calls late into the night. at 2:30 am, she dwelled michelle s friend, jane. i was sound asleep and my dad came and walk me up. said misses martinko is on the phone. those are not good calls. she wanted to know if i knew where michel was. but jean did not know. nobody did. so, in the middle of the night, in a panic, michelle s mom called the police again. this time, they dispatched and officer. jim kincade got the call out for in. they sent me out to the mall to see if i could look at this car. just hours earlier, the mall was bustling with christmas shoppers. now, it was dark. deserted. in the distance, officer kincade spotted a car in the far reaches of the parking lot. a long walk from the entrance to the jcpenney. it seemed to match the description. looking from your vehicle, could you see what had happened there? no. couldn t see into the
and it pops in my head, well, i m never going to get again, to dance with that girl. because it got miss america here on my arm? yeah. curse as he and michelle spent his entire break catching up. until he had to get back to work. and waterton exit. and that s when we re seeing our goodbyes. and she said, well, don t be a stranger. did you think you see her again? yes, of course i did. since there was school the next day, it was an a night to stay out late. so, when michel hadn t returned home, even well after the mall had closed, her sister says their mother janet started to worry. my parents started calling around to see with her other friends, what the situation was. and why she not back here? yes. and janet did call the police as well. the police say, well, you know we can t look after every teenager who is missing for a couple hours. and janet resisted that. said no, no, she s very dependable. she should be home. she has a testimony. she has to study. mi
windows? could it see into the windows. they were s frosted over. i opened the back door. i could see that there was a woman, slouched down. at first, i thought just an intoxicated person. so, i walked around the car and looked into the passenger side from the window. and obviously, it wasn t an old woman, drunk. could you tell she was gone? yes. there were no signs of life. she was obviously deceased. beautiful, by vicious, high school senior michelle martinko was dead. she was just 18 years old. for her family, and close friends, a christmas season and life as they knew it ended that night. and that brand-new westdale mall had become a crime scene. coming up what had happened to michelle? a very frenzied attack. there was blood everywhere. let s better all in the inside of the car. michel had really deep defensive wounds on her hands. she put up a. fight against a killer who
and her black dress and for cool with slumped halfway off the passenger seat at the families buick electra. she had multiple stab wounds. doug larsson was a college freshman when michel was killed. matt denlinger only in kindergarten. but years later, as cedar rapids investigators, they d come to know every detail of this case. very frenzied to attack. there was blood everywhere. there was blood spatter all over the inside of the car. did the color leave a blood trail away from the scene? did you get lucky in that? we know. there s no luxurious away from the scene. for that killer did leave some signatures. the officers found love prince on the outside of the car, in the dirt, on the door handle. they love looked like dishwashing gloves from the late seventies, early eighties, that everyone would have in their house. so, the killer came to do business? oh, yeah. the color came to do business. michel had warily deep defense of wounds on her hands. she put up a fight.
place is safe anymore. we got the call about 6:00 in the morning, maybe 5:00 in the morning. gentle stone breaker, michel sister, says her parents broke the awful news to her. through subs and pleas to her. they were just devastated. even then, she sensed her parents might never recover, given how hard they had willed michelle, their second unless child, into this world. this is my mother and father s miracle baby. you know? she s the child that they had tried to have for all those years. a child who grew up in 19 sixties and seventies, midwest america. hanging out at the roller rink, going to the lake. in middle school, a back brace for school eoc, turned her into a shy preteen. but by high school, she had done a one 80. when she got her brace off, that s when she just blossomed. gayle dawson and mike went the same halls with michelle. three close high school friends. all the time that she spent