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🗓️ 20 September 2017
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Jan Manders can’t accept the finding that her daughter’s death was an accident. She walks away on her daughter Jennifer’s fifth birthday and declines into substance abuse and mental illness. Jennifer and her older brother, Christopher, are pretty much left to raise themselves. Jan hires a private detective, Norbert Kurczewski, to investigate Michelle’s disappearance. Kurczewski tracks down a waitress and several patrons at a restaurant in Black Earth, about 70 miles away, who say they saw Michelle there during the time she was missing.
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0:00.0 | Previously on Unsolved. |
0:04.0 | So you don't remember if he actually came in? |
0:07.0 | No, I don't. |
0:08.0 | Because one of the, the other sister said she remembers a man coming in her room. |
0:13.0 | Oh, then half it could be Joe then. |
0:16.0 | It could be. |
0:17.0 | But if you don't remember that. |
0:19.0 | No, I don't. |
0:20.0 | Today, Jennifer isn't sure whether the man she saw was Joe or someone else, |
0:24.9 | but she's adamant about one thing. |
0:27.3 | He came into the room in the middle of the night while she and Michelle were asleep. |
0:31.8 | I never believed this story that she wandered away and drowned. |
0:35.4 | I mean, that's just very unrealistic. |
0:40.6 | For the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, I'm criminal justice investigative reporter Gina Barton. This is season two of |
0:46.5 | Unsolved, a toddler's death, a tangled trail. Michelle's mother Jan couldn't stop replaying that night in her head, wishing she could go back and change things. |
1:03.2 | I always had regrets. I wish I never took her arms off of my neck. I went back in her bed and laid with her. I regret that, but I went through that with |
1:11.7 | myself. If I never had taken my hands off of her and just slept in her bed with her, |
1:16.4 | I was always trying to convince myself I only would have stayed in that room, somewhere in that |
1:21.6 | room. That might not have happened. I would have seen it. After Michelle disappeared and was later found dead, |
1:29.1 | Jennifer still had to stay in the same bedroom |
1:32.2 | that she had once shared with Michelle. |
1:34.6 | And her mother painted the walls. |
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