S2 Ep7: A troubled history

Unsolved

USA TODAY and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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3.9 • 792 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Police investigate Teri Mueller’s husband, Joe, who has a long criminal record and whom police suspect may have been involved in the death of his son from his first marriage. His account of the events surrounding Michelle’s death don’t match Jan’s and the results of his polygraph are inconclusive, but police can never find the evidence to tie him to the crime.

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0:00.0	Previously on Unsolved.
0:05.6	We have a statement from a 20-year-old female friend in the home that evening that she left
0:11.6	my shout out that evening.
0:14.3	Do you have any idea why?
0:15.8	No, we have no idea other than the fact that she maybe became annoyed because she had not been picked up at this time
0:26.8	and handed the girl the purse and just opened the door for her.
0:31.4	This girl was babysitting for Michelle?
0:33.0	No. She was visiting at Amanda's home at the time.
0:37.0	Why hasn't it come up before this, do you think?
0:39.9	I don't know.
0:43.3	For the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, I'm Criminal Justice investigative reporter Gina Barton.
0:49.1	This is Season 2 of Unsolved, a toddler's death, a tangled trail.
1:05.0	From the beginning, Jan Manders suspected that Joe Mueller had something to do with Michelle's disappearance. Jan was friends with Joe's wife, Terry, who was at the Manders house the night Michelle vanished.
1:12.6	Jan says when Joe dropped off Terry that night, he asked Jan if he could borrow some money.
1:17.7	She said no.
1:19.5	A payday for me, and the people upstairs had just handed me their rent money as well.
1:27.3	So Joe knew I had money, and he did ask ask to borrow something and I told him I couldn't.
1:31.3	I had bills to take care of.
1:33.3	Did he seem angry when you told him he couldn't borrow money?
1:37.3	Yes, he was. He seemed angry.
1:39.3	I just thought I can't help him.
1:42.3	Can't do it.
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