Tonya Teske (The 2 of Spades, Idaho)

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old episode for you, because there's more information that's out there now. You see, there is a person of interest in Tonya Tessky's case that I didn't even mention in the original episode, because there wasn't enough information about him when we released it in 2023. Well, we have learned a whole lot more since then, and I want to tell you about a guy named Mark Douglas Burns. He is a terrifying individual that just came up in a crime junky episode

that I dropped in the fan club. Mark Burns confessed to murdering a young mom in her home back

in 2001, and authorities believe that he could be capable of much more. Now law enforcement in Tonya's case have not gone to talk to Mark in prison yet, so he has neither been officially ruled in or ruled out, but the overlaps between him and Tonya's last on movements can't be ignored. So, re-listen to today's episode closely, and then if you're interested, go check out the episode on Sue Higgins murder in the crime junky fan club and tell me what you think.

“Could Mark be the missing link to solving Tonya's case?”

Our guard this week is Tonya Tessky, the two of spades from Idaho. Free spirited Tonya was 18 and choosing to live her life on the open road by hitchhiking all around the mountain west, when one summer day in 1997 she hitched a ride that would be her last. For the past 26 years, the investigation in Tessky's murder has spanned across several states, and detectives are very close to solving it, so I need you to listen close,

because they decided to provide us with the most information they have ever released in her case in hopes of a resolution. I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is The Deck. .

“August 15, 1997 was a Friday afternoon, and a trucker named John and his”

wife had just picked up a load of produce in East Idaho. John hopped into the passenger seat while his wife took the wheel and off they went, but when they turned onto the on ramp of US Highway 20 near Yukon Idaho, something out the window caught John's eye. It was a naked woman lying motionless on her back down the grassy embankment off the highway ramp. John told his wife to pull over onto the shoulder, and when she did, they got out and flagged down two more cars behind them.

John, his wife, and one of the other drivers, stayed put while the other motorists took off to the nearest truck stop to call for help. Deputies from the Bonneville County Sheriff's office arrived on scene at about 545 p.m. When they walked down the grassy hill to the woman, it was clear right away she was dead, but there wasn't any noticeable blood on her at the scene, so it wasn't immediately clear how she died, though she did have some noticeable scratches and bruises.

Officers secured the scene and called for the coroner as well as the Idaho State Police forensic lab to come quick. Here's detective Prescott Sagar's who is the lead on the case today. It appears that the body had been dumped roadside and had rolled to its final destination, which were just several feet from the road. As medical personnel arrived, they took a closer look along with detectives and something about the woman's body perplexed them.

They noticed that the body had two different states of decay, the left shoulder and arm,

This was something none of them had ever seen before. Honestly, I've covered hundreds of cases now,

“consumed thousands and it's something I had never even heard of. But they weren't going to”

figure it out right there on the side of the highway, so as the coroner's office took the woman's body to prep for an autopsy detective's stuck around. They took statements from the people who found the body, but none of them had anything else to add. They hadn't seen anyone stopped on the ramp or any suspicious cars or anything like that. So John, his wife and the other two motorists were allowed to leave and detectives took a more detailed look around the scene.

It was odd finding a body with no clothing, no identification, so they searched the area for any any kind of clues that they could find and they took a lot of evidence, most of it being roadside

trash. But one item of note, they found some shoelaces. The shoelaces were up the hillside and

on the gravel shoulder of the on-ramp, as if they'd either been dropped there or tossed from a car. And the reason police keyed in on the shoelaces was because of some marks on the woman's wrists.

“On the right arm, you can see ligature marks on the arm that kind of”

looked like they could have been done by some shoelaces, so of course the shoelaces were taken as evidence. Detectives also collected everything else in the grassy median area, which blight detective Saker said looked to be mostly just trashed, not really anything else of note. But they did take all of it back to the Bonneville County Sheriff's Office evidence room, just in case. Detectives started looking through missing person reports to see if they could

find anyone who met the woman's description. She was white about five foot nine inches tall and her hair was cropped short just to her chin and died a very distinctive color. It was this bright yellow orange color, like almost the color of a highlighter marker. Based on her roots, they figured her natural hair color was blondish brown. Her fingernails were painted pink and the only other thing on her body was a single ring, not a wedding ring or an engagement ring though,

more like a metal costume jewelry ring with a mother of Pearl Center. They continued to search and search, but there weren't any missing person reports from anyone's similar. The next day, August 16th, the autopsy was done at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. There was a lot of interesting things in the autopsy. The determined that there was a blunt force trauma to the back of the head, but they didn't determine that as a cause of death. They found a bunch of

superficial bruising that could have been made from her being dumped outside and rolling, but there's also what appeared to be a bruise on her left breast that appeared to have been anti-mortem. Even though she had signs of blunt force trauma, her skull wasn't fractured, which is why the pathologist didn't believe blunt force trauma was what killed her. They were also able to rule out strangulation because the woman's high-oid bone in her neck was still intact.

