True Crime Vault: Missing From the Mall

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"Welcome to the true crime vault, home to 2020's most chilling stories." "A young woman goes missing from a mall." "The surveillance tapes and the frantic search 2020 starts right now." "The fear of women walking out to their car by themselves, it's a real feeling that everybody has felt."

“"Drew was working at Victoria's Secret. She did a little Christmas shopping, headed to her car and then went missing from the mall."”

"She was talking with a boyfriend. Every last words they heard were say, "Okay, okay."

"And the phone went dead." "It's the last time anyone heard from Drew Shidine." "The family of missing college students through Shodine is still holding up hope that she will be found alive." "At the time of her disappearance she was a 22 year old UND college student." "Did you feel safe?"

"I felt safe. We were 17 to 22 year olds. We were invincible." "I found her car and I just sat there." "You were holding vigil at her car?" "I was sitting right there, yeah." "You believed this morning that she is still alive."

“"Well, we're certainly hoping so, Diane."”

"It's a mystery that would wait 20 years for a resolution." "And the parking lot of the mall was found a knife as she's." "Whatever lost that sheet, man very well. You involved in the deduction of that girl." "It was just a daunting feeling in the pit of my stomach knowing that something is desperately wrong." "This is such a large area to cover."

"There were people who she may have had contact with that she wouldn't even recognize as a potential threat." "You have a serial predator." "Yep. Yep." "For most people in the land of 10,000 lakes, heading up north means taking a trip to their weekend cabin." "Few are lucky enough to call the north woods home year round."

"But the Minnesota father who built this cabin with his own two hands is one of them." "This is you and Drew, what year is this, do you know?" "2000. Just getting ready to go to college, yeah." "Allen Shadeen has called his daughter Drew, Drew Zee, ever since she was little." "She vanished just before Thanksgiving in 2003."

"That's one of her early works, right?"

“"Yes, that one's really early. I think she was seven or eight years old when she drew that."”

"It's basically the view right outside the window." "Yep." "As a college student, Drew was majoring in graphic design, but it's clear she had been an artist long before that." "Before she disappeared, Drew was a senior at the University of North Dakota, and so excited to graduate."

"But the Gamma Phi Beta sorority sister would never get the chance."

"The last time I saw her, it was right Tom Tom, Park Rapids watching a Vikings game." "That's a good memory." "Yeah, yeah." "And, as I drove away, I had this really eerie feeling." "Do you remember the last thing you sent to her?"

"I'll be careful I love you." "One month later, and a few hours away, in Grand Forks, North Dakota, is when and where Alan Shadeen's 20-year nightmare would begin." "So the Columbia Mall is, in the South End of Grand Forks, it's just a shadow of what it was back in 2003." "The several of the businesses inside of a closed and Victoria Seeker where Drew was working that close several years ago." "In 2003, during the Drucidine Investigation, I was assigned to assist."

"At the time, my partner was Ori Seneshal." "Grand Forks was approximately 50,000 people at the time. It's right along the Red River, on the west side of the Red River, putting it into North Dakota." "The University of North Dakota was a big part of that town."

"People were nice, and everybody, I think felt comfortable there, and there wasn't a lot of crime."

"It's a place where people might think that things don't happen here, but what happened to Drew Shadeen changed everything."

“"On November 22, 2003, Drew was working at Victoria Seeker in Columbia Mall. I believe she was scheduled to get off work at 4pm."”

"After work, she went to Marshall Field, which was also in the Mall, so she could purchase a purse." "They found video at Marshall Field. In the video, you can see Drew entering the store, exiting the store." "Drew was wearing black pants, black pico, and she had a pink shirt on underneath the coat."

"She was a 22-year-old UND college student. She was from Piquat Lake, Minnesota. She was described as one of those people that everybody liked."

"Bubbly personality, outgoing, very kind, very giving." "The purse she bought at Marshall Fields, that afternoon, was a gift for her mom." "It would have been dark or getting to be dark at 5 o'clock. It was November 22, so approaching the winter months." "She made a phone call to her boyfriend, Christopher Lane, and she was speaking with Christopher, she was walking to her car." "Drew had been talking on the phone from roughly 5pm to 504pm to her boyfriend, and that phone call was interrupted, and she abruptly hung up prior to doing so."

"She said something along lines of okay, okay." "We have all been leaving work, talking on the phone, multitasking, doing this, doing that, and then all the sudden." "In the blink of an eye, you're in that situation, and things have changed forever."

"I'm a journalist from Minnesota, and this was one of the first big cases I covered a few years out of college."

"Being close to during age, it really impacted me."

“"I think Drew's case touched people on a national level, because she seemed just like everybody's daughter, everybody's friend."”

"Somebody that everybody could identify with, and it was tragic when she disappeared." "Christ initially thinks Drew's going to call back when six o'clock girls around, and he hasn't heard from her, he gets worried." "He starts calling her and leaving messages. He also calls her roommate, and learns she hasn't been back to their apartment." "Later in the evening, Drew's boyfriend, Chris did receive a phone call from Drew's phone, but at that time there was no communication." "All Chris was able to hear at that point was what sounded like the button's being pushed, and that was approximately 742 pm."

"Drew's boyfriend, Calls Drew's roommate, Meg Murphy again, and suggests she tried calling the bar where Drew was supposed to work as shift later that night." "She was employed at El Rocco Bar. She was supposed to work, I believe at 9pm that night, and she did not show up for work."

“"They didn't think she would have not shown up for work without calling somebody or letting somebody know."”

"It's true. I'm calling one of my, actually my roommate was supposed to be all like a couple hours ago." "She's 22." "Here I am." "In November 22, 2003, I had heard them dispatch when we were all their officers to talk to a roommate." "I don't know, a gal bit hadn't shown up."

"I said, "Well, I've drive down with the mall and see if I can spot our car." "We're in the northeast parking lot of the mall. Outside of Penny's building." "And Drew's car was parked in this space." "Red Old's couple was parked in this parking spot." "By 11 o'clock when I got here, the lot was pretty much empty."

"There wasn't anybody around, so it was easy to find." "I went looking at the car and looked like a bomb had gone off in the back seat but then a lot of kids had cars like that." "I did find the bag with the purse that she bought at Marshall Fields." "I locked it up by the driver's side rear wheel."

"It looked out of place. The night she was laying by the left of her driver on the driver's side."

