Happened in those 20 steps. It didnt make sense to me. The men in her life, all three, were there that deadly morning. You know you were a person of interest . We still love each other very much. Somebody knew that we were seeing each other and didnt like it. Whodunit . Everybody was a suspect. My stomach was in my throat. All of us were taken aback. It was really hard for my brain to wrap around that. It was early morning. Still dark, the spring air was a cold blanket around the pickup parked and running near the main street of little glendive, montana. At 5 20 the passenger side door opened, the woman stepped out, of her downtown apartment. Her coat disheveled. Her bra slung over one arm. The mans eyes followed her in the dark. Drawn as other mens eyes were, like moths to a flame. To her, to the woman now crossing the sidewalk to her doorway, susie. Lightning in the bottle. They were all there. There at susies front door. Each one of them was part that crime scene. But how many and who . Who are 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 couldnt believe that that could happen three times in one family. Sunlight in the bad lands of eastern montana is like nothing that unsullied sky, the vast Rolling Prairies dotted sparsely with tiny old hamlets in which business is personal and where friends and families have worked the same places for generations. Places like circle, population 600, susies hometown. She livened things up a lot. This is her elder sister. It was nice to have that little breath of fresh air in the family because the rest of us were a little more quiet. Susie was the fifth of six kids born to marlene and her husband jack, the county under sheriff. She loved the horses and she loved to go riding. Go riding quite a bit. Susies love of horses grew as she did and shaped her work ethic. Her sisterinlaw. She was not afraid to be out there shoveling manure or fixing she was a feisty thing. But if there was one word most used to describe susie, it wasnt so much feisty as fun with a capital f. She was very impulsive, so she didnt think a lot ahead. She just kind of went with the moment. And so when susie went off to a Technical School three hours away in billings and got herself a boyfriend, perhaps what happened next shouldnt have come as a very big surprise. It was shes pregnant. You get married. Thats just what you do. And so she did. They made a big happy thing of it. The whole family gathered in circle for a real Country Church wedding where susie introduced her parents and siblings to her new husband, a kid named marty. What was that like for you to . Finding out she was pregnant and things were going to be a thought. The whole family accepted it because it was susies choice. Before long, susie gave birth to a little girl named marya. Followed by a son, shea. Again, no real surprise. The marriage didnt last. She really loved her kids. They were really a big part of her life. When her and marty split, they were really everything in her life. So late 90s now, susie was working as a medical transcriptionist in a place called glendive, and thats where she met ted casey. He was the real deal, a grown up this time, a rancher 14 years older than susie. He had horses and boy, that was just right for her. Wedding number two. This was 1998. The kids shea and marya called ted dad. Girls. For almost a decade, the marriage seemed to be just fine, but by then susie was sharing secrets with val about ted. He wanted to tame her, i think. I guess i kind of joke around and say that he wanted her to be home in time for the 10 00 news. He didnt want her to stay out and have fun. Fun was just beginning at 10 00. At the casey ranch, love started to feel like one more chore. I think they grew apart. They just really both changed. Then one liquid evening out at a bar things went seriously sideways. Ted got mad, dumped a beer on susies head, slapped her, and spent the night in jail. Not long after ted pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault. Susie was gone from the ranch. Ted and she was starting to make some good decisions to find some happiness again. And so by the spring of 2008, susie and the kids were living at the ponderosa apartments. In a little up to like this, people noticed what susie was up to. Liked her, but noticed people thought of susie as someone who was going through a time sowing some wild oats. She liked to have fun and she was having a lot of fun. Then it got to that friday evening in april. When she came in to see me, she was really happy and she had makeup on, which wasnt really a susie thing and that was great, so i knew something was up. So val watched as susie bounded out the door while the two teenagers fended for themselves. 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But in the ponderosa apartments it was anxiety that infected the air. 14yearold myra tried again and again and again to reach her mother. Call me when you get this. She knew very well that her mother enjoyed evenings out and trusted her children in the apartment. But she never once failed to come home. Mariahs next call was to her grandparents. She told grandma mom wasnt around. So mariahs anxiety affected jack and marlene, too. Sometimes you almost thought marya was the mom and susie the grown up and smart. She was the somewhat more level headed one. Right. Soon phones were ringing all over. Susie satisfies sister carlene. I thought this is silly. She went somewhere, the kids forgot, and its going to be a funny ha, ha. The kids were sufficiently independent to get themselves up and leave for their respective activities, but from susie not a word. Across town, sisterinlaw val hadnt heard yet that susie hasnt come home. We had a craft show in town and i thought she would want to come with me. When she didnt respond that morning, i thought that was kind of odd. When i was at the actual craft show is when i got the call from rusty. Rusty, vals husband, susies little brother. What did rusty say . Couldnt find susie when they woke up and that everybody was just really worried because this wasnt susie. She would never just not tell her children or be there for them. And she wasnt there. Vals next attempt to reach susie wasnt quite so calm. You need to call me back as soon as you get this message. Your dad is freaking out because we cant find you. I mean, what do you do . How do you find somebody . I was a detective. I was like i was going to backtrack all of her steps, and so thats exactly what i did. Val made some calls. Found susie had been drinking with friends the night before until about 11 00 p. M. For 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. Vals mind was racing. Just fainted somewhere or had a heart attack. An accident, anything. Still, when her mind settled, her first move was i thought had to go to teds. Because . Maybe she was at teds and they had an argument and she couldnt answer the phone. Or maybe something happened over there. Maybe something happened. Exactly. Ted casey pleaded guilty to assaulting susie six months before. Thats