Hey, everyone. Welcome back to Crime Weekly News. I'm Derek Lavasser.

And I'm Stephanie Harlow.

And as you can probably tell by the title of this episode, we have an update in the Megan Trussell case.

The Colorado Department of Public Safety through the Colorado Bureau of Investigation and the Office of Liaison for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives have accepted a formal request to conduct a statutory case review into the death of 18-year-old

Megan Trussell. And Stephanie's going to give you a little overview of Megan's case if you're

not familiar with it. But for anybody who's been following us for any amount of time, then you

know that I've covered it on Detective Perspective. We did a live show at CrimeCon about it. And we are

also offering a $10,000 reward for information

that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for Megan's death.

So this is good news.

And I had done like an Instagram reel slash TikTok on this.

And to me, it's just, it's such a positive sign of the direction true crime is going and

the impact it can have because I said in my, in my little TikTok there that although this is

all the work of Megan's family, like they applied for the application to get this done and

they're putting in the actual legwork.

But I do believe that the public pressure and the amount of notoriety surrounding Megan's case absolutely has an influence on these agencies, whether or not they decide to approve these types of reviews.

Because they know if they don't

there are people watching and listening and holding them accountable and people who are really

curious about this case and have a passion for it now and feel like they're part of something so

it just it just goes to show you like there are some negative stigmas around true crime, but

if used the right way, it really can have a positive impact.

Yeah.

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