There were no other obvious signs of how this woman could have died. No gunshot wounds, no stab wounds, no big open wounds, and nothing that would suggest that she bled out. At the scene, she wasn't covered in blood. Her lips were swollen and kind of protruding from her body and doesn't mention this and the autopsy itself, but to me it almost looks like she had been struck in the mouth as well because they were quite swollen. However, she died, it was violent,

but ultimately the pathologist couldn't determine an exact cause, though the manner was clear,

so her cause of death ended up being listed as homicidal violence by undetermined origin. A sex assault examination was done, but even results of that came back as undetermined. There weren't any signs of trauma, but they did collect some biological materials just in case. So how about the big question though? The different stages of decomment. Well, even the pathologists also had no idea why the woman's head and arm were more decomposed than the rest of her body.

So even though the autopsy was complete, investigators were really no further along in their

“investigation. The only thing somewhat valuable that was gleaned from the examination was a better”

guess on her age, which the pathologist determined to be likely anywhere from 18 to 25. Bonneville County Sheriff's Detective Victor Rodriguez was assigned to the case, so with very little to work with, he decided the next move was to get a sketch drawn up and distributed some posters around the region. A black and white sketch was made of the woman's face, and it was labeled unknown homicide victim. They also included a sketch of the ring that she'd been

wearing and her physical description. Anyone who recognized her was asked to call the sheriff's office. While police waited for tips to come in, they called Idaho State University and asked for a body consultation to try and make sense of the differences in decay of the woman's head and arm. So between the autopsy and the consultation with Idaho State University,

body, but the head and left arm looked appeared to be in a state of decomp closer to 40 hours.

“So most of her body was telling them that she was likely killed just hours before her body was”

found. The thing that backed that theory up was the fact that she still had undi-justed food in her stomach during the autopsy, beans, olives, and tomatoes. But then how in the hell was part of her body showing decomp in the range of 40 hours? It was baffling to everyone. With no name and more questions than answers from an autopsy, investigators were feeling stuck. But a week later, police got the break that they've been waiting for. Hi everyone, Ashley here with some exciting news.

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and the people behind the coldest cases as I share these stories with you. So no matter where you get your podcast, whether you prefer to listen to watch or maybe both, I will be there with stories you need to hear. Join me for the deck on YouTube, subscribe to audio-check Investigates on YouTube today. On August 22nd, a trucker named David Lord was at a port of entry station near Idaho Falls, and he went inside to check in with the inspector, this guy named Devon Weaver.

Well, he's speaking, he looks over and sees the flyer, and he tells Mr. Weaver,

“I think I know that girl, I saw her at a place in Montana. He recognized her from a truck stop,”

and what he told Mr. Weaver, it didn't sound like he knew her on a personal level, had just seen her, but it was still something for detectives to follow up on. David Lord didn't call police though. The port of entry inspector Devon Weaver did, and Devon did his best to tell the Bonneville County Sheriff's Office what David had told him. He might have said that he gave her a ride at that point, but he was very much minimizing his involvement with her to Mr. Weaver.

Police called David and asked him if he remembered the woman's name, and he said, "Yeah, that's Tonya Tessky, a frequent hitchhiker at truck stops." Clearly, David had some valuable information and detectives wanted to get more out of him, so they arranged for David to come in for an interview, and in the meantime, they looked up Tonya Tessky. She was an 18-year-old from a teeny-tiny town called Shishoni Wiaming. She dropped out of high school and had one minor infraction

on her record, a $50 check forgery from a pizza hut in Utah a few months before her death. She was actually arrested for that, which meant that police were able to see Tonya's mugshot, and they were pretty certain she was their victim. The Sheriff's Office sent some deputies nearly 300 miles to East Shishoni to find Tonya's family to let them know and to have them officially identify her through a photo. They found Tonya's mom Katherine Tessky at home.

