Post Mortem | The Girl From Wahoo
48 Hours
CBS News
4.1 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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48 Hours correspondents Anne-Marie Green and Natalie Morales examine the cold case of Mary Kay Heese, a 17-year-old girl who was murdered in Wahoo, Nebraska in 1969. They discuss the behind-the-scenes footage of the cold case unit in 1999, why investigators kept digging into Mary Kay’s murder, and how the evidence came together to make an arrest over 50 years later.
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| 0:58.6 | Welcome to postmortem. I'm your host, Anne-Marie Green, and today we're discussing the murder of Mary Kay Hesse, a 17-year-old high school student from Wahoo, Nebraska. She was killed in 1969. 59, 55 years and multiple investigations later, one of the very first suspects, Joseph Ambrose, was finally arrested and charged with |
| 1:05.7 | Mary Kay's murder. Joining me now as 48-hour correspondent, Natalie Morales. Natalie, you worked on this episode. |
| 1:13.0 | It was, I mean, it was a doozy. |
| 1:15.5 | Yes, it was. |
| 1:17.0 | And good to see you again, Anne-Marie. |
| 1:18.5 | In fact, this is one of the longest cold cases that 48 hours has been working on. |
| 1:22.8 | Before we dive deeper, just a reminder to everyone, if you haven't listened to this episode |
| 1:27.4 | of 48 hours, |
| 1:28.5 | you're going to find it in the podcast feed just below this one. Listen and then come on back for |
| 1:34.4 | this conversation. Okay. So, Natalie, you know, watching the years tick by, I really didn't think |
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