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To her daughter, i wouldnt wish this on even my worst enemy. It was on everybodys radar. The case was never closed. It was constantly being investigated. I remember turning on the tv and just seeing an arrest had been made. Tonight investigators say theyve cracked the case. I saw a picture of mandy. Oh, my gosh, is this really what i think it is . It was stunning. How could this have happened after so long . The story of mandy stavik is the story of a young womans disappearance from a tightknit rural community. Its the story of a family devastated and a whole community devastated. It was a big deal. I was initially appointed sheriff in 2003. I went out and spoke with mandys mother, mary, and told her that i was going to make every effort, that we would solve this case. Mary stavik is a very sweet woman, but shes a very tough woman. I remember the first time i went out to meet her, she was out splitting wood in her front yard, and she was in her 70s at that time. I dont think i ever believed, ever, that they would catch the guy. The stavik family lived out in acme, which is a little tiny town down highway 9 in rural Whatcom County. Whatcom county is the most northwest county in Washington State. It is quite beautiful. This is about 15 miles east of bellingham. Bellingham is the largest city in the county. Its rural, so its not a lot out there. You know, open roads and lots of cows. We had very little crime out in that area, so it was a place where people dont lock their doors, they leave their car keys in the ignition. Its a very tranquil and a very nice community. My memory of their house is that its set back from the road quite a bit. It was, like, ideal. It was on a dead end street, a mile from the highway. It was quiet and peaceful. The lots were all between 10 and 25 acres. Absolutely the nicest neighbors anybody could ever have. You knew your neighbor. You talked to your neighbor. Everybody knew who was coming in, who was leaving. They probably set their clocks by, you know, there goes mr. Jones headed to work. He should be back pretty soon. Land had been owned by families for generations. People could tell stories about what your grandma did to my grandma years and years and years ago. When you live in a small town you dont know everybody, but you know somebody who knows everybody. You just have this feeling that bad things arent going to happen because people know each other. And that, in most cases, is true. Everyone that lived out there, even today, knows about mandy stavik and what happened to her. Mandy had just graduated from high school. She was in her first year at Central Washington university. She came home for thanksgiving break. Mandy left her home on the day after thanksgiving in 1989. She wanted to get in a run. It was kind of in the late afternoon. She had a daily route that she used to jog that took her down the road that her house was on, on strand road, down to the Nooksack River and back. She went with their dog kyra, a German Shepherd dog. It was an older dog, but it was very protective of mandy. I normally went with her. I rode my bike, she ran. And the dog panted along after us. But that last morning when she disappeared, i didnt go with her because my sister was there. And so i kicked myself. The houses along the way, there cant be more than 10 to 12 houses. I mean, its just not many people. She turned around and was running back home, where she was seen by a neighbor as well as her brother, lee. Lee, my son, he was at the andersons house, which is about halfway between my house and highway 9, down strand road. And he was there visiting his friend jeremy. He remembers seeing her jog by, coming home. She was maybe a quartermile from her home. Definitely should have been there before lee had gotten home. And when she didnt show up, there was concern. When she didnt come back, when she should have come back, and then the dog came back without her, i was panicky. First person i called was her boyfriend. Mary was worried that mandy was missing. Then i got worried. The dog came home alone after about two hours. And they suspected something terrible had happened to her. It was so unusual that people started looking immediately. As the minutes and hours pass, you cant you cant believe anything other than something bad has happened, and so so they called the police. I called the sheriff, and i called everybody else i could think of. And i had everybody i knew out searching for her. Any kind of missing person call is a 911 call. It requires immediate response. And a deputy will go out and talk to the reporting party. What i remember hearing from them is this is something weve got to move on right away. Its not right. You can tell that this is not somebody who runs away from home. Theres no history. Theres no past reports. I think the anxiety increased and increased. 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Mandy stavik was a bright, vivacious, gregarious 18yearold. Graduated from mount baker high school, was in her very first semester at Central Washington university. Mandy loved anything athletic. She could do things that i could never do. She could jump on a horse bareback and take off running across the field. She loved softball. She loved track. She loved baseball. She loved basketball. She played everything she could. I said to her, you cant turn out for track and play basketball at the same time. And she says, you want to bet . Never bet with mandy. She always wins. In 89 i was the band director at mount baker. Mandy wanted to be the best at whatever she was doing. We spent a lot of time going for walks and things and just talking. You know, we talked about relationships and just Different Things and things that you would talk about, you know, as young teenage girls. What i loved about her, shes independent. I met mandy when i was a sophomore, and maybe she was a freshman. I was a year ahead of her. First big love, of course. And for some reason she loved me. I think she was way out of my league, but, you know. Everybody liked her, so she wasnt the typical student that may have one or two enemies. Komo news 4. Good evening. Im kathy goertzen. And im dan lewis. An extensive search for a missing teenager. Her brother who was visiting a neighbor actually saw her run one direction and then a few minutes later run the other way, he was the last person to see her. Every tv station, radio station, newspaper from across the state, and even outside the state National Media were covering it. I was in my first year as a reporter at the Bellingham Herald at the time. I hopped in my car and i drove out and interviewed mary. She understood that there was a chance that we could help. And then we called everybody all of the neighbors and all of her everybody all of the everybody all of the everybody all of the neighbors and all of her friends just to see if anybody had seen her. Mandys mother is a School Bus Driver for the mount baker district. Shes a survivor. With everything that shes gon through. Mandys family had come from alaska. Her parents were divorced. Mary had come down with three kids, mandy and molly and lee, and settled in acme. Mom called me and said, mandys missing. I just its like, this cant be happening to us again. She had had an older brother who was killed in alaska years before. My oldest sons name was brent. We lived very close to ft. Richardson in anchorage. And he had permission from them to hunt on base. And one day somebody shot him. They called me and said they had his body. He had 17. 