1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,000 Tonight on Unsolved Mysteries. 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:09,000 On a sunny afternoon in Boonville, Missouri, 3 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:11,000 Janice Owen and her eight-year-old daughter, Alissa, 4 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:14,000 made their way home within an hour of one another. 5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:17,000 What happened next stunned the small community, 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:20,000 left even the most seasoned cops shaking their heads 7 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:23,000 in disbelief. 8 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:26,000 Tina Kramer was getting a fresh start with a new boyfriend. 9 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:30,000 But she was concerned because her ex-husband had allegedly 10 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:32,000 been stalking her. 11 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:34,000 Then on the night of August 10th, 12 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:36,000 Tina and her boyfriend were murdered. 13 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:38,000 Had Tina's fears been realized, 14 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:41,000 could this have been a case of love gone wrong? 15 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:47,000 Where is 15-year-old Trisha Autry? 16 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:51,000 At her Utah home, she spent many evenings at her computer. 17 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:53,000 Then she suddenly disappeared. 18 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:57,000 Did Trisha run away to meet someone she met over the Internet, 19 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:00,000 or was she abducted against her will? 20 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:04,000 Join me for these stories of heartbreak and intrigue 21 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:06,000 on Unsolved Mysteries. 22 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:56,000 I'll see you tomorrow. 23 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:58,000 Make sure she's... 24 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,000 It had been a routine Monday at Riverdale Care Center 25 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,000 in Booneville, Missouri, population 8,200. 26 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:12,000 43-year-old nurse A. Janice Owen, 27 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,000 a widow and hard-working mother of two, 28 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:16,000 finished her shift at the usual time, 29 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:19,000 then headed for home just half a block away. 30 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:23,000 The time was 2.15 p.m. 31 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:29,000 About an hour later, 32 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:32,000 Janice's 8-year-old daughter, Alyssa, was on her way home. 33 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:35,000 A sweet kid with a sunny disposition. 34 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:38,000 Alyssa got along well with everyone. 35 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:41,000 She was riding alone that Monday. 36 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:43,000 Her older brother had been dropped off earlier 37 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:45,000 at the babysitters. 38 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:49,000 She was a cute little smiling girl. 39 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,000 I just noticed her when she got off the bus 40 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,000 and walked in front of my bus to get on her property. 41 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,000 I watched her angle toward the front door of this residence, 42 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,000 and then I was on my way. 43 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:08,000 Later that afternoon, 44 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:10,000 Janice's mother stopped by to say hello. 45 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,000 Janice? 46 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:14,000 I tried the door, and it was open. 47 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:16,000 I tried the door, and it was unlocked. 48 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:19,000 Janice? Hello? 49 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:21,000 She didn't answer me, 50 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:23,000 so I walked on through the house, 51 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:26,000 and she wasn't anywhere to be found in there. 52 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:29,000 Alyssa's coat was on the couch, 53 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:31,000 her backpack on the floor, 54 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:34,000 but Frances found no sign of her daughter or granddaughter. 55 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,000 It was now 5 p.m. 56 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:43,000 So I wrote a note that I'd been there. 57 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:46,000 I thought it was funny that night she didn't call me, 58 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,000 but there was nothing messed up or anything 59 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:51,000 that would have given me any idea anything was wrong. 60 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:56,000 5.45 p.m. 61 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:58,000 A neighbor returning home from work 62 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,000 says she saw some unusual activity outside Janice's home. 63 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:07,000 There was people standing outside her duplex. 64 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:10,000 There was cars parked on the street. 65 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:14,000 Usually, I mean, I've just never noticed before. 66 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:18,000 There was a woman on the porch, 67 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:20,000 and there was a younger guy. 68 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:22,000 He was wearing the red baseball cap. 69 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,000 They were both facing the street, 70 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:27,000 and they both stared at me as they drove by. 71 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:33,000 I kind of thought something was odd about the situation. 72 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:38,000 15 minutes later, Amy noticed 73 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:41,000 more strange activity outside Janice's home. 74 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:50,000 There was a white four-door car in front of her house, 75 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,000 but on the wrong side of the street, 76 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:55,000 and I saw a different guy facing me, 77 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:58,000 looking down towards my end of the street. 78 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,000 My intuition was telling me there was something wrong, 79 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:06,000 and I didn't know if it was domestic dispute or what it was. 80 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:09,000 But the thought that severe harm would truly happen to anybody, 81 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:11,000 that never crossed my mind. 82 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:17,000 Janice Owen and her daughter, Alisa, had simply disappeared. 83 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:20,000 And what happened between 3.15 p.m. and 6 p.m. 84 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,000 that Monday afternoon of the Owen home 85 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:25,000 would become the topic of much speculation? 86 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:27,000 Police departments from two rural counties 87 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,000 soon found themselves handcuffed by a puzzling case, 88 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,000 the first of its kind in this area in 20 years. 89 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:36,000 Even big city detectives called to assist in the case 90 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:38,000 could make no sense of the evidence. 