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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 glendiviv montan at 5 20 the passenger side door opened, the woman stepd out, and hurried towards the entrance 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 ame. To her, to the woman now crossing the sidewalk to her doorway, susie. 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 else. That unsullied sky, the vast rolling praiaies dotted sparsely with tiny old hamlets in which business is personal and where friends and families have worked the same places for generation. 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 becse 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 r sterinlaw. She was not afraid to be out there shoveling manure or fixing a fence. She was a feisty thing. But if thererwas 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. 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 little bit different than you thought. The whole family accepted it because it was sususs 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. 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 wasas998. The kids shea and marya called ted dad. Then there were two more kids, 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 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 ththnight in jail. Not long after ted pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault. Susie was gone from the ranch. She wasnt very happy with ted and she was starting to make some good decisions to find some happiness again. 8and so by the spring of 2008, susie and the kids were living at the ponderosa apartments. In a little up to like this, 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 seeeee, she was really happy and she had makeup on, which wasnt really a susie ing and that was great, so i knew something was up. So val watched as sasie bounded out the door while the two teenagers fended for themselves. And susie headed out on the to. This girl has got to have a date tonight. And the very next morning mom, pick up. When susies worried children and increasingly frantic family called in to check on her, call me when you get the susie, who always kept her phone within reach, did not answer. 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Sometimes you almost thought marya was the mom and susie the kid because marya was pretty 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. Independent to get themselves up and leave for their respective activities, but from susie not a word. Across town, sisterinlaw val hadnteard 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 . He told me that the kids couldnt find susie when they woke up and that everybody wasas just really worried because this wasnt susie. She would never just not tell her chilen or be there for them. 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. I also thought she had maybe 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 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 the apartment and really 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 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 saisusies 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 breaking up the last man to be 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 . When she went missing, i everybody was a suspect. Spect. Sweetheart, dont look at me like that, its gonna be amazing. This is a disaster whos the genius whputs a girl in heels on a subway grate . Miss monroe, eat a snickers. Why . You get a little cranky when youre hungry. Better . Much better. This scene will never make the cut, morons. Now you can create your own tour of italy at olive garden, starting at 12. 99. Choose 3 of 10 favorites to enjoy on one plate. Plus unlimited salad and breadsticks. The best tour of italy is the one you create. People disappear all the time in america. Many of them turn up again. And maybe in some big city somewhere susies absence wouldnt have raised the alarm quite so fast, but here Olivia Ringer was a young lawyer then. You have to be kidding. This is glendive. Shes got to be around somewhere. But when susies brother and sisterinlaw roared around town looking, it only made them more upset. As a kid, when youre things you didnt have. 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 sty 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 tried to call and the voice mail. In a town the size of glenn dive, the police were keenen aware of her history. The abuse six months prior at the hands of soontobe exhusband ted casey. Then val told the chief, 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 t uld have happened and where she is. And well, that qution remained unanswered. Brad holzer came in for an 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. 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 145 until 11 00 until 5 00 a. M. We drove out there and parked 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. 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. Somebody sent him a weird email 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 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 ch pressure. After a while, it explodes. 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Could be a missing piece for you. See if youre eligible for by the sunday of that anxious weekend in april 2008, the whereabouts of susie casey was a local preoccupation in glendive, montana. There was a lot of talk about, oh, yeah, we saw her walking down the street sometime. Maybe somemee picked her up. The young attttney couldnt help but hear what people were saying. Did she go home with someone . Did she drive off somewhere . Susies mother was afraid something awful had happened, and for the second time she called sister car lean two hours away in north dakota. And thats when i knew something was really, really wrong, so we packed up suitcases and headed to glendive to see what we could do to help to find her. But where could they look . 