Unsolved Mysteries (2020) s04e04 Episode Script

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[unsettling music plays]
[man] When you're walking around
the Trenton State College campus,
Kendall Hall looms over you.
Anybody who sets foot in Kendall
seems to get really creeped out
by the vibe of the place.
There was a story
that a girl was haunting the building.
If you were to go on the main stage
late at night,
you'd hear someone playing piano,
even if there's no one there.
As it turns out,
a graduate student was murdered there.
And it has all the details
of an Agatha Christie story.
This young woman in her early twenties
with her entire life ahead of her,
she was brutally, brutally murdered,
in a place
that she felt free and and creative.
And for her to take her last breaths
on that stage
is heartbreaking.
[unsettling music plays]
[music fades]
[bells ring]
My name is Scott Napolitano.
I got involved with this story
when I was still a film student
at Trenton State College in 2002.
My senior year,
we had to do a thesis film,
and my group mates had suggested
doing some kind of a ghost story,
and that's when I heard
there'd been a murder back in 1977
in an empty theater on campus.
And a pretty sadistic kind of murder.
So I started going through microfiche,
and I finally found an article
talking about the case.
And it was unsolved.
I know I have no claim
to being a detective,
but there was something about it
that intrigued me.
And it became,
"How can I possibly solve this?"
[ominous music plays]
[music fades]
It was Sunday night,
after Labor Day weekend,
before school had started.
College before school technically starts,
pretty quiet place.
Janitorial staff would've been there
to clean up.
There would be grounds crew coming in
to make sure everything looked good
for the students.
There were campus police officers working.
I was a campus police officer at the time.
I was 22.
We weren't expecting a busy night.
You just ride around,
do your patrolling, and that was it.
No student calls, nothing like that.
My shift started at eleven o'clock.
I'm driving on campus, past the theater.
As my car pulled up,
my headlights captured a bicycle
that was chained to the, uh,
to the railing right here.
I could see that it was a female's bike.
No one was supposed to be on campus
for another three to four days.
I called it in. I asked the dispatcher,
"Was anyone supposed to be
in the building at this time?"
They said, "Negative."
I said, "I'll be going in to investigate."
I unlocked the door, which was locked.
I came in.
I turned my police radio down,
not to make noise.
'Cause I'm looking for a trespasser.
And the lighting was only
by the red emergency exit signs.
That's it.
So it was kind of an eerie glow.
Kendall Hall,
it's kind of a very spooky setup
because it's such an old building.
There's, like,
small cavernous-type hallways.
I listen, don't hear anything.
I proceed toward the main stage.
And I saw what looked to me initially
as a person would be sleeping.
On their side,
with a covering up to their neck.
I started thinking,
"Is this a prop?"
I start walking closer to the body,
and as I'm halfway there,
I could see a large amount of blood.
And then I crouched down, got real close.
I knew it was a person at that point.
The only thing led me to believe
that it could be a female,
in the caked blood and everything,
I could see an earring.
On one ear.
I grabbed onto her wrist.
It was cold. It was hard.
It felt like rigor mortis
was already in the arms.
I drew my weapon.
I didn't know
if the person was still here.
And then I called it in.
I told our dispatcher,
"Send me a backup. Notify Ewing police."
"I believe I have a homicide victim
on the stage."
At that point, it was dead silence
for what felt like eternity,
'cause they've never heard
a call like that come in.
That's when every Ewing cop
that was working that night, everyone
[sirens wail]
came onto that stage, walking around.
Sergeant, everybody.
When Ewing police showed up,
no one knew how to turn these lights on,
so they got a hold
of the electrician for the college.
[tense music plays]
He started throwing all the switches,
lit the whole place up.
It was a gory sight.
There was a large amount of blood
all over the head.
Her face was distorted.
[Scott] She was covered
in a piano blanket.
Her clothes were found
a few feet away by the piano,
along with her belongings.
They were able to eventually
get an identity from her driver's license
in her bag.
It was Sigrid Stevenson, 25,
a music major at Trenton State College.
[somber music plays]
[woman] When I heard
that Sigrid had been murdered,
it was heartbreaking to me.
