It was just before dawn on April 7th, 1994 at the Hawley Park apartment complex in Arlington,

Texas, when the residents of one of the buildings were evacuated due to a blazing fire that

had started in one of the units. It was a three alarm blaze that damaged eight units

and left 20 people displaced from their homes. But as the tenants stood outside, huddling

together and watching the flames engulf their home, they noticed that someone was missing.

19-year-old Missy Gruba was not standing amongst them, but her neighbors saw her car

in the parking lot. The fire department was able to get the fire under control within

an hour or so, and they located the source, but they did not anticipate what they would

walk in on. Missy was found lying on her bed, naked, and stabbed multiple times through

the heart and other places on her body. And police believed that whoever had killed her

had started the blaze to cover their tracks and to destroy the evidence. In today's

episode, we will discuss what happened to Missy, who was just days away from her 20th

birthday, and we will find out who did this to her and why.

Hello everybody, welcome to Crime Weekly. I'm Stephanie Harlow.

And I'm Derek Lvassar.

So today we're talking about the case of 19-year-old Missy Gruba. She was murdered in her own

apartment. She was a college student. She had a lot going for her. But I know before

we dive in, Derek, you had some housekeeping things you wanted to address.

Yeah. And we might have this from time to time, especially when we're going into such

detail on these cases. I want to make sure we have it right when we can. And after last

week's episode, someone reached out, who's in the Forensics field, about you had asked

me, listen, there was that fingerprint smudge on Crystal's wrist. Could that be used to identify

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