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 chy 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 susieApartment Building and found something kind of curious. A couple of rious things actually. One was a shoe print in the alcove of the building next door to susies place. Over in the alley, maybe 40 or 50 feet away, looked like somethtng 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. 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 upsps the woman was leaving him. He wasngry, 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 onhe ground and we were both drinking. It just happened. 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 dropped off the two little girls at his house for the night, but ted did admit that he confronted susie on the phone a couple hours later after receiving a around 9 00 p. M. What was said . Just that. Brad holzer or whatever has been screwing your wife. Click. Brad holzer, susies boyfriend of three weeks. What did you think about that . Well, i wasnt very happy. I mean, i called her up and said, hey, whos this brad holzer or whatever . I said, i just got a call that youve been doing him. Oh, no, no. Id never do that. Ive never cheated on you. I said we are still married even though wereot living together. And i just hung up the phone. Well, she called me right back. The guy. She knew who he was. And that was about the end of the conversation. Was he upset . Yes, of course, he said he was and yet ted told his interrogatat he fell asleep right away. Then got up around 5 00 a. M. To do chores and drop off his girls with a babysitter and meet a coworker at city hall by 6 00. I was thinking it was like 10 ten to 6 00 or something when i got there. Ted dve past susies apartment. He admitted as much on his way to that meeting at cithall. Put him around her front door minutes from when she went across the street dishevelled. After making out all night with brad. The very time she vanished from the face of the earth. As the Glendive Police department checked out the after the two youngest girls, who are living with him fulltime, while marya and shea went to live with val and her husband. Marya was just tormented. She didnt know ha to do with herself. She was so close to her mom. It was just really, really hard for her. Harder and harder for everyone as day y ter day the search for susie produced nothing. As time went on, it was clear that she wasnt around anywhere, sot was just a really scary time. What were those days like . They were pure hell. Yoyojuju sat and wait and wait for the phone to ring. Then nearly a month after susies disappearance it did. The hardest day of my life. A horrifying g scovery down by the river and another diovery down at the station. What was she doing there . Honestly, am i a suspect . Even more lobster . You get hungry. And you count the seconds until red lobsters loloterfest is back with the largest variety of lobster dishes of the year. Like new dueling lobster tails with one tail stuffed with crab, and the other with langostino lobster macandcheese, its a party on a plate and you know every bite of llster lovers dream lives up to its name. Hey, eating is believing. So stop dreaming and start eating. There is a place where the sky is always blue. And the kids always eat their vegetables. Because the salad there is alwaysyserved casey vanished on an early spring morning in glendive, montana, it was the Yellowstone River that finally gave her back. I was sitting at my desk and the sheriff walked by and said theres a boby floating in fallon. Fallon is a small town 28 miles upstream from glenn dive. It was on shore. Took a look. I knew. At that point, were changing from missing persons to homicide. Susies family gathered at val and rustys house. I knew it couldnt be anyone else, but it didnt go over well all the way because i had a b to do and my job was to keep this family together. It was her body. I didnt let my emotions just run with it because i knew we had those children downstairs. The older two, marya and shea, 14 and 12. Carlene is the one who told them. I think thats the hardest day of my life. And ive had a lot of hard day, but that was the hardest i think. Word spread that susie had finally been found. Glendive mourned and relaxed in some degree. I think it was almost like a sense of relief. We found her. We can see what happens. By this time, agents from the Montana Department of criminal investigation had been called in to help the police. This is one of the agents. We determined from the autopsy that she was not breathing when she went into the water, so it was not a drowning. All right. So she was killed first. The autopsy revealed that her hyoid bone was broken, which was consistent with strangulation. Strangled . When and by whom . This time, brad, the last person had been interviewed time and again. When she left, she was wearing my white sweatshirt. They talked repeatedly to brads wife, though she and her husband maintained they had no motive to kill susie. They were headed for a divorce, but how did she feel really. After all, they were still living together. Did brads wife,e,ho might be considered the odd woman out in a love trigle, have a reason to kill susie . Honestly, we have a variety of suspects. Yeah, right now both you and brad are. But brads story didnt he dropped her at her apartment at 5 00 a. M. Then drove a few blocks home and wept right to sleep. His wife insisted that was true. Said she came home from a date of her own about 00 a. M. And found him already asleep. I went in, and the bedroom door was closed and i look in, and he was in bed sleeping. But brads wiwi added to the mystery as well because it turned out she, too, claimed she got a strae phone call that week, the week susie disappeared. They said, can we leave a message for brad . I said okay. They said, tell him to stop messing aroundndith married women. And