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Hi, Crime Junkies. I'm your host Ashley Flowers.
And I'm Britt. And the story I have for you today will infuriate you.
At least I hope it does. May it light a fire under a saw because it's about what happens when reports are ignored.
Or when the seriousness of a crime is diminished until someone has to pay the ultimate price.
This is the story of Jody Sanderholm.
On what started as a normal drive home from practice for the Cowley Tiger at Stance Line, the night of January 1st, 2007, College freshman Lori Leglider is beginning to realize that the night would be anything but normal.
Initially, it just kind of registered as weird to her when a guy in a light colored Cadillac slammed on his brakes to let her out of the parking lot.
But the longer she drives, the more she realizes he likely did that for a reason so that he could get behind her and follow her.
Every glance in her rear view mirror makes Lori's heartbeat just a little bit faster.
And that one part of our brain that tells us that we're overreacting is telling Lori, you know, let's just be sure before we panic.
So Lori starts taking turns down random streets of Arkansas City, Kansas to see what this guy behind her does.
But every intersection past, every turn taken, he is trailing close behind, and Lori is beginning to freak out.
But she does keep her wits about her.
She knows that there is one place she can go where she's going to feel safe.
So she takes another detour, this time heading for the closest police station.
Now this dude behind her doesn't seem to catch onto her plan, so he is on her tail right up until the moment she pulls into the station parking lot.
And I'm sure she kind of holds her breath as she waits to see what he does.
And then probably lets out a massive sigh of relief when he drives past instead of following her in.
Like this guy may be brazen, but apparently he's not that brazen.
For the next few minutes, Lori sits there in the parking lot waiting to see if he's going to show back up.
And as she sits there, she's debating whether she should go in and file a report or not.
But that irrationally, rational part of her brain speaks up again.
What if she's just being paranoid?
And what would she even say?
Like, hey officer, I'd like to report a crime.
There's this aggressively polite guy who let me out.
He made the same random turns as me in her mind.
She's like, what are they going to do with that?
Right. Plus, it's dark out.
Like, I doubt she even got a glimpse of his license plate.
Nor did she even get a good look at him.
So when all is said and done, once she's convinced he's gone, she just gets back on the road and heads home.
And for the next few days, she mostly forgets about the whole thing.
Because let's be honest, being on the receiving end of some dude's unwelcome attention is an exactly a foreign experience for a lot of 18-19 year old girls.
And the whole thing probably would have stayed forgotten too.
If that same light blue Cadillac hadn't shown up outside the tiger at next practice on the morning of January 5th.
But there it is again. Creeping past Lori as she steps out of her car.
And this time, feeling emboldened in the broad daylight, she hurls a string of four letter words in this car's direction as her best friend and fellow dancer Jody Sandr home watches with a mix of amusement and a little bit of confusion.
Right. Be weird. Be rude.
Stay alive, Lori. I love to see it.
Yes. So Lori fills Jody in on the other night, what had happened why she's hurling curse words at this guy.
And how she's sure that it's the same car that just drove by.
And honestly, now that it's daylight, this time she got a good look at the driver.
And Lori realizes that she actually knows him.
Or at least she knows who he is.
His name is Justin Thurber and he had gone to high school with her older brother.
And this dude had been just as much of a creep back then.
Like he came over one time with a group of her brothers friends and she had asked her brother to make him leave because this dude would not stop staring at her.
And she was in eighth grade at the time.
Now, he hadn't said anything when she swore at him.
I don't even know if he heard her.
He just continued on his way.
But knowing that the face behind the wheel was familiar might have honestly put Lori at ease a little.
Yeah, it's easy to be like, oh, I've dealt with this creep before.
Nothing happened. He's just like general creep, right?
Right. And there's also the fact that they have this big half time performance that night that they're like all super excited about.
One that Jody, her best friend had choreographed like the whole routine for it.
So either way, like again, they've got this fun thing like, okay, I know the guy like he's a creep, but he's a harmless creep.
They both put Justin out of their mind and they head into practice laser focused on the night ahead.
That practice wraps up an hour or two later and Lori and Jody walk out to the parking lot together and part ways with a quick love.
Yeah, agreeing to meet up in a few hours after they've eaten and showered.
So Jody gets into her car and drives off, but Lori isn't so lucky.
One of her tires is flat, like fully not drivable flat, which is weird because it was fine that morning.