It doesn't seem like it was a huge surprise to Katherine. Tonya had run away since she was 15, 16 years old, so for the last two, three years, she had been home, you know, once every couple months, once every six months, and she would stay for maybe a night, and then be on the road again. Katherine described Tonya's as a transient who would just go get rise from truckers, anywhere she wanted to go. Katherine told police that, though their visits

were infrequent, she actually saw her daughter just five days before her body was found, on August 9th and 10th. She's a Tonya came home looking very tired after being gone for several months, and she stayed the night. On the 10th, Katherine said Tonya had told her she was going to Denver to visit a boyfriend, and that was the last time she saw or heard from her daughter. Katherine threw out a few names of boys or men that Tonya had mentioned, but she wasn't sure

which was the Denver boyfriend. Before leaving, deputies asked Katherine to describe what Tonya had been wearing when she left, and what she had taken with her, you know, just in case her belongings turned up during their investigative efforts. She was wearing some cutoff shorts, t-shirt, some lace shoes. She said that Tonya would like to go barefoot a lot, but she had

“some lace shoes, and then she left with a large green suitcase, and I think a brown bag as well.”

Katherine also told police that Tonya had been on her period or was about to get it, so she gave her some tampons to take with her. Now, back in Idaho, detectives were sitting down with David

Lord and finally piecing together some information. David said he saw Tonya on August 13th,

and did, in fact, give her a ride. He told the police that he had met Miss Teski in a truck stop in

Miss Teski about prostitution, while there he was told by deputies that she needed to get out of

“there, and they asked him to give her a ride out of there so she'd stop being a problem. So he”

said that he was just trying to help out law enforcement by getting her out of the area. Okay, so David said the only reason he gave Tonya a ride was to do Montana law enforcement of favor. Detectives noted to check on that later, but in the moment they pushed on, they asked David, well, where did you two go? He said he took her to a place called the Cinnamon Lodge, which is roughly 100 miles south of Belgrade, just outside of Big Sky, Montana, took her to

the Cinnamon Lodge, where that is the last place he saw. He claims that once they ride with the

Cinnamon Lodge, he's tired, so he gets back into the sleeper of his truck. She wants to continue going,

so he has her permission to get on the CB radio and ask other truckers for a ride. David said it was around 10 p.m. when he watched Tonya get out of his truck and into another semi-trailer,

“with her big green suitcase and brown shoulder bag in tow. But unfortunately, David said he didn't”

get a good look at this other truck. He didn't notice the color of it or what they were hauling or who was driving, nothing. They said, you know you're the last person to see her alive. Do you know anything that happened to her since then? And he said, oh, they didn't ask her to point blank, did you kill her? Anything like that? At that point, he was a person of interest, but I didn't have anything to say that he had done anything more than what he said.

The interview with David lasted about an hour and a half and the sheriff's office didn't see any violent crime on his record that would make them think he killed Tonya. So they released him. After that, they went to Gallatin County, Montana to see what they could find out about Tonya's last movements. If David's story was true, then she was alive and well on August 13th, just two

“days before her body was found in Idaho. Their first stop was to talk to the deputies who reportedly”

had contact with Tonya just before she got arrived with David. And their story of events was a bit different than David's. The Gallatin County authorities said that they were called to a truck stop in Belgrade, Montana on August 13th that around 630 pm by an employee of the business who said some truckers were complaining about a girl getting on a CB radio soliciting sex work. They approached Tonya and she said she had only been kidding. According to reporting by the

Boseman Daily Chronicle in 1997, the deputies couldn't find anyone who she'd solicited. In her warrant for the Utah Pizza Hut forgery wasn't extraditable, so they let her go. According to Detective Sager, the Montana deputies denied asking David Lord or any trucker to give Tonya a ride out of state. So this made Bonneville County detective decide they should dig a little deeper into David. They asked Idaho's deputies to conduct an investigation into David's

truck logs and they found what they called discrepancies. It could be truthful, but he would be driving at very, very slow speeds to make sure that the log fit what he was saying. This was interesting to detectives, but not enough to exactly call him a suspect. But then David called police with a tip. Not long after he was interviewed, he calls into Detective Rodriguez and tell him of a clothing dump site down in Brigham City, Utah, that he believes has the clothing of Tonya

Tesski. Detective asked David how he knew this, and he said he had just randomly heard it over his CB radio. So detective started looking into it and it turns out that this is a place that David Lord actually made deliveries right next to where the clothing dump site is. Bonneville County detectives went down to Utah, canvas the area took photos of the clothing, and sent them to Catherine Tesski, who identified them as Tonya's. Police returned to Idaho, put all the clothes

in evidence, and with no other leads really to go on in Tonya's case, detectives headed out to all the area truck stops to see if they could get a better read on David's behaviors and routines while out on the road. Now David told police that he and Tonya did not have sex. So they were not only questioning his story, but they were wondering what his motive would have been to give her a ride. And also, why lie about being asked to give her a ride by the Montana authorities.

