S2 Ep7: 'I'll see her in heaven'

Unsolved

USA TODAY and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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3.9 • 792 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Police investigate Edward Wayne Edwards in connection with Jefferson County’s unsolved deaths. Edwards once worked at the Concord House, where Timothy Hack and Kelly Drew disappeared from while attending a wedding reception. Edwards, a con man who wrote a book in the 1970s about his transformation from criminal to upstanding citizen, ultimately confesses to killing Hack, Drew and three other people. He denies killing Michelle. Jan comes to accept that she will never know what really happened to Michelle.

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0:00.0	Previously on Unsolved.
0:06.7	After Michelle disappeared, the cops came around again and started asking Joe more questions about the death of the baby.
0:16.2	Well, I know they told Amanda's a bunch of lies about me.
0:19.8	And then they tried to relate it to my son disappearing.
0:23.6	He didn't disappear.
0:24.6	He died from SIDS.
0:26.6	What his knowledge about what happened that night would only be speculation on my part.
0:31.6	I could speculate he doesn't know anything of what happened.
0:34.6	On the other hand, I could turn around and say, yeah,
0:38.3	he was involved in it 100% from the get-go. After the cops hit a wall with Joe, and after the
0:46.5	private detective Michelle's mom hired, hit a dead end with a sketch of a couple that had
0:52.5	allegedly been seen with her in a cafe,
0:55.6	Michelle's case went cold again.
0:58.1	It stayed that way for five more years.
1:01.1	And then, a farmer walked into the sheriff's department
1:04.5	with a tip about a serial killer.
1:11.3	For the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, I'm Criminal Justice investigative reporter Gina Barton.
1:17.2	This is the final episode of Unsolved Season 2, A Toddler's Death, A Tangled Trail.
1:32.3	Thank you. a tangled trail. On October 17, 1972, Ed Edwards appeared on the television game show to tell the truth.
1:53.3	To tell the truth. To tell the truth was a TV game show that came on originally in the 50s,
1:56.2	and it was pretty popular for about 20 years or so.
2:02.4	And the premise of the show is that there's one genuine person and two impostors.
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