91 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:45,000 The next day, Tuesday, 8.45 a.m. 92 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:49,000 On the outskirts of Fayette, Missouri, 93 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,000 just 12 miles north of Booneville, 94 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:54,000 three employees from a local sawmill 95 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,000 spotted something on the side of the road. 96 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:59,000 Stop, stop, stop, stop up, back up, back up. 97 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:02,000 Oh, stop. 98 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,000 Stop, stop, stop. 99 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:07,000 At first glance, they thought it was a mannequin. 100 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:15,000 It turned out to be the lifeless body of a young child. 101 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:19,000 Minutes later, the Howard County Sheriff arrived on the scene. 102 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:24,000 There was no signs of any trauma or anything. 103 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:26,000 So we called a corner and he arrived 104 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:29,000 and could determine that she'd probably been, you know, 105 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:31,000 at least dead six to eight hours. 106 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:32,000 In a while, it was Sheriff Paulson, 107 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:34,000 Howard County Sheriff's Department. 108 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:37,000 With no reports of any missing children locally, 109 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:39,000 Sheriff Paulson contacted Booneville Police 110 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:41,000 in neighboring Cooper County. 111 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:43,000 Yeah, I'll check it out and I'll call you back 112 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:45,000 as soon as I know anything. 113 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:47,000 Okay. 114 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:48,000 Detective Bob Welliver made calls to several schools 115 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:50,000 and soon had an answer. 116 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:53,000 Little Alyssa Owen had been absent that day. 117 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:57,000 It turned out to be her body found on the side of the road. 118 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:05,000 Tuesday, 12.15 p.m. 119 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:08,000 Detective Welliver drove over to see Alyssa's mother 120 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:11,000 and delivered the terrible news. 121 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:19,000 No answer. Suspicious he went inside. 122 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,000 Hello? Anybody home? 123 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:23,000 Mrs. Owen? 124 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:26,000 No sign of Janice Owen. 125 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:28,000 I didn't see anything out of the ordinary 126 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:31,000 that would give me any suspicions that there was a struggle. 127 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:35,000 No signs of any blood, no signs of any kind of, 128 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:38,000 any trauma or anything. 129 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:41,000 We did not see anything out of the ordinary at the house. 130 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:46,000 Wednesday, Detective Welliver got a call from the corner. 131 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:50,000 The autopsy revealed Alyssa had died of suffocation. 132 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:52,000 Her mother was not only missing, 133 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:56,000 she had become the prime suspect in a murder case. 134 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:59,000 But what possible motive could she have? 135 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:02,000 Friends say Janice adored her daughter. 136 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:04,000 As the investigation continued, 137 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:06,000 more perplexing questions surfaced 138 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:09,000 about the events of Monday afternoon. 139 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:13,000 Was a woman Amy Pulliam saw on the porch Janice Owen? 140 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:15,000 Amy wasn't sure. 141 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:18,000 She really didn't know her very well. 142 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,000 And who were the two men? 143 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:22,000 One wearing a red baseball cap, 144 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:24,000 the other standing by the white car. 145 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:26,000 She didn't know them at all. 146 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:29,000 But Amy was sure of the time. 147 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:31,000 5.45 p.m. 148 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:34,000 Some 45 minutes after Janice's mother told 149 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:37,000 Detectives she stopped by the house and found it empty. 150 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:40,000 Alyssa? 151 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:42,000 Excuse me, sir. 152 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:44,000 Lieutenant Welliver, Boomville Police Department. 153 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:47,000 Detectives began canvassing the area for more clues. 154 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:50,000 Another neighbor reported seeing an older model 155 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:53,000 dark-colored pickup truck parked near Janice's home 156 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:55,000 Monday afternoon. 157 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:59,000 Then an employee with a local waste disposal company 158 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:01,000 came forward. 159 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:04,000 He described seeing a similar pickup truck Tuesday morning 160 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:06,000 on the same road Alyssa was found, 161 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:09,000 just minutes before the sawmill workers discovered her body. 162 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:11,000 And as it went by, it was going slow. 163 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:13,000 When I looked at him, he was looking at me, 164 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:16,000 so I waved and he didn't turn his head away or wave or nothing. 165 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:19,000 He just stared and just kept right on going. 166 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:22,000 And he got his wear and red ball cap. 167 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:26,000 Jeff Stacey never got a look into the bed of the pickup truck, 168 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:29,000 but he thinks he knows what was there, 169 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:31,000 the body of Alyssa Owen. 170 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:34,000 Jeff was certain she was not lying on the side of the road 171 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:37,000 when he drove by minutes earlier. 172 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:41,000 They were dumped with their head to have done it after 8.30 p.m. 173 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:43,000 because I was through there and I, you know, 174 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:46,000 there's no way the spot she was lying at out of Miss Sainter. 175 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:50,000 Was the man behind the wheel the same one 176 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:53,000 reportedly seen at Janice's home on Monday? 177 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:56,000 And was the dark green pickup truck parked near her home 178 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:59,000 that afternoon, the same one spotted near the crime scene 179 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:01,000 Tuesday morning? 180 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:04,000 Detective searched for answers, but came up empty. 181 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:09,000 Over the next month, they chase hundreds of other leads. 182 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:11,000 Dead ends at every turn. 183 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:14,000 And still no sign of Janice Owen. 184 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:17,000 Then on March 27, 2002, 185 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:21,000 six weeks after Alyssa's death, tragedy struck again. 