Amy Mihaljevic Update ////// 463 | Forensic Files

One of the high priority leads the FBI is checking, an area man resembling the drawing of the suspect. He left his job
last Friday, has not returned. But authorities will not comment any further on that.
Amy disappeared from the shopping center a week ago today. And today FBI agents and Bay Village police were back in the
center talking with people who might have been here then. Amy reportedly left Bay Square with a
man she believed to be a friend sometime between 1:00 and 4:00 p.m. last Friday.
The shopping center was busy, but few who were here remembered anything unusual about the man and the girl. What
went on was a ploy that was developed and carried through. And it looked like a natural
action going on. It didn't look out of the ordinary at all. Today in that same 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. time frame, officers
were trying to jog memories of shoppers to possibly recall something from a week
ago that they did not consider important then. Okay, I'll be glad to help. Police want anyone else who was here
last Friday afternoon to call them, regardless of whether they believe they saw anything. Police also are seeking
other children who might have been contacted by phone as Amy was by a man posing as a friend seeking the child's
help in buying a gift for a parent. You have had some of those? Yes, we have. How many?
I'm aware of at least three, perhaps more. The sounds of rural Ashland County warn
of a passing train, a tragedy averted. The sights along County Road 1181 warn of a tragedy committed. White ribbons
have been strung in memory of Amy Maholovic. Amy's body was discovered right alongside 1181 last week. The
ground has been scraped by investigators for soil sample analysis. Another portion is covered with flowers left by
shocked residents who now have more personal reasons to help in finding Amy's killer.
Cuz he was bent down, so I couldn't see him that well. Larry Schuster has told the FBI an amazing story. On the day
Amy's body was found, Schuster says he saw a suspicious looking stranger drive back and forth near the discovery site.
And he claims the driver looked very much like the police composite sketch of Amy's abductor. As I was leaving, coming
up towards 224, that's when I seen him going back down again. Back up, I think he was coming up this
way to see what was going on and see if anybody found him, found the girl. Amy Maholovic is one girl this community
will never forget. As a card on the flowers proclaims, from the people of New London, Ohio, "We're sorry, Amy."
There is not only a sense of pity being shown by the people of Ashland County, but also a sense of precaution as well.
Even though many neighbors tell me in their opinion Amy was probably killed someplace else, they say they plan to
play it safe just in case her abductor is still in the area. This is the land on which Kenneth Myers
spent much of his life as a grain farmer and a frequent hunter. He says he now has frequent thoughts about Amy.
I told my wife the other day, I said, you know, you see this on TV all the time where they go out in the in the
country and find a body, I said, but you never figure it's going to happen right
in your back door. Myers claims children are being watched more closely as well as property while
the community awaits the arrest of Amy Maholovic's killer. In Ashland County, Jack Marshall
reporting for the 10:00 news. I thank one and all for your support, your love, and your concern, without
which I would not have been able to make it through this past year. A year ago today, just across the street
from the tree and the granite marker, Amy was abducted from a Bay Village shopping center. A little more than 3
months later, her body was found. Let's fill the void that her passing has left with positive thoughts, with a smile on
our face, and say she blessed our life for a while. Unfortunately, she is gone, but
now we must live on. City and civic leaders and law enforcement officials spoke of love and
community togetherness and the Amy fund and the continuing search for the child's killer. And we're not going to
give up until we see this thing through. Amy has touched our lives. She will live
forever. The monument says that Amy lives on in our hearts. Amy pulled a community together as a
family. And we still are a family supporting each other, loving each other. We know that Amy is in God's love and
care. And his love and care are with us. There was mourning and there were drawn
faces and there were some tears, but this was not a ceremony of sorrow. Put a smile on.
Thank you for coming. In Bay Village, John Harrington, Channel 3 news. Friday, October 27th, 1989,
Bay Village, Ohio. This should have been just a normal, typical Friday. The kids go off to school, the parents
go to work, and when everyone gets home, we can start our weekend. But on this Friday,
not everyone will come home. 10-year-old Amy Maholovic went to school. She was in the fifth grade at Bay
Village Middle School. After school, she walked with friends to the Bay Village Shopping Plaza.
Amy was last seen that day by two of her peers. They would later report that they saw
Amy Maholovic standing outside of the Baskin Robbins ice cream shop. Amy was approached by a man in his early
30s, standing about 5 ft 8 to 5 ft 10 in tall, with dark hair and maybe a bald spot on the top of his
head. One witness said the man was wearing a tan jacket and might have been wearing glasses, but
could not be sure. The man walked right up to Amy, leaned down, and he said something to her.
He placed his hand on Amy's back and led her away. This man walked right up to her, spoke
to her, and then took her. No one who saw the man with Amy knew who he was. And to this day,
we don't know who he is. But we do know that he is a very very evil man. Yesterday, February 8th, marked 31 years
ago that the body of Amy Maholovic was found after she had been missing for several months.
And we were sitting there, Captain, on the 31-year anniversary, you sent me a text in the evening and said, "Hey,
you probably already heard this, but there's supposed to be an Amy update and it might come today."
And I text back saying, "I've not heard anything. What's up?" Well, we end up hearing that there was, in fact, going
to be an update. Of course, then we're sitting on the edges of our seats wondering, "Did they finally make an
arrest in this case?" And it seems like with a lot of these major cases around the anniversaries, we will receive an
update, but sometimes it's an update of no real significance. A lot of times it's just that we're
still working the case. We're still asking the public for their help, their assistance. Please call in, email us a
tip. Now, with Amy's case, we've seen updates throughout the years, and many people, many of our listeners, have been
following this case for a long time. And anybody that lives in Ohio knows this case. This was a national case. It was
on America's Most Wanted, and it's been featured throughout the years in several
different venues. Now, in 2006, we had the update of new information that came out telling us that several
other young girls in the area came forward announcing that they had received phone calls as well. This was
information that was known to the police, but withheld from the public for many years.
And then in 2013, we get the update that Phil Torsney, retired FBI investigator, was going to
return from retirement simply to work on Amy's case periodically. Right. Then in
2016, we had one of the biggest updates in this case was the blanket and the curtain that was found located near
Amy's body, where her body was found. And that there were fibers and hairs and such
on these items that have connected them to Amy's case. Right. And that was big news. That we they did a press
conference and everything, and you and I talked about what they found, what they
released that day to the public. We've talked about that a lot, but the the update that came out yesterday, I think
could be more substantial and more significant to the case, maybe possibly the biggest update that we've seen in 31
years. Well, not only a big update, but I I also believe the information that they're giving is is quite a bit, and
even though the clip is only roughly 5 minutes long, there's some major major points within that clip.
