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on december 19th 1979 michelle martinko was a 18 year old high school senior she was impossible to miss she had the
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big blonde hair [Music] she was that striking she was striking just a smart kind nice person
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she was a member of the concert choir they had a banquet which she attended afterwards michelle ended up going to
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the mall so did a bunch of her friends from the choir the mall had just opened it was two
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months old it was the place to be in cedar rapids at the time so she would have been parked right in
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this area yeah she would have been parked facing this direction she left the mall
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shortly before it closed to close to 10 pm that night you're talking december in iowa it's
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very dark it's very dark michelle walks out and gets in her car this person snuck up on michelle opened
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the door and climbed in she was stabbed and cut a total of 29 times this was a real fight it
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looks personal it's a lot of stab wounds it's overkill it's always the boyfriend
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the girlfriend the husband someone really really close to the person did either of you know
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andy seidel i knew andy through michelle that was her boyfriend i took an instant dislike to andy he was
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very possessive of michelle i believed andy did it i did not see anything from the men in her life that would give
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any of them motive to do something like this i definitely didn't see that from andy
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seidel the entire police force dedicated time and energy to try to find answers to
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what happened to michelle after a couple of years the leads were starting to dry up
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the case then goes cold yeah we really had given up hope we truly had these guys never gave up
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the investigation never really stopped i've been through every piece of paper in here
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probably close to 8 000 pages of reports here the biggest break came in 2005. the dna was the key we collected dna
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from 161 people we were looking for a needle in a haystack we just need to get lucky it took us 13
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years until we had a suspect we immediately call up the lab is this our guy what was the answer
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yes what are you doing in that moment i don't know what i was doing i was speechless
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so do you think he just all these years thought he got away with it well yeah cause he did
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you