i m andrea canning. and it sees dateline . i just knew something horrible happened. she was a small town girl with big dreams. and they were all coming through in vegas. a career at a casino, and a fiancée then, she vanished. i remember going to church every day and saying days later, police did. murdered, blood on her collar, a struggle at her house, and clues from a camisole. what had happened? we can t arrest until it s solved. her friends will not quit. her parents will not stop. i am a pain. and i am a nuisance. but i am a mother. can dateline s own team of investigators help? nothing is missing from this house. hello, and welcome to dateline it s a puzzle police have struggled to soften more than a decade. what happened to a small town girl who had moved to the big city of las vegas? it was there that theresa insana found a new career and a new life, but then suddenly, she vanished. within days, police would find her body. but findi
and it sees dateline . i just knew something horrible happened. she was a small town girl with big dreams. and they were all coming through in vegas. a career at the casino, and a fiancée then, she vanished. i remember going to church every day and saying days later, police did. murder, blood on her collar, a struggle at her house, and clues from a camisole. what had happened? i can t arrest until it solved. her friends will not quit. her parents will not stop. i am a pain. and i am a nuisance. but i am a mother. can dateline s own team of investigators help? nothing is missing from this house. hello, and welcome to dateline it s a puzzle police have struggled to soften more than a decade. what happened to a small town girl who had moved to the big city of las vegas? it was there that theresa insana found a new career and a new life, but then suddenly, she vanished. within days, police would find her body. but finding who killed her, that would
i will never forget her. because i m sitting there, praying, this litany of the saints. and i turn to and murray, and i say, theresa is going to be found today. because today she became a saint too. and that very day, theresa s parents and her best friends received a call from las vegas metro homicide detective marty wild man. he called me and he said, grace, we have theresa. i know it s sad news. but we have her body. and i just did not want you to suffer anymore. it s just awful. the most awful thing. theresa insana s body had been found just three and a half miles from our home, narrow golf course. her wrapped her body in towels and blankets. and carried theresa down a steep, rocky embankment, and left her in a large covert, in standing water. an autopsy showed theresa
people like theresa insana. here one day, and on the next. she was going to make the big time. theresa s parents, joe and anne-marie. you guys ever worry about this girl, so far from home? me and my sister were very worried about her. i also knew, she s going to do good things. doing good things. it was a lesson theresa insana had learned well. as a second of three children in a deeply religious family in niagara falls, new york. and from those earliest days of childhood, theresa s best friend was always her doting father. their love was deliciously obvious, spelled out in whipped cream and icing on the extravagant birthday cakes he made for her nearly every year of her life. he used to loved it. she was a person you were her friend. i was her friend.
insana was attacked between 6:30 pm and 7:30 p m tuesday evening. it was now thursday. her attacker had a nearly 48-hour head start. as word spread, theresa s best friends could not believe what they were hearing. i think, at that moment, i just knew something horrible happened. friends talked with police, hoping to provide clues in theresa s disappearance. investigators started reading theresa s diary, which was found in the house. and grace carducci remembered something theresa had told her when grace was visiting six months prior. one morning we got up and we were drinking coffee. and she s like, i can t put my finger on it. but sometimes, grace, i will go to work, and i will come home, and my dvd player will be on. or there will be a different station on the television then from what i left it on. is she saying anything was taken? nothing was taken. and she said, i just have this feeling that somebody was in my