22 shells in his back. There was a lot of investigating. It was basically an unsolved murder. I still dont know who it was. She said, i thought i had lived through the worst thing that could happen when brent died. Its like molly said, this cant be happening to our family again. I think i said to her, Something Like, oh, of course it cant happen. Were going to find her, and itll be okay. Even though i didnt really believe that. But i just wanted to give her hope. Rick zender was Mandy Staviks boyfriend. And as is typical in murder investigations, they wanted to question him. We dated for about three years. Weve probably broken up two or three times. Its just one of those high school things. That point in the relationship it was on and off, on and off, but he had brought her home from college. They checked to see where her exboyfriend was. I want to be viewed as a suspect. Thats what they should do. Thats their job. Usually, its the person closest thats the killer. They spoke to him. He was extremely forthcoming. He came in and gave a statement. The authorities ultimately cleared rick zender, but of course they had to look at him. The first night, didnt hear anything. So by the second day, it was pretty obvious that this was even more serious than we originally thought. It was such a mystery. I mean, beautiful 18yearold smart, strong women dont just vanish. They dont do that. Were checking a lot of side roads and found something they thought was a little bit suspicious. The first thing i did was take a video. When they found the sweatpants, it was, maybe this is something, you know, this is a clue. Arthritis. And take. It. On. With rinvoq. Rinvoq a oncedaily pill. Rinvoq helps tame pain, improve sy stiffness, swelling. And for somerinvoq can even significantly reduce ra fatigue. Thats rinvoq relief. With ra, your overactive immune system. Attacks your joints. Rinvoq regulates it to help stop the attack. Rinvoq can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. 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Through fields that were adjacent to her house. We had specifically trained people that are called man trackers. My name is joel hardin. I was the Border Patrols expert tracker for 20 years. The biggest conception about when someone says tracker is someone is down on their hands and knees looking for shoe impressions, or footfall they call it. Its so much more than that. I see in the surroundings, in the ground cover and so on, that which other people see but are not conscious of. I took several classes, and the instructor would say look at this leaf. Turn it over. See this mark . Its a bruise. Thats probably four to five hours old. When a branch on a live bush is broken, it bleeds and it scars. By looking at that you can pretty well predict when it was broken. Expert trackers used the term sign to indicate any discoverable evidence that could be linked to the missing person talked to the family and learned what mandys normal route was and followed the sign and found the evidence that it was her sign that was coming out onto that road. It was her tracks. And followed it to a place wherh shouldnt have. Her dog was running with her, and the dog tracks stopped there also. It makes you think probably someone pulled her into a car and took off with her. I mean, thats kind of the worst. Shes not going to be forcibly taken forcibly unless two or three guys grabbed her. And there was no evidence of that on the road. There was no scuffling and pushing and shoving, and that type of thing. The question was, was it just somebody driving by that drove up that road and sees this beautiful girl running with a dog and decides to grab her . Or was it somebody that knew her . Our man tracker went to the stavik home, talked to mary stavik, to mandys mother, and the dog had come home alone. The dog was on the porch. It was a german shepard. She was upset. She didnt know what to do with herself. I said, wheres mandy . Wheres mandy, kyra . What did you do . Where is she . Our man tracker tried to get the dog to come down, thinking the dog would lead him to where she had last been. And the dog would come off the porch and the dog cowered and he thought something happened to the dog by looking at the dog. We believed that the dog was kicked or hit or something to control the dog. We actually believe maybe even kicked into the ditch where it couldnt fight back or protect mandy. Enough people along strand road had seen her heading out and then coming back that they knew pretty close to the time that she had disappeared. Her brother had seen her. Some neighbors had seen her. We call it a neighborhood canvass, where we would go out door to door, find neighborsed that seen her and kind of leapfrog from there. You get numb. You just get focused on searching for her and hoping and that you will find her or somebody will discover something. On sunday, two days after she disappeared, the Skagit County search and rescue team were checking a lot of side roads and pulloffs, anything, and they found something they thought was a little bit suspicious. They wanted us to look at it. The first thing i did was take a video of the entire area. The only opening in the foliage here has been made by the lane. The situation was an overgrown road, and everything on that road looked old, wet, had been there for a long time. Over to the left of this area on top of some other debris, appear to be an article of clothing. A pair of green sweatpants. Mandy was wearing green sweatpants. Mandys mother, mary, was brought to the scene and shown those pants. I didnt remember exactly what she was wearing, but i didnt think they could have been. For one thing, they were dirty. And they had ripped holes in them. And mandy wouldnt have worn ever worn anything like that. Mary said at the time that she didnt think that they were hers, but she also said that she didnt want to think that they were hers. They were eventually sent to the laboratory for analysis to look for trace evidence, look for anything that might be related to our missing person. There were some tiny fibers and there were also some semen stains that were analyzed and not connected to mandy or anybody else in the case. I dont know. I feel so bad for her mother. I just feel so bad for her family. Strand road, where mandy stavik was believed to be kidnapped so close to her family home, is empty today. People were absolutely shocked that this could happen in a Community Like acme. That changed everything. I would think of seattle, new york, a bigger city. Not even bellingham. I didnt even think this would n person was. Jogging. It could have been anyone, and everywhere we went could have been the person that did this to mandy. Everywhere i looked there was danger. We had a vessel searching the river by boat. And one of the searchers called out that he had seen something. That image is etched in my brain like granite. Ring your diy haircuts. Thanks for sharing your savage moves, and especially your awkward ones. Thanks for sharing your cute kids. And your adorable pets. Now its our turn to share. With the geico giveback. A 15 credit on car and motorcycle policies for both current and new customers. And because were committed for the long haul, the credit lasts your full policy term. So thanks again. One good share deserves another. Youve been avoiding. Like people. And pants. Ings but dont avoid taking care of your eyes, because were here to safely serve you with new procedures that exceed cdc guidelines and value your time. Visionworks. See the difference. 