186 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:24,000 Janice's body was discovered in a creek bed 187 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:27,000 some 12 miles from where her daughter had been found. 188 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:35,000 She'd been in the water quite a while, 189 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:38,000 but there were no really serious signs of trauma 190 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:40,000 that we could tell. 191 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:44,000 Everything she had on from work were still there. 192 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:46,000 Her rings and necklaces and ear rings 193 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:49,000 and even her eyeglasses were still on her head. 194 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:52,000 The coroner later determined that mother and daughter 195 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:56,000 had died within hours of one another and in the same manner. 196 00:10:56,000 --> 00:11:00,000 Janice Owen and Alyssa Owen had both been suffocated to death. 197 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:06,000 More questions. 198 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:10,000 Why was Alyssa's body left in plain sight on a well-traveled road? 199 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:12,000 Well, her mother's body was apparently dumped 200 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:15,000 in a remote creek bed some 12 miles away. 201 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:18,000 And who could negotiate the maze of back roads 202 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:20,000 at Criss Cross Howard County? 203 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:24,000 Police have plenty of theories, but still no suspects. 204 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:30,000 It's possible to get from either location to the other location 205 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:32,000 if you know the route. 206 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:35,000 It probably has to be somebody local. 207 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:38,000 I just don't believe a stranger could find those two locations 208 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:40,000 separately and just leave. 209 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:44,000 What worries me now is they're still out there. 210 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:49,000 Who knows that they won't try it to somebody else? 211 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,000 And I don't want that happening to anybody. 212 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:58,000 I would love to say I have it or that I have any clue. 213 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:01,000 I am a law enforcement officer. 214 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:02,000 I am a detective. 215 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:05,000 My job is to leave the options open until I can prove the facts. 216 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:08,000 And quite frankly, I don't know. 217 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:16,000 Update. 218 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:18,000 Shortly after we completed the story, 219 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:21,000 there was a major development in the case. 220 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:24,000 Police have arrested 25-year-old Angela M. Mies 221 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:27,000 and her 18-year-old husband, Eric D. Mies. 222 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:31,000 Each is charged with two counts of first-degree murder. 223 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:34,000 The couple live in the Booneville area 224 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:37,000 and detectives believe they were the man and woman 225 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:40,000 seen lurking outside the home of Janice Owen 226 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:42,000 the day she and Alyssa disappeared. 227 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:05,000 Tina Creamer and Robert Miller met on the job 228 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:08,000 at a Lawton, Oklahoma hospital where they both worked. 229 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:11,000 They had only recently begun dating. 230 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:16,000 The couple plan to spend a relaxing evening 231 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:18,000 at Robert's apartment. 232 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:22,000 While he prepared dinner, Tina took a hot shower 233 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:24,000 to unwind after a long day at work. 234 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:28,000 They were not aware they were being watched. 235 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:32,000 Robert's habit of leaving his front door unlocked 236 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:34,000 would prove tragic. 237 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:46,000 Rob? 238 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:57,000 25-year-old Tina Creamer and 26-year-old Rob Miller 239 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:59,000 never had a chance. 240 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:04,000 Just five days before her murder, 241 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:07,000 Tina Creamer's divorce had become final. 242 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:12,000 Tina and David Kemp had been married for five years. 243 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:15,000 According to Tina, David began stalking her 244 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:17,000 shortly after they were separated. 245 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:19,000 Could their apparently turbulent relationship 246 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:22,000 have anything to do with a double murder? 247 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:26,000 Investigators turned to those who knew the victims for answers. 248 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:31,000 Tina loved the nursing field. 249 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:34,000 She loved helping people, anybody she could help. 250 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:37,000 She did so much volunteer work for people 251 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:40,000 that we didn't even know about till after the fact. 252 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:44,000 According to some, Tina's life with David Kemp 253 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:46,000 was apparently not very fulfilling. 254 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:49,000 I don't believe they had a marriage. 255 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:52,000 I don't believe they had a relationship. 256 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:54,000 I know he had hit her. 257 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:57,000 I know that he was mentally abusive. 258 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:00,000 She had no self-esteem left 259 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,000 till after she left him. 260 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:06,000 Tina's new boyfriend, Robert Miller, 261 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:08,000 was apparently providing a refreshing change 262 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:10,000 from her controlling ex-husband. 263 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:15,000 Rob was very affectionate, very loving. 264 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:18,000 He brought a lot of love and laughter into her life. 265 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:20,000 She had a lot of confidence. 266 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:22,000 He was very kind to her. 267 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:24,000 She had a lot of confidence. 268 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:27,000 Her self-esteem had just exploded 269 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:29,000 after she had left David. 270 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:31,000 She was a very beautiful woman. 271 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:34,000 This lady was really, really good for him. 272 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:36,000 Very supportive, you know, made him happy. 273 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:38,000 If this had never happened, 274 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,000 they would have been perfect for each other. 275 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:45,000 The bodies of Tina Creamer and Robert Miller 276 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:47,000 were discovered when they failed to show up 277 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:49,000 for work at the hospital. 