i just turned on the news, woman found murdered in denver, colorado. i just grabbed my son and screamed and cried. was it somebody she worked with at the radio station? could it be the boyfriend that she just broke up with and december? you re giving the detectives names of people? yes. he looked at everything. i was even like, where was ted bundy at that time? we have to look under every stone, every pebble,. they re talking about hundreds of names here. hundreds, thousands. she is driven. her tenacity is just remarkable. i knew i was going to find him. it was a competition between him and i. your heart is pounding like, oh, my gosh. this is real. i said, i found him. i know who killed helene. hello and welcome to dateline . helene pruszynski lift by a simple philosophy, smile and make the best of everything. the budding journalist did just that as she started a college internship in radio. then helene was murdered. the investigation led detectives
i just turned on the news, woman found murdered in denver, colorado. i just grabbed my son and screamed and cried. was it somebody she worked with at the radio station? could it be the boyfriend that she just broke up with in december? you re giving the detectives names of people? yes. he looked at everything. i was even like, where was ted bundy at that time? we have to look under every stone, every pebble. they re talking about hundreds of names here. hundreds, thousands. she is driven. her tenacity is just remarkable. i knew i was going to find him. it was a competition between him and i. your heart is pounding like, oh, my gosh. this is real. i said, i found him. i know who killed helene. hello and welcome to dateline . helene pruszynski lift by a simple philosophy, smile and make the best of everything. the budding journalist did just that as she started a college internship in radio. then helene was murdered. the investigation led detectives i
yes. he looked at everything. i was even like, where was ted bundy at that time? we have to look under every stone, every pebble. they re talking about hundreds of names here. hundreds, thousands. she is driven. her tenacity is just remarkable. i knew i was going to find him. it was a competition between him and i. your heart is pounding like, oh, my gosh. this is real. i said, i found him. i know who killed helene. hello and welcome to dateline . helene pruszynski lift by a simple philosophy, smile and make the best of everything. the budding journalist did just that as she started a college internship in radio. then helene was murdered. the investigation led detectives into the darkest corners of the criminal world, before a groundbreaking investigative tool helped bring the killer s secret to light. here s josh mankiewicz with a promise to helene . 40 years is a long time. that s 40 winters here in colorado. and countless snowfalls. it was on
The late 70s. he served times for right before he was parole to dulles county. douglass county colorado where healing key was murdered. it all fit. he was how older that? point 21 when he was paroled here. same age as helene. yes. it was time to tell the tenant then boss of the cold case unit. i come around the corner i see her and she says i know who did it, i said did what? she says i know who the killer is for helene, and i m like no you don t. he knew all about the investigative dead ends in this case, he had seen plenty of them over the years. i said how do you know you do and she understood the dna, she understood the genealogy, i didn t, so she had to explain it. while then there s still a little bit of doubt, you know, do i go upstairs, don t i? so i did. both of them made their walk upstairs to face the sheriff. and they said we believe we got it, this is the guy. you had been on the business
a number of her clothes were missing. she was wearing a mid sized winter jacket for colorado at that time, and a scarf. she was lying on her back. she had no defensive wounds that she had wounds on her knees and lower leg area. which would tell us that she had either crawled on her knees at some point into that rough area. the grass, based upon the injuries. and she didn t have defensive wounds suggesting she was not fighting her attacker? she was trying to go along with him, maybe to get him to let her go? correct. some of the forensics they shared with us let some of us to believe it wasn t a stranger. that it must be somebody that she knew. but she didn t know anybody there, did she? she didn t know anybody there, but she was working at a radio station. so, was it somebody that she worked with at the radio station? could it be somebody that she turned down for a date, or a