She was brave. She was incredibly brave. Why didnt i know she needed me and she was alone and she was hurt . Nothing was the same after that. Nothing. They found her in the soccer field. The student killed by a single bullet. I hit the floor. I remember the pain. The pain comes rushing back, that someone would shoot my child. Why . This was a small town whodunit. What happened that night . Was the answer in her circle of friends . We are trying to find out why. Became and talk to me. Four fbi agents. He is there and has a gun. How can it not be him . A secret spills out in court. It was a bombshell. It definitely was. I felt my heart was ripped out. Halee rathgeber was barely out of her teens, but to friends and siblings, she displayed hello, and welcome to dateline. Halee rathgeber was barely out of her teens but to friends and siblings, she displayed a maternal instinct. Halee enjoy taking care of others so it made sense that she was studying to become a nurse. What made no sense was anyone could want her dead. The crime scene told investigators little, but a jaw dropping moment spoke volumes. Here is on the outskirts of town. Im eemiles from my family i new york but im driving through place that feels like home. Quaint downtown. The kind of place you feel safe. This is southwest indiana. You can see the early days of the midwest in these historic buildings. Open farmland everywhere. Hometown usa a place for putting down roots. Turn left and county road for 75 then your destination will be on your left. There it is. A gravel lot but a soccer field. A spot to play sports, to hang with friends. Not a place for a young woman to die. It is jarring to think that when a life ends, so much begins. A familys grief and a community shocked. In this case, right here where i am standing, a murder investigation. Heather collins has been always proud of her three girls. Especially, her oldest daughter, halee who even at a young age was eager to lend a helping hand. Theres so many pictures of her holding the baby sister. Taking care of them. Yeah. Shes always leading the way. My kids always wanted to feed the bottle. She was the best diaper changer. A mothers help her and her sisters best friend. With halee she felt safe. She is what you picture an older sister being like. The big protective, dont miss my sisters are all come at you. That continued all through school, even extended to friends. Carly and ansley. She acted like everyones mom because she was so caring. She was tall and all of our friends were short. She stuck out and she didnt care that she was tall. She would wear heels and wedges. We would go places and she would tower all of us which made the mom thing all the more funny. She was the first one they notice. The world was her catwalk . Pretty much. Beautiful girl. Yet. I love that im told i look like her. That is sweet. Her beauty was more than skin deep. Tattoos testified to her strong faith. This is her dad. The most important line was in those last fortunate than we are. I think she grasped that. And drew strength from it, especially in difficult times. One night in particular was a defining moment for young haley. She was 12 when she went to a friends house for a sleepover. That night, the brother of the girl that my daughter was staying with, he was 19 and my daughter was 12. He tried to molest her. At first, she said nothing to her parents. When she learned the man had prayed another girls, her instinct to help lead her to act in a way few her age would have the courage to. She testified and send him to prison. After that, thats when people realized they could always go to halee. She would fix anything and stand up for the weak , less fortunate. It was no surprise when she announced she wanted to continue helping others as a nurse. After high school, she enrolled at the nearby university of southern indiana. I hear she was constantly buried in a book. She worked very hard. Where does it come from . I dont know. She had so much drive and she was going to get it. She was waiting tables at the Texas Roadhouse. That is where she met and started dating isaiah hagan. A shy fellow wager. He seemed nice and he seemed to let haley do her own thing which i like. How did you feel when you saw them together . They were not loveydovey at all which i prefer, to be honest. He joked with us. He took an interest in talking to us which is more than i can say for a lot of guys. It didnt last long although they remained good friends. Besides, 20yearold halee is focused on school work. On a sunday in late april 2017, she was him studying for a big exam the next day. Hours later, the sun was rising and her mom was starting her morning. I was reading facebook and having coffee on a monday morning. Sitting on my porch. High School Across a news article. It was shocking. Police found a body in a soccer field. It says its a young female so i started looking for the younger two because they are in high school. I just want to make sure everybody is safe. Heather founder two youngest. They were okay but halee is not answering her phone and friends told heather she did not show up to take her exam at the university. It is not like her to miss class. Not like her to have her phone turned off. Not like Halee Rathgeber to go missing. Coming up. What had happened to halee . Are you getting a sick feeling . I was sick all morning. I started screaming her name. My stomach dropped. When dateline continues. O started disrupting my day. Td felt embarrassing. I felt like disconnecting. I asked my doctor about treating my td, and learned about ingrezza. Ingrezza ingrezza is clinically proven for reducing td. Most people saw results in just two weeks. People taking ingrezza can stay on most Mental Health meds. 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I was like, oh, my god, where is halee . Her sister emily was driving to work with a friend. Suddenly, a sense of doom washed over her. I am freaking out somethings wrong. Just Out Of The Blue . I was driving and i said i have to find my sister. Something is wrong. Emily posted a picture of halee on instagram. If anyone hears from my sister, contact me. Friends responded, telling her police were trying to identify a woman found dead that morning. Thats when people started sending me the article. Oh, my gosh. At the time, i said i know youre tried to be helpful, but thats not her. I didnt feel i was in denial. I knew that was not my sister. The sheriffs Detective Paul was just pulling up to the soccer field to begin his investigation. Officers had already roped off the scene. When you pull up, what do you see . A body laying here with a terrible wound to the head. This is a desolate area. When people are playing soccer, its active, but in the middle of the night . Its pitch black in the middle of the night. The nearest neighbor is probably half a mile, Straight Line away separated by trees. The detective could tell the woman had been murdered. Left to die in agony. The coroner would cite the cause of death as a gunshot wound. What did it tell you she was shot in the back of the head . She knew and trusted the person she was with. Could you get a sense of her last moments . The evidence shows she had lived for a while after being shot. You