confronted him right back. i think when she told him that she was going to continue our relationship with brad and that margin her were done i think he was a no one is gonna have susie. in that little alley there, i think that s where he strangled her. strangled her. prosecutors argued, but not before susie left those tale tells scratch marks found on marty s back. the state s theory that marty dragged her body across the alley, leaving those drag marks near the dumpster. then, at 5:38 am a figure walked back towards marty s mini van. after he walks back, the next thing you see is that silver van pulled back in front of susan s. there is about a five minute wait, i believe he s putting the ball in the into the back of the van and then you see the van pull-aside. that said prosecutors is when marti started driving back to billing. you have a body in your van, i think the river was the fastest and easiest way for him
the man s eyes followed her through the dark. drawn as other men s eyes were, like moths to flame. to her. to the woman now crossing the sidewalk to her doorway, susie. lightning in a bottle. they were all there. there at susie s front door. each one of them was part of that crime scene. but how many and who? who owned the eyes in the dark that started that awful cascade of events? of terrible things. i just dropped the phone and cried and cried and cried. i just couldn t believe that that could happen, three times in one family. sunlight in the badlands of eastern montana is like nothing else. that wide blue arch of unsullied sky. the vast rolling prairie.
sometime. maybe somebody picture up. the young attorney and fleming acquaintance olivia reager, couldn t help but hear what people were seeing. did she go home with someone? did she drive off somewhere? susie s mother was afraid something awful had happened. and for the second time she called sister karlyne, two hours away in north dakota. and that s when i knew something was really, really wrong. and so we packed up suitcases and headed to glendive to see what we could do to help find her. but where could they look? glendive is the biggest town in a sparsely populated county the size of delaware. far more hiding places than there are people. we had a few pings off a cell phone tower. so we had maybe a nice way of were her phone would ve been last. we had horseback, four wheeler s, airplanes, helicopters, people on foot. and nothing. meanwhile, they processes chevy trail blazer for any sort
olivia s door was appointed the state attorney general s chief prosecutor. the a. g. s office often help small jurisdictions handle big cases. how did you get involved in this particular case? i had come to the attorney generals office and there was another chief prosecutor at that time. he simply didn t think there was enough evidence. i then took her position and i told my team let s look really hard at this. and months later, after a very hard look, i thought it was a great case. i thought circumstantially it was overwhelming. then brant met with susie s family. as for their patients, he promised he would issue an arrest warrant for the man he was now convinced was the
couldn t find susie when they woke up. and that everybody was just worried because this was in susie and she would never just not tell her children or be there for them. and she wasn t there. val s next attempt to reach susie wasn t quite so calm. you need to call me back. your dad is freaking out because nobody can find you. i mean, what do you do? how do you find somebody? i was a detective. i was going to backtrack all of her steps. that s exactly what i did. val made some calls. found susie had been drinking with friends the night before until about 11 pm. when she left for what was apparently a date with a new boyfriend. someone susie had just started seeing after her separation from her husband, ted. val s mind was racing. i also thought she d maybe just fainted somewhere or had a heart attack. or an accident, or anything. still, when her mind settled her first move was i just figured that i had to go to ted. because? maybe she was at ted s and they were hav