Hey everybody welcome back to cold case murder mysteries. I'm your host Ryan Kraus inviting you into my time machine for a trip back to 1989 where we'll be examining the harrowing psychological narrative inherent within the unsolved abduction and murder of

10-year-old Bay Village Ohio resident Amy Mahalovic.

On the morning of Friday, October 27, 1989, Amy, a fifth grader at the local middle school, prepared to leave the family's home on her bike to go to class.

Described essentially as a tomboy, Amy is wearing green sweatpants and a sweatshirt comprised of green and lavender colors and is also

wearing a backpack described as denim and red along with a white windbreaker she's not

wearing. The temperature outside that day is going up to 74

Fahrenheit, which is unseasonably warm for that late into the month of October in Ohio,

especially along the shores of Lake Erie, where Bay Village resides.

Likewise, once the sun begins to go down in the afternoon, the temperature will dip fairly quickly

and the breeze coming off those waters is going to be chilly, thus the

windbreaker. I believe we have a low that night of about 42. Which means we have to pause right here even before the story begins.

It's 720 a.m. and Amy is about to walk out the door wearing only the sweatshirt and not the windbreaker as well.

If a sweatshirt is all she needs to stay warm at 720 a.m.

that it stands to reason that a windbreaker would be completely unnecessary

because the temperature is going to keep rising into the 70s.

She wouldn't need to be warmer at 2.04 p.m. when she leaves school for the day.

In fact, not only will it be much warmer at 204 PM, but it will be even warmer than that an hour

later at 3 PM.

According to weather reports, there was a 0% chance of inclement weather that day, specifically precipitation.

So Amy clearly didn't think she was going to encounter rain, as one might assume in a cloudy

fall day. But once the day gets closer to 4 p.m. that time of year,

temperatures begin to cool somewhat rapidly as the sun lowers. By the time it's dark or getting closer to it, one might very

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