was the cutest thing I'd ever seen in my entire life. We got matching tattoos and that was pretty much how we met. We were inseparable after that."
The couple married in Las Vegas in 1999 and later had two daughters.
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