“"I picked it up, put it in my pocket. I have no idea how important that piece of evidence was going to turn out to be."”

"As the search for Drew continues, police soon asked Drew's boyfriend Chris more questions including why he didn't call police right away." "It wasn't a screening, it wasn't anything that would, it was just a cut off." "He wasn't a relationship with her. We needed to verify his alibi, oftentimes the people close to the victim are responsible for their disappearance." "On the night of the disappearance, how did you get word?" "I got a phone call. They had found her car in the parking lot."

"When you alarmed, what was your initial reaction?" "Oh, I was panicked. I jumped in my work truck and took off and I was a snowstorm that night and I had to follow up and had to send my because it was snow and so crazy."

“"What did you feel in your gut?" "I think you don't want to think the worst, you know, you're trying to be positive."”

"First, I drove down to the police station. There wasn't anybody around. I pounded them and the doors couldn't get in, so then I jumped in my car and I picked up and I drove back to the shopping center and I found her car and I just sat there." "You sat with the car?" "Sat with the car." "You were holding vigil at her car?" "I was sitting right there, yeah." "It was got off a terrible night." "I had received a phone call from my father and my dad said, "Drew's missing. It doesn't look good."

"I just remembered going up. I don't understand what this all means." "She's missing, Sven. We just don't know where she is. And we don't think that it's good." "He shared the story of what happened while Chris was on the phone, walking out in the parking lot by herself." "I had moved away. I was starting a family in California, and Drew was working on college." "I didn't really know my sister's, you know, patterned in life at that time. I didn't know where she could be or what she might be doing."

"She loved her sorority and her sorority sisters up there."

"It was my second year on campus at UND, and I thought joining sorority was the last thing on earth I would do."

"And meeting the sisterhood of Gamma Phi Beta, and especially Drew, all of a sudden I was enrolled as a Greek." "How did she dry you in?" "Her big blue eyes first off was one driving factor. Her smile could light up a room." "What was Gamma Phi Beta like on campus?"

“"If you've ever seen it, it is a pink cancel. It is high energy. That's what I remember."”

"Everyone loved them a size of deep pizza. You would all be centered around a large pizza and sharing laughter and life really." "I remember Rush Week, walking down University Avenue, then I was like, "I don't know if this is for me, and she just told me, trust in your journey, and you only get one try at this life." "So, it will stay in my memory forever." "I was looking forward to having Auntie Drusy there to be a part of my son's life. We're two-a-ears apart, around 1991. We moved up to a Peacrott Lake, Minnesota."

"It is my core, you have to act according to you." "I cannot tell the recording or not." "I had already separated from Linda, mother of my children. My parents divorced when I was seven, so Drew was five.

We lived with my mother and my stepfather, Sid Walker, we call him Cedar. He was an amazing man.

We grew up in a very beautiful lake. It's a beautiful place." "Okay, you can't get through the." "First time we met, I was out on a jet ski that broke down. Drew and Sven happened to be driving by in a boat." "And essentially told me home." "Drew was energetic. She was compassionate and the right amount of goofy mixed in there."

"The opportunity to move to the lake was really good for her and her brother."

"Give her a lot of freedom."

“"Give her a work ethic because she started working young."”

In high school, Drew spent summers waiting tables at the Manhattan Beach Lodge on Big Trot Lake. It's just a few minutes away from her home. A place where little has changed. Where a photo of her in the newspaper is still displayed alongside an article, touting the food and the resort." "My sister loved her high school years, playing basketball and golf, and was actually quite good at that." "She was very popular. She was homecoming queen."

"Yes. Do you remember that?" "Absolutely." "What was that like?" "Oh, it was fantastic. She deserved it. She was one of those kids that everybody loved." "Coaches, teachers, towns, people, neighbors."

"They just see her smile and her grace and her gentleness."

"Really gentleness." "But tough."

“Around the same time, Drew's car and a knife sheath were discovered in the Columbia Mall parking lot.”

Ward the Drew was missing was already spreading around campus. She hadn't shown up at her on-campus apartment. How did you get word that she was missing? Well, with the sisterhood, kind of the calling chain, it came out and has anyone heard from Drew. Big sisters would call the little sisters and then just make sure that everyone at that time had not heard from Drew.

We started making calls throughout where she could be her possibilities. It was just a daunting feeling in the pit of my stomach, knowing that something is desperately wrong. desperately wrong. As for Chris Lang, the last person Drew spoke to on the night she disappeared. Police wanted to know why he didn't call authorities immediately when their call got cut off.

She was telling me about the stuff she bought and I'm picturing her driving out of the parking lot. Approximately, she said, "She said something like, "Okay, okay. It's how I remember it." And I know it struck me as a little odd. It wasn't a screen, it wasn't anything that it was just a cut off.

I remember saying to her in a message that I left her like, "Did you get a little vendor vendor?" And then later on that night, Chip called me at midnight or something. And he told me that they had called her car in the parking lot. And that to me was the moment I knew that she indeed in my estimation was taken. Because Chris was 300-boss away, moving into a new apartment in Minneapolis,

police say he was never really a person of interest.

So who was? We're listening to any tidbit of information someone gives us. We don't know her patterns, we don't know who she knows. And we're looking to those people who are close to her to find out that information. Make had mentioned that she was familiar with a person by the name of Mike who drew head

at some point some kind of a romantic relationship with. Drew met Mike through her work at El Rocco.

“I believe he was a patron who frequented there.”

Mike Hager was a mechanic. He lived in Grand Forks. He was kind of outside of Drew's normal circle of friends. He's someone she and Drew's dad Allen were both concerned about. Why did you think the police should look at Mike Hager?

Well, just because of a couple of things that she'd said. He just was kind of gloomy and wanted more in the relationship. And she was willing to give. They had at some point did have some kind of relationship. It seemed as though towards the end they're kind of starting to annoy her.

And that she kind of wanted to cut ties with him. The morning of November 23 at 6am officers went to Mike Hager's residence. And the person who answered the door said Mike lives here. I'm his roommate, but I haven't seen him for a week. So they left it at that.

He didn't realize that the person who answered the door actually was Mike Hager. He lied about who he was. This guy has lied to police. Yes. That's not a good sign.

Neither was what Steve Connelly spotted by the front door when he paid Mike Hager a visit. And those pair of female shoes. Did you think maybe they were drew shoes? Mysteries unravel and stunning truths are revealed when 2020 investigates. Follow the clues, the evidence, the breaking new details.