why she moved off the ranch to the apartment, but when val arrived at teds place. You could tell it was dark and there was no cars there. It was like an eerie feeling. I just felt like i couldnt get out of the car by myself. So she decided to leave and picked up her husband rusty. The two of them got a key to susies apartment. They opened the door and heres what they found. This was a videotape the police made later. As we kind of walked through realized that she wasnt there, again that adrenaline burst something isnt right. Something isnt right. Its empty. Shes not there. Shes gone. Shes not here, yeah. So val decided to go find that new boyfriend susie had a date with. The last person to be seen with her. His name was brad holzer. He would know where she was. Brad lived with his soontobe exwife less than five minutes from susies apartment. Val drove over and knocked on the door. I said susies not home. We cant find her. Shes not answering her calls and were all really worried. Then i remember exactly what he said to me. What do you mean she isnt home . I dropped her off at 5 00 a. M. Thats when it hit were going to the police. Somethings not right. It certainly wasnt. The man whose marriage was with her didnt know a thing. Really . Coming up, susies new boyfriend fields a few questions down at the station. Did you ever wonder about brad and whether he was capable of any bad thing . 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I just always wished i had a big sister, and when i met susie, she was she was my big sister. And i guess i just never imagined she wouldnt be in my life. That afternoon, val and her husband rusty drove over to the Glendive Police department. They sat down with then captain now chief, ty ulrick. They said susie always answers her phone, always. I went to my office twice and mail. In a town the size of glenn dive, the police were keenly aware of her history. The abuse six months prior at the hands of soontobe exhusband ted casey. Then val told the chief, susies life had just become more complicated. The night before she disappeared said value, susie was with another man, a guy named brad, who she said she was crazy about, and who had to have been the last person she had seen before she vanished. Did you ever wonder about brad and whether he was capable of any bad things . When she went missing, i wondered about everybody. Everybody was a suspect. Your mind continues to play and play and play different scenarios of what could have happened and where she is. And well, that question remained unanswered. Interview. Brad told the police that he and susie actually had quite a long history. How long have you known susie . Well, we went out in high school. Okay. She was 16. I was 19. Probably went out for a couple of months is all. Then they lost touch for nearly two decades until st. Patricks day 2008 just three weeks before she disappeared when their eyes met at a bar downtown. Out of the blue, came up to me. I knew who she was right away. Recognized her immediately. And in the weeks since, brad said he and susie spent every possible moment together, though given their kids and their respective tangled marital issues it was complicated. The night before she disappeared, said brad, susie had been drinking with a couple of girlfriends before he picked her up and they drove out of town to sit by the Yellowstone River. Then thats where we were going on 10 45 until 11 00 until 5 00 a. M. And did the same thing we usually did. Talked, kissed, stuff like that. It was just about 5 00 in the morning, said brad, when he drove back to town and he parked across the street from susies apartment. Did you guys make out . Probably for about five minutes. She got out, walked back to her across the street to her apartment. I know she was at least halfway across the street before i started backing out. She was that close to getting in that apartment. Brad swore he drove straight home and went to bad. Then brad cast suspicion elsewhere. Brad, do you know where susans at . I have no idea. I wish i did. Where do you think she is, if you had to guess . My guess would be ted. He had a hand in this somehow. There was one more thing, said brad. The morning before he has last date with susie. Maybe ted was behind it somehow. It reads, hows your girlfriend . How does your wife feel about it . The sender a Denise Johnson. Still in the dark as to who sent that and who the hell Denise Johnson is. That made the cops ears perk up. A missing woman, email. Theres somebody out there. Some jealousy probably. I needed to find out who sent those emails. So they told brad dont leave town, and they set out to talk to susies soontobe ex, ted casey. So much pressure. After a while, it explodes. The scorned husband in the interrogation room. And details of a confrontation with susie. I wasnt happy. Your thoughts about ted were not very friendly ones at that the nissan rogue. With the power and performance of our intuitive allwheel drive. Now get a 189 per month lease on the 2016 nissan rogue. T in communities across america, people are looking rthat could make all the difference in the world. A chance. P by creating opportunities for individuals to choose. To save. To earn. We also create opportunities for communities to transform. One life lived better at a time. Save money. Live better. Vwalmart. 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But where could they look . It is the size of delaware. Far more hiding places than people. We had a few pings off of cell phone towers. We had horse back. We had fourwheelers, airplanes, helicopters, people on foot, and nothing. Meanwhile, they processed susies chevy trailblazer for any sort of evidence. Same in her apartment. And found nothing. Nothing of particular importance anyway. Then they had a look around outside susies Apartment Building and found something kind of curious. A couple of curious things actually. Alcove of the building next door to susies place. Over in the alley, maybe 40 or 50 feet away, looked like something had been dragged, something heavy along the ground near the dumpster. Did either of those things have anything to do with susies disappearance . Maybe the rejected husband could tell them. Ted casey. The morning susie vanished, he went to work, helped his brother with a project, then went to a rodeo. So by the next day, police were very eager to talk to ted. Your thoughts about ted were not very friendly ones at that point. No. Ted had reasons to be upset the woman was leaving him. He was angry, humiliated. A costly divorce was looming. Child support to pay. First, they asked ted about that incident in the bar the night they arrested him and put him in jail. I poured a drink on her head. Barely slapped her because she threw herself on the ground and we were both drinking. But, you know, i suppose you get to such a so much pressure and after a while, it explodes. Explodes . That was a curious thing to say. Ted insisted he had last seen susie about 7 00 the evening before she disappeared when she dropped off