Unless of course, deputies in Montana didn't want to admit that they told a teenager who turned up dead to get into a stranger's truck. After lots of truck stop canvassing in the months after

Tonya's murder, it finally paid off when detectives ran into someone who knew David.

They found out that David Lord had a tendency to pick up girls on the side of the road and

not that far from the cinnamon lodge in Montana, just over the Idaho border, and it's on the way

to Idaho Falls. So next stop, Island Park, Idaho, which is about an hour north of where Tonya's body had been found in Yukon. It was fall by now, so police knew it might be a stretch to find any type of crime scene, but they started knocking on doors and showing

“Tonya's photo around the shotgun village neighborhood anyway, and some people did remember”

seeing her they are back in August. And here's where things get really interesting. Above a local store, there was a vacant apartment where a window had been left open, and detectives asked if they could have a look around. Now I'm not sure if someone led them there, or if they just got lucky, but inside, they found cigarette butts of Cambridge Light 100, which was Tonya's preferred cigarettes. They also found Tonya's hair dryer and

tampon wrappers, the same brand that Katherine had given to Tonya on August 10th. They couldn't say for sure, but police were thinking Tonya had been inside that apartment just days before she was murdered, and their trail of clues didn't end there. There was no sign of a struggle anything like that inside the apartment, just some odd items that kind of tied her into the apartment,

“and then they continued searching the area and they find that another cabin that was vacant at”

the time appeared that it had also been broken into. This vacant cabin was in the same neighborhood and was across the street from David Lord's Uncle's cabin, and a window at the vacant cabin had also been mysteriously left open. Detectives called the owner of the cabin before going inside, and he said that he had suspected a break-in over the summer because he had popped by at some point and found a faucet running, and he also thought that his hot tub had been tampered with.

As if someone had drained it and then partially refilled it and then put it on the wrong temperature, and that was especially interesting. When the body was found, there were two circular marks on the lower back of Teski, bruising that a period of happened before death, two circular marks that

could line up with Chets of a hot tub. When police finally went into the cabin,

“they were struck by something immediately. They went in and when they entered the cabin,”

they claimed that they could smell the odor of a tea composition of body decay, but there was no sign of any kind of burglary, any kind of disturbance, any kind of crime scene, but there was that smell there. Detectives were almost frozen in shock thinking, did we actually just stumble upon the murder scene? Two months later. They took some measurements of the hot tub and some photos and called out a canine and his officer to do a walk through to

see if the dog would notice the smell. But unfortunately, the police records from the investigation they did after that at the cabin are nowhere to be found. In the report, it says referred to the canine officer's report. Again, I don't have that report, so it's very frustrating. I know you're probably wondering if the hot tub could be the answer to the mystery about Tanya's arm and head being in a further state of decay. We asked, but there's not really a straight answer.

So, it's theorized that it could have been her head and arm. We're inside the hot tub at a hotter temperature and been there for a little bit and then the body was removed and because the hot water was inside her skin, it continued to further the decomp with the body. Do we know, for sure? No. And to be clear, there were no signs of water in Tanya's lungs

during the autopsy, so police never once thought she had drowned. And her toxicology report was

clean, so she wouldn't have passed out in the hot tub, at least not on her own. In early 1998, police wrote an affidavit for a court order for David Lord's fingerprints, DNA, and they collected the bedding from his semi. Because the police reports from this time frame are lost, we aren't sure what came of any of that. But it must have been nothing because after that is when the investigation into Tanya's murder hit a wall. Also, they figured that by the time

they obtained David's bedsheets in 98, he had likely changed his bedding. By that spring, police were going down a completely different path, trying to find out if Tanya's murder might be connected to seven other murdered women around the mountain west. The Associated Press ran a story on April 22, 1998 that said Tanya might have been another victim of the quote-unquote Great Basin's serial killer. The murders all spanned over several decades and states,

but all the women were known to hitchhike with truckers, their bodies left on the sides of major highways. The press seemed to have run wild with this possibility because every headline involving

the AP ran another story reporting that investigators had found links between all of the murders

“including Tanya's. But police today thought that the theory was too much of a reach.”

