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This episode contains disturbing accounts of violence and sexual assault. Listener discretion is advised.

Sean and I were very close. She was my sister. When I woke up that next morning, Shana wasn't there. The police

told me they discovered a body. I see bruises all over arms and legs. This is not natural. This is

homicide. As soon as I saw the blood and the hair, I just thought, oh man, the suspect's here.

We have a search warrant to collect DNA from him.

I was afraid that they might convict me of this.

I was scared for my life.

Take care of your siblings, but there's some things. In this world, you just can't get back.

There are over 100,000 cold cases in America. Only about 1% are ever solved. This is one of those

rare stories.

It's June 13, 1993, in Yakima, Washington.

It's a warm and sunny day in rural Washington state when a panicked parkgoer calls the police.

Nolan Wentz is a detective with the Yakima Police Department.

I was told that a group of Boy Scouts in a canoe trip had come upon the body of this young

woman that was kind of washed up on a sandbar in the middle of the river. They picked her up,

foot her into the canoe and brought her over to shore.

But they didn't want to risk the water being able to wash her down river.

One of the scout masters was a doctor.

He realized that there was something absolutely wrong here.

This is a young woman who had nothing but a bra on that was pushed up around her shoulders,

laying face down in the water.

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