278 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:51,000 Rob's best friend, police officer Troy Morris, 279 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:53,000 responded to the scene. 280 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:57,000 I made entry. 281 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:01,000 I saw Rob's body lying there on the floor. 282 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:04,000 I was too emotional to continue on. 283 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:06,000 I was still wanting to preserve the crime scene 284 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:08,000 for our detectives. 285 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:12,000 I backed out of the residence 286 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:15,000 and chose not to go any further. 287 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:18,000 After exiting the residence, 288 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:20,000 I did what police officers aren't supposed to do. 289 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:22,000 I broke down. 290 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:28,000 I can't describe that feeling. 291 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:30,000 I can't describe it. 292 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:34,000 You know, it was about 11.30 last night. 293 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:38,000 Tina's family learned what happened from a news report. 294 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:41,000 My husband and I, which is her brother, 295 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:43,000 was watching TV. 296 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:45,000 TV didn't say any names, 297 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:48,000 but it showed the apartment. 298 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:52,000 And we just knew that it was them. 299 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:56,000 Investigators processed the crime scene, 300 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:59,000 and news of the murders began to spread. 301 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:02,000 Many in Tina Creamer's circle had their suspicions 302 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:05,000 who may have been responsible for the cold-blooded murders, 303 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:09,000 and that suspect would soon come to the attention of the police. 304 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:13,000 The first thing that led investigators 305 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:16,000 to seeking the whereabouts of David Kemp 306 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:18,000 was the fact that he had motive. 307 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:20,000 He had made threats to kill himself 308 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:24,000 and to kill Christina when they split up. 309 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:28,000 Robert said on several occasions 310 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:32,000 that David Kemp would come up to Comanche County 311 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:35,000 Memorial Hospital and leave notes on Tina's car, 312 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:39,000 stating, if I can't have you, that nobody can. 313 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:45,000 She stated to me a few days before the murders 314 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:47,000 was a comma for the storm. 315 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:49,000 Because of threats and letters, 316 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:53,000 Rob knew that Tina feared David, 317 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:55,000 and we would state to him, 318 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:58,000 y'all be careful, you know, watch out for him. 319 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:00,000 Lock your doors. 320 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:06,000 When detectives attempted to locate David Kemp for questioning, 321 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:09,000 they discovered he had suddenly left town the day after the murders 322 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:12,000 without telling anyone where he was headed. 323 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:16,000 David Kemp was now considered a possible suspect. 324 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:19,000 They speculated that when he received the divorce decree, 325 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:22,000 officially dissolving his marriage to Tina, 326 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:24,000 it may have upset him. 327 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:27,000 But would it have been enough to trigger the murders? 328 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:32,000 Although police had no physical evidence 329 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:34,000 to connect David Lee Kemp to the killings, 330 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:39,000 they located a man who claims he sold Kemp a .45 caliber handgun. 331 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:42,000 This person still had in his possession 332 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:45,000 some of the shell casings that he had fired previously through that gun. 333 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:48,000 He provided the shell casings to us, 334 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:50,000 and we were submitted them for forensic examination. 335 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:53,000 Those shell casings that were known to be fired through that gun 336 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:58,000 matched identically to the shell casings that we found in the crime scene. 337 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:03,000 Conclusive proof that David Kemp's gun was the murder weapon. 338 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:07,000 An all-out manhunt was launched to track down David Lee Kemp. 339 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:09,000 But where was he? 340 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:12,000 Investigators had exhausted all leads. 341 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:15,000 Then, almost two weeks after the murders, 342 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:18,000 a lucky break arrived from California. 343 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:20,000 We were notified by California Highway Patrol 344 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:24,000 that they had spotted David Kemp's vehicle on a highway 345 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:27,000 just outside of Bishop, California. 346 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:33,000 One, Charlie, one requesting wants on Oklahoma license plates. 347 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:36,000 Kemp's 1998 Dodge Ram pickup truck had broken down. 348 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:41,000 The police indicated that there was no one around the vehicle. 349 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:44,000 We faxed them a photograph of David Kemp 350 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:46,000 and advised them of what he was wanted for. 351 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:49,000 Then a man, fitting Kemp's description, 352 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:52,000 was spotted walking along the same highway. 353 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:55,000 Within a few minutes, they called us back and stated 354 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:57,000 that they had tried to approach Mr. Kemp, 355 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:59,000 but that he had fled on foot. 356 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:11,000 California authorities cornered David Kemp 357 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,000 in an auto wrecking yard. 358 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:16,000 The suspected killer was trapped. 359 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:18,000 David Lee Kemp is police department. 360 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:20,000 Step out so we can see you. 361 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:23,000 I'm not going to jail, no way! 362 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:25,000 Put the gun down, David. 363 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:27,000 He began to wave the gun about 364 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:31,000 and indicated that he wanted to kill himself. 365 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:33,000 We're going to try and help you, David. 366 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:34,000 What can I do for you? 367 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:36,000 Let us know. We got to know. 368 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:39,000 He made a few demands, 369 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,000 but the one demand that he did make 370 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:44,000 was that he talked to his mother on the telephone. 