The timeline didn't add up and the causes of death weren't the same. They're kind of grasping its straws trying to cling to anything that makes any kind of sense because there's just not a lot to this case that there's not a lot of proof, not a lot of evidence. So they're kind of in my opinion grasping at anything they can to see if they can get anything to make sense with the case. In August of 1999, two years after Tanya's murder, a tourist hiking in the woods on target

pass on the border of Montana and Idaho came across a pile of girls clothing and a stuffed animal. The tourist reported the discovery to a park ranger and then the ranger called Montana Highway Patrol and a trooper who was familiar with Tanya Tesski's case called the Bonneville County

“Sheriff's Office. Some of our detectives wound up there and collected the clothing and the clothing was”

again photographed placed into our evidence and photographs were sent to Catherine Tesski and again Catherine Tesski identified items of this clothing as Tanya's. The stuff in the woods was all specific stuff Tanya was known to either carry with her or wear, like a t-shirt of Tanya's that Catherine recognized that had a rip in the collar and some other items that were a harsh reminder of just how young Tanya was when she died.

There was a doll above Barney stuffed animal doll that Tanya was said to have always been

carrying with her. There was a sports watch that appeared to be the same kind of watch that Tanya was wearing when she left home and then there was also a pair of underwear with a pad in it that Catherine believed was Tanya's. So if you're keeping up so far we've got Tanya's clothes being found in Montana. Tanya being found in Idaho and more of her clothing being found in Utah. All of these places have one thing in common. It would have been right on the

the pathway that David Lord would have been driving. To be fair it's a route a lot of trucker's drove. See the other clothing discovery in Montana was just into the woods from a popular trucker turnout. Detectives interviewed an acts of David and she did say that they used to stop at that very turnout to hook up. So by fall of '99 David was back on Bonneville County's suspect list, which was also right around the time they were receiving a very interesting

tip in Tanya's case. In September 1999 the FBI got a call from a woman named Michelle and she was like, "Hey, a few years ago my husband at the time a guy named Franklin James and I were living a little less than an hour from Island Park Idaho." She went on to say that on August 15th 1997 Franklin had just gotten home from being away on a construction job and he gifted her this random Levi's denim jacket with cartoon characters all over it. Michelle's hold agents that she

had reason to believe that jacket belonged to Tanya Testius. Hi everyone, Ashley here with some exciting news. The deck will not only land right here in your feed for you to listen to every week, but now we are also on camera for you to watch on YouTube. Now you can see the cards, the case files and the people behind the coldest cases as I share these stories with you. So no matter where you get your podcast, whether you prefer to listen to watch or maybe both, I will be there

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Investigates on YouTube today. At the time Michelle thought the gift was weird so she asked her husband Franklin where the jacket came from and he said that he had gotten it from a friend at work and

he just thought that she would like it. Well, she didn't, so she hung it up in a closet and never

really wore it. In a few weeks later Michelle saw their friend Wendy wearing the exact same jacket. Wendy was married to a guy named Douglas Schumat who worked with Franklin. In August of 1997, Douglas and Franklin had been building houses in Island Park, Idaho. In none other than the shotgun village neighborhood, but there's more. She thought the whole thing was very odd and then couple that with the fact that she had overheard Douglas and Franklin saying, if Death BI finds out

our involvement at shotgun village, we're going to be into a lot of trouble. When the FBI gave this information to the Bonneville County Sheriff's Office in '99, they obviously wanted to know

So they had a pay phone out by the the shotgun village store. So when Doug and Franklin were working

in that area, they would go to use the the pay phone there to call home on one night, a couple nights before they came home on the 15th Douglas apparently heard a altercation happening in the apartment above the shotgun village store. Neither Franklin or Douglas went and looked into that, which Michelle thought was odd because Franklin was the kind of guy that would go and see what was going on. Yeah, neither one of them went and investigated the altercation. Next, police tracked

down Douglas and Franklin and interviewed them. By '99, they had both moved out of Idaho, but police asked them in separate interviews if they knew David Lord and they both say, no, the interesting

“thing is Michelle also wasn't sure if she had ever met David, but her daughter did remember him.”