Justin, well, she definitely wonders, but actually in an interview for an episode of the show, Your Worse Nightmare called every step you'd take, she says that she doesn't jump to any conclusions about how it got that way.
At least not right away as she doesn't.
Because she's thinking, you know, maybe she just ran over a nail like maybe she didn't notice.
Plus, it's not like Justin is lurking around then.
She hasn't spotted his car in the parking lot.
But eventually, a good Samaritan helps her put on her spare.
And this guy's like, hey, this isn't an accident.
Someone slashed your tire.
No two ways about it. This was intentional.
And so it was then that naturally Justin was the first and really the only person who came to her mind.
And she was pissed. But when she calls Jody to vent about it because seriously, like, who does that?
And also, who else do you call?
She gets her voicemail.
Same when she tries again a little bit later.
And listen, their whole plan was to shower Get Ready Meetup so maybe she's just not seeing her phone.
She'll try again later.
But for the next few hours, it's the same.
Jody's phone just rings and rings until voicemail picks up.
So eventually, Lori does what any good BFF would do.
She just shows up at Jody's house.
But her car isn't in the driveway, which means she's not there.
So she thinks that Jody must be with her mom Cindy.
Because Jody and Cindy are like super close to kind of close every girl mom dreams of.
Hashtag, I hope this for me in doubt.
So Lori heads to the shop Jody's parents own in town because she thinks that's the most likely place where she's going to find her just hanging out with her mom.
But right when she walks in and greets Cindy, something inside of her just kind of shifts.
Like the world just isn't quite right because Cindy's there.
Jody's not. And she asked Cindy if she knows where Jody is and Cindy's like, no, and actually I've been calling, but I keep getting her voicemail.
I assume she was with you.
And not answering Lori's calls is one thing, but Jody always answered for her mom.
And she always let Cindy know where she was, what she was up to.
So by now, Cindy and Lori are both feeling panic start to creep in.
But Cindy's got one more idea.
She's like, you know what?
I'm going to call Jody's older sister Jennifer.
Jennifer doesn't live in town.
So there's no thought of like, oh, maybe they're together, anything like that.
But Jennifer is pregnant, like very pregnant about to pop any moment kind of pregnant.
She's already passed her due date.
And so there's no way Jody would let her call go to voicemail.
She would assume that Jennifer was calling to say she was in labor.
So Cindy's like, I'm going to have Jennifer call her see if she picks up for her.
So she phones are the daughter explains a situation asked her to try Jody, but Jennifer calls her mom right back and says, nope, I got Jody's voicemail too.
So it is then when they know something is really, really wrong when they're searching for an explanation, that's when Lori mentions to Cindy all the weird things that have been happening that week with Justin, because it dawns on her that if he's been following her around and she has been spending all this time with Jody, he could have been following Jody too.
Exactly. And more than could have, like again, he kind of already has been in a sense because they're always together.
And each of her interactions with him have revolved around dance practice, right, like where Jody would be.
According to an episode of Solved Extreme Forensics called Deadly Obsession, that's all Cindy needs to hear.
She decides to close the shop early for the day and get home to see what she can figure out there.
I don't know if Lori goes with her at this point or if she goes somewhere else to wait to hear from her, but either way soon enough they both realize that Jody hadn't even made it home from practice.
How do they know? Well, because Jody's a creature habit, like her routine is always to stop at the end of the driveway, grab the family's mail from the mailbox and then leave it on this bar that they have inside.
So no mail, no Jody. Precisely.
By 6 p.m., the sander homes are calling the Arcanzist City Police Department to report Jody missing.
And how many missing persons cases have we covered that go to hell at this point?
I mean, almost all of them if they end up on our show.
True, but for once, that's actually not what happens at all.
You see, the police chief, Sean Wallace knows the sander homes.
He knows Jody. One of his sons actually graduated with her.
She was class valedictorian.
According to reporting by Amanda O'Toole and Becky Tanner for the Wichita Eagle, she was also a member of the National Honor Society, a Kansas State scholar, and a Kansas Board of Regents scholar.
And she was captain of the high school dance line for two years.
And now she's majoring in pre-farmacy at Cowley College and carries a 4.0 GPA.
She is like, the epitome of grounded, responsible.
This woman would not go MIA without a word to her family, at least not on purpose.
So an investigator goes out to talk to the sander homes and they take him around the house, pointing out all the reasons they know Jody hadn't made at home.
There's the mail for one, plus none of her stuff is missing.
