All language subtitles for Taken.Together.Who.Killed.Lyric.and.Elizabeth.S01E02.1080p.WEB.h264-EDITH

Get up, hurry up. I
don't wanna get up.

I'm gonna get ya!

No, you're not! You're it!

Where could they be?

I mean, they could be anywhere.

What happened? Who took them?

It's just scary to
think that a monster

came into our town and
plucked two little girls.

December 5th,

about five months
after the abduction,

we were notified
that some hunters

had found the remains
of two bodies.

I received a phone
call telling me

that we needed to get there.

It was pretty certain
they were our girls.

Seven Bridges Wildlife Refuge

is a unique park,

as in it's one way
in, one way out.

Seven Bridges was
a random location

to dump a body.

It's so far out in
the middle of nowhere.

Why here?

What did those little
girls go through.

If you scream back there,
nobody's going to hear you.

Now, okay, well,

clearly once their
bodies are found,

we're working a
double murder case.

We had something more to go on,

we had more physical
evidence now

that we could use
to try and narrow

the search down on
who was responsible.

A plan had been developed

that when the girls’
bodies were found,

I was supposed to
go to Evansdale...

I was supposed to
go to City Hall,

yeah, and meet Drew and Heather.

So I did,

'cause I had developed a
relationship with them.

So, I met Drew and Heather there

and Chief Smock
wasn't there yet.

They had all kinds
of questions for me

and I didn't have the answers.

You know one of the
first questions was,

"Well, did they
find the girls?"

And I lied, I say,
"I don't know, uh,

uh, we're just supposed to
wait here for Chief Smock,"

and I think it was
Kent that told them.

I got a call and they said,

"You gotta get down
to the City Hall."

We had talked about like

if they had found
the girls alive

that they would be
rushed to Iowa City,

to be tested and
different things

that they would have to do.

And so, I was like,
they must not be alive.

They were saying they
were calling a meeting

in Evansdale or something

and I didn't want to hear
what they had to say,

I knew it wasn't
good, I don't know.

I didn't want to lose
my hope and so I just,

I didn't, I didn't
go down there.

We didn't want it
getting out in the media

to notify the families,

it needed to come
from a friendly face.

I've delivered a lot
of death notifications

in my career...

none harder.

Those two girls had
become my two girls.

Kent Smock came in and I just,

I'd seen his face and...

I knew.

So I called Heather
and she said,

"They found them,
they found them."

I just crashed to the
floor and started crying,

because I knew they were dead.

I remember laying on the ground

and just kicking it and crying
and just screaming at God,

"Like if you, if you are real,
like why would I continue

to call out to you
or, or believe in you,

when you let little
kids be hurt, you know?"

My mom was the one that told me.

It's been a while since
I thought about that.

She said, "Daniel,
they've found them."

That's all she had to say.

It wasn't, "They've found them,

let's go get them, here
they are, you know."

I remember just being numb,

just sitting there
like what do we do now?

We've been for five
months looking for them,

praying and hoping they
were gonna come home.

It's home but it's not
home with us, you know.

Dad just got me this in church.

The next day it snowed.

Their bodies would
have been covered

for so long till spring,

so I'm really
grateful to the hunter

that he found them.

I don't know how much
longer Drew and I

could have like kept
going like we were.

You know that part is done

and being relieved and
like feeling so guilty

about being relieved,
it's like that is,

that will just...
that will haunt me

I think anybody that knows
what I'm talking about,

will agree.

There's so many out there

that have lost their loved ones

and they've never found them.

I was grateful that we at least,

you know, found them
and had some closure.

We know what happened now,

it's the worst possible scenario

we could have imagined,

they're dead, and
we want the person

or persons that did it,
and, you know, so it's,

everything's ramped up again.

Seven Bridges County Park,

we're looking at that
as a crime scene.

We have to process
that crime scene.

Where the girls were found

was some distance away from
any parking area or road.

I don't want to go
into the graphics

of what I saw,

but since there was
footwear on them,

we could surmise
the girls went there

on their own power,

but it doesn't
necessarily mean that,

it could have been
that they were carried,

that there was more than
one person responsible,

at that point anyway.

We knew that their
clothing was there,

their full clothing was there.