could see it in the gravel . You could. It almost looked like a snow angel where her leg moved back and forth. This was odd. Next to the woman Leia Blue Tie will. Other than that, there was little to the crime scene. Did you find a weapon . A bullet . A casing . No. We had detectives get on their hands and knees with scissors and cut the grass away looking for a shell casing or bullet or anything. We did not know who she was. There was no identification or phone. Nothing laying with her to help identify her. The mystery would be solved soon enough. Heather in a panic, called a friend for help. I contacted a detective i knew. I and getting chills already. I was sick so morning. There was so much anxiety and i did not know what to do. She gave the detective halees name nt forwarded the information to the sheriffs office. Investigators there immediately checked facebook or they found transfer 13 profiling picture. There was a tattoo visible that matched. We were pretty certain at that point who the victim was. Investigators called heather and asked to speak with her in person. She walked into the meeting, dreading what they might say. They said there is a body found. We have identified her as halee. Your whole world is shattered. Nothing was the same after that. Nothing. Every time i talk about it, the pain comes rushing back. How awful, and ive never felt so awful. I remember i did not want to exist anymore. The family was horrified to learn that halee, 20 years old, had been murdered by a shot to the back of the head. That was the most shocking part. Never in 1 million years would i think someone would shoot my child. As you are processing the most horrific news you have ever had in your life that your daughter is gone, do you ask these detectives who did this . They asked me. Who do you think, you know. One name spring to mind immediately. Heather blurted it out. Their eyes, they could not believe what they were hearing. They knew that name from another case and halee new at too. She said what if they want to talk to me . I said you talk. She could be poking a hornets nest and starts making accusations. Sations. S. But then i had open heart surgery. My tip is, find healthy ways to cope with stress, because open heart surgery, its pretty stressful. announcer you can quit. Call 1800quitnow for help getting free medication. Im adding downy unstopables to my wash. 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When they said she had been murdered, i went to The Dark Side we all have. I wanted to kill myself because i was not there to protect her. It was hard for him to know how to move forward but even in death she was a comfort to her family. Her tattoo that had some 46 5. God is within her and she will not fall. He will help her at break of day. Its difficult to imagine why any human would do anything that horrific to another human being. The detective look for answers with grim determination. Halees murder was not the only tough case weighing on him that april morning. A few weeks before, he and his partner were assigned to look in a suspicious death of a 10 monthold baby. When detective spoke to heather after her daughters death, she revealed something that stunned them. Halee was a godmother of jackson. Their jaws drop. She said baby jackson was the son of halees old school make , jordan. She got the baby to play with without having a baby. A terrible accident. Jackson had fallen downstairs. Halee rushed to the hospital were jordan explained what happened. Her boyfriend, a man at drop the baby down the stairs after tripping over a diaper bag. Jordan was crying and we gave her a hug. I looked at halee and she was looking at me. What are we going to do . They got jordan food i went to her apartment to get her clean clothes. Halee was a, do you know whats weird . The diaper bag is sitting right there. As soon as you walk in, it was sitting by the couch. It didnt look like it had fallen down the stairs. You were thinking we mightve caught thaddeus in a big lie . Yeah. After two days on life support, jackson died. Halee agonized about whether she should tell police about her suspicions. She said what if they want to talk to me . You talk. The more her mom thought about it, the more she worried what would happen to halee if she spoke out. That he is had a bad reputation. Halee could be poking a hornets nest. She could have. Making accusations. Now, halee is dead in heather wondered if her fears had come true. Had that he is killed halee to shut her up . He was licking a serious charges. If i think of someone who had reasons to hurt her, that would be number 1. The day after halee was murder, someone sent her a snapchat video. It was that he is brandishing a gun. I was positive at that point he did it. Heather was not the only one pointing the finger at that he is. Halees knew she had gone to see jordan the night she died. There is these messages the night she was murdered was she was messaging back and forth with jordan. Im going to pick up my wallet from your house. Late at night, the night she was killed. That was the theory and she went and told jordan that he is kilter over it. Investigators decided it was time to find out what thaddeus and jordan knew. That he has refused to talk but jordan did. We did Interview Thaddeus girlfriend and she said they were home all night. We checked out Surveillance Video from the neighborhood and we could see halee come in the neighborhood when she went to get the wallet but we never saw jordan or thaddeus lee. It seemed he had a good alibi and heather buried investigators seemed no closer to making an arrest. The fear was overwhelming. I kept saying, i hope they make an arrest before her funeral. I cant wonder who was hugging me and coming through this line. To they hurt her . As heather prepared for her daughters general, investigators were already talking to someone who would be standing in the line of mourners. Someone close to halee. Coming up. Video from the night of the murder. Police have a few questions for halees friends. Are you thinking, they think i might be involved . Involved . For your most brilliant smile, crest has you covered. laughing nice smile, brad. Nice thanks . Crest 3d white. 100 more stain removal. Crest. This isnt charmin no wonder i dont feel as clean. Heres Charmin Ultra Strong. 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Detectives wondered if Halee Rathgebers murder was tied to another recent death. Welcome back to dateline. I am orandrea canning. Detectives wondered if the murder was tied to another recent death. Her godson reportedly died in a horrible accident. Halee suspected the mothers boyfriend, thaddeus, may have harmed the baby on purpose. To thad killed halee to silence her . Police plan to retrace her final footsteps. A trail that would lead in a surprising direction. Here again is on the outskirts of town. The young people who worked with halee at the Texas Roadhouse were reeling. The shock of her murder, the fear. Later jake allen was one of them. They were going to have a Candlelight Vigil at the soccer field where she was found. I was about to leave my apartment and my roommate told me, theres somebody at the door. It looks like a cop. Investigators wanted to t