i said, what are you talking about . And then she hg up. So it was a female . A woman . This was getting stranger by the minute. Ted claimed it was a male who called him to rat on susie. Brad said a female named Denise Johnson sent him an email asking him how his wife felt what police really needed was something concrete, something physical to prove brads whereabouts to back up his store and clear his name. It was like we decided to check the bank for the footage and there it is. A u. S. Bank branch just a couple of doors down from susies apartment. Of course, it had a camera on its atm, so they asked to see the video and what do you know. Ry grainy and extremely hard to see clearly, it appeared to back up everything brad said. Early ininhe morning just before 5 00 a. M. , 4 52 to be exact, you can see a pickup pull up across the street from the ponderosa apartments. We see brad holzer pull up in his vehicle on the security cameras, and susie casey is with him in that vehicle for a period we believe thats whenenusie exits the vehicle. This was about 5 19 a. M. Then brads pickup pulled away out of frame. So when brad holzers wife was interviewed, she had been out all night. She comes home and said when she got home at 6 00 a. M. , brad was eeping. We have a timeline from 5 29 a. M. And 6 00 a. M. Where brad holzer has to commit this homicide and hide the body or hide the body and dispose of it later. We didnt feel brad had much of a strong opportunityr much of a motive to murder susan casey. To hear that was quite a relief, as you might have imagined, to brad who has played the scene countless times. Saying good night to susie and pulling away before she got inside the apartment door. In hindsight, it bothers me that i didnt wait and watch her, but theres no reason that it was 5 00 in the morning. The whole town was dead. I just remember needing to get home, wanting to get home as soon as possible. I didnt cross my mind that anythihi would happen or anyone was there. A gallant little gesture he didnt make. Brad holzer has all kinds of time to think about that. Sometimes i think about her, yeah. I wondered what we could have been doing right now. There could have been a future there. Susie was laid to rest on a sunny day in may 2008 in a Little Cemetery outside her hometown. No one the slightest aware of how much more was still to come. Seems like you didnt make it home last night. An angry message from susies husband ted ana closer look at his story. You know you were a person of interest. Yes. Morning of the murder. For adults with an advanced lung cancer called squamous nonsmall cell, previously treated with platinumbased chemotherapy, its not every day something this big comes along. A chance to live longer with. Opdivo, nivolumab. Opdivo is the first and only immunotherapy fda approved based on a Clinical Trial demonstrating longer life. For these patients. In fact, opdivo significantly increased the chance of living longer versus chemotherapy. Opdivo is different. It works with your immune system. 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He drove by her apartment around the time she disappeared. That h hwas angry. Tried to reach her on the phone. Actually, i called susie. Whatever time i called her, i left city hall then. Yes, indeed. Here is the angry voice mail ted left. Well, susie, i just called marya. Seems like you didnt make it home last night, so maybe what somebody called me and said maybe is true. Youre doing somebody else. So once again, it seemed those age old motives pointed at the husband. 90 of the time you would be right. But was it possible that ted could be the exception that proves the rule. Ted was, in fact, at work that morning as seen by a coworker exactly when he said he was. If he did commit the homicide, woulult have enough time to dispose of the body. Body in the Yellowstone River 20 miles upstream from glendive. They pulled out the atm video by susies Apartment Building. Ted said he dropped his off about 5 45 a. M. M ted drove to city hall to work. Its a small town and city hall is just blocks from susies place. Ted said he drove right past her apartment and sure enough. We could see a vehihie driving by at approximately the time ted said she dre by the ponderosa apartments. The time . 5 52 tam, just like ted told the police. So hes basically got a 15minute window where hes dropping his kids off and then he drives to city hall and works there for a period of time. Given how close together everything was, wouldnt have taken much time to kill susie, later for disposal. Possible . Quite, thought police. Mind you phone records seemed to back up what ted said about calling susie the ninit she went missing. The angry message he left on her voice mail, the time stamp proved it was hours after she vanished. Either ted was trying to fool poli with the voice mail and his public movements that morning, or he didnt have any idea what happened to susie. And therefore this time the husband didnt do it, if he was telling the truth that is. You know you were a person of interest. Yes, and you can expect that. Sure, but how was it to be treated that way . It doesnt feel good. Every place you go, everything you do youvgot people watching, talking, pointing. But i did nothing wrong. I had nothing to hide from, so youd think if they did believe him, theymake some sort of announcement that ted was in the clear, but they did not ananso it was awkward, especially when they were looking for susie. Did you take part in the search . I did. What was that like . Its kind of a tough situation. You know, what happens if you find her if youre by yourself and you find her . That would suggest you knew where she was in the first place because you put her there. Ted was still a target of the investigation and also qte suddenly a single parent of two little girls, age 6 and 8. Six days seemed like six months. You werent sleeping much. I had headaches every day for over a month