I had one question for
them and that was just,

"Were they found together,
were they together?"

And he said, "Yeah,
they were together."

At least they had
each other, you know.

And he said, "And Lyric
had her flip-flops on."

I didn't ask them
for that, you know,

that tells me more
than I need to know,

you know, that she
trusted and believed

that if she just went along
with whatever's going on,

that she would come out okay,
everything will be alright.

You know, she's so
trusting, she didn't realize

how dark this world was

and how evil these
people could be.

I do believe that had somebody

taken them that
they didn't know,

I do believe she
would have fought,

and I do believe
she would have tried

to protect Elizabeth.

I rely on my faith a lot.

I'm hoping that somehow

God gave them comfort
as they were dying.

One of the big
questions in this case

was how long were Lyric
and Elizabeth alive.

There's a number of
different scenarios

that could have
happened to the girls,

one being they're abducted
and killed the same day,

another being they were abducted

and held for a period of time,

and then murdered and
left in Seven Bridges.

Investigators have
never revealed

whether the girls were
sexually assaulted,

because the
investigation is ongoing.

Statistics show that
so many of these kids

are killed within
the first hour.

I'm convinced within 24
hours those girls were dead,

that day, probably Friday.

Seven Bridges area,
it's all recreation area

that people use for
hunting and also

from everything I've learned,

it's a magnet for bad activity.

The Waterloo Police
Department has discovered

evidence of crimes
there, some...,

we'll have a burglary
and so we'll find

a safe dumped there,

or a firearm will be discarded.

So, it's an area
that's well known

with a criminal element.

Seven Bridges Park
is what I would call

extremely remote,

if you didn't know it was there,

you wouldn't just
stumble across it,

you wouldn't just be
driving down a road and say,

"Oh there's a park," you know,

if you're looking for a
place to dump the bodies.

We can make a pretty
strong argument

that the person knew
that park existed,

had been to that park before,

had some connection to that park

and clearly had some connection

back to Evansdale,

and you've got cellphone towers

up in that area,

you've got cellphone
towers down here.

Can we find people

that their phones are
pinging down here,

and then they were
pinging up there,

and what's your time
frame, what's your window?

Well, it's five months.

A short period of time
after the bodies were found

there were over
a thousand people

that had been interviewed.
People started calling in tips,

"Hey you need to
look at this guy,

he used to go up there and hunt,

he used to go up there and fish,

or he used to go up
there and whatever."

So it generated a new
energy, a new focus

and a new level of
activity in the case.

Now the resources that
had dwindled, back,

you know, pretty
much full strength.

Well, now we need them
where the bodies were found,

there's a neighborhood
around Seven Bridges

that needs to canvassed.

It was a common
area for hunters,

so we started looking
at hunting licenses,

people that were known
to hunt that area.

We wanted to know who
was familiar enough

with Seven Bridges

that could get in and
out basically unseen.

Motive for this case
still troubles me.

I don't know if it's retribution

through the drug trade

or if the motive is
sexual in nature.

Statistically they're
sexual in nature.

In this general area has
the most sex offenders.

We've talked to well
over 300 sex offenders

but once we started working
the Seven Bridges area too,

we started reaching out

and doing a radius in that area.

It's a difficult chore to
go somebody in December

and say, "Did you see anything
suspicious back in July?"

Did the investigators
reveal any details to you

about how the girls died
or anything like that?

Absolutely not.
Absolutely not.

It was very hard
for me to believe

that that was her,

because I've never seen
any coroner's report

or not getting information

about how she died,
how they know it's her,

you know, and I've never
seen anything like that.

I understand

why we can't know
that information

but, you know, nobody said,

"oh, well, we did
a dental record

or we did this and
matched it to this

and that's how we know for sure

that that's your kid.

I don't know what
they went through

but I can only imagine.

That's something you
sit and wonder about,

is like what did this
bastard do to them girls?

Iowa DCI does a phenomenal job.

They play their cards
really close to their chest.

They don't let out to the public

what only the killer would know.

Only the investigators who are
closest to this investigation

should have that knowledge.

We had a number of
false confessions,

people that would come in
and claim responsibilities.

Some of them were people
that had mental illness,

and there were a couple
that were looking

for their five minutes of fame.

