Welcome back to Crime Salad.

In this episode, we're doing a throwback for you of the heartbreaking and still unsolved case of Amy Mahalovic.

It's been 35 years since 10-year-old Amy was abducted from a shopping plaza in Bay Village, Ohio.

Her body found, months later, in a rural field, a mystery that has haunted her family in investigators

ever since. Although many years have passed, this case is far from cold. In fact, New Hope may be on the horizon, which is why we're not

letting this episode on our feed go cold either. Recent advancements in DNA technology are leading

investigators back to the evidence, specifically hair found on a blanket and curtain near Amy's

body, now being tested at a specialized lab in California.

And in Florida, DNA Labs International recently detected male DNA on Amy's sweatpants using

state-of-the-art forensic tools. In particular, the use of the M-VAC system, which is basically

a fancy forensic vacuum that is powerful enough to collect small pieces of evidence.

While the sample is small, emerging technology could soon allow scientists to identify a suspect.

Hopefully more details on this case will be available in the summer of 2025, and we'll keep you posted if any new details come to the service.

So as we revisit this case, we will re-walk through the timeline, the chilling details, hoping to bring answers for this decades-long mystery.

Because after 35 years, hope is still alive and the truth is waiting to be

uncovered. Stay with us. So let me tell you something that happened on October 27, 1989.

It's 2.10 p.m. on a Friday. And the final bell rings at Bay Village Middle School. The doors swing open

and outwalks 10-year-old Amy Mahalovic. She's wearing these green pants and a pale green

shirt with lavender trim. Her dirty blonde hair is a bit tussled, framing her face,

and she's got these really neat turquoise horse head earrings on gold studs.

She's also carrying a blue denim book bag with red piping, and she walks past the bike rack where her

blue antique bicycle is parked. It's the same bike she rode to school that cold October morning,

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