all day long. So how do you tell a little girl that her mother is never coming home, that shes dead . Howd they take it . They broke down. You know, they didnt let me out of their sight for quite a few days. I can imagine. And especially when it caca nighttime. They were glued to you. There was, remember, an insurance policy osusies life. Ted was the beneficiary. Wasnt a lot, but they c c the check and ted casey cashed it. What did you do with it . Paid her funeral expenses and what was left, i split four ways between the four kidid could have kept it. Ould have, but thats not the right thing to do. Was it enough to be very much help to the kids . Not much. You know, there was probably funeral expenses, but it helps. So does ted sound like a guilty man . But if it wasnt him and it wasnt the boyfriend, brad, then who killed susie . And why . Please call me. Im worried. A mystery caller. Someone was desperate to reach susie. Really kind of obsessive. Boy, this is something we need to look at here. 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Who owned those eyes in the dark that watched susie casey in the moments before she disappeared . From the first moments, susie casey hadnt come home as you know, everybodys looking for you. Give me a call. All of them tried callingnghe woman who never went anywhere without her phone. Hello. Just me. That phone was her lifeline, as susies brother rusty and his wife val said in their intervws. I thought lets see which phone calls she had. Story began to emerge. Thats where we had seen all those phone calls from a number we didnt know who it belonged to. A number nobody recognized calling susie again and again all night long, but t d that mystery caller leave a message . Neither val nor rusty knew how to access susies voice mail. But they did know who just might. When i called and asked marya if she knew how to access her voice mail, she said yes almost instany. Ty was sitting across the table from us. The messages started to play. If you dont call me backck over and over again it was the same voice. I would love to hear from you and make sure everything is okay with you. It was starting to get more desperate and needy. I dont know what to do. You wont answer me. Youre a teenager and you have your first crush and the guy or the girl goes to call them the next day and they dont answer. Usually most of us would stop. Pleasaslet me know youre okay. But as a teenager, your emotions arent really under control. Theyll continue to call and call and call. It was like that, but the messages just continued to get closer together and just more desperate. Please let me know that youre okay. Please. Everybody is very worried about you. I thought that this guys strange to call that many times and really kind of obsessive. And were all worried. Call us. Yeah, who was he talking about . More to the point, who was this guy . Who was he to susie, and why in less than four hours did he leave not one ororwo or four or six, but 22 voice mail messages for susie . Im worried. And then val suddenly knew. Susie had only hinted d it, but there was another man in her life. Someone from her past with whom she had reconnected as her maiage to ted fell apart. This man, her long ago first husband, the father of her two older childrenenmarty larson. Did she talk about him at all . I knew that she had had a previous marriage, but i didnt know anything more beyond that. Marty had been out of susies life for nearly a decade. No contact, no child support, nothing. But then in 2007, marya, curious about her biological father, found him on the internet and reached out. Marty came to visit a time o o two. At leaststnce, susie took the kids to see him three hours across t`e prairie in billings, montana. Few people who knew. They were nonohappy. We got into an argument. I said susie, you dont want to do tpis. I said the family isnt going to really go for this, and she said, you mean everybody is going to disown me, so i just backed off. I said im not going to lose my daughter over him. And that washe end of it. How serious it got, nobody knew really. Maybe they were just friendly. Maybe it was more than that. Now investigator ulrick typed marty larson in the database. And it popped up. Id seen criminal trespass. Remember, she married ted pretty quickly after she left marty in 1998. That wasnt the end of it. Not long after the wedding, apparently marty drove three hours down the highway from up outside the newlyweds house with a shotgun. It was never clear what he intended to do with it. He was convicted with criminal trespass and was slapped with what lifetime restraining order. No contact with susie or ted ever. At that point in time, i had a little red flag go up. Boy, this is somethihi we need to look at here. You could tell by the 22 phone messages. 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When you get into the cao area, the back of the van was vigoroly cleaned out with water and some type of cleaning solution. And in martys apartment toilet bowl cleaner in the kitchen garbage. Detectives looked at the toilet in the residence. The toilets didnt look like they had been recently cleaned, yet we had an empty container of lysol bathroom cleaner. That wasnt all they found in the garbage. There was this. It appeared to be a list of expenses, asf someone was planning quite seriously for a las vegas wedding. A breakdown of the trip for lodging, paying for a a nister to marry them, and the return trip home. When investigators asked marty to take off his shirt, they saw scratches on his back. How in heavens name would he have gotten those . Some struggle perhaps . Whwhe the search for susie is going on still, the agents suggested they all sit down for a little q a and marty said sure, but can i ask you one question first . Sure. Am i under arrest for somethinor being charged with no. Arty said he and susie had reconnected the year before mostly for the children, but right away, said