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We had a vessel from one of the neighboring fire districts searching the river by boat. They went upstream and they were just slow drifting the river and checking little areas that couldnt be seen from shore. And one of the searchers called out that he had seen something. So the mandy was found on the south fork of the Nooksack River, probably close to 5 1 2, 6 miles from her house. There was a bend in the river and some debris and the body was just hung up in the debris there. Im in a location on the east side of the river. She has not been disturbed since the discovery. I saw her body. She was face down. She was just kind of suspended just a little bit off the bottom. There was a branch there with some debris that prevented her from floating any further downstream. She was naked except for shoes and socks on. The tennis shoes match the description. We could never find her clothing. She had a walkman that was gone. There were no obvious signs of any trauma. There were scratch marks on her thighs, her legs, and the arms. Eemed to be incative of that runninglackberry bushes, which are qupralf e county. Where she was, it was knee deep, maybe a little bit deeper. The only way to get in there and turn her over and preserve that evidence was just simply that, get in the water with her, and thats what i did. The temperature of the water, it preserved her body well. It looked like you could just shake her and she wouldve woke up. It looked like she was sleeping. Ive seen a lot. Im a vietnam vet. I saw a lot of stuff there. I saw a lot of stuff in my career in Law Enforcement. Its never easy. None of it is. But this was extraordinary because it was a Young College girl, the allamerican girl in our community. And for me, when i looked down, i didnt see mandy. I saw my daughter. Same physical characteristics, same age. Thats why it stuck. That image is etched in my brain like granite. The detective that was with me dispatched himself in a quick fashion to get to the family home to let her know we had found her. I knew. I knew she was gone. I dont know why. I think mothers know. Ive talked to other mothers who said who felt the same thing. I knew she was dead. I didnt want to say it, even to myself, but i knew. Mary told me. I remember i was upstairs. Theres a window. You could see outside with the sheriff coming up talking to mary and then i knew what was happening. She came up the stairs and told river. This afternoon, searchers found a body in Whatcom County. A body has been recovered from the south fork of the Nooksack River. The body of Amanda Stavik, whom everyone knew as mandy, was found today. I wouldnt wish this on even my worst enemy. There is nothing worse there is nothing worse than losing a child. And i already knew that. Nobody should have to lose two children. At the time that they were bringing her body out of the river, our photographer went down and took pictures of several people carrying the body bag up the bank from the river. And its a beautiful photograph in the respect that it kind of looks like pallbearers. They didnt want to find her. They didnt want to find a body. I remember running out of the house. I ran off into the field, and i just remember screaming. And i was screaming at life, at god. You know, how could Something Like that happen . How could he let Something Like that happen . How did she drown . How did she end up in the river . How did she end up in the state that she was found when her body was found . What happened . What happened between the last time her brother saw her running on the road to finding her in the river . The autopsy was the next day, and the medical examiner indicated the cause of death was drowning, asphyxia by drowning. My biggest question was, how did she drown . Mandy was a strong swimmer. She was a lifeguard, and it wasnt that deep, so if shed gone in and was conscious or in control of her body, she could veto up where she was and gotten out. She must not have been conscious. She must not have been aware, because there was no signs of struggle. There was no, like, her digging in the gravel or Something Like that. It was nothing. She was very peaceful. She had an injury on the very top part of her head. That was a hematoma that was a bleeding under the scalp. It was an area of about three inches by two inches. Because her hair was so thick you couldnt see it. The medical examiner believed that it would have been not enough to kill her, but could have knocked her out. In my line of work, the evidence field, youre always hoping for that pristine scene when nothing has been disturbed. But in this case, the water was a washing agent. So the only thing thats left is her fingernails, if she fought, and the other thing would be evidence of a sexual assault. The medical examiner determined that she was sexually assaulted. My immediate concern was dna. Dna technology as a science for solving crimes was in its infancy. In the 80s, it wasnt a typical type of crime scene evidence that was collected or even thought about, necessarily. Fortunately, the investigators back then were acutely aware of dna. Ron peterson had just returned from quantico, where the fbi academy is. He knew that, hey, theres this thing called dna. Its relatively new. In 1989, the only people that were doing dna testing in the criminal world were officers submitting their samples to the fbi. They were the only scientists that were trained and equipped to work with this technology. They took dna evidence from mandys body. They created a dna profile of both mandy and an unknown male. The fbi did what they could at the time, which was obtain a dna profile, but they didnt have anybody to compare it to. The one question that the Sheriffs Office wanted answered is, who left the dna . They believed that whoever left it was responsible for mandys death. And finding a match for dna is like finding the right star in the sky. Its either there, or its not there. Tips were coming in faster than the department can handle. We ran every single one of them down. They found another victim of this countrys worst known serial killer. The green river killer was a big story. It was in seattle. Nine more women are missing and presumed dead. Its a series of unsolved crimes. Could this be the work of the green river killer . Could this be another serial killer in the area . Yoohoo, progressive shoppers. We laughed with you. Sprinkles are for winners. We surprised you. On occasion, weve probably even annoyed you. Weve done this all with one thing in mind. To help protect the things you love. And if we cant offer you the best price well help you find a better one. 