The Stevenson family
was a very close family.
When Sigrid was killed,
her parents lived in California,
and she was killed 3,000 miles away
back east.
The first thought that I had was that
I hope they will make it through this,
because she was
such an elemental part of that family.
I was two years old
when I first met Sigrid.
We grew up in Livermore, California.
We were born one month apart,
so she's one month older than I am.
She had one younger sister
who she absolutely loved.
Sigrid's personality,
the best word I can use is "quirky."
She could be really funny,
and she could also be silly.
I remember watching her
take little pretzel pieces
and throw them up in the air
for Penny the dog,
and then she'd throw one
and catch it in her own mouth.
[gentle piano melody plays]
Sigrid was a piano prodigy.
When she would play the piano,
a completely different side of her
would emerge
that was just calm and powerful.
I did not know any other child
that could be handed
a piece of difficult music
and given a few minutes
to literally look it over,
and then sit down and play
a pretty reasonable version of it.
[Scott] At Trenton State,
Sigrid was pursuing music and education
for her master's degree
and wanted to become a teacher.
[Carol] I know
she was driven to accomplish
and just become the absolute best pianist
and musician that she could.
[piano melody continues]
[music fades]
[intriguing music plays]
My name is Julia Caldwell.
I'm a retired detective
from Ewing Township, New Jersey.
The first time I actually heard
about the Sigrid Stevenson murder
was during one
of our blocks of instruction
on cold case homicides.
It is a cold case
that spanned over 40-some-odd years.
I dreamed of being able to solve
a case like this. Specifically this case.
Because when I looked
at the crime scene photos,
I was horrified.
[unsettling music plays]
This was a very messy murder.
And I wouldn't be lying if I told you
that it didn't keep me up certain nights.
Because I did become
a little bit obsessed with it.
And I feel like this case has done that
to a lot of other investigators.
The piano was, like,
right around this area of of the stage.
Her body was found about four and a half
four, four and a half feet away.
I was eight years old
when Sigrid was murdered.
In 2003, I was a sergeant
for Ewing Police Department.
And every day I went into the station,
I'd open that door,
and in the back of the room to the left,
I would see Sigrid's 1977 case file.
And I was thinking to myself, "I wonder
if we have any evidence from that case."
So I wrote a letter
to the chief of police at the time
and requested to work
on the Sigrid Stevenson case.
The initial investigators on the case
had retired at that point in time.
And I had a long, long process
of putting things together.
I read through every file.
Things written on the back of notebooks,
inside of notebooks.
I got involved with the investigations
in the timeframe something around
the late 2013, 2014.
We had, like, interview notes
who police talked to,
but just no real chronological order
of things they did
or what they were kind of keying on.
It hampered us from the beginning.
We just had to kind of re-break everything
back down and try to go from square one.
While the original investigation
was going on,
the medical examiner at the time,
Dr. Ahmad, responded to the scene.
My name is Dr. Raafat Ahmad.
And I was the deputy medical examiner
at the time the incident happened.
I remember it well.
The scene was very bloody.
Her scarf was in a pool of blood.
Her one earring was broken off
and was found in a pool of blood.
Her panties are off.
Her blouse is off
and is tied around her mouth,
so that she wouldn't scream, most likely.
It was one of the most gruesome murders.
The autopsy was done
the following morning at 10:00 a.m.
On the external examination,
I found lacerations
on the back of the head,
deep lacerations on the front of the face.
The cause of death is the massive
cranial cerebral trauma to the head.
She was beaten very savagely
and repeatedly with a blunt object.
It could be a baseball bat.
It could be a baton. It could be a pipe.
And there was bruising on the body,
on the thighs.
The pelvic area had bruises.
I took vaginal swabs.
There were no live sperms there.
It was dead heads of the sperms.
It tells us that
some kind of sexual activity was there,
and if you add on all the other things
that happened to her,
we can surely say
that this could be the result
of the sexual assault that she had.
She was found at 11:30 p.m. that night.
And the time of death can be approximated
between, I would say,
7:30 to 10:00 p.m.
that evening she was found.