And if this is the information that is being released to the public, how much more information does law enforcement
have? Okay, Captain, let's all sit and listen together to this update. This is coming from News 5 out of Cleveland, and
let's discuss what they are telling us 31 years later. Well, 31 years ago today, the body of a
missing girl from Bay Village was found in a farm field in Ashland County. Now, more than three decades later,
investigators have yet to charge anyone in the kidnapping and killing of Amy Mihaljevic. But the 5 On Your Side
investigators recently uncovered newly filed court records showing investigators focusing in on a potential
suspect. Investigator Scott Knoll has more of what he's discovered in a story you will only see here on News 5.
These are the sworn statements from the lead investigator with Bay Village police. In them, he says a woman came
forward 2 years ago and identified her former boyfriend as a suspect in Amy Mihaljevic's murder. It's the case that
shocked a community. There has been panic and paranoia. 10-year-old Amy Mihaljevic kidnapped
October 27th, 1989. Say lots and lots of prayers for Amy Renee Mihaljevic. Despite thousands of tips, prayers from
the community, and a nationwide search, on February 8th, 1990, the search for Amy turned
into a search for her killer. Mihaljevic's body found in a rural Ashland County farm field 50 miles away
from the Bay Village Square Shopping Center, where she was last seen talking to the man seen here in FBI composite
sketches. It's believed the man in this composite sketch kidnapped the 10-year-old girl from the Bay Village
Shopping Center. But who is he? 5 On Your Side investigators discovered police now following up on a tip they
received in January 2019. According to newly filed court documents, a woman told police she
suspects her ex-boyfriend is Amy's killer. We're not naming him because he's not been charged with any crime.
But according to an affidavit filed last fall, the woman told investigators she lived with the man less than a mile and
a half from the shopping center where Amy was last seen. Police say the man had family in Bay Village, including a
niece in the same grade as Mihaljevic. And the night Amy disappeared, court records show the woman told police the
man never came home. However, the woman told police she did hear from the man that evening,
a phone call asking if she was aware of the news coverage on Amy's disappearance. And police say there's
more. And been having this on television for 3 months, and then you wake up in the morning and find it's about 300
yards find a body about 300 yards from your house. Police say they found gold fibers on Amy's clothing after her body
was discovered. The detective told a Cuyahoga County judge the now 64-year-old man drove a gold-colored
Oldsmobile with a tan interior at the time. And police say his former girlfriend
recalls traveling to Ashland County with the man. We've also learned on the day Amy's body was discovered, an FBI agent
was assigned to record all cars and license plates passing through a nearby intersection. Police say around 5:00
p.m. that evening, the agent recorded the man's gold Oldsmobile driving by. According to the detective, his
investigation has not been able to show any reason why the man should have been there that day. We don't have like one
suspect where like, yeah, this is the guy. With the same token, we have such a vast amount of information. I think
it'll only going to take a couple pieces of information to tie all that together
and actually solve it. Just days after Bay Village's former police chief told that to News 5, investigators say the
man in question walked into the police department and talked to investigators over the course of 2 days. In a sworn
affidavit, the detective said the man, quote, made very suspicious statements, including that 1989 and 1990 was a dark
period in his life. According to court documents, the man initially told investigators Amy was never in his car,
but when asked again if it was possible, investigators say the man said, "Okay, but I don't know what the situation
would have been." The detective wrote the man also agreed it was possible his DNA would be on a curtain found near
Amy's body, and that his DNA would be on Amy's body, quote, "if somebody planted
it on her." Investigators say the man agreed to a DNA swab and also a polygraph test. Police say the result of
that test was deception indicated. They also say the man did not show up the next day to sign paperwork allowing them
to search a storage unit. Instead, according to the detective, police got a warrant, searched the storage units,
where, quote, "officers seized evidence." Leading up to the 30th anniversary of his daughter's murder,
Mihaljevic's father told us he's still hopeful Amy's case will be solved. It's something that you can never stop
thinking about. that after 31 years could be heating up. Police telling a judge that in May, two
witnesses picked the man's picture out of photo lineups as the man they remember seeing Amy talking to the day
she disappeared. So, what else do we know about this man? Police say he's currently homeless and living in his
car. We tried calling and texting him to ask about this case. We never got a response. We also tracked down the woman
who came forward with this information. She referred us to investigators, but the Bay Village detective quoted in
these court documents told us he wouldn't comment on what we found. In Bay Village, I'm 5 On Your Side
investigator Scott Knoll. If you have information about the murder of Amy Mihaljevic, the FBI's offering a
reward of up to $25,000 for tips that lead to the arrest and conviction in her death. Anyone with
information is asked to call this number, 1-800-CALL-FBI. All right, so there's some major points
there. Let me go over what I have. We have a woman comes forward to say that she thinks her ex-boyfriend possibly was
involved or responsible for the death of Amy Mihaljevic. He lived across the street from the shopping center or lived
within less than a mile from the shopping center, had family in that area, his nieces were in the same grade
as Amy, was not home the night that Amy was kidnapped. Mhm. Calls her the night that Amy was
kidnapped and ask her, "Are you seeing these news reports about Amy Mihaljevic?"
