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[Applause] [Music] where's chanel do you know where janelle is i wonder what happened to that 12 year
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old little girl everybody was looking for janelle what happened and why nearly 37 years after a young girl
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vanished from her home in greeley the trial underway in the janelle matthews murder case ladies and gentlemen for 37
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years justice for janelle has been denied that change is beginning today let's talk about december 20th
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1984. my mom was going to california to visit her family for christmas and i had
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a basketball game that night my dad dropped my sister off at the choir concert and he came and watched my game
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janelle needed a ride home so she hopped in our truck and we took her home my dad waited until he saw her
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flick on the light that was our sign that she made it inside and everything's fine
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[Music] i came home and you could tell janelle had been there i yelled out hi janelle
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janel are you there no answer i got home probably between 9 30 and 10. jennifer do you know where janelle is
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and i said no she should be here was there anything out of place in the house not to me
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i'm starting to feel real uneasy i called the police and told them that my daughter was missing and they did
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uncover some footprints i called home and he said i just have to tell you something
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[Music] we can't find chanel i just had a sick feeling to my stomach tell me a little bit about janelle
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just sweet bubbly fun so kind so nice i always seemed to kind of be the life of the party and you always knew janelle
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was around [Music] years go by five years ten years 20 years 30 years the police were working
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like hell to get this case cleared we just had to wait 35 years janelle was finally found a bulldozer
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operator uncovered the bones more than 20 miles from her old home i didn't want that to be juno
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i really wanted to not know the discovery of her body was not the end of the story this is steve pankey
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panke is a person of interest in a homicide out of colorado i've never met janelle matthews he's run for governor
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never met her never talked to her he ran for sheriff never heard of janelle matthews he likes
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to talk he's a talkative guy i voluntarily gave my dna but he's not a murderer i want to hear what he has to say about
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that night [Music] could you please state your name and spell your last name steven dana panky
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when you heard that panky was going to take the stand how did you react i was so surprised
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and cbs 4's kelly wurthman is watching the trial as it all unfolds and joins us now from the newsroom
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you don't often have a person who is being charged with murder to take the stand
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i did some things that were wrong did you ever think this case would end this way
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i didn't i did not see this coming we the jury find the defendant stephen dana panky