371 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:47,000 Someone get this guy a cell phone. 372 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:49,000 The request was accommodated. 373 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,000 I'm sorry, mom, I can't do this. 374 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:55,000 Then as Kemp said his goodbyes, 375 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:57,000 he was momentarily distracted. 376 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:59,000 Police sharpshooters, 377 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:01,000 armed with non-lethal projectiles, 378 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:03,000 saw their opportunity. 379 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:10,000 David Lee Kemp was taken into custody. 380 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:13,000 The standoff was safely over. 381 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,000 When David Kemp was taken into custody 382 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:19,000 in Bishop, California, 383 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:22,000 he did have a .45 caliber pistol with him. 384 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:24,000 Subsequent examination indicated 385 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:26,000 that that was indeed the same gun 386 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:28,000 that was used in the homicide. 387 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:31,000 Once extradited back to Oklahoma, 388 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:33,000 David Kemp was assigned 389 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:35,000 to the Comanche County Jail, 390 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,000 where he would await trial 391 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:40,000 for the murders of Tina Creamer and Robert Miller. 392 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:43,000 When David was caught and brought back to the jail, 393 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:45,000 we were very happy. 394 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:48,000 We rested at night easier. 395 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:50,000 We were glad he was back 396 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:53,000 so that justice could be served. 397 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:02,000 Six months later, 398 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:05,000 nine inmates at the Comanche County Jail, 399 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:07,000 including David Kemp, 400 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:08,000 overpowered a guard 401 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:11,000 and forced their way to freedom. 402 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:14,000 Eight of the escapees were quickly recaptured. 403 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:16,000 The ninth David Lee Kemp 404 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:19,000 was last seen heading toward Texas. 405 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,000 When David escaped, 406 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:23,000 we were angry, 407 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:25,000 very angry, 408 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,000 empty. 409 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:29,000 Empty. 410 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:34,000 Feelings of it being so unfair. 411 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,000 It was like hearing my brother 412 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:40,000 getting murdered for the first time. 413 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:41,000 I went to the jail, 414 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:43,000 and I stood there and waited. 415 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:45,000 I even went into the search parties. 416 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:48,000 I wanted to make sure that I was going to do everything I could for Rob 417 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:51,000 to make sure this man, David Lee Kemp, was caught. 418 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:54,000 Personally, I don't know how David can live 419 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,000 from one day to the next. 420 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:58,000 He's a coward 421 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,000 for what he's done. 422 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,000 Three months after the escape, 423 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,000 authorities missed an opportunity 424 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,000 to take David Kemp back into custody. 425 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:11,000 The night manager of a Las Vegas motel 426 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:14,000 checked to see why a guest hadn't paid his rent. 427 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:16,000 Hello? 428 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:20,000 Hello? 429 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:22,000 Manager, sir? 430 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,000 Hello? 431 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:28,000 The manager found the guest sitting in the bathtub, 432 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:31,000 covered with blood, holding a knife to his own stomach 433 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:34,000 in what appeared to be a bizarre suicide attempt 434 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:36,000 that had failed. 435 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,000 The man was taken to a psychiatric hospital 436 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,000 where his wounds were determined to be nothing more 437 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:43,000 than superficial cuts. 438 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,000 The troubled man received treatment 439 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:47,000 and checked himself out. 440 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,000 Hospital authorities had no idea 441 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:51,000 that the man was wanted for double murder. 442 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:54,000 The mystery man was David Lee Kemp. 443 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:00,000 Kemp was last seen at a service station 444 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,000 on the outskirts of Las Vegas. 445 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,000 He was getting into the passenger seat 446 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,000 of a black firebird. 447 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:13,000 It's just a never-ending nightmare. 448 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:15,000 I want satisfaction from my brother, Rob. 449 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:18,000 Now, it'll be the only way he can rest in peace. 450 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,000 Without that, he's going to be troubled 451 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:22,000 a troubled soul. 452 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:27,000 Our wounds have not even gotten to heal 453 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:31,000 because David's never been tried. 454 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:34,000 And our wounds won't heal 455 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:38,000 till David faces the consequences of what he's done, 456 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,000 till justice is served. 457 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:57,000 The End 458 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:10,000 June 24, 2000, Hiram, Utah. 459 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:16,000 Joanne Autry awakens at dawn. 460 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:19,000 Her daughter, Tricia, usually a late sleeper 461 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,000 is not in her bedroom. 462 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,000 Trish? 463 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:27,000 A search of the entire house 464 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:30,000 fails to turn up any sign of the teenager. 465 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,000 Is Trish there by any chance? 466 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,000 As Joanne's concern becomes outright panic, 467 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:37,000 she fanically calls her daughter's friends. 468 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:40,000 Trish's sisters scour the neighborhood. 469 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:43,000 When none of us found her, 470 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:46,000 then I became really frightened. 