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Add free exclusive true crime content. Search 2020 True Crime Plus on Apple podcasts and start your free trial. Terms apply. In a sunny California in summer, one family's home is unusually quiet. When detectives walked into that house, they said that it was like time just stood still.

It's 2010 and the McStay family is nowhere to be found. Inside the home, no clear answer would the family could have gone. Has been wife and two children gone like puff disappeared. The search for the McStays quickly captures the nation. But for years, the search for answers only brings more questions.

“Who's ever heard of an entire family going missing?”

A family of four doesn't just drop off the face of the earth with no contact. Is this a family on the run?

Or is the truth far more sinister?

For maybe see audio in 2020, this is what happened to the McStays. Listen to an Apple podcast, Spotify, Amazon music, or your favorite podcast app. Or subscribe to 2020 True Crime Plus on Apple podcasts to listen early and add free. Meg mentioned Mike's name right away when she reported Drew missing. It's talked to the roommate, and we might have a talk.

We'll talk about it, but it's a nice time right now. Guys, the plan to get out of the Oracle. It seemed as though he was more interested in a relationship with Drew than she was. When police had knocked on Mike Hager's door, they were told Mike wasn't there, but an officer was assigned to follow up later on.

I was a patrol officer at that time. My shift began at 7.30 in the morning. And I was then briefed on the investigation that began overnight.

“I was advised that Drew had gotten off work at the Victoria's Secret.”

I did not make a tour evening job.

I had been on a phone conversation with her boyfriend at the time, and that appeared to abruptly ended. They weren't able to make contact with her, and that her vehicle had been found at Columbia Mall. I was tasked with trying to make contact with Mike Hager,

that reportedly had dated Drew, and my understanding was maybe had not wanted to dating to ends. And so you knock on the door? Yes. What happens?

The doors answered by a gentleman that I personally know to be Michael Hager. And where did you know him from before? We used to work in a restaurant in the Columbia Mall years prior. She was a cook guy with a manager. When he opened the door, how was he dressed?

Just in a pair of sweatpants. Sure, Liz. Yes. He was open cordial, smile. He was very nice to me.

I said I understand that I should stop by earlier. And he said, "Well, I talked to the officer." And I said, "Well, why understanding was you weren't here?" This guy has lied to police. Yes.

Does that raise alarm bells? It did absolutely. I asked him about his whereabouts since the day before on Saturday. He provided me information as to him and a friend had come back to his apartment at five. Numerously people came over throughout the night.

There was some heavy drinking. Yes.

“And what did you notice by the door that made you think twice?”

I noticed a pair of female shoes. Did you think maybe they were drew shoes? There was a possibility. I said, "Is there a female in the house?" He said, "Yes."

And then a short time later, a female came from the bedroom home to the living room. Officer Conley quickly realized it wasn't true to Dean. There was several people on scene that could attest to his whereabouts. When I told him about it, drew and she was missing, he understood the seriousness of it and it was very cooperative.

But you're still not letting him off the hook. As that point, it's still an active investigation. Conley realizes that Mike Hager has a misdemeanor arrest warrant for failure to pay some fines and decides to bring him in for further questioning. They were able to talk to him.

He lied about who he was because he was upset that officers were at his house at six in the morning and like they were going to come rain the place. And so that's why he said he lied. He was eliminated. Thanksgiving is approaching and police are facing a monumental task.

Outside Grand Forks is city limits. It's nothing but farm fields. As far as the eye can see, drew could be anywhere. When drew was reported missing, all of these fields were bare and the ground was frozen at the time. So just a very difficult scene in what we have today.

Because of that proximity, police wondered if Drew could be on the Minnesota side. And it wasn't long after she vanished that they discovered something else that would make them almost certain.

They were able to identify the general location of where the second phone call to Chris Lang had come from based on tower data.

The FBI initially got involved in Drew's investigation on Sunday around noon. She was taken on Saturday night. The sprint phone records indicated that her phone was still on and paying in the cruxed-in area, which is a town east of Grand Forks in Minnesota. You learned that Drew's cell had pinged.

Yes. Did that give you hope?

“Or did it give us hope that we could at least get to a point where we might find some evidence or get an understanding of what potentially where she could be?”

A search of Drew's apartment turned up no clues to her whereabouts. Police collected several items though, including her sheets, her toothbrush, which could be used to get samples of her DNA and a book, the lovely bones. It's a fictional story written from the point of view of a young woman who goes missing and is murdered. Police hoped Drew's disappearance wouldn't end the same way. Her phone continued to be activated until about six o'clock that night, Sunday night.

Obviously if we can find Drew's phone, we have a better chance of finding Drew. And a better chance of finding out who else she might have been talking to just before she disappeared. Is that the kind of thing that might lead investigators to think she had a stalker? Potentially, sure.

“Winter weather started coming in and it started to snow a little bit.”

We were really trying aggressively to search and try to locate where her phone might be and hopes of finding Drew.

This early in the investigation, there's always in the back of your mind the potential that she's a college student who just hasn't been seen yet and will show up.

We were able to get a great video that showed what Drew was wearing. And we could see that she was bringing the cell phone to her ear right at five o'clock as she walked out of Marshall Fields. The video footage of her in Marshall Fields really drew no red flags or concern. There was no indication of anyone following her or her being nervous or upset in any way. Police knew how serious this was from the very start. The hangups on the phone, the knife she found in the parking lot by her car, neither were a good sign.

The young deputy informed me that they had found a chief from a knife and it's gone. Not certain that he was supposed to tell me that but he did. That must have sent a shield on your spine. Yeah, yes. I can't imagine the kind of adrenaline you were running on.

What did that feel like?

My work life always was high anxiety.

We're going to put our shoulders back and we're going to be brave. I previously served twice actually as the United States Attorney for North Dakota.

“I was getting only reports assumed because I think we all had a sense that this could have very easily been a crime that would be located for federal investigation prosecution.”

The federal kidnapping act states that if a victim is kidnapped and taken across state lines, the crime falls under federal, not state jurisdiction. It also allows for harsher sentences, including the death penalty, if that kidnapping results in murder. The federal and state and local authorities involved on both sides of the state line with Minnesota. And there is an almost immediate urgency about the matter. It's almost impossible to avoid working together with state and federal agents from both states when you are located like Grand Forks and Minnesota.