But we would have to
ask them particulars

and some of the
easiest ones were,

"What were the girls wearing?

What color were their bikes?"

There were a series of
checks and balances in place.

The other part of the equation

is you hope whoever did this,
you know, hasn't done it again

and won't do it again,

and so all those thoughts
go through your mind.

Double abductions
or dual abductions,

you know, there's only been
15 of them since the 70s.

Evansdale was number 16
and shockingly number 17

would happen less
than a year later,

also in Iowa.

Dayton was just
like any other town

in America's heartland;
a nice quiet small town.

We do have our national
circuit rodeo every year.

In May 2013, there was myself
as the only full-time officer.

Crime-wise, not a lot.

I would see Kathlynn every day,

if not every other day.

Always would see her
walking, had a ball cap on.

She was typically
holding a football

or some type of ball.

Dezi I... she was one
that I'd never really had

much contact with
prior to the incident.

We didn't really see
her out too much.

But yeah, I do
remember Kathlynn,

I'd see her quite a bit.

So tell me about
Kathlynn Shepard.

She was the coolest
person in the world.

Me and Kathlynn used to
go to the bus together,

we used to come home together,

we'd hang out in my front
lawn with my dog George.

Every time we were together,
we were having fun.

She was always smiling,
we were always laughing.

She had these little
rubber bands on her braces

and I would say the
stupidest things

to make her laugh, and
she'd laugh so hard

her mouth would open
too far and they'd snap.

So, she carried this little bag

of rubber bands with her,

she'd be like, "Ouch."

And I'm like, "What?"
She'd pull out the bag,

I'm like "Another one?"
And then she'd just

keep doing it and it was
the funniest stuff ever.

She was so outgoing,
she was funny.

She was my best friend

when I was 12 and she was 15.

My best memory was
Kathlynn would have to be

laughing on the school bus

and then every time we came home

she always grabbed
me a Mountain Dew

and her a Pepsi.

And then we'd drop
her stuff off,

I'd go to her house

and then she'd come to my house.

I can't drink Pepsi anymore.

We were walking
our normal route,

after the bus,

and then this man
pulled up next to us.

We were not even a block
away from our house

and he pulled up in a red truck

and asked if we were willing
to make money to go mow lawn,

since it was a hot
day, he needed help

and it was a lot of
land, and we told him

we had to ask our parents first,

we're not even a block
away, I was like,

"We're just gonna run
home, drop our stuff off

and ask if that's okay."

He offered to give us a ride.

So, we got in the truck...

He told us, you know,
like his name was Michael

and he offered to
shake our hands.

He's a pretty big guy,

he's kind of like
250 to 280 lbs.

He started going the
opposite direction

of our house and, you know,
that kind of felt weird

and it was wrong really

but we've got to
ask our parents,

we can't just go first.

He was like, "Well, you
can just use my phone,

there's one at the house
that you could use"

told us we were
going to a house.

He took us like this
weird way out of Dayton

and then he took the back roads.

He just kept driving and
wouldn't turn around.

It just seemed more
and more like...

unsettling the farther we got.

He took gravel as much
of the way as he could,

which was weird to
us 'cause, you know,

he could use the main road.

When we got there, there's
two hog confinements

and there was a shed
in front of the lawn.

He pointed and he's like,

"Oh, in there is
the lawn mowers,"

and we walked in and then
we're kind of looking around

and we're just like,
we went to turn around

and he had a gun pointed at us.

Kathlynn felt really scared.

He told us to get on the ground

and to lay on our
stomachs and he told us

just if we did what he said
that he would let us go

and we just, you
know, had to listen.

And so, we got
quiet for a minute.

He zip tied us.

Our hands are on our backs.

He stepped on my leg
and I said, "ouch"

and he apologized,

he like rubbed my
thigh sympathetically.

People that act
like that, you know,

why would you care if
you stepped on my leg?

I didn't understand.

He put the gun down and
he pulled out a knife.

We started to cry and
she was looking at me

and we were talking
and just like,

"We don't deserve this,

you know, just
let us go home."

He got mad at her for talking

and he grabbed her by her arm

and he ripped her
up from the ground,

and as soon as she
got around the corner,

the last thing she
yelled was my name

and then she went quiet.