Drives a gold car, possible gold fibers found on her, found on the curtains. Once they find her body
in Ashland, which I believe is 50 miles away or so, or 50 minutes away. Roughly, it's it's 48 and change miles
away. So, they have a FBI agent set up to track cars in that area, and guess whose car
was tracked? The suspect's. So, then he is interviewed by law enforcement. He talks about 1989 and 1990 being a dark
period in his life. Then basically agrees, I guess they're questioning him saying, "Well, look, is
there any possible way that Amy could have been in your car?" And he says, "No, no, no, no. Okay, well, maybe, but
I don't know how that would have happened." Then goes on to say, "Look, my DNA could be on the curtains that you
found near her body where she was dumped." And yes, uh they collect DNA evidence from him. Basically says if
there's DNA from him on Amy's body, then that would had to come uh from somebody planting it. He takes a
lie detector. Again, a lot of people iffy about lie detectors. I view them as a barometer. He failed
the lie detector. That gives us a starting point, I think. Now, you have two eyewitnesses that come forward and
pick this individual out of a lineup as the guy that they saw with Amy Mihaljevic the day she was kidnapped at
the strip mall. Did I miss anything? I don't I don't see anything that you missed and uh maybe we heard a couple
things slightly different, but I think we can go through these items one at a time because I
think what we have here, Captain, there's some things that we can easily pick up on from what they are saying,
what they are releasing. But I also think that there might be some things that we can infer from what they're not
saying. Right. Reading between the lines and applying what we know about the case
to what they are now telling us. It's easy to listen to this clip and go, "Well, this might be the biggest update
to date." Yeah. It's shocking. I'm not going to lie to you, man. When you text me yesterday, I thought, "Oh, here we go
again. It's going to be something that is nothing." Often in Amy's case, what my experience has been following this
case for so long is that when something new comes out, it's usually something that you can't put any weight to. It's
something that you have to take with a grain of salt. It's someone that's all of a sudden
realizing something, remembering something, or connecting some dots over something that happened 20, 25, 30 years
ago. Mhm. And you go, "Okay, well, they're they're remembering this now all of a sudden?" Therein lies my biggest
question in in this information. Why, if we're just hearing about this from what
they told us, January 2019, this woman comes forward and says, "I believe my ex-boyfriend could have
been involved in the abduction of Amy Mihaljevic." Right. Why why 29 years later is there is there
a reason for that? Now, what I what I will say, reading between the lines here, there has to be something very
important in her statements to police. Mhm. Because they got a job to do, not just
in Amy's case, in other cases, they have a a public to protect on the daily. There must have
been something in there because we can tell by other things that are stated in that news report that police have spent
a lot of time, effort, and resources on looking into this tip. Yeah, normally I'd say, "Oh, here's this
woman coming forward about ex-boyfriend. Is this some kind of revenge? So much time has passed." I believe, or what my
gut is telling me, is that she found out something about this individual, probably in 2018, maybe
2019, 19, that made her go, "Light bulb." Maybe she suspected it for years, but there
was something that triggered her to go, "I have to go to the police now." We're going off of memory here today, Captain.
We didn't know until last night that there was going to be an update in it an update this big. And so, no time to go
through all of our notes and all of everything we've reported in the past on this case.
So, forgive me if we if we stray or get something wrong here, but This is a very
important update. This is very important and like I said, there's got to be something in her statement to police
that made them really dive in and investigate this this tip so thoroughly. Now, some people out there listening are
going to go, "Well, duh, Nick. It's because she said he didn't come home that night and
I did speak with him that night because he called me to ask me if I had seen the
news coverage or heard the news coverage about Amy having gone missing or the abduction of this child." That cannot be
the answer. That's not why they dove into this thing so deeply. So, let's move past that and I say that because
I'm awfully curious about that part of this tip. Because from my understanding, that news coverage did not come out
until 10:30, 11:00 at night. She went missing right after school. Right. So, now we have a big window of time
already that's elapsed before I I couldn't imagine he's calling her asking her if she's seen the news
coverage, but heck, Captain, maybe that is the tip. Maybe that is the iceberg. Because maybe she's saying,
"Well, it hadn't even come on the news yet." Right. But then that's when you have to take another step back and go,
"Okay, well, then again, why 29 years later?" That's something that should have been that should have clued you in
immediately that night, the next day, that you are pounding on the door, pounding on the desk at police
headquarters saying, "This guy's involved. He's telling me about it before the public even knew that she was
abducted." Right, but we don't know the character of this individual. So, again, it's could be something that
she suspected for a while, but then found out some new information and that was the trigger to go, "Hey, I got to go
to law enforcement." But this news report is perfect cuz one, they set it up. Woman comes forward to
say that her ex-boyfriend could have been involved in the murder of Amy Mihaljevic and then they connect some
dots. Okay, one, he lived less than a mile away from the shopping center. Okay, so that's a good location. That
means that individual should be looked at. I I have in my notes, Captain, not to cut you off, but I have in my notes a
mile and a half, less than a mile and a half from the shopping plaza. Yeah, but very close. That's walking distance or
that would be quick to if he took her from the shopping center back to his place.
We have a caller telling Amy to meet him at the shopping center. So, just anybody
in that location that connects them to the case. But also, we have the fact that he has nieces in the same grade as
Amy. So, how could he have got Amy's number? He could have got it from one of his nieces. He could have had some kind
of obsession with Amy Mihaljevic. Could have got information from from his nieces. And the nieces aren't
going to question, "Why is my uncle asking me about one of my classmates?" They could have just
been walking together at some point. But then he's not home the night that she's
kidnapped and then he makes the call, "Hey, have you seen this footage?" So, right there, that is enough of a
connection to the case to at least put him on a suspect list. Yeah, and let's go ahead
and take it a step further with all the other items that they found. It makes him even a a much better suspect. He's,
from what little we know already, to me, he's as good as any suspect that has been discussed before in the past. And I
know on our show we've talked about several. We went through at least five that I can
think of in in five in really good detail. We planned on discussing five more at
some point. I'm kind of guessing who this possibly could be because he is not named
and rightfully so not named in this news article or in the news coverage. But I can't believe that he was anybody
that was already on my radar. Right. And maybe not on anyone else's either unless
there's a chance his name was already in the case files somewhere or he was already on police's
radar and that was enough to get a tip, to get another person to come forward and bring up his name again was enough
for them to really dive in deep. Now, if he lived less than a mile and a half from the
shopping plaza, that would mean let's pretend that he is the perpetrator. Okay, that's one thing we really need to
point out here. There's not been an arrest made yet. This guy's not been brought up up on charges yet.
So, it's 50/50 at this point if this is even our guy or not. But let's say it is. So,
that means he would have known a good deal more about the area than than I had suspected. Right. What I've always
thought is that this person knew that there is a direct link between the shopping plaza and Amy's school.
They they need to know enough that this would be a place that Amy would feel comfortable going to on her own
to get her to meet him there and then abduct her from that location. Amy's situation is very much an abduction that
took place before Amy even realized she had been abducted. Right. It was a ruse.
He tricked her into going to the plaza, tricked her into his vehicle, and at some point she realized what was going
on. We're not going shopping like this guy told me. We're not going where he said we are going. So, he picked the
location that she would have been comfortable enough to leave her school at the end of the day, go to willingly
by herself. We always kind of knew that. But what's interesting here is if he lived that close,
this was not something he just picked up in passing. He would have known that the
police department, the Bay Village Police Department, is located in that exact area.
