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The Smile, The Straw, The 40-Year Killer
The Smile, The Straw, The 40-Year Killer
The last person to see Michelle Martinko alive watched her smile and walk toward a parking lot in December 1979, but she never made it to her car. Forty years passed before a drinking straw from a Pizza Ranch restaurant in Iowa, and a science that didn't exist at the time, finally broke the case. What chilling detail did Michelle's mother record in her journal that she never lived to see resolved?
In this episode, we delve into the four-decade-long mystery of Michelle Martinko's murder, from the initial investigation in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to the…
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