He knew she wasn't with her vehicle. We didn't know what her status was. Why her phone was active where it was. We didn't have any luck finding her phone initially. And obviously we didn't find true initially either.

Back in Grand Forks, officer Conley is also back to square one. You were tasked to go to the mall. Yes. Well, and I got there was a Sunday early morning so they would barely open. I just went to Victoria's secret in J.C. pennies.

It was a great atmosphere, fun and everybody made it a great place to work.

“Drew was a sales associate. She was such a bright light.”

She was so awesome. She was such a happy smiley and credible lady. I was able to gather that she had worked yesterday from about noon to four. We got an opt for work, told one of the employees that she was going to go pick up something. She had also indicated to an employee that since she did not have to work at her other jobs online. She was going to go home after work.

It was right before Thanksgiving and we always called it pink Friday.

So it was very busy. Drew worked a day shift and she got done around four. Five PM when we know Drew left them all was still early in the day during the busy holiday shopping season. Starting to become winter so it gets darker a little bit earlier. The fear of women walking out to their car by themselves.

It's a real feeling that everybody has felt not once twice but many times. Any lingerie store could occasionally attract a few creepy people. And the manager says the store took employees safety seriously. Our security officers that would walk them all were wonderful.

And they would always say, you know, let us know, give us a call.

If you're feeling like you have a, you know, a weird vibe from people. So we, we took advantage of that but it didn't happen very often. They were questioning some of the, the, the managers was anybody, you know, bothering her or anything like that. And in fact, investigators learned there was someone who'd been calling the store asking for Drew.

“There was somebody who kept calling for her with a foreign accent was the only way it was described.”

There had been a male and a female that repeatedly called the store asking for Drew to the point where they were told you can no longer call her. And they responded with, well, that's okay. We have her home phone number. My memory of Monday was, it was a very busy day. Sunday had come and gone, asked if any hope of finding Drew's cell phone, which stopped pinging. I was wondering what we were going to encounter.

And am I ready to gain that knowledge of what really happened to Drew? Because as the minutes ticked on, that feeling and my gut just got bigger and bigger. You were full of dread. Police decide to go public with their investigation, holding press conferences for local and national media. This was when most people learned that Drew Shadine was missing.

The family of missing college students, Drew Shodine is still holding out hope that she will be found alive. Drew's boyfriend, Chris Lang, believes passionately she is still alive.

“She's somewhere safe and warm. I believe in my heart. She's fine.”

The mysterious phone calls Drew was getting at work. We're also raising concerns. Is that the kind of thing that might lead investigators to think she had a stalker? Potentially true.

Figuring out if Drew had a stalker was crucial to the investigation,

especially because of female employee of nearby martial fields had recently reported to police that she was being allegedly harassed by a man whom she said makes her uncomfortable even ran after her once. And has been at the store three or four times in the past month. Police reports show he was ordered to stay out of martial fields, but not out of Columbia Mall, where Drew was when she vanished. His name was Edla Bean. He was continuing to visit a sales clerk at martial fields.

And being a lot of attention to this person was unwanted attention. At one point he'd even been warned that returning to that store could cause him to be arrested. One of the first things they found out when they tracked him down was he was near the mall, the day Drew disappeared. They've been ran for it shopping and provided list of places. They asked for his receipts. He said he'd been home by five o'clock, but they needed to be sure.

That's because 504 p.m. was when the call Drew was on with her boyfriend Chris Lang was cut off and she vanished.

And that's when yet another law enforcement agency gets involved.

“In 2003, I was employed as a special agent with a Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.”

This is in the early days of cell phone technology and trying relating off of cell phone towers, or directional usage from cell phone towers was really just getting started. Winter had come, so we went from great search conditions to look for someone and look for evidence to some of the worst conditions that you could think of coming across the Tundra. In the air and on all terrain vehicles, the volunteers came from everywhere, Canada, to Kansas.

Drew is from an area where I had a second home, I knew Drew, I knew many of her friends, I knew I had to try and do something, try and help somehow.

Twenty years later, I still can't describe that experience. It's something that I never thought I would go through,

and something I certainly don't want to go through again. They went through and asked about her relationships. If there was anyone that we would suspect or think or anything that she had done in the past week, that was out of the ordinary, and if there was any other places that we think she would be. Did Drew have any enemies? Not that I knew of.

“It's no secret that in disappearances like this one, sometimes police look at the partner first,”

but they'd already ruled out Chris Lang, because he was proven to be 300 miles away in Minneapolis when Drew went missing. As for the guy Drew dated for two and a half years before Chris Lang, authorities felt he raised more suspicion.

Drew and Meg shared an apartment that was on campus. While we were working with Meg,

she did mention one of Drew's ex-boyfriends Adam Adam Schultz. He was mentioned early on as being a possible suspect in Drew's disappearance. Adam Schultz was also a UND student. He was an aerospace student. During the interview with Meg, she talked about Drew's relationship with Adam, and she did have some concerns there in how he was treating her

and that the breakup didn't go well, so that was one of the things that led us on to add up. Meg told police that when Drew and Adam Schultz were both in turning in Aspen, Colorado, he allegedly caught her cheating on him.

“According to police reports, Drew's roommate claimed that this upset Schultz”

to the point where Drew became scared of him because of some of his actions, and that apparently Drew had tried breaking up with Schultz several times. But Schultz wouldn't take the hint. He was certainly cooperative. He was forthright with us. But it seemed like he was trying to help steer the investigation in certain aspects.

We're generally a little bit skeptical when we're talking to someone and they're trying to steer us in a certain direction. Back when police had searched Drew's car, they found a lot of items in the back seat and in the trunk. It's the trunk where police found a card they seized with the name Adam on it.

Saying, "Drew, I just wanted to write and tell you that I've had a great time spending time with you this past week. I hope it continues. I look forward to seeing you this weekend. Love Adam." But because there was no date, there was no way to tell when it was from. And if it was from the weekend, Drew vanished.

He was somebody that made some of Drew's friends uncomfortable. They thought that he maybe wasn't very nice to her. Police reports don't include any details. Adam provided authorities regarding the claims people made about his relationship and breakup withdrew.

We reached out to Adam Schultz, but he declined to be interviewed.

"She would never do anything to anyone."