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They had the Memorial Service in our school auditorium. No Church Within miles is large enough for all the people. More than 1,000 of them who want to say goodbye to mandy stavik. Well, you couldnt believe how many people were there. Today we come together to share the deep sorrow that has ripped our hearts. I think it was, like, standing room only. A classmate of mine, pete stewart, and i wrote mandys song for her memorial. The words that we wrote were true then, and theyre still true now. Cant believe evils taken innocence away cant believe evils taken innocence away. Evil did take mandys innocence away, but i also feel like it took away the innocence of our community. All the newspapers and tv stations were there. And then they had a little Graveside Service at the burial. That was very private. Shes buried in the cemetery right up the street from my house. There was a photo of rick zender. Hes standing at the gravesite holding a teddy bear. Its the teddy bear i got her which is going to sound silly, but she, you know she loved that bear, and went and had to go back to college and pack her stuff up. One of the things was this teddy bear still smelled like her. But it faded. Once there was a criminal investigation launched, then the police were very careful about what information they gave us. They only want to release the information that could generate more leads. The sense was, who could have done this . This is something a Community Member would be involved in. They found another victim of this countrys worst known serial killer. The green river killer was a national story. He made headlines across the country. Nobody knew who was behind all these disappearances. Nine more women are missing, and presumed dead. Its a series of unsolved crimes, a serial killer, and it was in the green river area. He was in seattle. Just a huge number of victims there. He would go out and look for women, and he would kill them and then bury them in the area of the green river. All the victims appear to be white females, ranging in age from their late teens to mid30s. Could mandy have been one of the green river killers victims . Her age was right. Her looks were right. It was like, uhoh, the green river killer come up here. It would be easy to make that leap of, could this be another serial killer in the area . Certainly the officers talked about that, and they thought about that. There was a giant task force. And our investigators, when mandy happened, and we were coming up short, nothing solid we could go on, they took all the documentation and went and met with the Green River Task force. And they pretty much said to them, do we fit . And it didnt match the profiles that they were working with. Mary continued to put herself out in the public eye. Please welcome mary stavik. To keep interest in the case so that there would be a better chance of finding the person who did it. It was important for mary and for us to make sure that her story was still out there, because we didnt have any answers. We didnt have any leads. Why come here . Why talk about it again . Well, i guess because im hoping that somebody whos out there listening will remember something that will help the Law Enforcement people find the person who killed my daughter. The tip line was set up after mandy was found. Crime stoppers will pay up to 1,000 for information that leads to an arrest and charge. The tips were coming in faster than the department can handle. They were numerous. I mean daily, hundreds of tips, and we ran every single one of them down. It was massive. They had an fbi profile that projected it would be someone in the community. Paul malek was an early person of interest for several reasons. First of all, he was a neighbor of the staviks. He lived very close by. Also, he was one of the last people to see mandy alive. He indicated to Law Enforcement that he had seen mandy and he had seen a car drive by. As he was backing out of his driveway, he saw mandy jogging by. He also said that he saw a dark pickup truck, but he couldnt give any details, like what make was it . What model was it . Who exactly was driving it . He tended to maybe act like he was inserting himself into the investigation, which is sometimes a red flag for investigators. Are they looking for information and fishing, or are they trying to help you solve this . You know, twhairs whats their motivation . He was interviewed several times by our agency. They asked him to do a dna sample, which he initially refused. So they went and got a court order and forced him to do it. I worked with the detectives. We had a search warrant for his blood. We excluded him. Time and time again, they would have a person of interest, they would question that person, but something would rule them out. They had a good alibi, or ultimately their dna did not match. This case dragged on. It becomes a cold case. But after 10, 15, 20 years, its like, well, its never going to be solved. When the new detective would come in, they would bring different eyes to it. New people are going to look at Different Things. You have one person that can answer some questions because theyre the ones that own that dna. We thought this would be the key, that this would solve this case. Maybe it was a neighbor, maybe it was a friend. And from that, the sweep was born. We decided to go out and try to interview and collect dna from as many of the males that we knew that lived in that area. Wegive up until it was solved. That it would happen like this, i never would have guessed. I saw breaking news. And i saw a picture of mandy. Oh, my gosh, is this really what i think it is . 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This story is about the life and death of a girl who was unexpectedly taken. Ask anybody around acme, theyll tell you mandy was a wonderful young woman. This was an abduction. This was an area that should be. And it was a very big concern. It was a huge thing in our community. And even 30 years later its a huge thing. She was the allamerican girl. Shes great in sports, Everybody Knows her, friendly with everyone. It was just a great story and then all of a sudden, boom, its over. Its ended. It just wasnt right. Mandy was in her first year of college when she came home for thanksgiving, when she disappeared. I was like, oh, my god. This light went off in my head, and i thought, i think ive figured out who killed mandy stavik. Broken open it was stunning. How could this have happened after so long . Always looking down on me mandy went on a jog, the same road that her house was on, down strand road. She took her German Shepherd. A few hours later, her dog came home without her. Three days later she was found in the river. It was definitely one of the biggest cases in the history of the Sheriffs Office. Theres a lot of cases that we investigate and a lot of tasks that are done, but this one stuck with all of us, and it never went away. Everybody looked at it as, mandy was our daughter. That definitely kept things going. Initially there was hope that it would be there would be some resolution, that the case would be solved, that we would know what happened, but that seemed to continue to just drag on. After a couple of decades, i just thought theyd never find the killer. I just somehow made peace with it would just never be resolved and never have that silly closure word, you know . When a new detective was assigned to the detective division, one of the first tasks they were assigned was to take the stavik volumes, many of them, three inches thick, and read the case cover to cover. New set of eyes. Did you see anything . What did we miss . What could we have done differently . The case, in 2009, was 20 years old. I said, lets try something new. I assigned detective bowhay to the case. There was about 20 years of investigation. At that point theres probably 3,000, maybe 4,000 pages of reports. At the time of mandys disappearance, he was a new deputy and he was actually involved in searching the scene. One of my motivators is i went to mount baker high school. We all knew the case, we all knew how serious it was, how devastating, how it impacted not only our lives personally, but as well as the community. Whatcom and acme area are so tight. Something happens to one family, it happens to all of us. Every few years thered be a story in the newspaper. Theyd interview the police, and every time they would say this isnt a cold case, were still at this. And then as you hear about dna, you start wondering about that, you think maybe dna will make a difference. Detective