cassidy saw and what she did not see. maybe she could not tell detectives who the killer was, but maybe she did not have to. the fact that cassidy was spared, would that mean anything to a jury? person who killed the mother cared about cassidy. hello and welcome to dateline. michelle young was married to her college sweetheart, four months pregnant with their second child when the unthinkable happened. the young mother was beaten to death in her own bedroom. investigation would quickly bowl a troubled marriage. but her husband was away on business. and unraveling this complicated case would take years. here is keith morrison with silent witness. i think i pause for a second and had to take a deep breath. and just the reality of what was going on sinking in. those who saw the footprints would not forget them. they were tiny and they were bloody. i had to get my composure to finish searching this house to make sure there is nobody else in the house. it was the t
All im thinking is, is shannon really gone . We interviewed her roommates, boyfriends, everybody is a suspect. Then a phone rings. Right. He says ive kidnapped her, i have her. And we ran his criminal history. Thats when all the bells went off. He pulls in, asked me to get in the car. I feel the cold blade against my neck. He carries me to the basement of his home. It was jawdropping just chilling they started digging and they found womens clothing. It was just escalating escalating there were so many victims, arent there . There were. There still are. Until this guy is no longer in existence. I will carry this fight hello, and welcome to dateline Shannon Melendi dreamed big. At 15, she wanted to become a Supreme Court justice. In college, she scored a prestigious internship at former president jimmy carters foundation. Then, suddenly she vanished detectives had a suspect in their sights. But it would take years, and the revelation of another teenagers horrific tale, to unravel the mys
Secluded. This was his playground. This was the place that we have been searching for. It was the still of the night when the killings started. Ive been shot, me my mother had been shot. You can feel and hear the feeling in her voice. A single mother, and her teenage daughter, ambushed in their bedrooms. Here is a monster into your house. I just broke down. I could not imagine who would want to do this. Then, it happened again to another mother, another daughter. Somebody is killing mothers and daughters. That is about as scary as it gets. Scary as it gets. Who was out there . And who would be next . Something you would never imagined what happened. The clues that lie here, and abandoned manchin. Erie, hunted, where was this killer . Cold, calculating eyes. Lifeless. He was almost a ghost. Could they catch him . Could they stop him . Im on the edge of my seat. He truly thought that he could outsmart us. Hello and welcome to dateline. Would you recognize danger if it was lurking nearby.
Heartbroken. We are all shells of people. Walking around. The happiness in our life is been taken from us. They were High School Sweethearts. With strapping sons. It was a rowdy house, our parents loved it. Then that terrible night. She has blood everywhere. Everywhere. A mother murdered. But as shock set in, leads poured in. Witnesses reported straightens lurking. A car speeding through the neighborhood. And there were footprints out behind the house. I am putting alarm on every door because someone is out there. But detectives . They decided that the killer was not out there. But inside the house. Now, with one of their own under arrest. The family was furious. You say these people . This is love. This is belief. This human being. Please listen to us. Dead investigators rush to judgment . Do you have any idea, behind your own fevered imagination that that happened . People have a clue . I think i did have a clue. Was the real killer still out there . Hello, and welcome to dateline. A
Girlfriends. I know. She had told her boss that she had done something bad. I think the last statement within her diary said it all. We knew we would get here. We just knew that we had a lot of hurdles to get over. I will never forgive myself. Never. The life of a Police Officer. Its full of danger. And stress. The life of a Police Officer. Its full of danger. And stress. They have rough days at work. And they end up holding it in. Theyre our First Responders. It is hard. It is hard work. From one call to the next, you dont know whats going to happen. But our story is about what happened when a First Responder had to face a crisis in his own home. Baby, please wake up a cop pleading for help, from his fellow men and women in blue. Tell them im a cop, please. Tell them to hurry, please. In one moment, a family is shattered. It was like disbelief. Its a surreal moment. And over time, an entire communities secrets would be revealed. I laid there and cried. It does not make sense. It start