In a news clip recorded by the station I worked for at the time, Adam appears genuinely concerned when speaking about Drew. But police had concerns of their own. "Never after trouble." And there he was looking for it, so I don't understand how the situation could have.

We asked him what his activities were. He had talked about getting gas as vehicle and also that he had flights. He was a flight student and that he was out flying. And that sort of thing. The flight information that was pretty easy to verify.

Him getting gas that day was not easy to establish. He thought he got gas and that he would have a gas receipt to prove that he was getting gas around that time. So he was able to find the receipt and then it turned out that the receipt was from two days prior. As detectors were working the leads on Adam, dozens of people at all levels of law enforcement

were working 24/7 to figure out what happened to Drew. Our searchers were finding pretty much anything that could potentially be evidence. You know, we had cigarette packs and multiple clothing items, you know, bras and underwear.

None of it would end up being connected to Drew.

“But what they found under a bridge in Crooksson, that Tuesday was.”

Very able to establish that with certainty that was Drew should be insured. It wouldn't be long before police had more than one person on their radar. You have a serial sexual predator on your hand. Yep. And a piece of video turns up.

The police say shows that Drew may not have been her kidnappers first target.

He did appear to be watching women as they were exiting the store. So his violence is escalating. Yes. We've all been leaving work, talking on the phone, all the sudden in the blink of an eye, things have changed forever. On November 22nd, 2003, college student Drew Shedine vanished from the mall.

She was the girl next door to everyone. Did Drew have any enemies? Not that I knew of. Now. One of her shoes was found and there was an opening in the water.

Where can we find her? Can we talk to who's responsible for this?

There was this sheath that was found.

They showed us the knife that was associated with the sheath. I had just seen that exact knife. And so we got to get right back out to talk to him. He was excellent at stalking people. This was his pattern.

So his violence is escalating. Yes. And you have a serial sexual predator on your hand. Yep. How heartbreaking is that to think about she's alive and she's crying and she doesn't know it's going to happen to her.

No, it gets to be a plot. I agree, you know.

There has to be a good outcome to this.

Tuesday, November 25th. Four days into their investigation. Detectives are moving on all fronts to find out exactly what happened to missing University of North Dakota student. Drushedine. Thanksgiving was around the corner.

“And I remember Christmas lights had sprung up.”

But the mood was somber. And surreal. Until 2003, the holidays for Drew's family had been a lot like they are for most of them. What was Thanksgiving like? You know, a lot of food.

Typical Thanksgiving, eat a lot. You know, go to a movie. A last movie Drew and I went to was Titanic. I was a Thanksgiving movie. Between us, we were both trying to hide the tears.

You can tell Drew and her dad had a special bond. Drew and her friends did too. I get the sense that everybody loved Drew. Yes. Yeah.

And so I wonder you said you felt safe. Did that change? That was ripped away from us, absolutely. Please, we're working day and night. Peace together leads in the case.

There's the knife sheath from the parking lot. Questions about various people she may have come in contact with.

“The possibility she had a stalker at her Victoria secret job.”

Now, one of her nine West Shoes found near a highway bridge in Crookston. The last place her cell phone was pinging. From the Columbia Mall to the area where the shoe was located is approximately 25 miles. It was Drew's roommate Meg who identified the shoe. She said 100% I know this is Drew's shoe.

She said that she wears the shoe as often as much or if not more than Drew did. The shoe was found under the bridge on the highway 75 bypass going in the Crookston which goes over the red lake river. Actually, how exactly got there, we don't know. I saw the location where the shoe was found. Based on where it was, it looked like somebody could have just pulled over to the side of the road and dropped it.

But that's just one possibility. Drew also could have lost her shoe while making an escape, no one knew. So it was emotional and it was a big step in the case. The law enforcement was out there with diet teams and could have her dogs. And I have to say the hours that we all spent assuming we were about to find her body under the icy waters of that river.

And that, of course, did not panic over days ahead. There were other things that weren't panning out for investigators either.

Detectives had wondered if he was involved.

This was happening roughly two or three months before Drew was reported missing. So, you know, certainly a situation like that we look into. While his receipts showed he had been near the mall that day, a search of his house and car revealed nothing suspicious. And they ruled them out. Alibene was not involved.

We're pretty clearly able to prove that he was not involved.

“As for the idea, the Drew had a stalker calling her a Victoria secret.”

That fizzled out too. There was somebody who kept calling for her with a foreign accent. It was determined that it was set collectors that were probably calling regarding an outstanding cell phone bill. Even though those leads didn't pan out, Drew's family and the entire community believed the right lead was right around the corner. Pink was one of her favorite colors.

One thing at how our community could keep Drew alive is those pink buttons and everyone was wearing them. Our sordy house was a hub for if you wanted to pick a button or if you wanted to grab a ribbon. We felt like if anyone saw pink, we would spark some type of thought or hopefully some type of clue into Drew and where she was. So many people we talked to about the story said that hope became synonymous with this case. Yes.

Why do you think that is?

“I think that anybody that looked at her beautiful smile and her presence said, okay, there's hope.”

I just wasn't going to stray from she's out there, we just have to find her. I wouldn't let myself do it. Three days into Drew's disappearance, police decided to look into another pool of potential suspects. Polk County detectives and Kristen City Police and probation officers began to look at local sex offenders in the area.

Police identified two individuals that were living in the area where the phone was when it made that second called a Chris Lane.

The first has an alibi, someone to vouch for him and police rule him out. But authorities had to dig deeper for another offender on the list, Roger Van Huevelin. He pretty quickly asserted that he was at home and alone. And that wasn't all. When police approached Van Huevelin, he sent something chilling, something like, I would suspecting you.

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Investigators started looking at sex offenders. Early on, they interviewed one name Roger Van Huvelin. He said he had no personal knowledge of Drew's abduction. All he knew was what he'd heard about when he was at church, but investigators weren't so quick to ride him off. He said something chilling, something like, I was expecting you.

I wouldn't be surprised at that because everybody on the registry knows that when something like this happens, if he had heard about an abduction, he's going to think, oh, they're going to come and start questioning me. When you're an investigator and you're trying to sort through information,

I looked into his background.

And after graduating from high school in Iowa and serving in the Air Force for 20 years, he settled on the outskirts of East Grand Forks. In the mid 1990s, Van Huvelin was convicted of two counts of criminal sexual conduct, with a girl he met at the park and molested at his home. While the type of attack was different than what police believed happened to Drew Shadine,

he had to be eliminated as someone who could have been involved.