She lost so much blood,
and she died within minutes
after being attacked.
[Edward] Looking at the crime scene
photos, this was violent.
There was blood everywhere.
It would have been on the killer,
on his clothes,
on his hands, on his shoes.
There was also blood spatter
on the music that she was playing.
[unsettling music plays]
[Patrick] The fact that you see the blood,
I would believe that there would be
some type of footprint
or something left at the scene.
We don't see any of that in any
of the crime scene photos that were taken.
Not even walking away,
leading away. Nothing.
Also, I'm kind of shocked
that there was no fingerprints,
no partial prints, no anything.
It's kind of intriguing
that we didn't find them. Not Not one.
[Edward] That's a mystery in itself.
I don't know
how the killer pulled that off
and why there's no footprints.
He's getting the piano cover,
wrapping her up in the piano cover.
Looks like he's trying to drag her
into a different area.
As far as the suspect
trying to clean up afterwards, I
There's nothing.
There was no smears in the blood
like you were trying to wipe blood up.
No indication of any of that.
The murder weapon was never found.
They checked the lakes, checked around
the surrounding area, around the building.
They checked the campus in general.
Nothing.
So, out of the gate,
even within the first couple of days,
there's not a lot to work off of.
Now, we know by the autopsy report
that Sigrid was murdered on September 4th.
But on September 2nd,
she had just got back from a trip
in which she hitchhiked
through Nova Scotia.
Sigrid was lined up to have a room
with a local fireman's family.
By the time she got back from her trip,
that family was gonna be gone on vacation
down to the Jersey Shore.
They weren't gonna be able
to let her stay there
until they got back in a few days.
So Sigrid decided, "I'll stay
in one of the buildings over on campus,
and I'll practice the piano,
and I'll just crash on a couch."
So she was staying in Kendall Hall
over Labor Day weekend.
Kendall Hall was known
for being easy to sneak into.
That the doors
didn't close all of the way.
The green room was fairly well stocked.
There was a couch downstairs.
The last time Sigrid was seen
was on Saturday night, September 3rd.
There had been a play, which was
being put on by a local theater group
in the Black Box Theater, which is
adjacent to the main theater space
in Kendall Hall.
[Edward] On Saturday evening
before the play started,
one of the cast members
walked into the green room
and turned the light on,
and Sigrid was startled.
Other cast members
saw that she had her backpack
and sleeping bag with her
in the green room.
[Scott] Sigrid had been in attendance
for the production.
An actress ended up seeing Sigrid
kind of watching the show from the side.
[Julia] Later on, during the play,
one of those witnesses in the cast
stated that Miss Stevenson
was happy and friendly and talkative.
That was at the end of the first act.
[Edward] And sometime afterwards,
she ran into her again,
and Sigrid seemed a little down.
She was explaining to this witness
that she had got into an argument
with a man.
And that, ultimately,
she lost the argument.
This interaction most likely was
with somebody who was there.
Maybe a cast member, maybe a stagehand.
[Scott] So whatever good spirits
she'd been in,
somehow she'd encountered somebody
who who brought her down.
Who is she fighting with?
Less than 24 hours
after these arguments happen
and after the show's done,
Sigrid's brutally murdered.
It could have nothing to do with that.
It could have everything to do with that.
[Julia] Then that particular witness
last saw Sigrid
after the play had ended, around 11:30.
And that was the last time
that she saw the victim alive.
After that, she sort of disappears.
She could have been there on that stage
practicing piano.
Or she could have gone out wandering
during the middle of the day
and gone out to eat.
We just don't know.
Unfortunately, we do know
where she ended up.
[Julia] So if we look at the stage,
the piano is right in this area.
The victim's body was face down,
partially covered by a piano cover.
I strongly believe
that she's on the stage,
and the perpetrator comes in,
and she's here at the piano,
sitting on the stool.
They knew she was gonna be there.
They knew she was gonna be alone.
They knew the building was gonna be empty.
[Edward] I believe the killer came in
with the intent of having
some kind of sexual encounter with her.
He probably made advances on Sigrid,
and she rebuffed him.
And he became violent.
