three brothers. we think one of them is the color. that they didn t know which one. so, you ve got a live one? we ve got live one here. what do you think at that moment? we re ecstatic. we re ready to go. he was sitting at a booth right by the window. there you are the next ? it s hard to enjoy your food when you think you re staring at that killer. hello and welcome to dateline . teenager michelle martinko was blessed with beauty, brings and compassion. but her promising future was cut short when she was savagely murdered. that dreadful night was ice cold, and after four decades, so was her case. then, a stunning scientific breakthrough helped detectives whittled down a list of suspects to unmask a killer hiding in plain sight. here s dennis murphy with and then there were three . it was an act of unspeakable violence. it was a really horrific crime. everybody was scared. a murder that shattered a family. my parents were devastated. my mother ev
eye. she got everyone s eye. she didn t come home that night. there was blood everywhere. there was blood splatter all over the inside of the car. it was very frenzied attack. the theories were just awful. drug rings, prostitute rings. and the entire town was going crazy. i thought eventually, enough people were gonna come across a suspect. it was fascinating how they went about the investigation. we got a call, we ve got three brothers. we think one of them is the color. that they didn t know which one. so, you ve got a live one? we ve got live one here. what do you think at that moment? we re ecstatic. we re ready to go. he was sitting at a booth right by the window. . there. you are the next ? it s hard to enjoy your food when you think you re staring at that killer. hello and welcome to dateline . teenager michelle martinko was blessed with beauty, brings and compassion. but her promising future was cut short when she was savagely murdered
people were gonna come across a suspect. it was fascinating how they went about the investigation. we got a call, we ve got three brothers. we think one of them is the color. that they didn t know which one. so, you ve got a live one? we ve got live one here. what do you think at that moment? we re ecstatic. we re ready to go. he was sitting at a booth right by the window. there you are the next ? it s hard to enjoy your food when you think you re staring at that killer. hello and welcome to dateline . teenager michelle martinko was blessed with beauty, brings and compassion. but her promising future was cut short when she was savagely murdered. that dreadful night was ice cold, and after four decades, so was her case. then, a stunning scientific breakthrough helped detectives whittled down a list of suspects to unmask a killer hiding in plain sight. here s dennis murphy with and then there were three . it was an act of unspeakable violence. it w
Dianne Martin, daughter of finance manager, Fred Coste, 47, who was fatally stabbed in 1959, has gone through many emotions over the last 64 years, waiting for his killer to be caught. She is hoping Cedar Rapids police Investigator Matt Denlinger can get her the answers she needs to have peace.
The biggest “enemy” of a cold case is time. It it affects memories, evidence and paper reports. But time also can bring breakthroughs by way of new technology that wasn’t available when someone was killed and murders went unsolved. In a continuing series, The Gazette will revisit some of those unsolved cases in Cedar Rapids and Linn County. Investigators will share their insights and new information gathered over the years, and victims’ families will share memories of their loved ones.