i had to grow up without one. in an instant she was gone. and it changed everything. she dreamed of a career solving crimes, but crime claimed her first. gut wrenching pain! my daughter, please, please don t let this be true! home alone on a sunny afternoon she vanished. we just said, oh my god! isn t this one of her earrings? earrings in the carpet. ribbons on the ground. tire tracks on the lawn. there was evidence of a violent struggle. what had happened? and who was behind it? everything was a mystery. was she still alive? was she not? it tore us apart. for years they demanded answers, a struggle each day. then came the cold case squad with a new bag of tricks. i always felt that this was a case that could be solved. they wanted justice just as bad as we did. as a mother she fought and fought and fought. we just never gave up. don t mess with a mother bear. hello. welcome to dateline. tara ord was just 19. a beautiful young woman with bi
i couldn t imagine anyone would ever want to hurt her. i had no idea what could ve happened. married to her high school sweetheart, family meant everything to her. there was always a lot of talk about children. she wanted grandchildren, fast. but it all went up in smoke the night she died in a mysterious and monstrous inferno. who is to the right of the mattresses that we found the remains of julie. shocking as the blaze was, it was nothing compared to what investigators found in the embers. it s a bullet. yes. so this woman has been shot to death. yes. the obvious suspects. neighborhood thieves. there were half a dozen house burglaries unsolved. investigators also dug into a favorite theory, a husband. i was angry. i felt that the detectives were on a manhunt and they were after my dad. then a pop to text the might just be a clue. you could say maybe she s driving events here. that s correct. the truth, beyond twisted. leaving behind smoking a
a teenager disappears. come home. police. amber never made it right then. somebody had her. kept us up at night. going over in your head, what happened in front of the school? then another gone. she s such a good girl. she needs to come home. there s a lot of desperation. maybe she s tied up somewhere. maybe she s being held captive. two missing girls, one man. a secret. did you get any sense of the sort of personality you are dealing with? yes, psychotic. he came up and it came right here, the edge and he says, right there. two families, two mysteries. two journeys for justice. if 11 can be learned from amber, then i wanted out there. on the evening of february 12th, 2009, in a hillside house north of san diego, count fournié. the negotiation was finally complete. the girl had one. i made her writer one page letter to me, and she made it two pages but repeat yourself multiple times to make it longer. i m like, okay. she pestered her mother, kar
there is a female victim that was shot in the car, slumped over. i can t believe she s gone. melvin found with apparent gunshot wounds inside an apartment stop, screaming i can t understand you. my husband man shot. most people never know anybody that s been murdered. but to know too, and be stuck right in the middle of the. it was like a hunting party, stalking your family. i had a lot of fears for peoples safety. this guy marshall this whole family is part of this criminal enterprise. there s a moment where he stares at you and goes like this? like he s ringing your neck. yes, he didn t like me. he s an evil man. worse than charles manchin. sometimes it looks as if houston texas goes on forever, sprawling all the way to the horizon. this was also the setting of a sprawling crime. when they began on a quiet sunday night, with the young woman, named gelareh bagherzadeh. january 15th 2012, she had stopped by her boyfriend cory s house. for a surprise visi
Dateline. What did you hear . A, lapping, screaming. You heard screaming . I know those kids my whole life. I dont believe for a minute that they made any of that. Screaming doses or Something Else . Like laughing and screaming. They believe their father killed their mother. We they found her in the bedroom. A young mom, stabbed to death. I could see her fighting. Fighting for her life. I was so distraught. She was gone. She was your, wife and mother children. I would wish anybody. Her accident is in the day she died. A trip with the kids, who went just like that, he was suspect number one. I was absolutely flabbergasted. How could anyone think this . Police say they were a key to the mystery of his own young children. She said he picks through the mail slot. The ideas were paying undermined. Two children, on the stand. What they see . That was the hardest thing. Because i love him so much i did want them to do. This hello, welcome to dateline. There should be nothing more innocent tha