“You know, it's just as important to prove someone did not commit a crime as it is to prove who did commit the crime.”

And we made sure that all leads were followed to that natural end. That would take time. And there were still other leads to keep chasing, too. Another lead, police say, still couldn't be resolved, was whether Drew's ex-boyfriend Adam Shalds may have been involved.

They say he couldn't prove that he was getting gas at the time he says he was. We weren't able to corroborate his story with anybody else. However, he had consented to searching his house. That search wouldn't take place until Friday the 28th, the day after Thanksgiving. And police had gotten a tip about yet another sex offender they should check.

A man by the name of Alfonso Rodriguez, a man who a tip collar said he saw shopping in Grand Forks, the day Drew vanished. 26 was the day that Alfonso Rodriguez came into the picture. He was identified as a sex offender who was living in Crookedon. And he had served 23 years in prison for previous offenses.

As part of this 2020 report, I interviewed special agent Dan Alquist with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal apprehension.

He was the first to interview Rodriguez about Drew's disappearance.

“What information did you have about his prior offenses?”

We didn't have a lot of information. His prior offenses were from 1974 and 1980 prior to computers. Surely Iverson Rodriguez's first known victim knew exactly what he did and what he was capable of. This story takes a trip back in time to 1974 when a different college student's life was about to change forever. I was home from Concordia College on a break.

I had just turned 18 and we were gathering at a pretty common spot for high school kids and college kids together, which was the Viking bar. I went to my car to drive home. As I got to my car, there was a wrap on the window and it was a man asking for a ride home. It was someone whose brother was a classmate and this was his older brother, Elfonso.

“You know, a ride home about seven blocks would be no big deal.”

So I gave him a ride home. Unbeknownst to me they had moved and so we were actually at an abandoned home. And he sexually assaulted me. The tear is just profound as you're being strangled in the car because obviously I was saying no. Being held against your will and then to be sexually assaulted. Combined's the two worst fears that you have.

I drive home and to this day one of the hardest things was climbing that flight of stairs to awaken my mother and to tell her what happened. Two days after Shirley's assault, Elfonso Rodriguez is charged with four sex offenses related to the attack. He was released on his ownry cognizance. They did not see him as a flight risk and so he was allowed to go home. Before he could appear in court on the charges in Shirley's case, you attacked again. A month later, I find out that a classmate had been raped. She had been kidnapped as she came out of our local theater.

Elfonso abducted her and took her out to a rural road and raped her.

In the second case, Rodriguez is charged with three felonies, rape, kidnapping and assault with a deadly weapon.

A six inch kitchen knife he'd used to threaten his victim. A New Year's Eve of 1974, he pleats guilty to the rape charge and gets a sentence of up to 15 years, which is stayed, meaning he won't serve prison time unless he violates terms set by the judge.

And the judge said some to a Minnesota security hospital for sex and fender treatment. But his time there appears to do little to curb his violent tendencies.

“In the spring of 1980, one of our school teachers had decided to go for a walk.”

Elfonso Rodriguez was on a leave to visit his family from the state hospital. He pulled over, he asked for some directions. He was armed with a knife and he attempted to get her into the car, she fought him off and he stabbed her in the arm and in the abdomen. And she was able to get away. So his violence is escalating.

Yes. And you have a serial sexual predator on your hands. Yep.

In stabbing her and attempting to kidnap his third victim, he receives 20 years in prison.

He's also violated his probation with his new felony conviction, triggering the original prison sentence of up to 15 years. So how much total prison time did he serve for these attacks? 23 years. He got out in the first of 2003. Rodriguez has served his full sentence and when he was released, he wasn't on probation.

He was a free man.

“The only thing we were able to do is contact law enforcement.”

Tell them that he is getting out of prison. Make sure the public knows about his history and that he has come back to live. Encourage them again. What happened in the fall of 2003 is that Drew Shidian is abducted in Grand Forks, North Dakota and immediately the little hairs on the back of my next stand up. For people not familiar with Minnesota, Crookston and Grand Forks were drew disappeared are close together.

It's just a 30 minute drive. I did call. I did talk about where he lived. I was pretty clear this would fit his ML. A lot would hinge on whether all Fonzoran Regas had an alibi.

No, I wasn't wrong. What do you feel about that?

“We learned that El Fonzoran Regas was working at a construction site.”

His eyes met my eyes and he immediately reached for his tool belt. Unclassed that dropped it on the floor and walked towards me. I asked him if he would be willing to come out to our car and visit for a while. And he said he would. I was with a fellow BCA agent Brad Barker.

We're working on a district with Gallon and everybody's stuck back until we can roll about. What were you doing on Saturday? A lot of them were going to pull it. He was shopping for some jeans. He said he'd gone to Target and a few various stores to the mall and he said he went to a movie.

Put time to the movie start. What time did you leave the movie theater? What time did you leave the movie theater? What time did you leave the movie theater? What was the name of the movie theater?

I hopped out of the car and called my boss who was at the command post. And I asked if he could just quickly get on the phone and put a computer and try to determine where are all the movie theaters and grandforks. And what was showing on Saturday? I got a message back that that particular movie once upon a time in Mexico wasn't playing anywhere in Grandforks.

On Saturday November 22nd 2003. I didn't let him know that we knew that just then. Confessions are great, but lies put people in prison.

The first thing that struck me is the car appeared to be kind of a maculate.

And the trunk was kind of the same. It was a fishing rod and a pair of rubber gloves. And there was a folding lock blade knife. These are ubiquitous. In the trunk was kind of the same.

It was a fishing rod and a pair of rubber gloves. And there was a folding lock blade knife.

I mean everybody's got one.

“We looked in the glove box in the interior of the car.”

And there was a small folding knife like a pocket knife that had two blades. And one of the blades was broken. Gone. I asked if you would be alright if we took that as evidence. And he was fine with that.

Investigators also want to know what Alfonso Rodriguez did after he said he saw that movie. Down the way back Alfonso had told us. He left the area of the movie theater and the Columbia Mall area. And then he drove to the McDonald's restaurant.

We were going to drive right by that McDonald's on the way to the police department.

