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A 10-year-old boy went down to the riverbank and discovered something horrifying. In July 1969, a family was
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fishing along Root River in Wisconsin, and it was a quiet bridge where they were at because that bridge was like
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actually shut down to traffic. Skies were overcast. It was a fairly good day for fishing. The kind of day where
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nothing feels out of place. Well, this 10-year-old son from this family wandered down to the riverbank just, you
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know, like explore as 10-year-olds do. But then he saw something like on by the water. Like it was this strange pile. He
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couldn't tell what it is, but he could tell that it wasn't natural to the river. So like obviously curious, he got
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closer. And then he realized that what he was seeing was a foot. So he runs back to his parents, and when police
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arrive, what they found next was much worse. Scattered along this riverbank, wrapped in newspaper and brown paper
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bags, were the dismembered remains of a teenage girl that was later identified as 17-year-old Stephanie Kasperek. Now,
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not all of her remains were there, but what was there had been cut with precision. It was almost surgical. Like
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this wasn't rushed. This had to be someone who knew exactly what they were doing. So the question becomes, what
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kind of person could do this? Who could have known Stephanie or crossed paths with her that
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had this knowledge, this kind of time, and this kind of privacy to do what they did?