It's it's practically right next to the plaza. So, that's very very bizarre to in my opinion to to know
that and go, "All right, I'm going to go into the belly of the beast to make this
abduction. I'm going to do this in the backyard of the police department." So, we have the girlfriend that comes
forward saying she believes possibly her ex-boyfriend could be involved. That seems to have taken place in January of
2019. Then in May, we have two witnesses and you have to believe, Captain, they're
the two witnesses that were at the plaza that day Right. that said they saw a man
talking with Amy. I like the fact that they picked this individual out of a photo lineup. Yes, picked this guy out
of a photo lineup and of course they probably figured out a way to get some old photos of this guy. So, they're
showing these witnesses pictures of what this guy looked like in '89 or '90. Well, and we haven't really had that
communication from law enforcement. I mean, some of the major suspects, you take like Dean Runkle for example, none
of those eyewitnesses ever came forward and said, "Yeah, you know what? Now that
I'm thinking about it, it was Dean Runkle I saw." They never came out and said that. So, now you have
I just find that incredible and could you imagine these eyewitnesses that have lived with this horror not being able to
answer certain questions that you know could solve this case for law enforcement, for Amy's family, and to
finally all these years later to be looking at a photo and go, "That's the guy and I finally can give law enforcement
answers." I mean, they had to feel good about that. Yes, and so we have the two witnesses pick this guy out of a
photo lineup. Like you said, we've not had any obvious statements from police in the past saying, "We have people who
have identified Dean Runkle as someone seen at the plaza that day." The best we have on Runkle is that a vehicle that
was very similar to his if not identical was spotted behind I believe it was behind the plaza parked
there that day. That vehicle would have been a fairly common vehicle for the time.
Right. So, you can't say it was in fact Dean Runkle's. You can just say it it it
it does not eliminate him. That's what's great about this update though. This is different as you're pointing
out, yeah. Well, yeah, but I mean, has there been talk about the gold fibers being fibers
that they believe came from a automobile? Yes, and that's part of the problem with Runkle is that the vehicle
he had at the time would have had an interior that that it would have been possible for those fibers to come from.
Now, again, not a uncommon vehicle. Right. Other vehicles have similar fibers. No one's saying that they are an
exact match and fiber analysis is really up to the judgment of the of the person
giving you the analysis. It's not an exact science. But this gold Olds Oldsmobile vehicle
with tan interior, as they say in this new update in the new news article, this does not eliminate this guy either.
You would expect to find similar fibers in that vehicle. And then what we have here is a bit of an interrogation,
right? Because police say this guy in his favor in his favor he willingly walks into the police department and
sits down and talks with detectives. He's there to ask them some questions, I'm sure, but also to proclaim his
innocence, to tell them why he's not involved and this is all just a big misunderstanding. Right.
But what's interesting here is what kind of trickles out from that interrogation.
I do want to say this going into it. I don't find really anything that this guy says in their release
to be suspect. I I don't think it it doesn't make me go, "Okay, draw a circle around
this guy, underline his name, he's the guy that did it." Because the release says is that
okay, he showed some signs of deception in the polygraph. Yeah, and that could just be nerves.
Here's the thing, man. If somebody knocked on my door 29, 30, 31 years after the fact of some cold case
homicide and let's say I had nothing to do with it. I didn't even know who this person was. I'm not going to lie,
Captain, I would be nervous as hell going, "What do these guys got that has put me in this chair today with
these wires hooked up to me answering questions?" Well, again, I I also think we we have evidence now that he's living
in his car. Look, a lot of people that deal with homelessness have mental health issues,
drug addiction issues. Obviously, that would be happening when he's being interrogated by the
the police. So, him being deceptive on the polygraph, again, it could be nerves. It could be
the guy has a drinking problem. It could be the guy has a drug problem. The guy has some mental health issues
and those can stop you from passing the polygraph test. So, I don't put a lot of weight into that. I
also don't put a lot of weight into, "Well, '89 and '90 were dark periods of my life." We don't know what was
happening in his life. Were did family members pass away in in his life? I don't even find
it that incriminating for him to say, "Okay, maybe Amy was in my car, but I don't know how that would have
happened." That makes makes me wonder if he ever gave his nieces rides to school or ever
picked them up from school, ever drove them to a friend's house, ever drove his nieces
and some of their friends around. Or if he loaned his car out at any time. And the there in lies some of the the issue.
So, that stuff that comes out makes him sound very suspicious, very guilty. But let's keep in mind that sounds to me
like they this was a thorough interrogation and I'm using that word I'm picking I'm choosing that word
interrogation over interview because I think when he walked in and said, "I agree to sit down with detectives and
talk. I'm here. You don't have to come and find me. I'm happy to talk with detectives." At some point, if you like
this guy or if you think that he's done something, this meeting, this interview flips from
an interview to an interrogation and I think that's what happened at some point.
Or no, it's sometimes it's not and flipped. It's just from the word jump. And we've seen this in other cases where
they're going to press and press and press. So, did you pick up Amy at the plaza that
day? No. Was Amy Moyer ever in your vehicle? No. Right. Is there any reason that we would think
that she was in your vehicle? Is there any reason why we would find evidence that she would have been in your
vehicle? At some point you press and press and press to the point where he's going to break a little bit and say
he he's either going to confess and tell you something that he was lying about before or he's left with no other choice
to say, "Okay, I'm not saying that it is 100% impossible Right. that she would have ever have been in my vehicle at any
time. I'm just saying I I don't know what the situation would be that she would have been in my vehicle."
Right, and law enforcement could be going, "Hey, look, douche canoe, right? Douche burger, we have fibers that match
the same fibers of the car that you owned at that time and we have eyewitnesses that can prove
that you own that car at that time or we have pictures of you with that car. Well, they can go back and check his his
license and res- registration, too. If if he registered the vehicle in his name, then there's no disputing that he
owned a vehicle that make and model that year at that time. Right, and sometimes
the questioning becomes not good questioning. Damien Echols questioning, right? Where they'd ask
you, "Well, how would you explain that if they matched? Okay, if you if that is the questioning, then the answer could
be well, I don't know if if she was ever in my car, I don't know why she would be." So, that that answer
sounds pretty bad, but in context, not so much. But here's my issue. One, but what about the DNA on the curtains?
There's two questions. They ask him about DNA on the curtains and DNA on Amy Moyer's body. The answer for the DNA on
Amy Moyer's body is somebody would have had to plant it there. That again makes me think that they're asking him
questions that he's going, "Well, I don't know, but I guess if it was on her body, somebody had to plant it there."
