Reporter nearly thirty years. Sixty investigators. And it all kept coming back to one elusive suspect. He just very calmly said, i know how to get rid of a body so it would never, ever be found. To him, i think, murder is something that can be done over a lunch hour. We were just a heartbeat away from not having a case. It was basically a now or never situation. Hello and welcome to date lain. When kathy heckel disappeared police didnt know if they were dealing with a missing person case or coldblooded murder. With little evidence to go on, the investigation grew cold. Decades later a young detective who was just a kid when kathy vanished dusted off the old files. Investigators couldnt solve her case then. Could he help solve it now heres Josh Mankiewicz with she didnt come home. Reporter time can be like a river. A long stream of events rushing by. Most barely make a ripple. But a few, like the sudden loss of a close friend, a child, or a parent, have a way of circling back upon us in
Everybodys did. What had happened to his mom . I still wake up in the middle of the night. Haunted for more than two decades, he would make a chilling discovery that would unlock this mystery. Now you know the whole story. Yes, sir. And everything kind of clicked. Its just so unbelievable. I knew he was telling his moms story. Hello, and welcome to dateline. Aaron fraser was only 3 years old when his mom left the house never to be seen or heard from again. Police soon learned that aaron may have witnessed the unspeakable the murder of his own mother. The boy would become a man before the whole truth was revealed. And though memories faded, the evidence pointing to the killer couldnt stay buried. Heres Dennis Murphy with she never left. Shed been gone, unaccounted for for more than 20 years. His mother, bonnie. It was odd to be the one that took to be the one that found her. Youd spent a lot of your life looking for her, right . Yes, sir. Theres a poignant video of the mother and childs