marty, they fell for each her all over again like true soul mates. That time ten years prior when he took a shgun to ted and susies house all forgiven. He was a different man now. The ten years we were apart i spent thinking she hated me and she spent thinking i hated her. In fact, we still love each other very much. Were you thinkink you two would get back together . That was the plan. So said marty. Just before susie went out the night she vanished, he talked to her on the phone. I told her before she went make sure you eat, make sure you dont drink too much. You dont need to get a dui and get in trouble like that. She promised to call him back later. If im sleeping, dont worry about it. Its okay. After all, said marty, they were a couple again. It was his business to worry about her. And when she didnt call then i called her at 12 30 because i hadnt heard from her. If u dont wont call me back by 1 00 i didnt know if she had gotten arrested or what was going onon and then i thought im going to go out there and see if vhes okay, make sure that she got me. What time did you leave billings, do you recall . About 1 10ish. Sure enough. When police pulled v veo at the blue basket where marty said he a. M. So he drove, he said, calling and leaving voice messages for susie during the entire 220mile trip. I just need to hear from you. Please, please call me. Im worried. Expecting to hear from susie saying im fine, dont worry. Dont come. What time did you get into glendive . 4 50, 5 00. Again, true. His cell phone pinged off a tower. He said he parked aroundndhe corner and walked to her apartment. Her car was parked outside as if she was home. I went in the building. I knocked on the door softly because her bedroom was near the door hoping it would wake her and not the kids. Hoping shed come and tell me she was okay and there was no answer, so i went out and called and text a few times, hoping to wake her up. So did you ever encounter susie at all . No. Okay. I wish i would have seen her. R. He swore he didnt see susie arrive just before 5 00 a. M. With brad. In her truck. But he did leave town, he said. Video from another nearby bank seemed to back him up at 5 45 a. M. Leaving one last frantic voice mail. Just hoping to hear youre okay. Police are paid to be skeptical. T`eres no doubt in my mind you saw her this morning. No, i didnt. But marty stuck to his story. And when detectives asked him why his mini van was so o esesy washed on the way up there, i did kind of have one sort of major thing. There was a deer in the road that i hit and there was a bunch of deer stuck to the bottom of it. Okay. So i went and cleaned the bugs off of that. Hoping the drive through car wash would spray the deer off. I didnt do a very good job thgh. A deer . But not he actually did hit a deer . We checked with the highway patrol. It was consistent withth deer. It was not a live deer he hit running. It was laying in the interstate. When they tested the tissue on the van, sure enough it was not human. It was animal tissue. But then when police asked if there was anyway theyd find susies dna in, on, or under the van, marty said something as he often did that made police wonder. Well, i guess what im saying is what i know is my thought is that was a deer. I guess i dont know for certain that it couldnt have been her. Would he try to tell police he ran susie down . Is there something you want to tell us . No, i havent done ananhing. You can scrape everything out from underneath that van. Its deer as far as i know. And if that wasnt weird the room oh, susie, where are you . Where are you . Those kids need you. I need you. I love you, susie. Just wish i knew where you were. Marty was now the prime suspect, the man in the crosshairs. 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Once susies family found out that her exhusband marty larson had been in glendive the night she disappeared, reaction was quick and to the point. If i knew all this ten years earlier, i would have taken him for a ride. Heres what most thought ght away. It didnt add up that it was brad and it didnt add up that it was ted. But marty, perhaps . There were signs like those obsessive voice mamas and the bank video and his own admission that he opened to reunite with susie. The probability he saw susie canoodling with brad. The minivan washed on his return home, and yet marty larson was not arrested. I think that frustration was really, really hard for the family. What was your expectation . Material they had and just go and rest marty . I guess i anticipated these things would move forward and who was responsible would be held accountable and time just kept on going. The thing is at that point susies sisterinlaw vavaand rusty were still hearing marty and ted were both suspects. At the time, susies two yupg hes kids with ted and the older two living with val and rusty. It was extremely difficult for shea and marya both. I remember we were so excited for him to have his own bedroom, his own space, but at night he couldnt sleep in his room. He had to sleep with marya. Because . He was scaredarty was going to come and take him. His own7father . I dont think he ever really called him father. I dont think any of us really i think he was just afraid of marty. Val had a newborn of her own to go along with those extra responsibilities, and an overwhelming sadness that seeped into her bed, her kitchen, her life. An unwelcome house guest that simply refused to leave. My son was 4 nths old when susie was taken from us. I dont remember him walking. I dont remember those moments i should remember as a mother. Meanwhile, the investigation was stuck in the weeds. I was thihiing couple months and were going to have an arre and we just couldnt have the pieces at that time that we needed. 