But when they ask about the curtains, it doesn't seem like he said, "Well, they had to plant it on the curtains." He's
saying it's possible my DNA might be on the curtains. Maybe that's just the way I'm taking it from the report, but it's
almost like he's willing to admit that his DNA might be on those curtains, but if it's on Amy, it was planted.
Yeah, again, it goes back to the questioning that we've seen in the past and and you referenced exactly what I
was thinking of was the West Memphis 3 case where when that case broke and they were interviewing people in the
neighborhood and surrounding neighborhoods, especially when they started talking to um you know, this was
going on before Damien Echols was questioned. This These were questions that they were
giving to everybody. And or at least the majority of the people that they spoke with. And these
questions were provided to West Memphis by the FBI. Okay, here is the I don't remember the exact number for whatever
reason nine or 12 pops in my head. Mhm. But here's the nine or 12 questions that
we, the FBI, if we were conducting a door-to-door search and question, what we what we would be asking the
people. And one of those questions was, "Can you explain why we would find your fingerprints at the crime scene?" Well,
the innocent answer is you would not find my fingerprints at the crime scene. Right. Or the innocent answer or
the intelligent answer. Right. Now, the confused answer or guilty answer is you try to explain it away. Either you're
guilty, you did it, you now have to explain away why your fingerprints are there. Or if you're just a confused
individual, confused by the question, you need a lawyer and you're you're the one that's trying to explain away. They
never said, "We found your fingerprints at the crime scene. We're just asking why
can you explain why we might find your fingerprints at the at the crime scene?" This is an This is
like the oldest trick in the book by investigators. It's I've seen it in in very low-level crimes, too. This is
actually something that I used when I when I worked security. I I had somebody that took out a fence, took out the
whole side of of a big expensive fence that we had on one of our properties. Mhm.
I knew who did it. And I could tell by the marks on his truck and the marks on on the fence
itself, they lined up perfectly. However, on my surveillance footage of that spot, there was a wall blocking it.
Blocking the camera from that particular view that showed his truck taking out that whole row of fence. Mhm.
But I knew he did it. And so I just said to him, he he refused to admit, refused to admit. And then
finally I said to him, "Well, why would I Then explain to me why I would have footage
camera footage." And I pointed to the camera. And he looked up and he said, "Oh, crap.
There's a camera right there. I was driving in this area." I never told him I had actual footage of it. I just said,
"Explain why I would have footage of Right. of you of you taking out my fence." Now, that's the same thing that
they're doing here. They're saying, "Okay, why would we find your DNA on the curtain? Why would we find your DNA on
Amy?" And he's probably starting off going My That's not my DNA. I don't know what
you're talking about. I was never there. I've never seen that curtain before in my life. Those questions then turn to at
some point going, "Okay, so sir, you are telling us that it is 100% impossible that we would find your DNA on that
curtain." It's impossible to shove a Cadillac up your nose. It's 100% impossible that we would find
your DNA on this dead victim. Yeah, but again point he's he's breaking a little bit or
he's smart enough to go, "I'm not saying it's impossible. I'm just saying I didn't put it there.
I'm just saying I cannot tell you why you would find it there because I don't believe that you will find it there."
Again, I don't know the notes that the news has. But the way they make it come across is he's going, "Man, DNA on the
curtains? Possible. DNA on her? Somebody would have to plant that." So that's we have all these things that I go,
"Good suspect." We have somebody coming forward. I think there's a reason she came forward. There was a There was a
lightbulb moment. There could have been a conversation. This guy could have called her and said
something and it was just enough for her to go, "I knew it. I got to go to law law enforcement." So I like that. I like
the fact that he would have been familiar with this area. I have always thought, again, like you said, to do
this right underneath the noses of the police department, to me, that's either somebody is very brazen or they
have a knowledge of that area. Now we have the connection with his nieces and Amy being in the same grade, he could
get information from them. He could get information from the school because if he's not that far away from the plaza,
he's not that far away from the school. Mhm. And I know from picking up nieces and nephews, I've gone in and talked to
the people in the offices. I probably could have got information, "Oh, my niece and nephew are going to
Amy's house on Thursday. Could you give me her number so I could call her parents to make sure that's okay?" Well,
it wasn't uncommon for her to to ride her bike to and from school. So one could simply follow her home Right.
and Then look up the address. Look up the address. The other thing that people do, not as much nowadays,
but a lot of times back then in the '80s and and early '90s, people would put their last name on their mailbox.
Yeah, well, here's here's the other thing I wonder. How close were his nieces to Amy? Police would know that.
Obviously, we don't know that from this report. But also, when they say, and I think this is a little bit of a tell and
maybe I'm reaching, but when they go, "He had family in the area." Yeah, okay, you already told us
that his nieces were connected to her. But why are you bringing up that well, his family was in Bay
Village? I wonder if there's a connection between his family and the Mahovics. Uh and that might be something that we
hear about later later. Again, all these things are like great indicators that this individual should be on our list.
But then you have, again, the FBI agent in Ashland, if I'm getting the information correct from the report.
They made it seem like, "Okay, once her body was found, we had FBI agents in the
vicinity. Mhm. And so we started just writing down license plate numbers knowing that somebody might come back to
the scene to see what is going on. And this individual was 50 miles away from Bay Village and his car is reported to
be at that four-way stop. Okay. To me, that's the got him. Yeah, that's by far and away the most
damning portion of this release to me. Well, cuz they never state, "Oh, by the way, he had uh work
in Ashland County." Or by the way, he had family there. They go out of their way to say we
cannot find any reason why he would have been in that area at that time on that day. And then on top of that, his
ex-girlfriend's telling them something. And again, look, we've had reports where
they come out and go, "We got this curtain and we think it was handmade and does anybody recognize that?" And that's
it. That's one piece of information. Everybody take a picture. Uh there's a $25,000 reward from the
FBI. We're talking about 12 to 14 little bits of information. And And this is a department that has
held back things for years. I also think another thing that is like, "Okay, car in the area."
But when the ex-girlfriend confirms, "Oh, yeah, we traveled to Ashland County." Again,
what does that mean? I think there's more information there. Like, "Well, we traveled there for this
reason." But law enforcement isn't giving us that reason. Does that make sense? Yeah, I mean, he
could have had family in the area or or made up any reason at all to to bring his girlfriend with him to that area.