471 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,000 All of a sudden, there was this deep fear, 472 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:52,000 deep not of fear in my stomach 473 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:55,000 because it wasn't like Tricia to do this. 474 00:25:56,000 --> 00:26:01,000 And I knew that there was something gravely wrong. 475 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,000 The sudden and mysterious disappearance 476 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,000 of 15-year-old Tricia Autry 477 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,000 left her family devastated 478 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,000 and the police struggling for clues. 479 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:14,000 In many ways, Tricia is a typical teenage girl, 480 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:17,000 energetic, insecure, and eager to be liked. 481 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:20,000 It was this last desire that may have led Tricia 482 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:23,000 on a dangerous search for romance, 483 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,000 a journey that possibly landed her 484 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,000 in the clutches of an internet predator. 485 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:34,000 Like many teenagers seeking acceptance, 486 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:37,000 Tricia found adolescence a painful experience. 487 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:42,000 She was a kid that was ostracized in school. 488 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:45,000 The children made fun of her. 489 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:47,000 She didn't have what she really wanted, 490 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:49,000 and that was a really close friend, 491 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:51,000 someone that she could confide all of her 492 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,000 adolescent dreams in 493 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:56,000 and be able to share those things with. 494 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:59,000 So she was a pretty sad child from that standpoint, 495 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:02,000 is that she just needed that one special friend. 496 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,000 So Mrs. Autry, has there been any fighting? 497 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,000 No, there hasn't been. 498 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,000 Police immediately zeroed in on Trish's state of mind 499 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:13,000 and made an explanation for her disappearance. 500 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,000 We thought it was a typical runaway juvenile case 501 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:21,000 that we usually get from teenagers about that age 502 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:25,000 that just take off, they've got problems at home 503 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:29,000 with friends, depression, type of things, 504 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:32,000 and they just leave for a couple of days. 505 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:33,000 Did you make the bed? 506 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:36,000 No, I found it like that this morning. 507 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:40,000 There was only one problem with a runaway scenario. 508 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:43,000 Trisha left behind virtually everything 509 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:46,000 she might need all away from home. 510 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:52,000 There literally was nothing taken except the clothes on her back, 511 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:55,000 and so we became convinced that she went simply to meet someone 512 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:59,000 for a few minutes with the idea that she'd be coming back. 513 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:03,000 Trisha often hid from her unhappiness 514 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:06,000 by creating elaborate stories, 515 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:10,000 sometimes attaining secret liaisons with much older men. 516 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,000 Two weeks before her disappearance, 517 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:16,000 the teenager told her family she had started a new story. 518 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:19,000 Every night she typed furiously, 519 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:22,000 often staying up until the early morning hours. 520 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:29,000 On the night she vanished, Trisha was again at the computer. 521 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:31,000 I'm going to bed. 522 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:34,000 Good night. See you tomorrow. 523 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:37,000 Her sister, Breanne, went to bed at 2 a.m. 524 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:41,000 No one in Trisha's family ever saw her again. 525 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:46,000 For Trisha to disappear was totally out of character for her, 526 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:52,000 and what I was hoping was to find in the story that she was writing 527 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,000 some clues to what she was thinking of, 528 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,000 what her frame of mind was, 529 00:28:56,000 --> 00:29:00,000 and that's why I went immediately there to begin looking. 530 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:06,000 When Joanne turned on the computer, there was no story, 531 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:09,000 only a few pages of scattered thoughts. 532 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:12,000 What then had Trisha Autry been doing on the computer 533 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,000 for all those countless hours? 534 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:20,000 Computer expert John W. Georgie examined the system 535 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,000 and made several disturbing discoveries. 536 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,000 Unbeknownst to her mother, 537 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:29,000 Trisha had three separate email accounts 538 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:32,000 and spent an enormous amount of time in chat rooms. 539 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:36,000 Even more alarming was what occurred at 3 a.m. 540 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:39,000 on the night Trisha Autry disappeared. 541 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:42,000 Everything that possibly could be found, 542 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:45,000 who she talked to, what she'd been doing on the computer, 543 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:49,000 in the recent frame of time was deleted. 544 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:52,000 I figured Trish was taught how to delete these files 545 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:55,000 because she did not, from what I was told by her mother, 546 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:59,000 have the experience to know where these files were stored. 547 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:02,000 And I took this as a very bad sign, 548 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:05,000 that obviously somebody was trying to cover their tracks. 549 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:08,000 But who could this mystery person have been? 550 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:11,000 Trisha gave no hints to her friends or family 551 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:13,000 that she had met somebody online. 552 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:20,000 Neighbors, however, noticed suspicious activity 553 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:23,000 near the Autry home on several occasions. 554 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:26,000 About two weeks before she disappeared, 555 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,000 one of our neighbors had seen her 556 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,000 get out of a red car on the corner 557 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:34,000 and what he thought was some suspicious behaviors, 558 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:37,000 the way she was walking back to the house from the corner, 559 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:39,000 as if she didn't want to be seen. 560 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,000 So that was our first report of a red car. 561 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:45,000 According to another neighbor, 562 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:48,000 the red car appeared again at 4 a.m. 563 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:50,000 on the morning Trisha disappeared. 