He takes it out on her
with some sort of blunt instrument,
striking her multiple times.
It was an overkill. She was beaten so bad.
I think she tried to get up,
make a run for it,
at which time he struck her, violently,
maybe once, maybe twice,
knocking her scarf off of her head,
which was located in this area over here,
along with a piece of jewelry
of the victim's.
I could see that there was
some smear marks, too, of blood,
that made it look like she was
either dragged or was being moved.
There was also ligature marks
on her wrists.
The ligature marks,
they're all symmetrical,
which leads me to believe that she was
restrained with, uh, with handcuffs.
[Julia] To me, the ligature marks
revealed something more sinister.
May it have been a fetish?
May it have been that
that person likes control?
Most sexually-driven crimes
are about control.
You don't come in to rob something
and all of a sudden,
"Oh, let me bind them
and take all their clothes off
and place their body
in a very revealing position."
[Edward] When you look
at the crime scene photos,
you can see
there's an interrupted pattern of blood
on her right side of her back
where her arm was
could have been in this position,
where she's in a
in a handcuffed position.
With her last breath of life in her,
it looks like she drug
she drug her hand across her back
and reached out to try to crawl away,
try to get help.
But that's when she expired.
The person who perpetrated the crime
was able to leave undiscovered,
most likely covered in blood,
and was able to disappear into the night.
[Patrick] Obviously, word gets out.
And just based on the location,
how it happened,
a lot of people were upset and alarmed.
There was a lot of coverage
in the newspapers, from The Trenton Times
and The Trentonian,
and even The Daily News
had picked it up for a brief while.
It's scary stuff
because no one expects
to start their first week of school
with a huge police presence.
[Patrick] Detectives from Ewing police
did a ton of interviews.
They probably spoke to a hundred people.
Police officers, witness, family members.
The investigation was initially broad,
looking at a lot of different people,
but it narrowed down
and seemed to focus around suspicions
that campus police
could have been involved.
A lot of people theorized,
"Oh, it must be law enforcement
because, you know, they have handcuffs."
[Edward] It's not
a high-percentage situation
where you're gonna stumble across a girl
on a stage of a college campus
and you're just so happen gonna have,
you know, handcuffs in your pocket.
Unless you're law enforcement,
campus police.
Also, looking at the photos
from the autopsy,
you can see where the long cylindrical
strike marks that were on her back
could very well be indicative
of a police nightstick or a baton.
[Edward] A campus police officer
would be a good suspect
because he knows the campus.
He knows Kendall Hall.
He knows that the campus is is pretty
much a ghost town at this point in time.
And also, he knows that Sigrid
may frequent these buildings.
Sigrid had a reputation
for sneaking into buildings.
She might be in there sleeping,
playing the piano.
The campus police had interactions
with her over the course of the year,
chasing her out of different buildings.
Ewing PD investigated
the campus police officers.
Fifteen officers gave statements
throughout the investigation.
There were a lot of officers
who were asked to be polygraphed.
The results were either inconclusive
or the people were deemed
not to have been involved.
I did give a polygraph to Ewing police.
A number of our officers did also.
They took our handcuffs and nightstick,
and they sent it to the state police
for examination.
[Edward] They tested the batons
and handcuffs, looking for blood.
They did find blood
on one of the handcuffs
from one of the officers,
but it was determined that it was
from an incident sometime prior.
But not finding the blood
on any of the batons or or handcuffs,
I mean, it's a situation
where somebody could've washed it off.
I'm not sure what the process was in 1977,
how good it was, how thorough it was.
We don't know.
From everything I know,
two campus police officers were on duty
at the time of the homicide.
[Patrick] They both passed a polygraph,
but then a couple of months
after Sigrid's murder,
one of them was talking to another officer
in the locker room at the police station,
and basically said to him
that he had killed Sigrid.
The officer who heard it
thought he was kidding,
but yet went to the detectives that were
involved in the case and explained,
"There's been a couple of incidents
with this guy,
where we've been at parties,
he's been drinking a lot,
he's been mean to women
that were at the party."
He wasn't on my shift.
My shift started at eleven o'clock,
so I'm not in the locker room with him
at the same time.
