BREAKING NEWS in Jonelle Matthews search: 12-year-old girl goes missing after school pageant

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 19 October 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Jonelle Matthews, 12, disappears from her family home in Greeley, Colorado, after a school concert. Footprints are found outside the home. Nothing is disturbed inside, but Jonelle is gone. Decades later, her body is found in 2019, but police are no closer to solving the crime. Now there's been an arrest. Who killed Jonelle Matthews? Joining Nancy Grace today:Ashley Willcott - Judge and trial attorney, Anchor on Court TV, www.ashleywillcott.com Dr. Daniel Bober - Forensic Psychiatrist, Chief of Psychiatry Memorial Regional Healthcare Systems, Assistant Clinical Professor at Yale University School of Medicine, follow on Instagram at drdanielboberRorbert Crispin; Private Investigator “Crispin Special Investigations” www.crispinsinvestigations.com Joe Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics Jacksonville State University, Author, "Blood Beneath My Feet" featured on "Poisonous Liaisons" on True Crime NetworkLevi Page - Investigative reporter Crime Online Leigh Egan - Crime Online Investigative ReporterStewart Jacoby - former Reporter KMGH TV Denver

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0:38.7	Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
0:43.6	A 12-year-old little girl sings for the choir and then goes missing seemingly vanishing into thin air.
0:59.5	On December 20th, 1984, Janelle Matthews attended a church, excuse me, a school choir concert
1:08.0	about a block and a half from where we stand right now. She was driven home to her
1:13.4	West Greeley home by her family friend, walked into her house and that was the last time she was
1:19.4	seen alive. By the time her father arrived home an hour later, Janelle was missing.
1:25.6	What ensued was a 35-year-long investigation into her disappearance.
1:31.1	President Ronald Reagan mentions Janelle by name in a speech in 1985. Her picture,
1:38.8	and her identifying information, was one of the first to be on the milk cartons that were put out
1:44.9	in all of the schools nationwide by the National Child Safety Council.
1:49.7	The number of searches were conducted in Northern Colorado. Nothing from those searches ever led to any
1:56.9	answers about Janelle's disappearance. Guys, I don't understand how a family friend can drive
2:04.0	the child home. The father gets there one hour later and she's gone. Joining me in all-star
2:12.4	panel to break it down and put it back together again. First of all, judge and trial lawyer and
2:18.3	mom anchor at court TV Ashley Wilcott. You can find her at Ashley Wilcott.com. Dr. Daniel Bober,
2:25.8	forensic psychiatrist, chief of psychiatry, memorial regional health care systems, clinical professor
2:32.4	Yale. You can find them on Insta at Dr. Daniel Bober, Robert Crispin, private investigator,
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