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>> the amazing thing is that the bucket landed at exactly where the cranium had been. >> the necrosearch team also found pieces of michelle's clothing. the zipper from her jeans looked like it had been pulled apart violently. >> it's obvious that the zipper has been torn apart, as opposed to simply open in the normal way. so there's evidence of some violence here. >> a forensic odontologist compared michelle's dental records to the teeth in the skull and made a positive identification. police and prosecutors now focus their attention on roy melanson, the last known person to see her alive. >> ...

Michelle dropped one of the ranch hands off at the local bar, but the other, roy melanson, asked her if she would drop him off farther down the road so he could get his truck. she agreed. >> all right. >> prosecutors believe somewhere along the way, melanson ordered michelle to stop the car. he let the dog out. there was a struggle, resulting in the ripped zipper. and he killed her. the evidence suggests he dumped her body down the side of the mountain. okie made his way to a ranch about 15 miles away, an indication that michelle was dead since he wouldn't have left her side if she had been al...

Driver's license and pawnshop ticket for a 35 millimeter camera. >> on the camera was was a roll of film. the last photographs on the roll of film were photographs of michelle's dog, okie, wearing his hiking packs. in the very last photograph on the roll was a picture of roy melanson with a young woman he met in pueblo, colorado. >> melanson denied having anything to do with michelle's disappearance. he said they stopped for coffee and he admitted sneaking out the back way and stealing her car. and he said michelle's dog was tied up outside. melanson told police he dumped michelle's car in ama...

>> the fact that the dog obviously had been separated from her and found dead later was of great concern because people felt clearly michelle wallace never would have willingly been separated from her dog. >> another ranch hand came forward with even more information. he said michelle gave him a ride in the mountains after his car broke down. he said his friend, roy, sat in the front seat with michelle, and that he was in the back seat with the german shepherd. >> the ranch hand remembers the dog in particularly because he had to sit in the back seat of the station wagon with the dog. and amus...

Torn. >> in september of 1993, a jury found roy melanson guilty of first-degree murder. he was sentenced to life in prison. >> see these bastards, the devastation they leave behind, nobody knows. they think they killed an individual, but they killed dozens of people. >> michelle's father is thankful to forensic science and the volunteers who worked so diligently to find his daughter. >> you can't express the gratitude. i just couldn't believe that it finally came to an end. >> the system of justice worked in this particular case. whether the system itself ever awards justice to a victim or the...