So it wasn't me that overheard it.
But I was a friend of his.
We'd go out, go to the college pub,
but he had a little bit
of a peculiar disposition about him,
especially when it came to women.
[Edward] The officer passed the polygraph.
But everybody passed the polygraph.
Now, my feeling on polygraphs,
if you've looked back at other cases
over over the years,
you've seen the killer pass the polygraph.
It's an investigative tool,
but it's something
that you shouldn't lay your hat on.
[Patrick] This officer,
he was on campus at the time,
but there was nothing in any report
or the statement
that they took from this officer
indicating or asking him any questions
in regards to the comments that he made
about killing Sigrid.
I'm not sure if it was followed up
and it just came down it was a joke
or he was just
made an inappropriate comment.
I just don't know.
[Edward] It seemed like,
reading the statements from everybody
during, uh, the investigation,
that they did look
at a second officer of interest.
This officer came in at 12:30
in the afternoon the day of the homicide.
Now, he comes
into campus police headquarters off duty.
Why does he do that?
Maybe just to walk around,
catch up on reports,
but it's something that
I know, over the years,
I have never went
into the station off duty.
That's a little bit of an oddity here
that definitely raised some eyebrows.
But the original investigation
has a statement from him,
and also a polygraph, which he passed.
If you just look at the bare facts,
campus police had keys to the building.
They had restraints on them.
They had the opportunity
to interact with the victim.
So, yeah, it's pretty easy
to look down the path of,
"Could it have been
a campus police officer?"
But there's no evidence to any of it,
so you can only theorize.
When I first got involved with the case,
I had an opportunity to speak to one
of the initial detectives on the case,
just kind of get a feeling,
a background from him
about what happened.
But one thing he kept harping on
was that an individual
by the name of Chuck
may have been involved.
I found out that Chuck
was an actual member of the play
that was going on
the three days prior to Sigrid's death.
During the investigation,
they recovered a playbill
that Sigrid had.
And in the playbill
circled was Chuck's name,
and underneath written was,
"Nice man. Gave me a beer."
At one point, Chuck,
I guess when they were getting ready
for the show or whatever,
he went downstairs to the green room
and did see her sleeping on the sofa
and had woken her up.
He'd spoke to Sigrid.
We don't know what the extent
of the conversation was,
how long they talked, where they talked,
any of that information.
To me, it establishes
that she had contact with Chuck,
uh, whether it was for ten minutes,
20 minutes, a half an hour,
however long it took her
to drink her beer.
We know that Sigrid was involved
in an altercation
or some kind of argument with somebody.
Now you're thinking,
"It could have been Chuck."
All the details are interesting enough,
but then I find out,
"What was his role in the play?"
"Oh, he was dressed up as a cop."
[Patrick] When we found out
he played a security officer
and his props were handcuffs,
baton, police uniform,
obviously, it sets off some red flags,
and you're like,
"Hey, wow, this is interesting."
Just based off what I read
through the case folder,
when they took the statement from him,
it was very limited.
But there was no evidence,
just the investigators' gut feeling
that this guy was involved.
I don't see anywhere
where they secured his props from the play
and had them tested to see if potentially
the victim's blood could have been on 'em.
Also, Chuck passed a polygraph,
and at that point,
there was no other follow-up with him.
So you have all this circumstantial stuff,
but no evidence.
So this is the part
that everybody knows about.
This is You know,
this is where the crime's happening.
- [Patrick] The piano was
- Piano over there
[Patrick] When I was
working Sigrid's case,
I had the opportunity
to meet Scott Napolitano.
Scott did a ton of interviews,
a lot of legwork in this case.
[Scott] I've worked with campus police,
and I've worked with, uh, Ewing police
off and on pretty much out of the gate.
And I know I have no training.
I don't have a news affiliation.
I'm just someone who cares.
And as I started to come back
with more information and more questions,
it seemed like they started to trust me
a little bit more.
[Patrick] Scott's initial reaction
after talking to a bunch of people was,
"I really think this Chuck guy
had something to do with it."
The fact that he was in the play,
all the little pieces
kind of were pointing to him.
