here's dennis murphy with "and then there were three". >> it was an act of unspeakable violence. >> it was a really horrific crime. everybody was scared. >> a murder that shattered a family. >> my parents were devastated. my mother eventually did not cool out of the house. >> a who done it that grabbed hold of the city and wouldn't let go. >> it's been a cloud hanging over the community for 40 years. >> a case that touched generations of investigators, who refused to quit until the killer was found. >> we've cared about this family, they cared about solving this murder. they weren't going to give up. and they didn't. >> kurt thomas says he was a lucky kid. he got to grow up in cedar rapids, iowa. it >> was a magical level. we didn't know anything but fun. >> a lot of that fun happened at the mall,. four teenagers, it was the place to shop, eat and hang out. that's where the kids hung, her? >> it was a place you could go at anytime. and it was feebly deal. >> high school senior michelle martinko was normal right. but she did shop and work at one near her home. michelle was a top student

here's dennis murphy with shannon's story! >> the portraits, the snapshots, the videos.documented her life. >> the photographer dad, the camera professional captured every moment of his daughter's life. >> she loved life. she wanted to do everything! >> these parents did not know back then how difficult it would be one day to look at these memories. >> i want to remember her voice. i put on a video. >> it's probably the hardest. it's hearing her voice. >> i'm shannon melendi welcome, to our special segment. >> when i look at that video, definitely a sweet memory. i look back at how just innocent we were. >> shannon was someone who wanted to live. >> but then came that phone call, way back in march 1994. shannon melendi's little sister monique was just 13 years old. >> i received a phone call former roommate. >> shannon was midway through her sophomore year in atlanta. they received a phone call from their childhood home in miami. and on the other line was athena, her sister's college roommate. >> athena was distraught, and was asking me if i heard or spoken to shannon. >

here is dennis murphy with family affair. >> if ever there was a little girl lost, it was may a bond.om when i was little, i was always in the way. >> she survived a mother daughter relationship quite unlike any you've ever heard. >> my mother is my cactus. you will eventually get her. >> and at the intersection of blood and mom money, -- there's plenty of both just ahead. >> it's really an amazing, unusual, frightening story. >> what ended so badly in a darkened hotel room with the curtains drawn, has its beginnings really in the warm sense of south florida. >> not the south beach of today with its hot bodies and pulsating dance clubs. that's all marketing reinvention of a much older miami beach. we need to go back 50 years or more. caddies could tell fans were pulling into the newest, glitziest hotel and the east coast, the fountain would. >> it should be a great city. >> a hotel real or dealer called ben novak builds it. steven gaines wrote about the era in his book fools paradise. >> it became a destination for the rat back, frank sinatra, a lot of major stars were appearing. lots

dennis murphy: did you talk to her in the courtroom that day? joe kowynia: yes. joe kowynia: that i love her. you know that we miss her and that we finally got him and hopefully you can rest in peace and we can move on. >>> good morning welcome to "street signs." i i'm joumanna bercetche these are your headlines g7 leaders look for support as volodymyr zelenskyy leads a ceremony in kyiv. >>> and europe trades higher, but u.s. futures dip with the s&p on pace for the worst week of the year. jamie dimon tells cnbc that rates could hit 6% >> the fed will do what it has to do. it may not be enough i think -- >> 2% inflation? >> i think it will take a while. >> rates longer? higher and longer? >> possibly. >>> europe's economy is worse than expected in the quarter with the gdp contracting in germany. >>> and basf plunges as it posts a more than 600 million euro loss and slashes earnings guidance again >>> good morning welcome to "street signs." today marks one year since russia invaded ukraine thousands of people have been killed cities destroyed and the millions of p

. >> that's dennis murphy reporting on it for nbc nightly news. >> they're known as serial killers andrcement officials, there are at least 35 of them roaming the country now. >> and these two admitted killers told police about one particular victim, in colorado. >> the confessed to committing the murder of helene pruszynski. what was unique about then is that detectives often thought that there might have been another person may be in the car waiting for whoever they took out into the field. that was one of the theories. >> so, these two guys who worked together, these powerful prolific serial killers, that certainly fit? >> it certainly fit. >> it's pretty seductive when a couple of serial killers who are on the hook for a lot of other murders confessed to your murder, because it would close a lot of cases if you can link them to these guys. >> that's right. obviously they were like, this is awesome. we've got a confession. >> colorado investigators headed for texas to interview lucas themselves. >> you're being questioned in connection with a crime of homicide. >> the detectives sho

guess we didn't talk about that, but i but i know that they had a lot of pride this murphy at the brewery there was denny, there was mike rorty who came up with this bud's for you. and weekends were made for michelob there was dan flynn and they actually went to ireland, made budweiser like the number one lager in ireland, which is amazing. they they bought the derby, the horse race and because they were irish-american, they established this great relationship ships with the irish because in business, denny was telling me a lot about how close the irish and irish americans in ireland do overseas business together. and of course, ireland being the only english speaking eu country now, is just such a natural gateway to europe that there's a very close affinity between americans and particularly irish americans and and and the irish. but now we didn't talk much about mr. bush or his feelings. yeah, but i'm sure it was, you know, interesting some interesting cultural dynamics going on there. yes. oops. so i get this question right in the old, old times, the english the rich english people. i'm talking about,