Right. But um you know, that's why when I spoke with with Kelsi German um from the Libby and Abby case, the Delphi
double homicide case. When I spoke with Kelsi German, she is the older sister of one of the
victims. She was involved in the searches before the bodies were located and I knew that to be the case. She was
involved in the searches the night before and the morning of. I specifically asked her, one of the one
of the biggest questions I had for her was, "Do you remember?" Now, mind you, it might be a little different for
Kelsi's situation because she is a direct family member, a sister of one of the victims, sister of one of the people
they're searching for. But I asked her, I said, "I know you were part of the search parties,
do you recall law enforcement making you sign any kind of sign-in sheet and provide any type of identification
before they allowed you to go out on these searches?" And she said, "Nick, I do not recall
that taking place. That does not mean it did not happen. Right. It doesn't mean that there wasn't
a sign-in sheet for everybody else or she just doesn't remember. But what I said to her, and I didn't go
into too much detail with this, but these guys often want to know what law enforcement
knows because they want to know how close these guys are to catching the perpetrator.
They they want to know should I flee the area? Has it gotten too hot here? Too hot in
the hot tub. need to just get out of dodge at this point? And I told her I said, you know, I
wouldn't be surprised if the bridge guy was in the search parties. And I hope that law enforcement collected those
names and checked IDs and that at least his name is on a list somewhere. Now, with this case
this dude there's no getting around it. Even if he's innocent, this guy, we know for a
fact his vehicle was spotted, license plate written down by FBI agent in the area at the four-way stop
nearest the body recovery site on the day at 5:00 p.m. when her body was discovered. Now,
what's interesting about that is that this was again, this case was big news. Big news so much so in the
area that even though 50 miles away 48-50 miles away from where Amy was abducted
you talk to those sheriff deputies and you review the old newspaper articles. The sheriff's deputies all
said the same thing. When we got the call and what was described to us that we were responding to out on that
country road I was pretty convinced on the drive there we were going to find Amy
Mihaljevic's body. 48 miles away from where she was abducted. Right. That's how big of a news it was.
Everybody was looking for this girl for months. And so the the police law enforcement aren't
dumb. You know, I know I know that some cases get bungled, some cases get screwed up. Not in all cases are they
dumb. All right? This is a case where they weren't. We had the FBI, we had other people involved very early on in
this case from the first weekend. And what did they do strategically? They know this is going to get released.
There's going to be a big news releases about this. They're smart enough to say,
you know what? This may be a big huge waste of time or it could be something that turns out
to be extremely valuable later. Let's put some guy have him jot down all the license
plates, all the vehicle descriptions that that come through this four-way stop all day long. And you know what?
They spotted this dude's vehicle Yeah. around the 5:00 hour in this area. Now, how do you explain that away?
Again, maybe he did in the interrogation, but they're not again, releasing that information.
But like I said, a lot of other updates in many cases are one piece of evidence or one
item to discuss. Here we have 14 or more. So, what else does law enforcement know? And I also feel like
if this is nothing that cops would not go and have an update because this is just really setting
yourself up for failure to get the community excited that there's finally going to be an arrest, that there's
finally going to be justice for this girl, for her family. But a couple things that lead me to be
you know, suspicious of this is he did give his DNA. Yeah. And so why hasn't that been
tested? Or were the items that it was tested against, is there something that's um
causing it to be inconclusive, so they need to build a bigger case? The other thing, which I don't think is that
damning, which they, you know, start going, "Aha, he he was supposed to show up so we could go through his items in
the storage unit and he never came in." Well, that could be simply he again has a drug problem, a drinking problem
mental health issues whatever reason he's on the streets now this could have caused him from or
prevented him from going back to law enforcement and going, "Here's my key to search my stuff."
But to search his stuff they go, "Okay, well, he he was supposed to give us permission. He didn't, so now
we have to get a warrant." It's not the easiest thing to get that warrant. But they got it fast.
And it could be a couple things. One, it's just been a cold case for so long that any judge is going to go, "Hey, any
lead that we get especially a a new lead, a viable lead, I'm going to sign it off."
Or is it that there was so much uh circumstantial evidence that they went, "Yes Yeah. Go go search this unit."
that's the answer, Captain. I think that that's what you have because if you if you go through the timeline of that very
brief uh news release what we hear is this tip comes forward January of 2019 from the ex-girlfriend.
Then in May two witnesses pick this guy out of a photo lineup. And then it's not
until last fall that they have the conversation with this guy. Now, again, in his defense,
I'll go to bat for him briefly and say what looks good for this guy to being innocent, he willingly walks
into the police department, agrees to sit down and and chat with with detectives.
It sounds to me and I again, I'm trying to read between the lines here because it's not a incredibly detailed report,
which the news can only give what they have. Right. And it sounds to me like he offered up
his DNA, that he agreed to a DNA swab that day at that meeting. Now, and then it goes on to say the next day he was
supposed to come in and sign Right. a search warrant for us to go look at his um what was it? Like a self-storage
unit? Yeah. We want to search your storage unit. Come in and sign this waiver for us. He
does not show up for that. Now, now you're going in front of a judge and now what you're saying, Captain, is you're
going, "Okay, look. Okay, we I understand we got this tip, but we've we've had a thousand bad tips,
obviously. Thousand tips that led nowhere, so you're not getting a warrant just on the tip. But judge, we got a
tip. And then we were able to go back and confirm through state records, through county
records that this guy registered a vehicle in his name that matches that would have an interior
that would line up with the fibers that we found at the body recovery site. Oh, we also have two witnesses that picked
them out of a photo lineup. So, what you have here, Captain, is a lot of dominoes
start falling in the favor of police getting this actual warrant. And judge, we talked to him just yesterday
failed the polygraph. Oh, and he said that it wouldn't be impossible that we would find his DNA at
the crime scene, at the body recovery site. Yeah. We we checked the FBI records. We
we know that his vehicle was in the area the day that we recovered her body. the biggest one that right there you go,
"Oh, man, you a scallywag." You You's a dirty son of a [ __ ] You's a dirtiest son of a [ __ ] Uh no,
but And so you get the warrant and then you go and you search the the storage unit and then what's their statement in
that news release? It says evidence collected. Now, let's let's dive into that for a second because it can't be
anything that's super damning, super against this guy because Cuz they would have arrested him.