And Cindy also shows him Jody's shower, which is bone dry.
Even her lufa's dry. Now for a brief moment, the police think that there might be a simple answer to where Jody is.
Because as her parents are telling them all about her, her life, her routines, they mention her boyfriend of almost five years, Colby.
And they're not like suggesting that maybe he hurt her.
They really like this guy.
I mean, he's a good kid. He's always been good to Jody.
He's always been respectful to them.
In fact, in an episode of Murder Under the Friday Night Lights called Devil Came to Dance, Cindy says that he's even planning to propose in May on their five year anniversary, seemingly with their blessing.
But they tell investigators that he actually splits his time between Texas and Ark City.
And they're pretty sure that he's with his brother in Texas then, like has been for a few days.
So for a hot minute, this gives investigators a little surge of hope.
Maybe Jody did just up and leave after all.
Maybe she went to go see him in Texas.
And yeah, it would be at a character, but at least it would make some kind of sense.
But that hope vanishes as soon as they get Colby on the line.
He confirms that he is in Texas, hasn't been in Ark City at all that day.
But he says he hasn't talked to Jody since the day before.
And he seems genuinely shaken by the news of her disappearance.
Before they hang up, he agrees to drive back to Ark City for an in-person interview the next day.
So that's enough for the Ark City PD to mount a full response.
They put out a bowl load to nearby agencies asking them to be on the lookout for Jody's Black Dodge Coop.
And they launch a full-scale ground search of Ark City.
By now, best case scenario is that maybe she was in some kind of car accident, maybe on some back road that doesn't get much traffic.
Maybe she's just hurt, even unconscious.
And maybe she's out there waiting to be found.
Maybe. I mean, this is great, but honestly, F the ground searched.
It's indeed tell them about Justin.
Where is Justin? Yeah, she told them all about Justin.
And they're also headed that night to talk to him.
Investigators go to Justin's parents house, and as luck would have it, he's there.
Even better, he's willing to talk.
He says that he had spent that day out at the Cowley County State Fishing Lake with some friends.
This lake is about 20 minutes east of Ark City, kind of in the middle of nowhere.
And it's a popular spot for Ark City residents.
So on its face, what he's saying is plausible.
I mean, not the whole day, though, because we know he was at the girls' practice in the morning.
Did he mention that part?
It's not super clear, to be honest, I'm not even sure he's directly confronted about that, at least not yet.
But Ron Silvestre reports in the Witcher.Eagle that he is asked about it the next day.
And then he tries to kind of just deflect by saying that, I don't know, like other people drive the Cadillac too.
My mom drives it, my sister drives it.
But at least in this moment, the first time they're talking to him, this lake story doesn't seem to jump out as a huge discrepancy.
I don't think they're like really drilling on on exactly what time he got there left or whatever.
And to be fair, like when this is happening, how quickly this is unfolding, like investigators have gone from zero to 100 in a matter of a few hours.
So I don't know who's going to actually talk to him.
I wouldn't be surprised if every single investigator is in 100% briefed on every single detail.
Right, they're just like collecting as much information as possible.
Yeah. Either way, according to Justin, the whole day turned into a bit of a disaster when the people he was with, like their car got stuck in some mud.
Okay, was this his car or one of his friends cars?
From what I can tell, it makes it sound like it's one of his friends cars.
And Justin says that the car gets stuck, the guys start bickering over what I don't know.
I don't know if it was just the predicament they were in or whatever, but he basically at some point was like, if this I'm out of here.
And according to the episode of Your Worst Nightmare, he just starts walking.
He says he broke off from the group, walked and walked, eventually called his dad for a ride.
And what does dad say? Well, that's the thing.
Dad is there at the house too, and he confirms the whole story.
He's like, yeah, he called me, said he was stranded.
So I drove out, picked him up.
He's still all wet and muddy when I got there.
And I think that's enough for them for that day.
So investigators kind of wrap up with Justin and they're kind of wrapping up everything.
I mean, again, they didn't get called till that evening.
So it's getting late. It's getting dark.
They reluctantly call it a day, although there is some of like the ground searches that are continuing.
At that point, everyone is still holding out hope at any moment with each turned down an alley or an isolated county road.
Jody's car is going to be found.
Jody's going to be found safe and sound inside of it.
Maybe hurt, maybe bruised, maybe a need of medical attention, but alive.
