The following podcast contains dramatizations of actual events. Certain situations, dialogue, names,

and locations may have been changed. Some scenes are graphic in nature. Listener discretion is advised. Up next, no one knows why she's a target for murder.

There's a little PTSD from when you see this young girl and what he did to her.

There are a lot of very sick, sick people out there.

Tremendous violence has analysts scouring the scene for evidence.

I was collecting everything on the floor except the floor itself.

The search is on for a pair of boots worn by the killer.

Police say whoever killed Kaylee Bruce at this condo office left tracks at the scene.

Ultimately, a microscopic clue tells the story and exposes a killer hiding in plain sight.

Brentie evidence in his case was the whole case. Without it, we wouldn't have this animal off the street.

Music Located on the banks of Lake Michigan, Traverse City draws thousands of tourists every summer.

It's beautiful. There's a lot of people think it looks like the Mediterranean.

The bay itself is a world-class sailing venue. They've had people from all over the world come out here to sail West Bay.

But once summer is over, most tourists are long

gone. The locals stay behind to brave the region's notoriously brutal winter weather, and the city

goes back to being a small town. It's a close-knit town. It's a safe enough area where if you pull up

to like a stoplight, you look in the car

next to you to see if you know somebody who's driving next to you. You wouldn't do that in a big

city. During the winter of 1998, Kim Kilderhouse and her friend, 18-year-old Kaylee Bruce,

worked at an apartment complex called Beach Condominiums.

Kaylee, in her first year of college, worked the front desk.

We both worked weekends.

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