564 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:57,000 The headlights from a car coming up the street 565 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:00,000 kind of struck the bedroom window, got my interest. 566 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,000 So I was looking out the window 567 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:05,000 and I saw kind of an economy type red car. 568 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:13,000 A young man got out of the car and, oh, he was nervous. 569 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,000 First thing popped in my mind, 570 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,000 oh, somebody's sneaking out of the house. 571 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,000 And after a few minutes, 572 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:22,000 a lady was coming down the street 573 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,000 and they walked to the car together 574 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,000 and went on their merry way. 575 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,000 I believe that she could be seduced 576 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:36,000 into thinking she found someone who needed her 577 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,000 and could love her. 578 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:45,000 I think that she was bait, good bait, for a predator. 579 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:48,000 Hello. 580 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:51,000 Two hours after Trisha was seen getting into the red car, 581 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:54,000 Glenda Trip, a local convenience store employee, 582 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,000 witnessed a strange incident. 583 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,000 Are you all right, honey? 584 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,000 Yeah, I'm OK, thanks. 585 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:07,000 She seemed really apprehensive and nervous 586 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:09,000 and she never acted like she was wanting to buy anything, 587 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:11,000 but she kept kind of stretching her little head 588 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,000 and looking out the window 589 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:16,000 like she was looking for someone or watching for someone. 590 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:20,000 I've seen her in and about the neighborhood, 591 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,000 so I knew Trisha. 592 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:26,000 I have no doubt in my mind that it was Trisha. 593 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,000 After spending 20 minutes in the store 594 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:32,000 and making no purchases, Trisha vanished. 595 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:38,000 Over the next two months, 596 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:41,000 the police and the arteries posted missing posters 597 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:43,000 in the surrounding communities. 598 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,000 A man in Bountiful, Utah, 599 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:50,000 saw one of the fliers and immediately contacted the authorities. 600 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,000 What Jerry's startup witnessed 601 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:59,000 would cast an entirely new and unsettling light on the case. 602 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:06,000 I had gone into the supermarket to do some shopping. 603 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:11,000 I saw coming through the door this young lady, 604 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:14,000 followed by another lady and a gentleman 605 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:17,000 lagging behind a little bit to the right of them. 606 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:22,000 The man matched the description of the individual 607 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:25,000 who was seen picking up Trisha from her home. 608 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:29,000 Both he and the woman never let the girl out of their sight 609 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:33,000 and constantly berated her in hushed tones. 610 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:36,000 I looked a little bit closer and saw that her eyes 611 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:40,000 were partially closed and her face was a little puffy. 612 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:46,000 My goodness, this young lady's perhaps been beaten or abused. 613 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:49,000 I thought she was drugged. 614 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:52,000 She had the appearance of being drugged. 615 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:54,000 Was it Trisha? Yes. 616 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:57,000 How confident am I that that was her? 617 00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:58,000 100%. 618 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:01,000 I knew beyond a shot of a doubt that was her. 619 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:02,000 That was her. 620 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:07,000 My feeling right now is she's probably being kept from coming back, 621 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:12,000 either by force or by somebody keeping her sedated or on drugs 622 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,000 or something that wants to keep her. 623 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:19,000 I think this is an abduction type of situation. 624 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:21,000 I don't think it's a typical runaway. 625 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:26,000 For me as a mother, the greatest thing is this is a tiny person that I 626 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:32,000 loved and nurtured and worried about and I can no longer protect her. 627 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,000 I don't know where she is. 628 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:41,000 When I drive through town and I see things that we would have been 629 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:47,000 sharing together or activities come up that we commonly did together as a family. 630 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:55,000 And she's not there and there's no, I mean, sometimes the grief just washes over you 631 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:58,000 and it takes your breath away. 632 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:09,000 Since we filmed the story of Trisha Autry's disappearance, investigators from 633 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:13,000 the Sheriff's Department in Logan, Utah have made a tragic discovery. 634 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:17,000 Trisha's case is no longer classified as that of a missing person. 635 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:22,000 Sadly, it is now a homicide and a suspect is in custody. 636 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:28,000 Six months after Trisha's disappearance, 637 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:32,000 the Cache County Sheriff's Deputies became suspicious about the activities of 638 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:38,000 Cody Lynn Nielsen, a maintenance man working for a wildlife research facility 639 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:43,000 in Millville, Utah, eight miles from the home of Trisha Autry. 640 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:48,000 Near the time of Trisha's disappearance, Nielsen had been observed using a backhoe 641 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:54,000 on facility property to dig deep trenches and refill them for no apparent reason. 642 00:35:55,000 --> 00:36:01,000 We contacted a cadaver dog team out of Duchain County here in Utah 643 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:07,000 and we brought the dogs up to this site and they were real interested and they hit 644 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:13,000 what they called hit on this one area right here that we knew that our suspect had been digging. 