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0:00.0 | In 1991, a high school girl vanished after attending a party. |
0:06.0 | Her abandoned vehicle was found in a school parking lot near her home. |
0:12.0 | The prime suspect had not won, but two alibi witnesses for the night she disappeared. |
0:20.0 | A solid alibi can often overcome much circumstantial evidence. |
0:27.0 | But forensic evidence is another matter. |
0:34.0 | On a Saturday night in November of 1991, 17-year-old Crystal Fade Todd was dropped off in a |
0:49.0 | mall parking lot after attending a party. |
0:53.0 | Since Crystal didn't have to be home for another hour, she said she was going to get something to eat before heading home. |
1:01.0 | It was the last time Crystal was seen alive. |
1:06.0 | When she wasn't home by 1am, her mother contacted police. |
1:11.0 | She also called Crystal's best friend, Ken Register, who said he hadn't seen Crystal all night. |
1:18.0 | After I talked to Ken Raster, I called him one of my friends and he got up out of bed and came in and we went all over Conway Hunter. |
1:25.0 | See if we could find her car anywhere. |
1:29.0 | They found her car the next morning in a nearby school parking lot. Her person coat were inside. |
1:36.0 | I don't know why I had to feed it. It just something coming over me that somebody had Crystal. |
1:42.0 | 17-year-old Crystal Fade Todd was a senior in high school living in the small tobacco farming town of Conway, South Carolina. |
1:53.0 | I was 39 and she was born. She was a miracle to me. And I just couldn't leave a hat or I was proud I was proud ever too. |
2:06.0 | Crystal's dad died when she was very young. But she grew up as a happy child, active in her church, sung in the youth group choir and dreamt of going to college. |
2:19.0 | She was very lively, good personality, good humor, very outgoing. Just loved to be with her friends, hanging out and having a good time. |
2:29.0 | Just a few hours after Crystal's abandoned car was found in a school parking lot, two hunters in a remote field noticed a trail of blood. |
2:40.0 | It led to a nearby ditch, Verly a woman's body with multiple stab wounds and partially disrobed. |
2:51.0 | It was brutal and it was a... it's a scene that will be with me for a long time. |
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