i did, yes. we started getting people following our page. where was she? what was behind this? far from home early. i saw the tattoo and i said, that s her tattoo, isn t it? and three caught on camera clues. someone s in her car. someone s at her back. but, most jaw-dropping of all, someone is up onstage with a song turned sinister. i couldn t believe what i was hearing and seeing. could karaoke be a key to this case? my heart was pounding and pounding. i was sweaty and nervous. we need to figure this out, fast. hello, and welcome to dateline. 29 year old carrie olson was the girl next door, bubbly and bright, with close friends and a new man in her life. she had everything ahead of her, and then she vanished. had she just walked away, or did someone take her? was she even alive? here is andrea canning and without a trace. it is a sad fact of american life, family separated from their loved ones, gone without a trace. nationwide, there are almost 100,000 act
whole community. it hit her town like a lightning bolt. the strange disappearance of carrie olson. it was scary. everyone loved carrie. it was so painful. you reach out to dateline. i did, yes. we saw young people following our page. where was she? what was behind this? far from home, a lead. i saw the tattoo, and i said, that s your tattoo, isn t it? and three caught-on-camera clues. someone is in her car. someone is at her bank. but most jaw-dropping of all, someone is up on stage with a song turned sinister. i couldn t believe what i was hearing. insane. could karaoke be a key to this case? my heart was pounding and pounding. i was sweaty and nervous. we need to figure this out, fast. hello, and welcome to dateline. 29 year old carrie olson was the girl next door, bubbly and bright, with close friends and a new man in her life. she had everything ahead of her, and then she vanished. had she just walked away, or did someone take her? was she even a
transaction, right? you have no receipts with tom s name on any of that day? no, it s paid by cash. the defense confronted justin mueller. police said he was spotted in the town where carrie s phone last pinged, but he wouldn t admit it. do you remember being in the milan area at all during the week? no. his phone records put his phone at the very leastin milan. another person indicated to police that he was seen in milan. what do you make of that? i think it is a huge hole in the prosecution s case. the defense also challenged the state s evidence, like the carpet fibers found in carrie s hair that investigators said matched the carpeting in mcvay s house. she worked in a carpet store. just because it happened to be in her hair certainly doesn t indicate anyone intentionally killed anybody. they even challenged the idea that a crime had been committed at all. how did she get there? we don t know. how did she die? we don t know. it s one of the biggest mysterie
tim drove straight to police headquarters when he flew back from las vegas, saying he wanted to help. i want to talk to you about carrie. absolutely. that s why you are down here, right? anything you want to know. i don t know where she is. i don t know what she s doing. i very much want to know, because i m concerned. it turns out, tim also had a lot of concerns about justin, which he shared with detectives. he said the problem started even before justin moved into carrie s house. she called me out of the blue one afternoon, freaking out because this guy, justin, that she had been dating, was kind of stalking her. it was something best friend amanda also worried about, when carrie went missing. who did you think would want to hurt her? i immediately thought justin. have you ever heard anything about justin stalking carrie? she had told me that he would drive by her house, before even he moved in. he wanted to be with her so bad. and then, there was justin s pos
grief gripped an entire community, and did not let go. on new year s day, i did create a find carrie olson a facebook page. people were sharing it left and right, so her story was getting out. i even contacted dateline. and? they published her story. when we posted carrie s story as part of dateline s missing in america series, it reached 1. 9 million people, and was shared 42,000 times. did you feel like that was something that could help? just getting it out at a national level? i think it helped a lot. thousands starting to follow amandas page. carrie s story united the quad cities in a unique way, everybody want to help, and everybody was hoping for a break in the case. but they were also on edge. did you just start to have worse and worse thoughts as you waited? i did. what are you told is going on with carrie?