So we whipped in there and we asked about any surveillance footage. And we turned that in when we got to the command post for viewing and for review. At the same time, Dan Alpuss was interviewing Alfonso Rodriguez. Other investigators had already been assigned to look into the mysterious sheath. Found near Drew's car the night she disappeared.

Investigators from the task force had gone out to menards and determined that the sheath that was found near Drew's car. Was a part of a set that's sold exclusively at menards. And that sheath goes with a folding knife. Showed us the knife that was associated with the sheath. And you could have knocked me over with a feather because I had just seen that exact knife in Alfonso's trunk.

And I looked at Commander.

And I said we got to go right back out to talk to him. Before attempting to seize the knife, investigators wanted to confront Alfonso Rodriguez with inconsistencies in his story. And dig deeper into his whereabouts. You agreed to come to the police department to talk to us. Get to the theater initially.

“I think you said it was about 445 or 440 or 440 or 440.”

But movies about 2 hours long. You're out there for 40. You're driving away to go anywhere after the movie. They're doing it. In that McDonald's surveillance footage, they got him.

He never appears. Where he does turn up is in footage pulled from Target in a chilling clip that haunts investigators to this day. He's following a woman. And it's not true. And it did appear that he was looking for a victim.

While much of Drusher deans investigation was focused on Alfonso Rodriguez who lived in Crookston. Police in Grand Force were still in charge because that's the city where Drew vanished from them all. And where Target surveillance footage surfaced, placing Rodriguez in the area, just an hour before Drusher disappearance. I did have an opportunity to see the video from the Target store. He did appear to be watching women as they were exiting the store.

And it was quite chilling to see him hunting like that. He spent a few minutes sitting on a bench in the vestibule area at the entrance exit of Target. The blind woman leaves the store and walks into the parking lot. And shortly after Rodriguez follows her. Throughout the investigation, she was referred to as probably the luckiest woman in Grand Force that day.

Just an hour after this clip was recorded, Drew Shadine vanishes from the mall. Number of years ago, they convicted you of the fault of crime stabbing and whatnot. No, a girl is abducted and taken from the store there from the mall property. And you're right in that area. Tell us the month of the movie theater.

That doesn't really pan out. We're having trouble finding you on the McDonald's video tape.

“If you were me, which is information, what would you think?”

Me for suspicion. They all are living in the mall. What do the girls have done? I said, well, I'll tell you what, Alfonso. All we really want is that knife in the trough.

Would you at least let us look at that knife? And he said, oh, yeah, no problem. And I'll let you look at the knife. And so we went out there, hoping to trough, got the knife. And it was the exact same knife as I had just seen.

I was suspicious that it was, but not looking at it. And it looks just like the same knife that was at the command post. As search warrants for Rodriguez's house and car are drafted to be served early Thanksgiving morning,

What is the reality of each morning like, Sven?

“Um, you know, just at the next day to count down to having her back with us.”

This is something you can't control. I can control most of my world. I can control myself in my world, but I couldn't control this. Alan and I were together on a daily basis and came really inseparable. He would sometimes go off on his own, maybe after we were done.

He would probably go out there and have conversations with Drew. It was very difficult to be out there in these conditions and just not knowing what you're going to come across. If Alfonso Rodriguez knew where Drew was, he wasn't talking even when investigators tried appealing to him again. Not too late to change back and tell us what happened because if you are involved,

if you did have a conversation with this girl and something went wrong.

Do you have a memory? Okay. Okay.

“That interview ends with Rodriguez asking for a lawyer and Dan Alquist telling him he is not going free.”

I didn't want him to just drug evidence and I didn't want him to go anywhere where he could, you know, potentially hurt a live victim. In less than a week, she has gone from a complete stranger to a member of countless families. We all now know through Shidin where she goes to school or sorority where she works, what kind of car she drives and how police believe she was abducted.

This Thanksgiving, Alan had a message for all the searchers who had set their plans aside to search for his daughter. We need everyone to go and look and check, check your buildings and if you've seen anything come forward. There would be no holiday for investigators who spent Thanksgiving day serving a search warrant at Alfonso Rodriguez's house. He had a corner of the downstairs. He kept very neat to kind of look like someone who had been in prison for over 20 years.

It looked like he had recreated that within the home. There was nothing initially that really struck us as a deep connection to Drew's disappearance. There were some items that were seized, a pair of jeans that he said he was wearing. But there was nothing that really stood out like, "Oh, this is a smoking gun, sort of a thing." Police had spent days searching for any sign of Drew.

They even purchased clothing similar to hers and showed it to investigators at the daily briefings so they could be on the lookout.

“They showed it to the media too, and I remember it vividly.”

Pink shirt, black pants, black shoes, black picot. Imagine their surprise when a black picot and other items turn up in a different search at someone else's house. The home of Drew's ex-boyfriend, Adam Schultz. Stasi is back. Most people know me for a banner pump rules.

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Not everyone is built for this. Am I either the ice, anyone else? But when you said that. Oh, not me off. This time I get to do it on my turn.

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Right around Thanksgiving, Alfonso Rodriguez was certainly developing as a suspect. But that didn't mean we stopped investigating the other names that were coming forward. We started following up on Adam Schultz. Adam and Drew had dated for two and a half years. He was mentioned early on as well as being a possible suspect in Drew's disappearance.

The flight information that was pretty easy to verify. Him getting gas that day was not easy to establish. He gave a consent to search his vehicle, his residents. He voluntarily gave his DNA so that we could have that on record.

However, he was somebody that made some of Drew's friends uncomfortable.

“The search for Adam's home yielded some curious items.”

A knife. Women's underwear. Brass knuckles. A list of weaknesses including jealousy and vengefulness. And a black pea coat.

The type of coat Drew should be in was last seen wearing. Intriguing fines. But in the end nothing was connected to Drew's disappearance. He was not involved at the same time that he was on one phone call. Drew was on phone call with her current boyfriend.

So the cell locations were verified.

We were able to ultimately eliminate him as potentially being involved.

Police determined Adam Schultz had nothing to do with Drew's disappearance. And on Friday, they found what they needed to help prove who did. In my interview with Dan Alquist, he told me Rodriguez's Mercury Sabre looked pretty clean when investigators first saw it. But now, the forensic team was going in for a closer look.

“You know, never forget the scientist got in the car.”