Later on, she asks her daughter about David Lord and her daughter says, yeah, I remember David Lord,

he was at our house in September of '97 with Franklin. The daughter also told police in a follow-up interview that she remembered her dad having a big green suitcase in the back of his truck that weekend when he returned from the island park job site. And that summer, he had tried to give away some of the clothes that he said had been inside the suitcase. Police also asked Franklin and Douglas about Tanya Teski. They both said they didn't know Tanya so detectives were like,

okay, we'll then, where'd you get the denim jacket? And Douglas's wife Wendy said that they had got it from Franklin, and in fact, she still had it. In December of 1999, Wendy shipped the jacket to the Bonneville County Sheriff's Office. They confirmed through Tanya's mom that it was Tanya's

“jacket, so they stored it away in evidence. But over the next several years, there were no further”

developments in Tanya's case. And in 2008, there was a massive, unexplainable mist step. So back in 2008, from my understanding, and this is before I worked here, but in 2008, Tanya Teski evidence was taking up a large portion of the evidence room. So people were told to do something about it, so they went through the evidence and destroyed a large portion of it. Clothing items found at the potential crime scene just destroyed. You know the cigarette,

but that they collected from the possible crime scene in Island Park? Gone. How was a cigarette, but that could be loaded with DNA taking up too much space in an evidence locker? I asked why it was destroyed, and I don't have a good answer, but we still do have some evidence. They still have Tanya's fingernail scrapings. They have some cups that were found near

“her clothes in Utah, the Barney doll, her watch, and the glass slides from the sexual assault kit.”

It's not as much evidence as they used to have, but it's a hell of a lot better than nothing. Virtually nothing happened in Tanya's case after the evidence mishab. And for whatever reason, she hasn't ever had very many people advocating for her case to be solved over the years. But in August of 2021, that's 24 years since her murder, someone who was a total stranger to Tanya did take interest in her case. Lily Lee, this artist and professor of arts and design at Boise

State University, honored Tanya by including her in an art project where she created weaving patterns with textiles to represent homicide victims. The weaving Lily made to honor Tanya is five feet nine inches long to match Tanya's height. And she used orange yarn and even bleached the edges of the weaving as a nod to the color Tanya had died her hair. She also incorporated silver yarn to represent the one thing Tanya still had on her when her body was found. That silver ring.

Lily and photographer Carrie Quinney visited the grassy median in Yukon Idaho on August 15, 2021, exactly 24 years since Tanya was discovered there. They laid the weaving down in the grass and took some photos which you can see on our website, thedeckpodcast.com. It was a beautiful tribute to Tanya by two perfect strangers. And maybe it was that gesture that breathed new life into Tanya's case, because after that is when detective Sagar started investigating it and he decided to send off

the old sex assault slide to be tested for DNA. And what do you know? There's a partial profile in the left breast and then on the other breast there was evidence of multiple people DNA. There's

three people's DNA's one Tanya's and then two other one for sure male. And then the third

it's unknown if it was a male or female because it's such a small sample of DNA. When they tested those partial profiles against David Lord's DNA that they had also preserved since

from him to test again. He also wants to get DNA samples from Franklin James and Douglas Schumat.

“And he wants to re-interview them because there are questions that have still gone unanswered.”

There's too many coincidences with all these people. They say they don't know each other, but other people say they do. Who worded the jacket come from? Why would you have a green suit

casing your car? Tanya Towski was barely 18 when she was murdered. Who knows where her adventures

would have taken her in life had it not been cut so short. Tanya's cousin Kelly Garza told our reporting team that Tanya was kind. She was a creative kid and when they were little she

“talked about having a family of her own someday. I think some have discounted Tanya's tragedy”

because she was on a wild streak when she was killed. But Tanya deserved to have those life experiences and come out the other side. Police need your help to solve Tanya's murder. If you remember seeing Tanya or interacting with her in Montana or Idaho between August 10th and 14th of 1997

“called the Bonneville County Sheriff's Office in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Or if you also witnessed Tanya”

getting into another semi truck at around 10pm on August 13th of 1997 near Big Sky Montana detectives won't hear from you. And if David Lord, Franklin James or Douglas Schumat are listening, it's time to cooperate and tell the authorities what you know. You can call 208-529-1200 with information. The deck is an audio truck production with theme music by Ryan Lewis to learn more about the deck and our advocacy work visit thedeckpodcast.com. So what do you think Chuck? Do you

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