2008 went the way of all years. Ted kept to himself. Marty moved, left billings, went and at home in glendive, susies brother, vals husband rustyty was having trouble with the e rage. Susies death consumed him. When he went to sleep at night, he told me one night that he just wanted to stop feeling. I think it just haunted him that he felt he could have done something. And by the time a representative at the Attorney Generals Office met with the family, many felt they were teetering on the edge of sandy. Still wondering, marty or ted . What was the hold up . That day i asked if she could tell us, as a family, that ted was no longer a suspect because the two little girls were living with ted at the time and marya and shea were living with me. I just felt like i ias the only person trying to salvage the and just really wanted her to kind of crush that wall down and heresponse to me was that the case is still moving forward and hes still a suspect. Thats quite a thing to hear. Yeah. I just felt like i really needed to hear that at that time and i didnt get to hear that and that it was still possibly he could have had involvement. Ted, who still under a cloud of suspicion, believed that marty killed susie. There was a lot of nights i didnt sleep real good wondering if somebody was going to show up in the middle of the night with a gun. But it was rusty who devised a plan to do what prosecutors and Police Officers seemed unwilling to do. He was going to get justice for our family, even if he had to do it himself. He had made several plans about how he was going to kill marty, take martys life just like marty took susies. What would you say to him when he said things like that . That the case was moving forward and that wasnt something that he needed to do, that we had a son and his son needed him and me and that he couldnt leave us. Eventually,t all came to that anyway. First, val and rusty divorced. Then in november 2011, three and a half years after the night susie was murdered i got a phone call in the middle of the night. It was impossible to believe that. Rusty, her brother, 32 yeyes old committed suicide. Weve already lost susie. So it was really hard for my brain to wrap around that. So jack and marlene went to the Little Cemetery in circle to lay another child to rest. It crushed them and then to lose their two youngest. It just seemed like they aged 15 years. Do you think rusty would be around today if they moved quicker on that case . I try not to go there. I mean, theres all this whatifs. It wasnt long after her new county attorney was elected in glendive. Youve already met her. Some explanation to jack and marlene and their family as to if the case was goininto go somewhere or it wasnt, they needed to know. They couldnt be left dangling out there. Dangling. If that were all, the hope for an answer and justice might have simply ended there. But one morning as olivia was settling into her new office, there was a knock at the door. A man had come to call and he smiled and said hi, im brant light and were ing to try a homicide. My stomach was in my throat. An arrest at last and new guish that no one in the family saw coming. It hit you pretty hard, didnt it . Yes. Re of business and take care of the people who matter most. So when your tax refund arrives,s, make it go a little further at walmart. From electronics, to home decor, even tires, get low prices on everything you need to get more fun out of your tax refund. Why do i cook . Because i make the best chicken noodle soup. Because i make the best chicken noodle soup. 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How did you get involved in this particular case . Well, i had come to the Attorney Generals Office. There was another chief prosecutor at that time simply didnt think there was enough evidence. I took her position and i told my team, lets look really hard at this. Months later after a really hard look, i thought it was a great case. I thought circumstantially it was overwhelming. Then brant light met with susies family after their patience and promised he would sue an arrest warrant for i saw my family and their family, a good strong family, and to have this death occur, to her get out of a car and never make it to the front door 20 steps and we cant explain to them what happened in those 20 steps, i thought they deserved to find out. In february 2012, four years after susies mumuer, a phoenix s. W. A. T. Team descended on martys apartment on his way to work. Back in glen dive, a certain exsuspect ninely relaxed. When you knew he was under arrest and in jail, how did it change youlife . It took a lot of stress off me. Mr. Larson, im the assistant chief wiwh the Glendive Police department. How are you doing . And the man who originally took susies missing persons report satown to interview marty. When i walk in, i expect someone to say youre crazy, i didnt do this, i dont want to talk to you at all. But chair with his legs crossed and arms across the side. I have no idea what happened to her. I dont know how she passed away. Thats it. I pretty much knew whehei was targeted years ago that Something Like this cocod happen at any time. I knew this day would come. Hat did that say to you . Hes been thinking in the back of his head that he would be arrested for this cri. They took marty back to montana, stuck him in the county jail to awaihis murder trial, and when the spring of 2012 arrived, it seemed things were finally looking up for susies family. It was a lot of relief. Especially mom and dad. They felt susie would finally get some justice. There was another reason finally for the family to celebrate. Susies eldest child was school. Senior photos were taken, announcements were printed up and sent out, a party was planned in circl then the day before the ceremony she said its going to be my graduation and my mom is not here to see it. I said i know,ut shell be with you and she cried. Marya and marlene dried their tears and the young girl bounded out of the house and drove away. What happened . They said she fell asleep. Went off the road. There were no skid marks or nothing. She hit the