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teenager michelle martinko was blessed with beauty, brings and compassion. but her promising future was cut short when she was savagely murdered. that dreadful night was ice cold, and after four decades, so was her case. then, a stunning scientific breakthrough helped detectives whittled down a list of suspects to unmask a killer hiding in plain sight. here s dennis murphy with and then there were three . it was an act of unspeakable violence. it was a really horrific crime. everybody was scared. a murder that shattered a family. my parents were devastated. my mother eventually did not cool out of the house. a who done it that grabbed hold of the city and wouldn t let go. it s been a cloud hanging over the community for 40 years. a case that touched
of her school, fall for michelle. how serious were you with her? well i was very serious. it was my first girlfriend. this is the most serious relationship i ve ever had. but it ended when he went to college, michelle had plenty of admirers, she had dated and broken up with a guy named andy. her friends thought this andy had a hard time letting go, which may have prompted this exchange. she was a little bit weekly in class that day, and when i asked her what was happening, what was going on her s response was that she was just tired of by her senior year, michelle was focused on college. she definitely conveyed to me that she was ready to put high school and cedar rapids behind her. kirk thomas, the guy she hung up with before she was murdered, said she was prepared to leaving the building when they said their goodbyes. you don t think that that person is going to walk out the
stay out late. so, when michel hadn t returned home, even well after the mall had closed, her sister says their mother janet started to worry. my parents started calling around to see with her other friends, what the situation was. and why she not back here? yes. and janet did call the police as well. the police say, well, you know we can t look after every teenager who is missing for a couple hours. and janet resisted that. said no, no, she s very dependable. she should be home. she has a testimony. she has to study. michelle s mom kept making calls late into the night. at 2:30 am, she dwelled michelle s friend, jane. i was sound asleep and my dad came and walk me up. said misses martinko is on the phone. those are not good calls. she wanted to know if i knew where michel was. but jean did not know. nobody did. so, in the middle of the night, in a panic, michelle s mom called the police again. this time, they dispatched and