am trying a case, what drives me the most is the victims that i wanted to speak for them. i wanted to speak for helene. i just turned on the news. woman found murdered in denver, colorado. i just grabbed my son and screamed and cried. was it someone she worked with at the radio station, could it be the boyfriend that she just broke up with in december marks you are giving the detectives names of people? yes, we looked at everything. i was even like, where was ted bundy at that time? we have to look at every stone, every bubble. hundreds, thousands. she is driven. her tenacity is just remarkable. i knew i was going to find him. it was a competition between he and i. your heart is pounding like, oh my god, this is real. i said, i found him, i know who killed helene. hello and welcome to dateline. helene brezinski lived by a simple philosophy, smile and make the best of everything. the budding journalist did just that as she started a internship in college ra