kevin bowhay was the third detective with the Sheriffs Office to be the lead in trying to find mandys killer, and he came up with this idea to do a systematic dna sweep of people who lived in the acme area. One of my coworkers had read a book called the blooding. The blooding case was a very similar case to mandy stavik in england. The body of 15yearold dawn ashworth was discovered in the undergrowth last saturday. It was a case in which a young woman who was abducted and raped and killed. And they had a sample from her and they had then just developed dna as an investigative analysi. British authorities had this really novel idea to go ahead and test every man that was in a certain age range in a certain geographical area. There are still plenty of inquiries to be done, and they will be carried on until theyre all completed. They went door to door. They got all kinds of samples. More than 5,000 people. They tested their dna. And eventually they found the killer. The dna sweep was the strategy that they used, and we thought that would work great with our situation. We had tried everything else. Lets try this. Thats kind of the way Law Enforcement is. If one thing doesnt work, try something else. You never just stop. Im katherine woodard, i work at the Washington State Patrol Crime Laboratory in the dna section. I was informed that they had reached a point in the investigation where they thought it most helpful to do whats called a dna sweep. The process was to find out back in 89 who lived where, and how old they were, and then that would establish a list of who we needed to locate and request a sample of their dna. Basically you just go to their house and ask for a cheek swab and test it against the profile that was taken from mandys body. We had a list of a couple of hundred suspects, we wanted their dna to either eliminate them or to look at them further. One of the things that i felt like was that if they ever caught the guy, i was going to have to live through the whole damn thing again. And with that in the back of my head, i just didnt care. What good does it do . It doesnt bring her back. Its just a matter of time were going to ask the right person, or were going to get the right sample of dna. We just got to keep plugging away. Tim bass came up as a suspect. He was a loner. He was quiet. He was just a little bit of an oddball. We realized of course he had been living right on that road and had not really been contacted. He was very controlling, and always told me what to do, who i could talk to, who i couldnt talk to. She had said that she didnt feel safe, and that tim would brag that if he committed a murder, he wouldnt be caught. Here was the same guy who lived on the same road as mandy stavik, who was bragging that if he committed murder, he could get away with it. 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Its the longest case ive worked on without having an Investigative Lead dnawise. At one point, we sent 31 samples at one time, and she sorted through all of them. I wouldnt say you lose hope after comparing that many samples, but you cant be as excited each time when you get let down that many times. To me, it was, if you havent got anything to hide, then theres no problem giving your dna, and i had no problems asking. The case had never, never left the thoughts of mandys friends. And so two women were talking about the case and talking about what a strange person tim bass was. And they decided, we should talk to the Sheriffs Office. They should look at him. She just told me shes always had a gut feeling that tim bass was the person responsible for Mandy Staviks death. He lived in the area, so his name was on the list, but he got moved, i guess, to the head of the list. In 1989, tim bass lived on one side of highway 9 on strand road and mandy stavik lived on the other. Theres only a few houses between his and mandys. And mandy used to jog or run past his house nearly every day. We realized of course he had been living right on that road and had not really been contacted. His family knew their family. I mean, everyone is connected. Tim bass went to mount baker high school. Was a 1986 graduate. Although mandy may not have known tim bass very well, she was familiar with his younger brother, tom bass. They were friends, they ran in the same circles. Tim bass . We didnt hang out with him. He was just to me hes just tom bass older brother. He was a loner. He was a loner, he was quiet. My impression is kind of he was just a little bit of an oddball. He lived with his mom, dad, and brother at that time. He was kind of awkward. Tim moved out of the area shortly after the murder. It was in january of 1990. He had quickly gotten married and moved to everson. Im gina malone, and tim bass used to be my husband. I went to mount baker high school. I graduated in 1990. I didnt know mandy, but i knew who she was. Like, we werent friends or anything, but i would see her every day. I met tim by working at my grandpas Little Grocery store, and he came in for a hunting license. And i was working that day, and he just said, do you want to go out sometime . It was nice that someone asked me out and was interested. They were supposed to get married when she graduated from high school. After mandy was killed, he married her. It was a very sudden thing. All of a sudden he comes to me and hes like, do you want to get married now . And so we got married. They had three children together, and he became a local Delivery Driver for the franz bakery outlet. He was very controlling and always told me what to do, what i could wear, what i couldnt wear, who i could talk to, who i couldnt talk to. He didnt even call me by my name. He called me by whore, bitch. And i would tell him, im like, i dont like you calling me that. And he was like, oh, whatever, why cant you take why cant you laugh and take a joke . Whenever hed get mad, he would, like, come towards me like this with his fist. He did shove me against the bathroom wall once and bruised my back. 2010, gina had filed for a Domestic Violence protection order for herself and her three children. In the order she had said that she didnt feel safe and that tim would watch cold case tv files. When he would watch the cold case files or movies that pertained to murder, he would always say the murderer was stupid and didnt cover his tracks very well and he wouldnt be stupid enough to get caught. That case was later closed because she rescinded the Domestic Violence order. And they stayed married. I wanted to stay away, and i just i didnt want to go back. But i just always ended up back. I thought tim would give us his dna or he wouldnt, but if you dont ask, you dont know. I went out there. His wife gina answered the door. She invited us in. She knew the mandy stavik case right away. And they said that they were there to collect the dna that they had already collected from a lot of people in the area. She said she was expecting tim home within a few minutes. They asked him about mandy stavik, and he said, oh, and he looked up at the ceiling like he couldnt remember that name. That was definitely a red flag for me. Which indicated to me he was obviously lying. You dont grow up in that area everybody knew what the mandy stavik case was, and she ran past his house every day. How would you not know it . He said, oh, was that the girl was missing . They said, yes, it was. And he said, oh, i remember she was found in the river, like it was sort of a revelation that he had brought that back to his mind. He knows exactly who mandy stavik was, but he was playing it off like he didnt. Tim said he wasnt going to give us the dna, that he didnt trust the police, which was another red flag, and by then we were out of flags. I just flatout came out and said, if you dont have anything to hide, why dont you give it . Straight, simple, done. He was always saying, well, they could frame me. They frame people all the time i was just like, what am i living with . He shot to the top of the suspect list. It was kind of like, okay, whats plan b . We went to franz, and thats where i met kim wagner. I hadnt told anybody, i think i potentially have figured out who killed mandy stavik. I knew this was the only way were going to get the answers. And my heart was, like you know, beating out of my chest. I grabbed it and put it in my desk drawer. Im thinking, this is too good to be true. Snt sure. Was another around the corner . Or could things go a different way . I wanted to help protect myself. My doctor recommended s. Re and helpreve i wanted to help protect myself. Another dvt or pe blood clot. 