I moved my arms underneath
me and unfolded them

so they were in front
and I grabbed the gun

and I ran as fast as I could.

When I got into the
woods I hid behind a tree

and I checked the gun

to see if there
was anything in it.

It was one of the hog
like tranquilizing guns

or something like
that and it was empty.

Next thing I heard
was he had his truck

and he yelled and then
he got in the truck

and I heard the
truck started moving

and I started to try to
like hide farther down

into like the woods,

'cause I don't want to be seen.

So, we're in the...

the woods I had to run to.

To the right...

would bethe hog confinement

I was taken to with
my best friend.

I was wearing
shorts and a t-shirt

and I did have shoes on

but when I was running,
they got stuck in the mud,

so my shoes and my socks
came off running through mud.

There was a lot of, like,
the raspberries bushes,

they had thorns all over
them so I could feel

the blood going down my legs.

I could feel the blood but
everything just felt numb.

My feet were cut open,

I still had thorns
stuck in them.

I was tripping over everything,

I mean, there's no
stopping and, I mean,

he was driving his truck around

and I could hear it and
at times I could see him

driving next to the woods,

so I'd go further into the woods

so he couldn't see me.

It seemed like I was
running for days.

It just, it didn't seem to end,

there was nothing
but the same trees,

everything looked the same.

And then this is the
farm I ran between,

the three red buildings,
'cause I could hear talking

and I ran to them.

I was talking so fast and
like halfway screaming,

they couldn't understand me,

they tried to get me
to calm down first.

I just kept telling
them, you know,

"Like I need a phone, I
need to call the police."

911 Boone County.

What's the location
of your emergency?

Can you please help me?

There's a... I need a...

What can I do?

What's going on?

This dude picked me and
my friend up and he...

I'm worried and I need help.

Can you call my mom?

Can I talk to the other
person that you're with?

- If you will?
- Yeah, here.

It's two miles north
of Pilot Mound,

as a crow flies.

Dezi comes running around
the corner, she says,

"Help, help, I've
been kidnapped."

And she had these plastic
things on her wrists.

Her legs were scratched
all up and she was crying.

She was so scared,
I think she was

even scared of me, all humans.

She said, "I'm so
worried about my friend,

he's gonna hurt her."

I told my friend to go get a gun

and go up to that hog farm
and if that guy's there,

just keep him there,
don't shoot him yet.

When Patrick's friend got
back, he told us that,

you know, there
was a pile of blood

but nobody was there

and he couldn't find the truck,

he drove around
for a little while

trying to find the truck.

We waited for the police
and everything to come

and I couldn't stand
still, I couldn't sit,

I just, I wanted
to find my friend,

I wanted to find Kathlynn.

Got a phone call

from one of our
sheriff's deputies.

I went to the hog confinement

and by talking to
the property owner

there at the farm,

I found out that his son-in-law

was identified as driving
a red Toyota Tundra truck.

So, at that time

we identified the suspect
as Michael Klunder.

I was in the hospital
and a detective

and another police
officer came in together.

They showed me a
photo and they asked

if I recognized him and
if that was the man,

and I said, "Yeah, you know,
the one that just took us."

And they just said,
"Are you sure?"

And I said, "Yeah, there's
no second guessing it,

that's, that was him."

Some of the deputies

found Michael
Klunder's home address,

which was over in Stratford,

about ten miles away
from where we were.

We arrived at Michael
Klunder's house,

no-one was there at the time,

but then his wife came
home and we were asking her

"Have you heard from him?"

She'd received a text message,

it went something
along the lines of,

"I'm so sorry, I love
you, I'm so sorry."

And I remember reading
that and just knowing

that this wasn't gonna be good.

So I came back to
City Hall in Dayton

and starting setting
up a command post.

We had Iowa State Patrol,

Iowa Division of
Criminal Investigations,

a number of FBI Agents arrived.

We began just working

on trying to gather information,

started doing pings
on Mr Klunder's phone.

Well, the same time,

Michael Klunder's father-in-law,

the owner of the farm,

he went to, started checking
his other properties,

'cause he's got a number of
different hog confinements

around this area,

and we received word

that they found Michael Klunder,

he had hung himself
inside a machine

shed on that farm.