But with each passing hour, I mean, with each passing minute, that hope is dwindling because one by one, and all of those roads, all of those alleys and ditches are being ruled out.
By daybreak, the next morning, an aerial search is added to the ground search and local media catches wind of Jody's disappearance.
When Kansas Bureau of Investigations Special Agent David Fletti sees a new segment about it on TV, he was snow time.
He calls Chief Wallis directly and asks if the KBI can be of any assistance.
And like kudos all around here because so often we hear about department, like closing ranks, icing other agencies out in situations like this, right?
Yeah, it always becomes some sort of turf war instead of, you know, dealing with a life and death situation.
Right, but Chief Wallis, he ain't that kind.
He'll take all the help he can get plus some.
So just like that, Special Agent Fletti and the KBI join the effort to find Jody.
Now coldly comes into the station for an interview that day, like he promised, and again, he seems genuinely devastated.
And it doesn't take long for investigators to confirm everything that he's told them on the phone, specifically that he wasn't even in the state when Jody went missing.
He's got credit card receipts to prove it, and his phone records tell the same story.
So he is all but ruled out as a suspect.
I don't understand how they're even talking about anyone else at this point.
Like I know you have to like cover your bases, dot your eyes, cross your teeth, but why aren't they going hard at Justin?
I know. And they're not like ignoring him.
It's not like after that first chat, they like ruled him out or whatever.
I honestly think that this interview with coldly is more of a formality than anything else.
Like to your point, covering their bases, let's get this guy ruled out so we can focus on our real suspect kind of thing.
And plus like they have to talk to maybe he's got information that could be helpful, you know what I mean?
But they are really considering Justin suspicious.
I know that because that morning they put his family's house under surveillance.
And now that he's officially part of the investigation, Agent Fletti is the one who kind of leads the charge at looking into Justin, starting with vetting his alibi of being out of that fishing lake with friends when Jody went missing.
Now they have the names of these three friends.
So Agent Fletti tracks these guys down, brings them in for interviews, and they deny being anywhere near the fishing lake that day before or anywhere near Justin for that matter.
All three of them have different alibis that put them somewhere else, which aren't just verifiable, like pretty soon they're verified.
Not one of them was out at the fishing lake with Justin.
And things only go downhill from there when investigators pick up Justin's ex-girlfriend Alexis for an interview.
Because according to that episode of Murder Under the Friday Night Lights, the girls got a lot to say about her relationship with Justin.
And she's happy to share every last sorted detail on one condition.
She'll take her interview to go, thank you very much, because she doesn't just have things to tell them, she has things to show them, things outside of Arc City.
Now when I first heard this, I thought Alexis was going to take them to that fishing spot.
Yeah, I mean I've been internally screaming that since you said they were searching.
Yeah, well that's not where they go, but they go somewhere close.
It's this place called the Call Wildlife Area and it is east of Arc City just like the fishing lake.
And they go here because according to Alexis, Justin spends a lot of time out there, like multiple times a week.
And listen, a lot of people from Arc City spend time out there, but according to Alexis, Justin doesn't just go there to commune with nature.
Judging from comments he makes out there, his intentions seem darker.
He makes comments like, I could ditch a body out here and no one would ever know.
And listen, every time I pass a swampy area or fly over a vast forest, do I wonder to my crime junkie self or sometimes out loud, how many bodies do you think are out there?
Yes, yes I do. Okay, but you say that meaning how many bodies are already out there that you could find and bring closure to families with, not that you would put there.
Exactly my friend. And according to Alexis, Justin wasn't just joking when he said this stuff.
She said he was plotting, maybe even threatening.
She also tells investigators that he has a violent streak.
He especially liked to choke her during sex and it was almost like he needed to hurt her in order for him to be into it.
So following this interview with Alexis, the ground search that had been taking place in Arc City switches its focus east out to this call wildlife area.
And then at the same time, other investigators are getting their hands on footage from like different security cameras on the Cali College campus.
And according to the episode of solved extreme forensics, not only do they spot Justin and his Cadillac all over campus the morning Jody disappeared.
They spot him all over campus on multiple days leading up to her disappearance.
From the looks of things, he was there like following a bunch of different dancers around.
So what about Laurie's tire?
Does the footage catch him slashing it?
Not quite, but that's because her parking spot was off camera.
What it does show though, to me is almost as incriminating because it shows him getting out of his car, walking directly in the direction of her parked car, looking like he's on a mission.