ditch and it rolled. That kid would never leave without her seat belt on. That night she didnt have it on and it thrhr her out. Marya larson was just 18 years old. The phone and my mom telling me and thats all i remember. I just dropped the phone and just cried. Cried and cried and cried. I just couldnt believe that that could happen three times in one family. I never really grieved for susie, jt like i never really grieved for rusty until mariahs accident. And that was the day i grieved for all three of them. I cant imagine that scope of loss. I dont know how you managed it. I dont know either. T tt hit you pretty hard when she was killed. Yeah. Is that the point that gets you every time . Marya was laid to rest in that Little Cemetery outside circle next to her uncle rusty and her mom susie. She had a hard time living without her mom, and i guess thats why sheinally went to be with them. Just about didnt make it through that one. Three of them. And right along with the family that day was the new prosecutor on the case. It showed me a lot about brant light because he traveled from helena after meeting that girl only one time to her funeral. And he had a message e r the family and for marty larson. It was very clear in this case from both sides there was not going to be any plea negotiations. We never talked negotiations. 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The walk from susies apartment door to the Dawson County courthouse would take less than a minutete five years from crime to trial. Five years and one city block where in april 2013 marty larson finally faced a jury. Clearly, to me, he was the person that committed that crime. Now my chore was to go out and prove it. But when marty walked in, the courtroom gasped. He didnt look like the picture that i was shown of him. He had lost 77 pounds like that, so he looked like a different person. All of us were a little taken aback. Was it intentional . L . More on that in a minute. First, prosecutor light listed what he said were motives for marty to kill susie. Jealousy, pride, rage. I think marty was absolutely convinced that he and susan were going to get back together. I really think he thought that was going to happen and then all of a sudden here comes brad. Thats why, said the prosecutor, and phone records backed it up marty made those phe calls to his estranged wife and ted casey before the murder. Alerting these people that something untoward was going on. I think at that point he thought, well, let me just break this up. His efforts were all just about breaking them up. That effort included emails, though marty denied it. Did you send the emails . No, i did not. A search of martys computer revealed that he created that email account under the name Denise Johnson and sent those emails to brad asking about how his wife felt about that girlfriend. When Police Showed up at martys hes erasing things on his computer and defragments the hard drive. Appeared to be getting rid of something. Right. On the night susie disappeared, p pne records revealed that she and marty last oke at 9 51 p. M. By then, susie was aware that marty had been trying to sabotage her relationship with brad. After the phone call, susie called hereraughter marya with a question. She wanted to know how to restrict a number. I asked her why and she told me because marty was calling and i he was calling ted. The phone r rords showed susie stopped returning martys call. Thats why at 1 39 a. M. Marty was caught on that gas station mera leaving billings to go to glendive. Confront her about whats going on. The jury heard marty left 22 voice mails as he drove over the next three hours. His cell phone pinging in glen dive just before 4 30 a. M. Then by his own admission, marqy parked right around the corner from susies Apartment Building next to the bank. And thats when the banks atm started telling a story like nothing else could. 4 27 a. M. , prosetors argued this figure right here is marty walking towards susies apartment. Our theory was he got to susans apartment before brad, before she returned, and thebes a little concave, a little store front. We believe thats where he was standing. Thats when he left that footprint found in the dust found in the alcove next to sies. Then the tape showed at 4 52 a. M. , 5 19 a. M. , the dome light came on. Susie opened the door and got out just steps from her apartment. When she stepped out of brads car, after he had stewed in that concave for 15 to 20 minutes as they were in the car doing whatever they were doing, i think he was extremely angry. I think he confronted her. I think she confronted him right back. I think she told him when she was going to continue a relationship with brad and that marty and her were done, he was a no one is going to have susie sort of guy. I think thats when he strangled her. Strangled her, prosecutors argued, but not before susie left those telltale scratch marks on martys back. He dragged her body across the alley leaving those drdr marks at 5 38 a. M. A figure walked back towards martys mini van. After he walks back, the next thing you see is that silver van pull in front of susans. Theres about a fiveminute wait. I believe hes putting the body into the back of that van. Then you see the van pull aside. That, said prosecutors, is when marty started drivivi back to billings. You have a body in your van. I think the river was the fastest and easiest way for him and to buy him some time. Prosecutors produced this video shshing marty 78 miles downwnhe road stopping for gas, at 8 15 a. M. , wearing a white tshirt and black shoes that were never found. Did d throw them away when he dumped her body . At 10 29 a. M. , marty was back in billings leaving his first voice mail in almost five hours. This one with a decidedly different tone. Ood morning, sweetie. I was just hoping that you would i have my other phone charging right now. If you could, give me a call on this one. Thank you. Totally