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It was the first time something scary happened. I mean, it changed everyones perspective on our Little Corner of the world. She said that it was the rsti that she didnt feel r home anymore. Could have been the person next door. You didnt know. I thought tim was a little bit full of himself kind of, but also maybe a little bit insecure. I think that tims probably got more than one tim inside him. After tim bass refused to give a voluntary sample for the second time, detective bowhay reached out to franz bakery. They came in. They said that theres an employee here under investigation for a case and they would like to get route information and maybe collect a cigarette butt, and there at that point, i just, i shut them down. I was like, yeah, no. This is not this is way above my pay grade. Gave them our Human Resources information, and they said they were going to follow up. The franz bakery was not willing to initially cooperate with us. They wanted a subpoena or a search warrant, and we didnt have sufficient probable cause to get a warrant. After that i was in a bar with my husband. There was a group of people there. There was an acquaintance of tim and is there, and we started talking about different random people at work, and then we started talking about tim because hes a weirdo. And that person had been reading something, and they were like, did you know that tim bass lived on the strand road . I was like, well, yeah, and he goes, i didnt realize that mandy stavik went missing from the strand road, and as he was talking, i was like, oh, my god. This light went off in my head, and i thought, is that why the police were at my work . So once i had that conversation in the bar, i kind of started paying more attention to tim at work. Like, everybody wears a uniform. He would wear the uniform, but everyone else turns it in to get washed. He never did that. I noticed he didnt throw anything away. Like, his garbage can in his truck was always empty, so i was like, huh, this is odd. I was verytotim bass dna. The plan, it was to follow tim around and see if he ate anything, threw anything away, if he was a smoker. We were looking for any sample of dna from him. We went back to franz bakery. We were hoping that kim would provide us with tims delivery route. I took him in my office, closed the door, and i was like, i got to ask you a question. When you were here, were you investigating Mandy Staviks murder . He just looked at me like like a cartoon character, like the eyes popping out of their head. He just looked at me like, oh, my god. And then i said, was it tim bass . There was definitely a look on my face because i was shocked because i get information, i dont give information. She, at that time, gave up tims route. She said, he drives the fairhaven route. This is the general time that he starts. Check in the area for a yellow truck. When we followed tim that gloves, so even if we bought a loaf of bread that he had touched, it wasnt going to have any dna on it. We found that he wasnt a smoker. We found out that he didnt throw things away. Tim basically took his trash home. Detective bowhay called kim to let her know that their surveillance of tim was not successful. At that point she says, well, ive watched those csi shows, youre looking for dna, arent you . I said, you need a water bottle . Ill get you a water bottle. Im kind of an instant gratification, like, dog with a bone. I need to know. They said, we cant ask you to do it. You cant do this for us. Were not asking. We cant tell a person to get evidence for us, but if they were to bring something to us, we could take it from them and use that. Thats not against the law. Nobody asked me to do it. I 100 volunteered to do it. The reason i wanted to know was im a mom now. If something happened to my daughter, id want someone to help me, and the thought of her mom never having an answer of who did that to her daughter, if i could help her find that peace, i wanted to do it. She watched tim. They got a water cooler at their office, and he drank out of a plastic cup and threw it away. He threw it in the garbage in front of me, walked past into the bathroom, and i just i looked in the garbage, and my heart was, like, beating out of my chest. I grabbed it and i put it in my desk drawer. I was like, oh, my god. That just happened. I think i waited a little bit, and then i texted detective bowhay. I couldnt get it back to the office quick enough and down to the lab quick enough to have it tested. When the cup arrived, i performed a swabbing of the drinking area. I pulled up the old information to compare it to, and lets just say i was more than surprised. I compared it over and over more than once, and my heart was pounding. She had left a message and were like, well, what would she be calling about . Even though we knew what shed be calling about, and then it was like, well, lets call her right now and put it on speakerphone. I sort of stumbled through my words, and as soon as i got the word match out, i heard an amount of cheering that was deafening. It was a 1 in 11 quadrillion, if you can imagine that number, match on timothy bass. 11 quadrillion has 15 zeros. Quite a few. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can be used against you in the court of law. Tims demeanor was flat. He didnt show a lot of emotion. Theres some cat and mouse between the detectives and tim bass. I dont remember giving dna. And then he changed his story. He completely does a 180degree turn. I cant do this. No way. Thats crazy. Its absurd. Trust toyota to be here for you. 