And this is right around the time that her tire would have been slashed.
So we literally see everything but the actual action of it being slashed got it.
Yeah. Is there anything on camera where he looks like he's confronting Jody interacting with her, following her around?
No. Where would he grab her then?
Because if he doesn't get her in the parking lot and she never made it home, I guess how would he have intercepted her and he would have to get rid of her car then too.
Well that's kind of the missing piece, right?
And that's the piece that they need in order to move forward with an arrest.
But the good news, if you can even call it that, is that they have an idea of how it might have happened.
All because of another crime that Justin committed, the very same week Jody disappeared.
And they do have probable cause in that case to take him back into custody.
Turns out, dude's currently out on bond on a charge of impersonating an officer from just like, a few days prior to all of this.
And when the bondsman catches wind of what's going on, he's like, oh hell no, I want nothing to do with this guy and he revokes Justin's bond.
So with that, a warrant is issued for his arrest and investigators take him straight into custody.
At the same time as the arrest, investigators execute a search warrant at the Thurber's House, which gives them a chance to have another chat with Justin's dad.
And they confront him about Justin's bogus alibi story.
But his dad swears like, listen, the thing I told you is true, Justin had called me for a ride.
I had picked him up near the lake.
And he also says that when they got home, Justin immediately took a shower and washed his clothes.
And then the two cleaned the mud off his sneakers, which by the way are still sitting out on a towel drying.
So needless to say, investigators sees all of it, the clothes the sneakers, along with his cell phone and his car.
But as the day draws to a close, they aren't no closer to finding Jody.
Worse yet, they don't have any hard evidence of where she might be.
I mean, it's all educated guessing at this point.
But the following morning, their working theory gets a little more educated and a little less guesswork when they get their hands on the location data from Jody's cell phone the afternoon she disappeared.
It shows that she or at least her phone was traveling east of Ark City out towards the Y of Life area, which helps them kind of home in on their searching even more.
According to murder under the Friday night lights, the searching group, the trackers, are near one of the spots Alexis had pointed out when they stumbled onto something that could crack the case wide open.
They're in the dirt are shoe prints leading from the road into a densely wooded area.
Two sets of shoe prints.
There's a larger set that looks like it came from a pair of sneakers right next to a smaller set that looks like it came from a pair of flip flops.
And Jody was wearing flip flops when she was last seen.
So they start following these prints and they may have just been imprinted in the dirt but they are telling a haunting story.
Except almost as soon as they reach the edge of the woods that smaller set of prints from the flip flops abruptly just stops.
Only the bigger set leads into the woods.
And investigators have a theory about what that means.
They think that Jody realized that if she went into the woods she would never make it out alive.
So she put up a fight and then a struggle probably ensued.
And then Justin what carried her?
They think he probably picked her up and carried her in.
By the end of the day they've counted more than 70 prints total but nightfall approaches and they still haven't found Jody.
Like those prints didn't lead to her.
It's getting late, their eyes are starting to play tricks on them and soon it's going to be dark so they have no choice but to end the search for the day.
Pretty confident that they got to be close.
She's got to be somewhere in those woods.
But then as they're leaving like they're driving back home for the night or whatever a couple of these trackers as they're called they decide on a whim to just swing by the Cowley County fishing lake.
I mean after all that is where Justin said he was that day.
And so they park their car at this access point.
Like where is basically like a parking lot with a set of like restrooms like a boat ramp where everyone like kind of goes in.
And right away something stands out.
There are tire tracks on the sidewalk between the parking lot and the restrooms.
Almost like a car had sped in tried to stop it hadn't turned sharply enough and then one side of the car had almost jumped onto the sidewalk.
So it's enough to like make these people think that they should look around a little bit more.
One heads into the restrooms and peers into the toilets.
And these aren't real toilets by the way.
But the kind you find it like campgrounds and state parks ones that are basically elevated holes in the ground.
And he doesn't see anything in the first one.
But when he looks into the second one something catches his eye.
It looks like pieces of mail.
And the next he notices a shiny windbreaker type jacket with lettering on it.
And a wallet too. When the items are recovered and to be honest I'm not sure if this happens that night or the next morning.
But investigators confirm that the items belong to Jody.
Just her items though right?
Not her? No thank god. It's just items and it's her tigerette jacket.
One of her flip flops. Nine pieces of mail addressed to the sanderhomes.
A pair of dance shoes and the floor mats from her car.
