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🗓️ 25 June 2025
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After the tragic murder of 34-year-old Maria Willson in October 2001, investigators in Michigan uncover their lead suspect’s dangerous past.
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1:01.7 | noticed something alarming. It looked like a car had crashed off the road into an embankment. |
1:08.3 | The vehicle was still running. There was no sign of the driver in the red |
1:12.8 | Dodge Neon, where the gear shift was stuck in drive and the front tire was spinning. The windshield |
1:18.7 | wipers were going and music was playing. The car looked beat up with a partially smashed windshield and a |
1:25.6 | broken windshield wiper. It looked like someone had thrown a rock |
1:29.1 | at it. According to the sheriff's investigative report, the vehicle's front end was hanging over |
1:35.3 | the embankment, and it appeared as if the vehicle was hung up on the frame. The utility worker called |
1:41.5 | 911. It was October 16, 2001. |
1:46.4 | Just before 10 a.m., law enforcement arrived to inspect the scene on the dead-end dirt road near the local community college in Texas township outside Kalamazoo, Michigan. |
1:56.9 | I just thought that I had an abandoned vehicle. Kalamazoo County Sheriff's deputy John Hoffman |
2:02.4 | would later testify about pulling up in his cruiser. That possibly someone in the middle of the |
2:08.3 | night during the rain tried to turn around back there and got stuck and then got locked out of their |
2:12.9 | car. Deputy Hoffman called a tow truck. The car was 50 feet off the road by a cul-de-sac, surrounded by |
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