here's dennis murphy with shannon's story! >> the snapshots, the videos.nted 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 little sister monique was just 13 years old. >> i received a phone call former roommate. >> shannon was a -- sophomore year in atlanta. they received a phone call from their childhood home. and on the other line was athena, the college roommate. >> athena was distraught, and was asking me if i heard or spoke to shannon. >> shannon had not been seen or heard for

here's dennis murphy with "at the edge of town". >> yards from the chicken place is an unlikely scrap of wilderness in a southern illinois town. a thicket of vines and rumbles. acres of thorns that tear at the flush. for years, people just sped by without a second look. but something terrible happened there one cold night in the winter of 2014. that brought a stranger to town. a mother, looking for answers about her son. >> i knew one thing, i wasn't going to stop. >> no matter how painful the truth turned out to be. does it hurt you to be back here? >> yes. >> her heartbreak launched another mother's fight. >> i wanted to save my son. i'm a fighter. i'm a mom. >> and divided an entire community. >> no matter who you are, no matter where you came from, right is right and wrong is wrong. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> few people know this part of southern illinois better than monica's zucas. this mother of two children has spent most of her life in these parts. >> i think for the average a small town, america. >> who runs it? >> that's a hard question. until something goes wrong, we all do. >> welcome to re

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 is dennis murphy with the conclusion of, the day jennifer disappeared.re was a knock on his door. police arrested him for jennifer's murder. states attorney, richard calandrelli, the head of the investigation, told dateline he waited until he had an airtight case before filing the homicide charge. >> i want to make sure that we had all the information we are able to. to prove the case when we went forward. i know attorney path is it's a great turning it's going to attack everything that we do. >> in addition to the mouths of evidence already disclosed. the prosecutor revealed a new clue that he says proves davis plotted his estranged wife murder. but >> most telling us that the supplies that were cut had jennifer's blood on them. >> this is a new element a lot of us. what are the zip ties? >> our theories that they were used to incapacitate jennifer in the garage. >> calandrelli believes that he brought this in times with him planted to control jennifer. but things took an unexpected turn when she fought for her life, and that explains all the blood in t

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