They would have went and found this dude and locked him up and we would have already been hurt hearing about charges
filed and a and a trial date set. But that that doesn't mean it's not evidence that's not supporting their
case. If they're collecting anything, whatever they collected is supporting their case
against the son of a [ __ ] I agree. What I'm what I'm saying is that it could not
I would be shocked if they found any of Amy's missing items in his storage unit because I think if they found any of
those items and can could could confirm that they were from Amy. And I don't even know that you have to confirm that
they're from Amy because the items that were missing you know, when they found her, she's
found fully clothed, but some of her items that she left with school at the end of her school day and it was never
seen for a couple of months until her body was found. Right. Those items that are missing are quite
unique. Yes. They're they're not they're not one of a kind, but there's also not
thousands of them out there. Yeah, I think like you said, there would be a an arrest. What I think is interesting that
what we are hearing or maybe not so much hearing in this news release, I think is better to say
it is things that are not surprising to me. Um one, we hear that this man is 64 years old today. Right. Okay, so 31
years ago would make him 32-33 years of age at the time of her abduction. You know, I've always thought
this guy's in his mid-30s. And I went off of that idea simply because of what the two eyewitnesses said. Mhm. I
thought Amy was talking to her dad. Right. And we know it was not Mark Mihaljevic that
she was talking to. What what I gather from that statement of the eyewitnesses that day at the plaza, they are
children, these witnesses. They are kids that are roughly Amy's age saying, "I thought she was talking to her dad."
Well, why would a kid think that? They're thinking that because the man looked to be about the age one would
expect her father to be. Right. Or these witnesses have fathers about the same age. Meaning this guy was in that age
group. And so that's not so surprising to me, early 30s, 32, 33. The other thing too is what what is not said is a
direct connection to the Mahalovic family. As you kind of were pointing out earlier, family in the area.
I think that's a tell. He had family in the Bay Village area. What's that matter? You know, cuz we already talked
about the nieces. I I I I think there's something more to that. Well, Again, like I said,
we've seen in tons of cases one item discussed on anniversaries. We're talking about 14
freaking items. That means there there there could be so much more to this. And maybe that's just me being hopeful.
But I also think it seems like at some point, like you said, that they contact this individual and he goes in
willingly to talk to the police. Maybe nervous. Maybe has some issues. But if he's living in his car in
northeast Ohio, Is that what they said he's he's living I know they said he's living in his car, but did they say he's
living in his car in northeast Ohio? No, they just said that. could be homeless anywhere. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Right. Technically, that's the definition, right? Um no, they didn't say they
didn't say he was even in Ohio. Um so but if he let's just say he's living in northeast Ohio,
that's some rough weather to be living in your car. And the other thing too, here's what I was wondering.
He could just be down on his luck, a little bit of a loner. Cuz most adults do not go homeless. They
normally have some kind of support system. Normally, they get turned away because
of you know, mental health issues or or drug addictions. I was talking to a investigator last night about this and
you know, 64, he could be collecting social security. But I believe that he would be eligible for his full amount
when he's 65. So, maybe his whole thought was like, "Well, I'm going to be homeless for a
little bit, but eventually I'm going to get my check. And once I start getting my social security, then I'm I'll be
able to get an apartment or something." But they also don't state whether this guy
had a criminal history. They didn't say that he didn't have any prior arrest. We don't know if this guy is a a sex
offender. You we just don't know. And I I I believe that again, and this is just based off of how
many cases that we've done updates on, and the updates just aren't that much of information. This seems like a lot of
information. And I just don't think they would give that to the public if they weren't
close. Right. And and maybe it's a couple things. We're close, so now we need some people
to go uh And it sucks cuz you don't want to release the guy's name because technically, he's just a suspect
and he hasn't been charged. But if they released a picture of this guy or they released
something else that might jog somebody else's memory, because maybe he confessed to somebody
years ago. So, I think there's going to be more tips that come in, but I think they're
building a case against this guy. Well, I think what's going on here a a couple things. And you really hit on a
lot. So, let let me kind of go into a few of these things here. First, I and I can't speak to how it is everywhere, but
I know from growing up, born and raised in Columbus, here in Columbus, for the most part,
if you're homeless, you're kind of homeless by choice. And what I mean by that is look, I understand everybody
falls on hard times. We're not always in control of every minute of of every day
of our lives. However, here in Columbus, multiple shelters that one could go to to stay the night. You can you can sleep
here for night after night. You can eat here day after day, night after night. However,
our shelter has rules. It has a curfew. And the people that don't stay at those shelters are people that do not want to
or cannot follow those rules or obey that curfew. Yeah, but a lot of these food banks and stuff, I mean, he he
could technically be living off some of the systems in place for the homeless, like as far as food banks, maybe even
going to YMCA or a shelter where he can take baths or take showers. But again, like you said, I'm not
choosing to stay there because if I just stay in my car overnight, I don't have to follow to those rules. What if he is
living in one of those decked-out $100,000 Mercedes Sprinter vans that has like the bed and TV and
stuff in it? I don't think so. And and this guy's like, "Man, y'all y'all done me dirty. You said I'm
sleeping in sleeping in my vehicle. Made me sound like I'm homeless when really I got this
decked-out vehicle." I I'm with you. I don't think that's the case, but that that funny thought popped in my mind.
Well, here's what makes me wonder. This individual is not going to hear whenever he hears
about this update cuz He will hear it. Yeah. Guess what? Cuz he wants to hear it. Because this
individual is talking about um the coverage of her the day she went missing. This guy is following the case.
So, he's going to hear this. What I'm afraid of is suicide. The guy taking his own life and they
don't have enough pieces of the puzzle to completely convict him. Well, it also sounds like he's slightly off the grid
anyway. I mean, even though they were able to locate him, it did say that the that News 5 Cleveland did try to contact
this individual, so they must have his phone number to which he's not respond Yes, suicide would be terrible because
if in fact he was the guy that did it, we may never know. Well, unless he wrote a note that would leave enough evidence
for for the police to close the case. Or if the DNA could connect him at some point.