So they haven't found Jody but none of this is a good sign right?
In an interview for that episode of Murder Under the Friday Night Lights Jody's sister Jennifer tells this heartbreaking story.
She says that when her mom calls her and tells her that Jody's clothing had been found the first words out of her mouth are something along the lines of like oh my god so she's out there without her clothes like she's probably freezing.
And her mom has to be like no Jennifer.
She's not cold. She's gone.
And this for me was one of those moments.
Every person's story we tell has one for me.
And it's a moment so human and relatable.
One that if you're empathetic enough you can let yourself kind of fall into and just feel the weight of.
You know the thing that we didn't know is like Jennifer had actually gone into labor the day after her sister went missing but she didn't even tell her mom right away because she didn't want to distract from her mom's search for her sister.
And I think about what a weird time that had to have been like it's a time that it's supposed to be so exciting for the whole family.
But then you're going through this thing that is like one of the most devastating things so many families don't even think they'll ever have to face like it just doesn't even seem possible.
Jennifer even said in that episode that once she gave birth she said quote I had a newborn child that I had to take care of and my mind could not process the good and the bad that were happening at the exact same time in my life.
End quote. So not only did she have to like kind of keep this thing to herself for a minute that you want to tell everyone but she wasn't able to even come out there to be with her family or to help look.
And I don't know I just keep thinking about how hard becoming a new mom was for me.
I don't know that I could have done that and then everything this family had to do on top of that.
Jennifer had to be so stinkin strong and the whole family is going to have to continue to be so strong because while the end to the search for Jody is near they're close to having to face a new battle because these tracks on the boat ramp it almost looks like a car was driven down the ramp right into the water.
So they send divers to go into the lake that same day but they don't find anything and that's when investigators put in a call to Tim Miller and his organization Texas Equesturch.
Britt just a reminder about the organization I know we've talked about them before but I want to highlight them again.
For sure and I would absolutely love to.
According to their website they are a non-profit volunteer search and recovery organization that assists families and law enforcement agencies in missing person searches.
Tim founded the organization in 2000 in honor of his daughter Laura who was abducted and killed in 1984.
Her body wasn't found for a year so Tim I mean he's familiar with how much something like that can rip your life apart especially that uncertainty of not knowing.
And according to their website they started out as just you know a humble horse mounted search and rescue like recovery team.
Yeah I mean they started searching just on horseback hence the name right but in the nearly 24 years since then they've become honestly like a force of nature they rely on volunteer searchers and provide their services at no charge to families or to law enforcement.
Their website says quote today searches include the use of ground searchers, side scan sonar, ground penetrating radar, boats, aircrafts, drones and ATVs.
In other words they've got resources out their disposal that some local law enforcement agencies can really only dream of.
They've assisted in thousands of missing person cases over the years including some pretty high profile ones cases like the disappearance of Natalie Holloway, Kaylee Anthony and Vanessa Gia and I mean they've been incredible out there doing just outstanding work.
Yeah and we've actually given money to Texas Equal Search in Jody's name for this episode.
I'm gonna put a link in the show notes to donate if anyone listening wants to support them as well.
But I know who they are so they call up Tim Miller they fill him in and he's like friends say no more we're gonna be their first thing in the morning with a sonar scanning boat in tow.
Meanwhile while they wait for Tim investigators in Arc City get some critical information from the evidence lab which has been racing to process the items discovered at the lake.
They found a latent fingerprint on one of the pieces of male and it belongs to Jody and it's confirmed that the male was delivered the day she went missing.
So she did make it home the whole like no male no Jody thing but that means he must have gotten her at the mailbox.
Yeah I still don't know how he got her car if he was in his.
Well this is where they begin to suspect that this was more than just a spontaneous crime.
This was well thought out planned because you see investigators around this time have found yet another shoe print and like the prints from the wildlife area they're able to match it with Justin's sneakers but this print isn't out at the wildlife area not even at the lake either.
They find this print in the wooded lot directly across the street from the sander Holmes mailbox in driveway.
He got there on foot and then he laid in weight.
Investigators theorize that Justin attacked Jody and forced her back into her own car but this time with him behind the wheel and that theory is bolstered by an account from a friend of Jody's named Carrie who tells investigators that around 1230 on the day Jody went missing she'd actually passed Jody's car coming in the other direction heading east but it wasn't Jody who was driving she was in the passenger seat and a man was driving.