645 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:18,000 And the dogs hit on this several times, about seven different dogs hit on this. 646 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:25,000 Sheriff's Department investigators began to dig with their own backhoe 647 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:28,000 at the location suggested by the dogs. 648 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:34,000 When we got to about ten feet, we found a human jaw bone, 649 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:38,000 which later was determined to be Trisha Autry's. 650 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:44,000 It was just nothing short of a miracle that we found that piece of evidence in that big of a hole. 651 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:50,000 In other trenches, Sheriff's deputies found more of Trisha's remains and clothing, 652 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:53,000 some of which had been burned. 653 00:36:56,000 --> 00:37:03,000 For Trisha's mother, the news of the discovery brought great pain, but also a sense of relief. 654 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:07,000 Primarily because of our faith, we know where she is now. 655 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:11,000 Where before we wondered, we would lie awake together at night 656 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:16,000 and worry about whether she was in the cold or whether someone was hurting her. 657 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:27,000 It's probably been very agonizing, but also very validating because we knew that she did not run away. 658 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:46,000 Grace Hospital, Richmond, Virginia 659 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:57,000 On February 9, 1965, a shadowy figure holding a tiny infant slipped silently down the hall. 660 00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:01,000 The child had been diagnosed with congenital glaucoma, 661 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:06,000 a rare condition, a present at birth, that leaves a complete blindness, 662 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:10,000 unless surgery is performed within the first few months of life. 663 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:18,000 The woman who said her name was Mary Carson gave the child's name as Kim, her age, two and a half months. 664 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:26,000 Nurse supervisor Billy Uptdike held the little girl while Mary completed admission papers. 665 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:31,000 However, Billy was stunned by what she heard next. 666 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:37,000 Mary told Billy she had two older children at home that couldn't be left alone. 667 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:40,000 She said she would return first thing in the morning. 668 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:48,000 She seemed very calm. She didn't display any emotion at all, and I would have been crying. 669 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:51,000 It would have been heartbroken if I had to leave my baby. 670 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:56,000 She seemed very calm. She didn't display any emotion at all, and I would have been crying. 671 00:38:56,000 --> 00:39:00,000 It would have been heartbroken if I had to leave my baby. 672 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:07,000 Perhaps it affected Mary far more than she let on, but Billy would never know. 673 00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:14,000 When she returned to work the next day, she was shocked to learn that Mary had failed to show up for her baby's operation. 674 00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:18,000 Number disconnected. All notified, administration. 675 00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:22,000 Without her, doctors could not perform the surgery. 676 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:28,000 Desperate, hospital administrator Douglas Pace attempted to track Mary down himself. 677 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:35,000 I went out to the address looking for the mother, and I found a vacant lot. 678 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:39,000 All the houses had been demolished and the block was completely vacant. 679 00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:49,000 I was stunned and shocked, and made me feel kind of sad that I realized then we had a baby on our hands without a parent. 680 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:59,000 With time running out, Douglas Pace convinced the judge to issue a court order allowing doctors to perform the surgery. 681 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:04,000 The operation was considered a success, but Kim's eyesight would never be normal. 682 00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:14,000 An article in the February 11, 1965 edition of The Richmond Times generated an outpouring of sympathy, donations and adoption inquiries. 683 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:19,000 But the coverage failed to turn up one solid clue as to who would abandon baby Kim. 684 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:22,000 A police investigation also led nowhere. 685 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:33,000 Eighteen months, numerous operations and several foster homes later, another report in The Times caught the eye of local residents Richard and Sandra Butler. 686 00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:38,000 Sandra's husband Richard was especially taken by the heart-wrenching story. 687 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:42,000 This is going to be my baby. This is what he said. 688 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:45,000 End of discussion. 689 00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:49,000 He thinks we're going to do this. I'll go along with him. 690 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:55,000 We made a mind up from start. We wanted on. We got him. 691 00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:02,000 Sandra and Richard opened their home and their hearts to the toddler they named Kimberly Dawn. 692 00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:07,000 Kim was treated exactly like the Butler's two biological children. 693 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:11,000 But her poor eyesight made life a constant struggle. 694 00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:21,000 I do remember being very angry, being very frustrated about not being able to go and do a lot of things that other children could do. 695 00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:27,000 Which was hard because on one hand they wanted me to grow up very normal, but yet I couldn't do all the normal things. 696 00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:35,000 Despite her disability, Kim graduated from high school, attended college and went to work as a teacher. 697 00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:40,000 In 1989, she married Michael Smith, the deputy sheriff. 698 00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:48,000 Over the years, Kim showed little interest in learning about her birth parents until she became a parent herself. 699 00:41:49,000 --> 00:42:01,000 Once I became a mom and had two children and could tell you to this day, every moment about the day they were born, the time, how much they weighed their birth dates, 700 00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:05,000 I started thinking I don't know any of those things about me. 701 00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:10,000 But it was more than curiosity that led Kim to search for her identity. 702 00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:19,000 As a baby, her son Tyler had suffered from repeated bouts of respiratory infections. Doctors feared the cause was genetic. 703 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:28,000 That was kind of like the straw that broke the camel's back after going to several doctors and being able to tell anything they needed to know about my side of the family. 704 00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:33,000 That was kind of what made me decide that it was time for me to start a search. 705 00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:44,000 If I could just find those answers to all those questions I have, and most importantly find the medical history for my children and I, that's what I'm in search of. 706 00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:46,000 That's what I hope to gain. 707 00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:53,000 Kim is understandably concerned for the health of her children, yet she harbors no anger against her birth mother. 708 00:42:53,000 --> 00:43:04,000 We always were led to believe that she left me because maybe she couldn't afford the medical treatment I would need having congenital glaucoma. 709 00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:14,000 I can't be angry at her about that. She could have not taken me to the hospital. She could have not registered me for the surgery. Therefore, I might not have any sight today. 710 00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:22,000 Kimberly Smith was dropped off at a Richmond, Virginia hospital on February 9th, 1965. 711 00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:42,000 With every mystery, a single critical clue may be the key to a solution. Perhaps you hold that key. Join us for the next edition of Unsolved Mysteries.