janelle stonebraker: the theories were just awful.verything from drug rings to prostitution rings. that somehow this young girl brought it on herself. right? because surely, she had to be at fault in this. painful for your parents. horrible. my mother eventually did not go out of the house. she just stayed at home. dennis murphy: michelle's death and the failure to find her killer also had a profound effect on the city where she'd lived. people were really upset and traumatized by it. trish mehaffey is the courts reporter for the cedar rapids paper, "the gazette." trish mehaffey: back in 1979, cedar rapids, it was smaller than it is even now. it was a close knit community. cedar rapids in those days was very mayberry-like, and honestly, what happened to michelle kind of stripped away not just our innocence but the innocence of the whole town. [music playing] dennis murphy: it settled over the city, the thought that michelle's killer might never be caught. the '70s became the '80s and then the '90s. the dawn of dna testing finally gave