Authorities found the
suspected kidnapper's body

and they say he
committed suicide.

Michael Klunder hung himself,

we couldn't ask
him any questions.

The pickup truck was there,

they did locate some blood
on the tailgate of the truck

but there was no
sign of Kathlynn.

And now Kathlynn
is still out there.

Locals volunteered
to scour the area

in the search for missing
teenager Kathlynn Shepard.

Authorities released this
photo of Kathlynn Shepard

getting off a school bus

likely minutes before
she was kidnapped.

Until we know differently

we're gonna assume that
she's alive somewhere.

If somebody sees
something don't touch it.

Today, searchers fanned out

to comb the dense woods
along the Des Moines River

in Boone County.

There was an amazing search,

just the sheer number
of people and resources

that were put forward.

I mean, we had probably

a hundred law enforcement
officers here every day.

We had volunteers
show up with horses,

a large number of ATVs.

It was the neatest thing
I don't want to see again.

They started search parties

and I wanted to go find
her and I kept asking

if I could go, I
wanted to leave,

I wanted to go help, you know,

and everybody refused to
let me leave the house.

I wasn't allowed to do anything.

I wasn't allowed to go
help search, nothing.

Looking at cellphone pings,

we tracked Michael
Klunder's cellphone

over a 40-mile area of
just driving around.

I think he took
Kathlynn in the truck

and started driving around,

trying to figure out what to do.

Probably went into
a state of panic.

You know anywhere

in between Point A,
Point B and Point C

could be Kathlynn.

It's a huge area to check,

we're talking hundreds
of square miles,

and you just want
to hold out hope

that there is by some miracle

you'd find her alive somewhere,

sustaining herself somehow.

Late today,
investigators recovered

the young girls' backpacks.

They were found in
the town of Fraser,

in a ditch along the road.

It appeared that they were

just thrown out of
the pickup truck,

on a gravel road.

It kind of confirmed
to us that okay,

we know for sure he was
down on Juniper Road,

which turns into River Road
here in Webster County.

Said okay, so, he's
following the river

and he's following the
river for maybe a reason.

So, you know, our boat
teams went back out and,

you know, almost every day
we had a boat team out.

I was assigned with
others to search an area

along the Des Moines River.

I couldn't believe how
heavily wooded it was

and it was brutal searching it.

48 hours had passed,

you want to stay optimistic.

Once we got into two weeks,
two and a half weeks,

you know we've already
checked 250 square miles

at that point in time.

We had every hope in the world

of finding her alive somewhere.

After 18 days of searching,

we finally know the fate
of Kathlynn Shepard.

Her body was found
by a search team

in the Des Moines
River last night.

The State Medical
Examiner's report

says she died of multiple sharp

blunt force injuries.

So Kathlynn was found

in the Des Moines River,

20 miles south of the hog farm.

I was told she was
found by a fisherman

and she was wrapped in plastic,

and he threw her in the river.

Kind of just broke my heart,
I didn't leave my room,

I didn't... I didn't want
to do anything anymore.

She was stabbed 27 times,
her throat was slit,

she was punched in the head.

You kind of know after so long
that they're not coming back,

but when you hear it's
something like that...

I don't know how
people can do that.

Yeah, I don't want to know.

Kathlynn's father

issued a statement to the media.

An exert from it said,

"Today our family has
lost part of its soul.

Not just the Shepard family,

but the families of
Dayton and all of Iowa.

An innocent, caring,
fun-loving child

was taken from this world
long before her time.

Our daughter was torn from
our family and murdered."

I talked with Kathlynn's family

a little bit, it
was really hard.

I felt like they'd hate
me 'cause I hated myself.

Why would you hate
yourself over this?

'Cause I couldn't do anything.

And even if I could
have done anything,

I didn't try.

It's the one thing
I regret most,

is I feel like I still
should have tried.

If Dezi would not have escaped

I wholeheartedly believe
that she would have suffered

the same fate as Kathlynn.

If that girl didn't get away,

Michael Klunder would
probably still be out there,

getting away with it.

Dezi's my hero.

And I feel I've got

a connection with her because...

I know I just feel a
connection with her

just because she did get away

and she was tough
enough to get away.

Immediately after
the Dayton case,

people started putting
together the Dayton case

and the Evansdale case,
I mean right away,

'cause the crimes were
so strikingly similar.