[Scott] Prior to meeting Pat Holt
around 2011, 2012,
I had put out a note
on the New Jersey message boards,
and I explained some of the details
of what had happened in the case
and if anybody was interested,
to reach out.
And I got an alert, and it said,
"I think I know who may have done this."
And the poster said, "I think it was
someone I dated in the '80s."
Okay. "Well, what about him makes
you think that he could have done it?"
And they say, "Oh, because he said
that he'd killed before
and could do it again."
That's enough for me
to sit up and take notice.
So the poster, I found out,
was named Susie,
and she said,
"My ex was involved with the play."
And her ex was named Chuck.
[unsettling music plays]
After speaking to Scott, I went and spoke
to Chuck's old girlfriend, Susie.
She did relay to me
in the statement that I took from her,
there were some incidents of abuse.
[woman] In 1987, I was a single mother.
I'd met Chuck.
We started a relationship,
and I eventually moved in with him.
He became extremely abusive.
This one night, after I had experienced
quite a bit of abuse,
is when he said to me,
"I could kill you and get away with it.
I've done it before."
And that's when I got scared,
and I started to think
about all the things he told me
about him being afraid of the police.
I'm starting to think, "Okay, Chuck is
starting to check off a lot of the boxes."
But I needed some kind of evidence.
[Edward] Back in 1977,
even though the scene
was covered with blood,
there was no testing for DNA.
It was not available
at that point in time.
So 30 years later, we took evidence,
vaginal slides taken from the autopsy
that had possible DNA,
and submitted it
to the New Jersey State Police lab.
[Patrick] We did get
some partial profiles,
but nothing that could be used
as evidentiary value at that time.
Then, a couple of years later,
we honed in on the red blouse that was
wrapped around her head by the suspect.
There was two or three knots
that the blouse was tied in,
and they were actually able
to, like, open up those knots,
and they were able to get
a partial male DNA profile
off of the knots.
The DNA profile
that was found on the knots
was from skin cells that were left behind
during the process
of the knot being tied off.
It was a situation where we need
a suspect's DNA to be able to match.
[Patrick] I still felt Chuck
was a pretty viable suspect,
and so I was trying to get
enough probable cause developed
to get a sample from Chuck
before I actually went
and tried to speak to him.
Then, in 2016, Chuck passed away.
[telephone rings]
[Patrick] I got a hold
of a biological family member out of state
and explained to them what was going on
and asked them if they would be willing
to provide a sample for us
to compare to what we had.
Chuck's brother agreed.
And a few months later,
got the results back
that the swab did not match.
So that pretty much ruled out
our suspect Chuck.
[Scott] Getting a call from Pat
and hearing it's not him
was a rough moment.
You're back to square one. You're looking
at everybody all over again.
[Julia] When I took over the case,
it was in October of 2018.
And that's when I started looking
at specific theories
of who could have possibly been
the assailant.
I knew that they needed access
to the building.
I knew that they had to know
their way around the building.
I knew that they probably needed a key.
I started going through all the files,
and I got down to roughly 12 individuals
who met that criteria.
And then, as I went through the files,
I started eliminating those people.
And at the end of my investigation,
I felt confident that I had discovered
two very viable suspects.
The first suspect was
a part of the production of the play.
He worked in lighting.
When she was discovered,
she was discovered in the dark.
But she had to have had some lights on
during that time
in this pitch black theater.
The lighting is very tricky in there,
and if you don't have that knowledge
and expertise of the building,
you're not gonna be able
to even turn on basic lights.
So I looked at the lighting guy,
and I noted that he had intimate knowledge
of the lighting system
and the infrastructure of the theater.
He was described by one particular witness
that his mood had changed drastically
during the time of the play.
[Scott] Also, in a statement,
the lighting technician claimed
not to remember they had the keys
to Kendall Hall.
And then it had to be pointed out,
and they still had the keys.
[Julia] It's pretty cut and dry to me.
If I say, "Hey, do you have
keys to the building?"
and you say, "No,"
to me, that's not an omission. It's a lie.
Why are you lying
about something like that?
