When you talk about true victims, there's no one that's more of a true victim than her.

It's absolutely senseless and for her to die the way she did,

how do you even reconcile that?

How do you come to grips with it?

The community, I don't think,

whatever quite be the same after this. I'm Scott Weinberger, investigative journalist and former deputy sheriff.

I'm Aniseika Nikolazy, former New York City homicide prosecutor and host of

investigation discoveries true conviction and this is anatomy of murder. of Murk. Today's story takes place in Brooklyn, but not the one you're probably thinking of

or the one that I called home for decades.

This Brooklyn sits in the American Heartland of

Powashi County, Iowa about an hour's drive east of Des Moines.

Although it may look like one big cornfield, there are about 12 streets that make up the community of about 1,500 residents.

It's a place where homes are left unlocked and most people are on a first name basis.

But all of that changed in 2018. That year, Brooklyn became the

scene of a reprehensible crime that shocked not only the town, but the entire nation.

On July 19th, Special Agent Trent Villata of Iowa's division of criminal investigation got a phone call.

My supervisor had called me and said, hey,

Pauschik County has a missing person's case or something.

They're gonna do a big search tomorrow.

Can you just stop by and see if there's anything they need?

Trenton was well acquainted with missing person cases.

Iowa had recently seen a spike in the use of the drug methamphetamine, so he assumed the disappearance was related to that.

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