And he was looking around. And he was looking at this light-colored interior. And he said, oh, wow. He pointed with his finger at a tiny little speck. And once you saw that one tiny little speck,

then it was a whole bunch of tiny little specks. Then we looked at the right rear passengers window. And there's some of these tiny little specks on the glass. The blood that was present in those tiny little specks was found to be Drew Shadine's blood.

For investigators, this is the smoking gun they've been waiting for. Rodriguez becomes the focus of the investigation and Van Huevelin and the other people they questioned in the early days of the case are ruled out.

“I believe that she may have been hit in the face”

or something that caused bleeding. And I think she was probably crying very hard. How heartbreaking is that to think about, you know, if she's alive and she's crying and she doesn't know it's going to happen to her.

I'm sorry about that.

They even asked me the questions as always.

It's tough. I've got a good answer for that. I just want to try to get it out. Sure. It's absolutely tragic.

All I can hope is that it didn't last very long. Alfonso Rodriguez Jr. appeared stoic. He's head down as the charges against him were read aloud in court. To admit that Alfonso Rodriguez Jr. did abduct Jujadine from the JC Penny store parking lot.

With Jujadine's father sitting quietly a few feet behind him, Rodriguez offered few words during the ten-minute hearing. What were your thoughts? Oh, just that, you know, I mean devastation. You know, his history was such that, you know,

every attack was getting more brutal and, you know, the word as it go from there. Rodriguez was charged with kidnapping at the state level. Though the case would later become federal. If they could prove, Drew was taken over state lines.

All this care about is the best one when the situation was. And right now, we've got to do it and we've got a good person sitting in this bed. So good person and I know some of you could have had no control when you needed it. I think it's a good one. The community's all poured out to try to find that girl's body.

There's a quest for answers and then it became a quest for justice. There would be no Christmas miracle for Drew's family. In fact, spring would arrive and have to saw those frozen fields before they would be another big break in the case. In April, 2004, on the 17th, there was a retired sheriff's deputy bill

that was out searching. I was in California and my partner, or he had called,

She was generally covered by this brush. You could see her peak, pretty clearly. They found her shoe.

“Her cell phone was in this area and several other pieces of clothing.”

Her clothes alone, till the story of her death. Unfortunately, Drew was naked from the waist down. Her hands were bound behind her back. Remnants of a plastic bag suggest she may have been asphyxated. Tell me about that horrible day when they found her body.

It was an absolutely horrible day, but it was a day of relief because at that point we knew that Drew was no longer with us. I am knowingly parked there a number of times down in the bottom end of that ravine. But it was all covered with snow. God of grace, we thank you for Drew for the many ways her all to brief life

has touched and enriched so many lives.

“At the funeral, I had a moment of realization that this was not just gamma fibata,”

this was not just UND, this was not just North Dakota. This was our nation that was affected by what happened to Drew Shidian. And up there watching her mom let go of that white dove.

It was something I will never forget.

Drew Rigley and I believed that this was an appropriate death penalty case. And we submitted our recommendation to the Attorney General. It was a kidnapping number one. It was across state lines. It also involved an individual with a long criminal history involving sexual assault of women.

The Deputy Attorney General made the decision to have the case be prosecuted in North Dakota. There's been a death penalty of any kind for over 100 years in our state. It's not part of our culture. We did everything that we could to make sure we got the best information possible in front of that jury. Sometimes it doesn't go the way you hope.

And we'll walk into that courtroom. I knew. In North Dakota, a guilty verdict for the man charged with the killing of college student Drew Shidian. There are some stories that just stick with you.

“I remember reading the story for GMA in August of 2006. On the day, a jury found Alfonso Rodriguez guilty of kidnapping”

and killing Drew Shidian. A month later, they came back with their death penalty verdict.

The federal jury in North Dakota has handed down the first death sentence in that state in almost a century.

I know it wasn't easy at decision for the jurors. I'm sure. But Cruz voiced for sure today. I did wish that there was more that we could do it because it couldn't bring Drew Shidian back. But we obtained justice on that day.

12 people. 12 people in a region of the country. It doesn't exactly embrace the death penalty. Alfonso Rodriguez would spend the next 15 years on death row. But just two years ago, in 2021, the same judge who presided over the trial

stuns the Shidian family. Though Rodriguez's guilt was never in question,

the judge overturns his original sentence, citing a handful of things, including issues with the medical examiner's testimony, and a failure by Rodriguez's defense team to pursue an insanity defense. A new sentencing hearing was ordered just recently in 2023. But before the hearing could take place,

Attorney General Merrick Garland halted executions of all federal inmates. Right now, he's serving life in prison without the possibility of parole, and that's because the Department of Justice withdrew its motion for the death penalty. While I understand, there could be some maybe many. We'll say that still sounds like justice. That still sounds pretty good.

I will, I'll leave public life.

I'm strongly opposed and disappointed that they would do something like that.

“Open up the wounds and that my mother and my father, myself, went to this.”

Because of the ones that suffer, and in death, are the living, not the dead, they're gone. Oh, I'm wearing the pink tie because pink was Drew's favorite color. All of my memories of Drew are ones that I will cherish forever.

And God willing never forget.

This is one of her pieces of art? Yes. She drew that as a young lady. I always thought that there's probably a premonition because it's an angel. It has an awful lot of horror in the picture, sadly. It's almost as if she drew herself in heaven.

Exactly. Complete with angel wings.

“She deserved something more than just a granite gravestone.”

It's the tree of life. Tree of life. That is her gravestone that day. That was the last project that she worked on at the University of North Dakota. I'm sure you talked to her a lot.

Yeah. What do you say to Drew Z? Oh, you know, she said it talks to me. She tells me more than I tell her because she knows I'm more wayward than anybody else around.

“So, Alan Chidine can also hear his daughter, "Envoys males" that he's saved from 20 years ago.”

Hi, Dad, it's me. Oh my, no, we're in Mexico. But I just want to call.

He always happens to be on time today.

I love you. I love you. I love you, I love you. She had a huge heart. She had a bit of smile and she's just a fantastic young lady.

That went way, way too soon. One way she will always be remembered is by the creation of what's being called now, Drew's law. Which is legislation that's created a more interconnected national database. The public can use it to track level three sex offenders which we know is so vital. That's our program for tonight.

I'm Deborah Roberts. And I've David Muir from all of us here at 2020 in ABC News. Good night. Thanks for listening to the 2020 True Crime Vault. We hope you'll join us Friday night at nine on ABC for all new broadcast episodes.

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