Summary
The woman in the back of the truck was flailing her arms, screaming. They thought she was doing something dangerous for the fun of it. But when they found a jacket near a pool of blood, they knew what they'd seen wasn't a joy ride; it was an abduction.
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| 0:00.0 | Up next, it looked like a joyride, but it was something much worse. |
| 0:06.0 | She was going to jump out of the back of the truck while it was moving. |
| 0:08.0 | We just thought it was a crazy drunk person, you know, just partying. |
| 0:13.0 | The evidence suggests foul play. |
| 0:15.0 | All we knew is that there was a woman who was in distress in this truck. |
| 0:18.0 | But was this an accident or murder? |
| 0:21.8 | His story was inconsistent with reality. |
| 0:29.4 | The Bullpen Bar in the northern California town of Gernville was becoming a hangout for 32-year-old Michelle Johnson. |
| 0:42.8 | The one-time, aspiring model had fallen on tough times. |
| 0:47.4 | After the breakup of her 10-year marriage, Michelle and her two young children were forced to live with her parents. |
| 0:55.0 | And that wasn't working out. |
| 0:57.0 | There was some strain between Michelle and her mom and the stepfather, Paul. |
| 1:03.0 | They didn't see eye to eye on a lot of things. |
| 1:07.0 | So Michelle moved out and got her own apartment. To celebrate, Michelle went to the bullpen bar |
| 1:14.6 | where she was supposed to meet her friends. |
| 1:17.6 | Michelle stayed for about 25 minutes, |
| 1:20.6 | talked briefly to some bar patrons, and had three drinks. |
| 1:24.6 | We could see that she seemed to be acting appropriately. She seemed to be having a good time. |
| 1:30.3 | Then she left by herself at 12.54 a.m. |
| 1:35.3 | Michelle's friends who were in Michelle's apartment building left to meet her at the bar. |
| 1:42.3 | But as they walked outside, they saw something unusual. |
| 1:47.0 | It was a red pickup truck, with a woman in the back of the truck flailing her arms. |
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