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in a quiet rural township in michigan, as october chilled into autumn, two young women prepared for the social event of the season. it s gonna be great. there will be so many people. so they imagined. , so they hoped, in their naivete. then so many others of a particular demographic of the farms and in the small towns around moran county. it was a buildup that whole summer that we coordinate way to go to the halloween party. halloween! becky brinson and her friend chelsea bruck just loved dressing up for halloween. chelsea and becky worked together at a restaurant called olga s kitchen in monroe and, as they served their customers, they talked endlessly about what was coming. this wasn t going to be just any halloween party. it was big mike s annual halloween bash of 2014. everyone just everyone knew, big mike has the biggest halloween party. and after all, their friends were going and there d be bands and noise and excitement and, who knew what all th ....
and then it was a sunday in late march spring cleaning time. and a woman called in she d found something on the edge of her property. how far away from the party was this? that was 2.3 miles. so, that is a route that you know, many people leaving the party would have taken. her name was sheryl retzlaff. this is her. she told the detectives she d been cleaning up a winter s worth of debris along the country road. just like every other spring. what what sorta stuff do you find out here? yeah. i find all manner of things. i mean, i have found cameras hanging from my trees with cd you know, the the disk cards in them. we ve found car radios and speakers. and cases of booze and broken booze bottles. my husband comes home from work and as per the usual he s like, so what d you find this year? i m like, well, i didn t really find anything but trash, other than this shoe. and he was i m instantly on alert. a shoe. he s like, you know, sheryl, ....
Really, maybe, do you think it could be hers? and i knew who he meant right away. right away. and i m like, no. there s no way. all winter? they searched everywhere here. how could they have missed it? how could they have missed it? yeah. sheryl called the monroe county sheriff s office and deputies came to pick up the shoe. and the next day det. sroka sent a photo of the shoe to chelsea s mom. i m on the phone with her. i tell her, i i just sent the email to you. did did you get it? she opens it up and she says, oh, my god, brian, that s her shoe. and it it was just surreal. at that point, you your heart drops and you re like, this this may really be, you know, something we ve been waitin for. and she checks with other family members and they also confirmed that it was chelsea s shoe. now, that was a tip. yes. ....
And cases of booze and broken booze bottles. she followed her usual route along the tree line. where were you that particular day? that i start usually here. and make my way all the way around. and then end up back here. and that s where it was. a shoe. what kinda shoe was it? it was leather, flat. okay. red. like a mary jane type of shoe. sheryl threw it in the trash bag. moved on. my husband comes home from work and as per the usual he s like, so what d you find this year? i m like, well, i didn t really find anything but trash, other than this shoe. and he was i m instantly on alert. a shoe. he s like, you know, sheryl, ....
Really, maybe, do you think it could be hers? and i knew who he meant right away. right away. and i m like, no. there s no way. all winter? they searched everywhere here. how could they have missed it? how could they have missed it? yeah. sheryl called the monroe county sheriff s office and deputies came to pick up the shoe. and the next day det. sroka sent a photo of the shoe to chelsea s mom. i m on the phone with her. i tell her, i i just sent the email to you. did did you get it? she opens it up and she says, oh, my god, brian, that s her shoe. and it it was just surreal. at that point, you your heart drops and you re like, this this may really be, you know, something we ve been waitin for. and she checks with other family members and they also confirmed that it was chelsea s shoe. now, that was a tip. yes. the shoe was tip number 623. but what does it tell you, really? yeah, it it didn t look good. uh but again she s still missing. we have one shoe ....