Man quite honestly, is it possible she is alive . Annie he was watching her and following her. Deeply creepy stuff. Criminal acts that hed recorded. Yes. Thats his favorite thing. Collecting women. My heart just sunk. How many other times has he done this . How many other women has he done this to . Narrator a young nurse vanishes in a mystery stained with evil. He brought us to the back. Man and we all looked down. We just gasped. Narrator the front range of colorado, the vast Grasslands East of the Rocky Mountains offers plenty of places to conceal the body of a 97 pound woman. This woman, Tina Sandoval. But the question that gets set for the next two decades. Where are you, tina . And then the searches begin. Yeah. Where are you . Brad goldschmidt yeah. And we searched, oh gosh, probably over 50 different locations. Narrator officially she was a missing person. Had been for more than 20 years. But the authorities, like then detective Brad Goldschmidt, couldnt accept that she was a r
Narrator Joel Patrick Courtney was sitting in jail in albuquerque. It was december 2004. The married father of three was facing decades in prison if convicted of kidnapping, sexual assault, and battery charges. As investigators began checking out the possible link to Brooke Wilbergers case, a call went out to her family. They had waited more than six months for news, any news, about their daughters disappearance. Now, there was a man in custody who they thought might be able to reunite them with their daughter, just as Elizabeth Smart had been returned to her family. What are you thinking in that when you hear this . Actually, i had prayed so faithfully all fall that whoever had done this would make a mistake. And when i heard the news, i thought, they made a mistake. They tried it again. And No One Else knew what id prayed, because i hadnt told anyone else, because it was always, Find Brooke. You know, help us to Find Brooke. I guess that was a selfish prayer, you know, to help whoeve
He would go to china. He would fly all over. Narrator and when he was gone, sherry would often stay with her family in kentucky. Fred accompanied her whenever he could. Sherrys family in kentucky absolutely loved fred. They enjoyed every time he visited. They really appreciated him. Narrator but there was something about Sherrys Behavior that concerned her family in kentucky. She was increasingly seen in the company of a man her family had never met. And they seemed to be more than friends. In kentucky, she had been seen with this unknown redheaded man, redheaded stranger, several times over the course of her visits, and she had been visiting frequently back home. Narrator Family Members didnt know him. And after freds murder, sherry seemed to be spending even more time with him. The scuttlebutt on The Street in breckinridge, kentucky, is sherry is having an affair with some redheaded guy thats really big
Who was carrying the correct mix of dna. And so the genealogist said that the perpetrator has to be that male child. Narrator that person was william talbott, who was 24 years old at the time of the murders. This was the first time that id ever heard the name william talbott. He was not in the Case File anywhere. His Family Home was just about 7 miles down the road from where Jays Body was found. Narrator talbott, a nevermarried truck driver, had no criminal record, so his Dna Wasnt in codis, the genetic database used by law enforcement. Investigators needed a sample of Talbotts Dna to either expose or eliminate him as a suspect in jay and tanyas murder. Collins they were having a really hard time getting a piece of evidence from him. Narrator but, eventually, talbott, who, after all this time,
Thats how we finished it. Narrator this was the final sketch. Just one hour after it was released to the media, a Prison Guard called police. He said he was sure it was an inmate once housed at one of the local prisons. The Inmates Name . Daniel lee corwin. Merillat ive seen a lot of composites in 40 years of police work, and never seen one that good. That looks just like him. Narrator in the mid1970s, when corwin was in high school, he was found guilty of assaulting and attempting to murder a fellow student. Her name was brenda evans, and like wendy gauntt, she also survived by playing dead. When shes in the ambulance, she can barely speak cause her throats been cut, and she said, Daniel Corwin did this. Narrator the attack on brenda was virtually identical to the attack on wendy, on mary risinger, and the other two cases in which the victims did not survive. In all those cases, the killer used a knife,