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Just like youve seen on tv, on those shows youve watched, i just have to advise you of this before we talk to you any further, so you have the right to remain silent. Tims demeanor was flat. He didnt show a lot of emotion, tried to act like a lot of disbelief, like, no, i didnt have anything to do with this. Youve got the wrong person. Ive never had any intimate relationship with her. Ive never even kissed her. Hes testing the waters to see whether or not they actually have his dna versus them telling him a ruse. Howd that come about . My dna, that you guys got . I ran a sample. I dont remember giving dna. Im sure in his mind he was thinking, ive gone through all these measures to make sure you guys didnt get my dna. How did this happen . Where did i screw up . Just tell me. If you just did it sneakily, you did Something Weird well, of course i did. Okay. Well, thats all you need to tell me. The point being is if i didnt have something of that nature, you wouldnt be sitting here. Right. Right. I think once he realized we actually did have his dna, then he switched. Well, i wanted to tell you a long time ago but i just didnt trust you. Ive been told not to say stuff. And ah, to hell with it. I cant do this. I cant i trust you guys. I just i cant if this bites me in the ass or this is not what im supposed to do then whatever. I dont give a [ bleep ] i slept with her. He completely does a 180degree turn. And at that point says, yes, i slept with her. Tim bass told us a story that he was having a secret relationship with mandy. How long did it go on . I met her i think i was with my dad. We were Mountain Bike riding up and down the road, and he talked to her. He had a way with people. He just talked to her, and i talked to her, and then after that, id Mountain Bike up and down the road and shed jog, so and then wed talk and stuff, so i think that was in the spring. It wasnt that long a relationship because she went away to college. I want to say eastern or central. Central. Central . Did you have any correspondence with her . Did you have letters or did you make phone calls to her . No, shed just say when shed come back shed see me. His story had no depth. He didnt know what she was going to take in school. He didnt know what she wanted to do as a profession or what her future held. He knew nothing. It was more of a friendship type thing. We just talked and then it just kind of grew into more of a physical thing, and we didnt even really do it that much. It was more kissing and stuff. He had never spoken to her on the phone. He hadnt written to her, and she shows up and without any prior warning comes over for what was referred to in that interview as a booty call. And thats how he accounted for his dna being found. We all kind of knew that that was b. S. If tim ever had a relationship with mandy stavik, hed have told everybody he knew. Hed have shouted it from the rooftops. Theres no way my sister would have had a relationship, a physical relationship with tim bass. She was way, way, way out of his league. To put it bluntly. The only one that knew about it besides him was his dad, and that couldnt be verified because his dad was dead at that point. You are under arrest for the murder of mandy stavik. The arrest occurred on december 12, 2017. I filed charges, charged him with murder in the first degree. Shortly after mr. Bass was arrested, i drove out to mary staviks home. He said, weve got him. And i said, who . I mean, i did. I was thinking for 15 years, waiting for the day when we could deliver that message, hoping that mary would still be with us to be able to give the message to her. It was her 81st birthday that day. It was. It was on my birthday that he knocked on my door. Kind of nice birthday present. She was overcome with emotion, and i think we all were. I was shocked. I mean, mandy and i had ridden our bikes past their house, and it just never occurred to us to be worried about who was in their house. Never. I dont want to jeopardize an Ongoing Investigation or prosecution. We ultimately arranged a press conference. We had all the detectives that were currently involved in the case stand at the podium, and we delivered the news to local media. We hope that this arrest will help bring closure to mandys family and the greater Whatcom County community. I was naive in thinking that, you know, my part in this is going to not be known. I just kept waiting for my face to come out and i thought, oh, my god, someones going to find me. And guess what . They found me. Here you are. I wanted to badly to know who it was that did that, and could meet you. Bless her heart. She said, you know, she said, i did it for you. I did it for you. Thank you, thank you. Thank you so much. Youre welcome. The person ive wanted to meet for a long time is mary. All of it i mean, id do it again for her. A woman i never even knew. While we were interviewing tim, gina came in and was being interviewed. Gina did give tim an alibi. I was on my way to tims, and i passed her. Any statement you make may be used at trial against you. To me a trial is where i really love to be and i could hardly wait till we began. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, tim bass is not guilty. Is it difficult for you to be here testifying today . Very much so. He said, i was hoping that you could maybe say that you slept with her too. [music begins to play together by sia] come now set the past on fire stand up raise your face to the sky my love together we can take it higher together we can take it higher come now set the past on fire stand up raise your face to the sky my love together we can take it higher [cheering from video audio plays] together we can take it higher cheezit snapd. How does it taste . Its so thin, crispy and cheesy. And i just want to keep eating it. 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Keep track of them. Each one means one less person vulnerable, one less person exposed, and one step closer to a healthier community. So for now, keep your distance. But dont lose count. Well have some catching up to do. I am convinced what happened. I have no doubt at all. I dont know what else to say. The truth. Everything ive said is the truth. Tim maintained his innocence, denying any involvement at all. I know you think differently, you think i did this. I didnt. While we were interviewing tim, gina came in and was being interviewed. Gina, do i have your permission to record this Statement Today . Yes. Gina did give tim an alibi. Do you remember the day she went missing . Were you at work, were you at school . No, i was on my way to tims house, because i went to his house after school, and i passed her. She was running. So i saw her. When you went to his house that day, was tim there . Yeah. He was there the entire time . Yeah. Tim and gina spent the rest of the day together and he couldnt have done anything to hurt mandy. This case took almost 30 years to get to trial. To me a trial is where i really love to be. All rise. Finally getting under way was such a relief to me. The evidence will show that mandy was abducted, and we can tell you where it happened. My theory is mandy set out to do her fivemile run with the dog. About a quarter of a mile from her house where theres a wooded area, its very secluded, and thats where tim is waiting for her to run by. He grabs her, gets her in the car. She was taken approximately six miles south to an isolated location where she was raped. I think she tried to get away by running away, naked, wearing only her shoes and socks. He caught up with her and hit her in the head and knocked her out. Either struck in the head or pushed into a tree. And then she was placed in the river where she was drowned. The defendants dna was inside her and we know that she was kidnapped, she was raped, and then she was killed. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, tim bass is not guilty. He didnt kidnap anyone. He didnt rape anyone. And he certainly didnt kill anyone. Evidence of sexual contact is certainly not evidence of murder. Timothy basss Defense Attorneys were trying to say that just because his dna matched that found in mandys body, it doesnt necessarily mean that he killed her. Day two in the timothy bass murder trial, Mandy Staviks mother took the stand 30 years after her teenage daughter was found dead. She was here every day of the trial, and she wanted to know what happened to her daughter, as painful as it was. She wanted the answers. Good morning, ms. Stavik. Good morning. Mary is 82. And the judge said, the jury is going to come in, everybodys going to stand, but you dont have to. You can remain seated while that happens. All right . I can stand up. Youre going to be okay . Im fine. Okay, whatever you feel comfortable doing. Well, if everybody else is standing up, ill think ill stand up, too. Madam bailiff . Mary said, im going to stand. And she did. The sheriff came to my door and said that theyd found her body. Everybody tells me i did really well. Ms. Stavik, i have just a few questions. I decided that before i went up there that i would answer every question they asked as briefly and as well as i could. Did you ever see her with tim bass . No. One of the things i did with the witnesses i called, i asked each of them if they had ever seen mandy with tim bass. No. Never. We wouldnt hang out with him at all, ever. The main point was they didnt know each other. They didnt hang out together. They didnt run in the same circles. Mr. Mceachran, would you like to call your next witness . The most devastating testimony against tim bass came from tom bass younger brother. Good afternoon, mr. Bass. Tims brother tom, who was a few years younger than tim, testified against him. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth in all matters here before the court . Tom is a solid person. Is it difficult for you to be here testifying today . Very much so. When i met with tom, tom said, well, he did come up and want me to lie about it, and i told him no. When investigators came to timothy bass to question him and to ask him to submit a dna sample, he immediately went to his younger brother tom and said, tom, theyre after me. He was very nervous, very anxious. And he said, the reason im so worried, im so anxious, is that i slept with mandy. I said, what . He goes, yeah, i slept with mandy. He said, you know, i was hoping that you could maybe say that you slept with her, too. He said, look, if you could say you had sex with her, that would help trying to make her look like a loose girl. I said, how long did, you know, how long did this go on . He said, oh, we slept together a couple times before she went to college and then once when she came back on thanksgiving break. He asked his brother, do you believe me . And his brother was shocked, just shocked at this. Tom must have realized right then and there that something terrible was going on. He testified at the trial. Oh, this aint good. Hes asking people to lie for him. Thank you, tom. I have no further questions, your honor. I cant imagine going against my brothers. Its the heart of loyalty, right . Its band of brothers. People understand and appreciate that a brother is not going to flip on another brother unless they truly believe that their brother is guilty of doing something horrible. The state would next call gina malone. Were you previously married to the defendant tim bass . Yes. I filed for divorce. I only saw him one time in jail. By the time gina bass walked into that courtroom, theres a lot of change in her life. Gina came forward and said that her alibi that she originally told us was false. I believe gina was providing his alibi to protect herself and once she felt secure and safe herself, then she could actually tell the truth. After the police came, he told me that i need to lie and say that i was with him that day. And he said, otherwise im going to go to prison. I felt like i just have to agree with everything hes saying, because if i dont, i could be next. Do you have any memory of being at the bass house the day after thanksgiving at all . No. I wasnt a strong person back then. I just was very weak. By you should have gone with my gut instinct. All of today was taken up by these closing arguments. Just a few hours ago, the defense wrapped up this afternoon. This is an investigation that was set up for 30 years, based on the faulty assumption that this is a sexual assault. And that is the fundamental error in this case. They could not refute the fact that the dna found on mandys body belonged to their client tim bass. There was no denying that. So they had to say, look, it was a consensual relationship. They were trying to tell the jury that they very well could have ignored or excluded the real killer. Everyone in Whatcom County was calling in to say, i saw somebody acting strange. You need to go talk to this guy. All of those suspects were excluded based purely and simply on the fact that their biological evidence did not match the semen that was taken from ms. Stavik. I found their theory and their statement a little insulting. Not a little a lot insulting for the fact that we had it all wrong. We take a lot of pride in our work. I was so eager to get back up and respond to it. I could hardly wait. They would have you believe that somehow there was some she snuck out of the house and had some sexual liaison with this guy. Do you believe that . Do you believe that that could happen . When we bring cases in, we dont expect people to leave their common sense in their cars. How did the dna get into mandy stavik from this defendant . And the only explanation was, when he raped her, after he abducted her, and then he killed her. The defendants dna was there, and im asking you to hold him accountable. Closing arguments just finished in the trial of a 30yearold murder case in Whatcom County. The jury will decide whether or not timothy bass raped and killed 18yearold mandy stavik. When the jury leaves, i always feel apprehension. You never know. Its almost like waiting for lab tests to see if you have cancer or not. I understand that the jury has reached its verdict. We have. When they read the verdict, i felt like somebody knocked the wind out of me. We ateams has given us the9 techpossibilityonse on teams. To continue to innovate. I can bring them in, i can actually share my screen and show the xrays. We can do that in a visit like this. Were living on teams. 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The guys going to get whats coming to him. I give Dave Mceachran a lot of credit. He is something. And bless his heart. He told me day one that he was not going to give up until this was finalized. And we owe him the credit. Mr. Bass, before the Court Imposes a sentence, you have a right to address the court about any aspect of this case. I would first like to say that i am 100 innocent of this crime. I wish no ill will towards anyone here, not even today. But i am having a hard time with this. Timothy forest bass, i impose the maximum sentence of 320 months in the custody of the Washington State department of corrections. I feel like ive been in prison these last 28 years, and now its his turn. I just feel blessed that i got to work on the case and i got some closure for the community, for the family. Mandy was special. She really was. I dont know why she was or how she got to be the way she was. Thats just the way she was. I go back to the lyrics of the song, and in our hearts you will always be a very special memory, mandy. And that is true. It was true then and its true now. Thats the way it was communitywide with all of us. It will keep going. Thats the legacy. Mandy will always live on. I kind of learned that the living have to go on to honor the goodness in what youve lost. Its heartbreaking, that mother waited so long for closure. Were grateful she has that tonight. We certainly are. It is worth noting that tim bass sentence, 27 years, is three years less than it took to find justice. His legal team says they plan to appeal. Im david muir. And im amy robach. From all of us at 20 20 and abc news, good night. Now from abc7, live