He was polygraphed
and passed the polygraph,
and he did provide a statement.
But I don't believe that he was
really taken serious as a suspect
at that time.
The second suspect
is a maintenance worker at the college.
[Scott] The janitors
are interesting candidates
because they do match a lot of the needs
for a suspect in this case.
They had keys to the building.
They would've had exposure to Sigrid
because she's sneaking into the buildings.
[Julia] The maintenance person
worked in one of the buildings
that was a music building
that the victim frequented.
And he had a history
of letting her in the buildings
when she wasn't supposed to be in there.
And at the time
when her property was inventoried,
the maintenance worker's
contact information and address,
phone number,
were found amongst her possessions.
So he had a relationship with her.
It was unknown
if it was anything intimate.
Other witnesses had reported
seeing them together,
including campus police officers.
He was known
to really go out of his way for her.
Also, what concerns me
is that he was fired from the college
shortly after a lot of this occurred.
He was going through
some substance issues,
and he went to, like, a detox program.
The maintenance worker
was not polygraphed,
according to documents that I reviewed.
And poring over these files,
he was not investigated as thoroughly,
I believe,
as I would have investigated him.
Unfortunately, I had to take
an early medical retirement
due to injuries sustained
while performing in the line of duty.
So I don't have access
to the files anymore.
However, I do hope
that the next investigator
who takes on this case,
I would like to sit with them
and give them a background
on why I would like them
to look at these two individuals.
Because I strongly feel
that one of these suspects
could have killed Sigrid.
[melancholy music plays]
[Scott] I started looking at this case
as a curiosity
of what happened in Kendall Hall.
But as time has gone on,
it's curiosity mixed with, uh
with empathy for for Sigrid.
Because it feels
like she was sort of left behind,
and her whole life
then became this compacted story
that you tell freshmen on a ghost tour.
To be left behind
and essentially forgotten,
that doesn't sit well with me.
[Patrick] Sigrid carried a diary around
pretty much wherever she went.
She wrote a lot
about where she went, what she did.
One of the most difficult things
reading through her diary is
her last thoughts that she wrote down.
Her last entry is September 3rd.
"It's 11:43 p.m."
"They're breaking down the stage,
and they're gonna turn the lights out,
and it's gonna be dark here
in Kendall Hall."
That entry will never leave my mind.
I always thought it was a little chilling
to be able to read her last thoughts,
knowing that it's gonna be dark soon.
11:43 p.m. and
there's nothing else.
This is where the actual play
would've been.
So this is one of the last places
that people would have seen her alive.
[Scott] My ultimate hope for the case
is that if the word gets out enough,
enough people share what they remember,
and that some detail
that they were too hesitant to bring up
gets brought to the police.
[Julia] It might jog somebody's memory.
"Oh, I saw so-and-so
the day after the play,
and he was throwing out a bag of garbage,
and I thought that was really strange."
I really believe
that this case is solvable,
and it will be solved.
[Scott] I got involved because it was
a ghost story and I was making a movie.
But I'd like to think that Sigrid's
been watching the investigation
and maybe sticking around
because she wants the story told.
Sigrid deserves justice.
[Edward] This case is personal.
It's something that's stayed in my head
and stayed in my heart.
I started with this case, I was
I was 21 years old.
[melancholy music plays]
Not knowing
Not knowing that, um
Not knowing we
we would be here right now.
It's not fair that a 25-year-old girl
was snuffed out here 46 years ago.
She should still be with us today.
That guy shouldn't be here.
He shouldn't have been able to walk free
for 46 years.
[Carol] I think it still really matters
for the many of us that were
in her circle of friends and family,
to know that she matters enough
that this will be pursued
as thoroughly as possible.
We need to find out what happened here
and bring some belated justice
to this family.
[melancholy music continues]
[Edward] Every morning, I can wake up,
and I look out my bathroom window,
and I can see the campus.
I live right across the street.
And I say, "Good morning, Sigi,"
every morning.
[melancholy music continues]
And I tell her that we
that we that we didn't forget.
[cries]
We're still looking.
[somber music plays]
[music fades]
[unsettling music plays]