different tenor. I thought he would have been more angry when she still hasnt returned your calls. They dont know where you are. Now hes in alibi mode. The final piece of the puzzle for prosecutors . Remember how marty vigorously cleaned his mini van inside and out. Not quite enough. One hair was found. It was in the back of the van where he had put the body. We did a mitochondrial dna and it was hers. It was in the back where we believed he laid her. A strong circumstantial case, except thehearty who showed up in court did not look a bit like the man in the videos. My belief was he tried d change his look so he would not the bank atm. Theres a big husky guy, maybe 210pound man, and heres a person who might be 150 pounds, 160 pounds. But would it work . Good question. After all, the states case was entirely circumstantial. There were no eyewitnesses. The bank video was so o d even the judge wondered at times what he was looking at. They never found shoes t tmatch the footprints in the alcove. Brant light had taken a chance all right, on a difficult case. And the defense was yet to come. 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I believe there was not enough evidence to bring this case and thats one of the reasons why it wasnt filed for prosecutors had determined there wasnt sufficient evidence. Much more evidence agagnst ted casey, she said. Ted c cey, i believe, is the only one who had a real motive. They were fighting about the children, the monetary aspects of their marriage, and she had indicated to marty on several occasions that she was fearful of ted. And i believe his recounting of what he did that morning, had it been proper ly investigated, would have been less than a perfect alibi. Prosecutors argued that there was no evidence that ted or, for wife or anyone but marty larson killed susie. The defendant himself agreed to sit down with us too. So what do you want people to know about you . Just i had nothing to do with killing susie. I would have never done anything to her or to take her away from my kids or her two little girls. I couldnt have done that. Marty insisted that his very last contact with susie was that phone call at 9 51 p. M. , eight hours before she disappeared. What happened in that conversation . Why did she not want to talk to you at all afterwards and block your number . During that call, she called to ask me i dont remember if she asked me or if she accused me of calling ted. In fact, you had. I did. And she was mad about that. Yes. I told her i didnt do it and it wasnt me. Why would you do that . Why would you lie about it . Lying about it was i knew i had done something stupid and i why i did it, a lot of it was because of being hurt, bause what she had been telling me was that whatever she had, as far as a relationship with brad, she had been telling me for a week to ten days or so that that was over. Apparently it wasnt. No. And i guess somewhere in my head i suspected that and thats why i sent the emails. There was a lot of confusion. Confusion or Something Else that made him decide to drive three hours to susies place in the middle of the night. Thats a bad decision, right . You see that now. Oh, yeah. The whole time i was driving i was hoping that she would respond and say im fine, so i could just turn arouou and go home. That was all i wanted was to know she was okay. And still marty insisted that when he got to her apartment he just didnt see susie right brad. No, he claimed he waited for her in a spot where he couldnt have seen her walking to the door. Thats the part that sticks with me. Heres a guy who cares deeply about this woman and what shes up to and he sits where he cant see the entrance to her Apartment Building . Dont give me that. Thats crazy. I cant make people believe anything. I know what i did. I know where i was. Listen, you put yourself there. Thats the point. You put yoself at the crime scene. I put myuelf in a position for them to look at me. Right. You had the opportunity. You had the motive. If just being in the vicinity you could have in other wos. Within that time frame, yes. Can you see how it looks . Oh, yeah. I can. I can. Dont understand myself. I dont understand why, especially now i couldnt have stayed home and tried to contact her. I thought i could do something to help if she needed help. Sometimes with a girl like susie the thing you can do to help is to walk away. Yeah, i think it probably would have been best, at least for me. The jury was out about as long as was for marty larson drove from billings to glendive. The night poor susie left his life. Three hours. The verdict, guilty. What was it like to hear that guilil verdict . Everybody hooped and hollered and hugged. It was just like a big weight just lifted off f you. Theres something hugely important about justice. Couldnt bring her back, of course, but did the verdict matter . Oh, yes. It really did set my mind at ease. On. The first thing i do is to turn to the family. I love to look in their eyes and see the smiles on their faces and the joy they have. For me, thats what its all about. Ill never have another time that i loved being a prosecutor than i did right then. This is where marty larson lives right now. Crossroads correctional, in shelby montana, near the canadian border. What did they sentence you to . 110 years. Your first Parole Possibility is what . 2042. Thats a long wait. Yes, it is. But of course its far more than just a long wait for susie, rusty, marya. The cascade of grief begun that ght was deep and long. Guilt and the emotions arent just consuming him because losing her is still consuming us. He took her life and he took part of our hearts, but hell never break this family up and he hasnt. No, he hasnt. Shay, just 12 when his mom was murded, graduated from high school in 2013. Ted and susies daughters, kyana and charlee, were junior bridesmaids when their aunt val remarried. 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