Yeah. Because we know he gave the swab. The other thing too that you have to worry about is the guy fleeing the area
and then now it's it's not a matter of suicide, but it makes him that much more difficult to locate when you do you said
building a case against this guy. Once you have built your case and you're ready to charge him, now you got to go
find the dude. Well, one of the things about the DNA was I was going, "Okay, well, she comes
in in January, then they get DNA. Okay, well, they should have this tested by now, but
Well, but keep in mind the DNA would have come from last fall. Right. And then plus with all the stuff with COVID,
I think all the tests and everything everything has been on hold and they they could actually have some kind of a
match and then they they want to retest it to confirm the match, but that might be something that they have to do
through the court system, which is also been tied up because of COVID. And I I want everybody to be very, very clear
about this. I think that if DNA connected him to that curtain or to her actual body or articles of clothing on
her person, He'd be arrested. He's arrested and we would already have a trial date. So, what I want to say
here is this update, following this update, it's very clear they are asking the public once again for their help as
they would do on any anniversary of the abduction date, body recovery date, or just when we need the public's help. Any
update you're going to get, please call in, give us a tip. We need your help. We
need some more information. I want everybody to do not say, "If you know something at all,
do not say to yourself, I'm not going to report this or I'm not going to tell this to somebody else or talk to
somebody about this." And I mean law enforcement when I say somebody, because they've got this guy's DNA, so it can't
be him. That's not what they are saying. No. Nobody is saying that. It's very likely, let's pretend it is
him. They just need a little bit more. They need a little bit more. DNA didn't connect them for whatever reason. We
need a little bit more. And let's take this a little step further here. The interesting words towards the end of
that news coverage and applaud News 5, good work. I I applaud them. Fantastic job by News 5
giving us probably the biggest update in the Amy Mahalovic case that we've had in
31 years. Towards the end there, they say, "What we found." What we found, what News 5 found, that they found the court
records. We found documents in court records that has spawned this news release, that has spawned us asking Bay
Village Police Department for more information. Right. That has spawned us reaching out to this
lady who provided the tip, to which the lady just refers them, rightfully so, back to law enforcement. This news
coverage comes out on February 8th, 2021, 31 days, 31 years to the day that her body's recovered.
That's not a coincidence. Come on, I wasn't born 10 minutes ago. It's a boy. This is the the police gave this to News
5. Mhm. That's that Look, Crispy Colonel, humble opinion, dumb guy in a garage, don't believe everything I'm
saying. Noted. But my guess here is this was given to News 5 purposely on the date of the anniversary of the body
recovery because there's tidbits of information in there that people that know this individual or
suspect this individual can start connecting the dots mentally and they can pick up the phone,
they can email. They're We're not going to tell you this guy's name. We're not going to show you his picture because
he's not been charged with anything. We're doing right by him. However, we will say he's 64 years old.
He's homeless. Mhm. He has a cell phone. He's living in his car. Maybe a house phone.
Shh. So, there are things that Okay, now people can go, "All right, do I Do I know
Do I know somebody that's 64 living in their car that that is was living in Bay Village a mile a mile and a half from
the shopping plaza in 1989?" Right. There's where they go on to say had family living in the area.
That They're speaking to this man's family by saying that. Yeah, or look Look, we've seen the FBI
suggest to law enforcement, "You got all this stuff on this guy? Put it out to the public cuz it's not
going to affect your case and it's going to put pressure It's almost like having
a press conference where the deputy says, "We know who you are and we're on to you." Mhm. It's almost the same
thing. Mhm. Uh by putting out this much information in the news coverage, it's almost the same thing and maybe they
want to say, "Let's see how he reacts." And for all we know, they're planning on
pulling him in today and discussing this with him today and asking him some more
questions or basically telling him, "Hey, we don't have a 100% match on the DNA, but we got enough that we can take
you to trial." And to see see if they can get a confession out of this guy. That might be
what they're intending to do. I don't think law enforcement or even news, even if they stumbled upon this information,
are going to release something like this that is going to give so so much hope to
the community and possibly so much hope to her family. The biggest things here, my biggest takeaways,
if I if I had to pick two, is his car is in Ashland County and we know that from the FBI
and the two eyewitnesses picking him out of a photo lineup. Those are the two biggest things I take away from this
news report. So, what we can pull from this news release and what we can really ask the public for their help with
is to think long and think hard. Can you, anybody out there in listener land, can you think of a man or maybe you knew
a man that was 32, 33 years, roughly, at the time of Amy's abduction, at the time of Amy being found, that
would own or drive a vehicle, a gold Oldsmobile with a tan interior? Were you picked up by some guy that
beha- behaved strangely? Were you abducted by someone and just you were too embarrassed to come forward?
Do you know this guy in any shape or form or fashion? And keep in mind, look, her body is found on Township Road 1181
in Ashland County in February 8th of 1990. This is near New London, Ohio. Her body was dressed in her clothing,
the clothing that she was seen wearing the last time that she was seen. But there were items that were missing from
Amy when she was recovered. A turquoise horse earring, black ankle boots, and a black leather binder.
And it was believed and and remains so to this day that her abductor kept these items or forgot or failed to
dump them with the body for some reason. So, are you somebody out there that received one of these items
from someone matching that age descrip- description, matching somebody that owned that type
of vehicle at some point? That's what we need. That's what That's what they're hoping for amongst other
things in this. If in fact they did purposely leak it, it's cuz they want some more
information. As Captain said, they're building a case against this guy and you could help.
Maybe you could help solve one of the biggest unsolved cases in the state of Ohio. Now, remember there's still a
reward out there for information leading to an arrest and conviction, a reward of
up to $25,000. And if you have any tips at all, of course, you can reach out to the Bay
Village Police Department or the FBI by calling 1-800- call FBI. And just a word
to the suspect, if if he is listening, this could all be over with. You could turn yourself in.
You can confess to the crime. You could give law enforcement the evidence they need to convict you. Well, and if you
want leniency, the time is now. If you're the suspect, if you've done this, the time is now to get any kind of
leniency at all because once they've built a solid case against you, judges are way too smart to show any
leniency to a guy that they've already built a case against. Right. So, your time's running out. Your time The clock
is ticking. You need to just turn yourself in today. A little bit of a different episode this
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Amy Mihaljevic Update ////// 463

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Nic and the Captain discuss: Amy Mihaljevic case updates, released Feb 8th 2021. Court Records were discovered by News 5 Cleveland.

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Brief Summary

New leads in Amy Mihaljevic's case suggest a potential suspect linked to her abduction and murder.

Key points

Community Remembers Amy Maholovic. Residents of Ashland County honor Amy with flowers and ribbons, vowing to find her killer.
The Day Amy Disappeared. A typical Friday turned tragic as 10-year-old Amy Maholovic was abducted from a shopping center.
Important Update on the Case. A significant update emerges about the investigation into Amy's abduction, raising new questions.
New Developments in Amy's Case. After 31 years, a potential suspect emerges as investigators receive new tips.
Witnesses Identify Suspect. Two witnesses pick a man out of a photo lineup, potentially linking him to Amy's case.
Interrogation Insights. Details from the suspect's interrogation reveal signs of deception and raise further questions.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

This should have been just a normal, typical Friday.

Reflecting on the day Amy was abducted.

6:39WatchNov 8, 2022

Tension

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