i did, yes. we started getting people following our page. where was she? what was behind this? far from home early. i saw the tattoo and i said, that s her tattoo, isn t it? and three caught on camera clues. someone s in her car. someone s at her back. but, most jaw-dropping of all, someone is up onstage with a song turned sinister. i couldn t believe what i was hearing and seeing. could karaoke be a key to this case? my heart was pounding and pounding. i was sweaty and nervous. we need to figure this out, fast. hello, and welcome to dateline. 29 year old carrie olson was the girl next door, bubbly and bright, with close friends and a new man in her life. she had everything ahead of her, and then she vanished. had she just walked away, or did someone take her? was she even alive? here is andrea canning and without a trace. it is a sad fact of american life, family separated from their loved ones, gone without a trace. nationwide, there are almost 100,000 act
whole community. it hit her town like a lightning bolt. the strange disappearance of carrie olson. it was scary. everyone loved carrie. it was so painful. you reach out to dateline. i did, yes. we saw young people following our page. where was she? what was behind this? far from home, a lead. i saw the tattoo, and i said, that s your tattoo, isn t it? and three caught-on-camera clues. someone is in her car. someone is at her bank. but most jaw-dropping of all, someone is up on stage with a song turned sinister. i couldn t believe what i was hearing. insane. could karaoke be a key to this case? my heart was pounding and pounding. i was sweaty and nervous. we need to figure this out, fast. hello, and welcome to dateline. 29 year old carrie olson was the girl next door, bubbly and bright, with close friends and a new man in her life. she had everything ahead of her, and then she vanished. had she just walked away, or did someone take her? was she even a
that s your tattoo, isn t it? and three caught on camera clues. someone is in her car. someone is at her bank. but most jaw-dropping of all, someone is up on stage with a song turned sinister. i couldn t believe what i was hearing. insane. could karaoke be a key to this case? my heart was pounding and pounding. i was sweaty and nervous. we need to figure this out, fast. hello, and welcome to dateline. 29 year old carrie olson was the girl next door, bubbly and bright, with close friends and a new man in her life. she had everything ahead of her, and then she vanished. had she just walked away, or did someone take her? was she even alive? here is andrea canning and without a trace. it is a sad fact of american life, family separated from their loved ones, gone without a trace. nationwide, there are almost 100,000 active missing person cases. since december 2013, dateline s online missing america series has been telling some of those heartbreaking stories. one of th
transaction, right? you have no receipts with tom s name on any of that day? no, it s paid by cash. the defense confronted justin mueller. police said he was spotted in the town where carrie s phone last pinged, but he wouldn t admit it. do you remember being in the milan area at all during the week? no. his phone records put his phone at the very leastin milan. another person indicated to police that he was seen in milan. what do you make of that? i think it is a huge hole in the prosecution s case. the defense also challenged the state s evidence, like the carpet fibers found in carrie s hair that investigators said matched the carpeting in mcvay s house. she worked in a carpet store. just because it happened to be in her hair certainly doesn t indicate anyone intentionally killed anybody. they even challenged the idea that a crime had been committed at all. how did she get there? we don t know. how did she die? we don t know. it s one of the biggest mysterie
found, hastings, minnesota. we knew that s where ten parked his car before he went to the airport. when tim mcvay flew from minneapolis to las vegas, the same weekend carrie disappeared, it turns out he left carrie s car in hastings. why? that s where his girlfriend at the time lived. pretty big coincidence. yeah, that is what we call a clue. but detectives needed more. they had to tie mcvay to the very spot where carrie s body was found. they did have one long shot clue, just a few feet from carrie s body, investigators discovered this four-dollar price tag. a google search showed the tag was for a kids shovel sold at the discount chain big lots. detective thomas found a big lots store in la crosse, wisconsin, where that kind of shovel was bought on the same day mcvay drove to minnesota. la crosse is about two thirds of the way between the quad cities and hastings. but the store security cameras were broken, no video. so how could detectives tie mcvay to this purchase? they