Two Iowa towns,
two pairs of girls,

similar ages, both crimes
occurred on sunny afternoons

less than a year apart.

Both kidnappings happened

around a hundred
miles from each other,

less than a two-hour
drive down Highway 20.

I think everybody,
all of us were like,

"That's the guy."

I didn't know who
Michael Klunder was

prior to this incident.

I had pulled up his
driver's license photo

once we'd identified him,

and I had seen his face before.

And it took me a little while
to remember where I'd seen it;

prior to me becoming
Chief of Police,

I worked for the Iowa
Department of Corrections,

and Michael Klunder
was one of the inmates

at one of the prisons
I had worked at.

It was at the Newton
Correctional Facility.

Michael Klunder has
a heart of darkness.

From the time he was a teenager

he's been evil.

At the age of 15 he
was convicted of intent

to commit sexual abuse.

He beat up a girl in a bathroom

to the point of he
thought he'd killed her.

And in 1989, a judge
ordered Klunder

to receive sex
offender treatment,

while he served nearly
two years in prison.

Michael Klunder's
got a violent past.

I'm aware of two incidents.

December 15, 1991,

Michael Klunder was
following a young woman,

flagged her over
under the pretense

of her taillight was out.

While she was out of the car
looking at her taillight,

he gets control
of her, grabs her

and puts her in his car,

drives her to another location.

Fortunately, she's
able to escape.

Around that same time
in Charles City, Iowa,

he abducted two toddlers
from the yard of a daycare,

put them in the trunk of his car

and drove them to a state park.

That ended with him
putting the two toddlers

in a dumpster and leaving them,

I'm assuming to die.

Michael Klunder,
you know, abducted

two three-year-old girls.

It happened back in 1991

and it was his first
double abduction.

My name is Steve Castaneda.

I was Michael Klunder's
prison counselor.

Michael Klunder I would say
had a small group of friends.

He was reserved. He
lifted weights a lot.

Michael could easily
be intimidating

but also the dark side,
he had an underlying

current of anger all
throughout his time

that I dealt with him.

And I recall saying,

"Mike, you put two kids
in a dumpster bin?"

And he said, "Yeah."

And it stuck with me for a while

that he really was
short of any empathy.

Mike Klunder.

When someone walks in our door,

if they don't have a
mandatory sentence,

which in this case did not,

for every day they
serve, 1.2 days

comes off the back end
and eventually they meet

and that becomes
the discharge date.

He only did 20 years in jail

and they released.

He was supposed to
do 40 something,

he should have never
gotten out, period.

He got out on good behavior.

People like that don't change.

There's no reason

Michael Klunder should have
ever seen the light of day.

Klunder was a sick puppy.

This guy is the worst of
the worst in our society.

I only feel bad about
him killing himself,

because investigators
weren't able

to get information out of him,

that possibly could
have shed some light

on the Evansdale case.

Klunder, I would
not be surprised

if he participated
in that abduction,

of the two Evansdale girls.

Since the 1970s through 2011,

there had only been

15 double abductions in the US.

The Evansdale case in
2012, made it number 16.

Number 17 was less than
a year later in Dayton.

Now there's been three in Iowa.

Iowa comprises less than
1% of the population,

but accounts for
three out of the 17

double abductions in the US.

Two of those three

we know were perpetrated
by Michael Klunder.

Michael Klunder

had taken two
youngsters years before

and now he'd just done
it again in Dayton.

What's the likelihood
that he was involved

with our case in Evansdale.

I was just hoping
and praying like

we have our guy.

This has to be Michael Klunder.

I strongly believe

that that was one of
his favorite things,

was taking two girls at once,

it just seemed like
a repeated pattern.

The parallels between
the case in Dayton

and the Evansdale
case are uncanny.

Two little white
girls, pretty close

to the same age as
Lyric and Elizabeth.

Eight and ten and
then 12 and 15.

One is a larger girl

and the other one
is a smaller girl.

We know Michael Klunder
threw Kathlynn's backpack

and Dezi's purse
out of his truck.

In Evansdale, whoever
abducted Lyric and Elizabeth,

threw Elizabeth's
purse over a fence.

In both cases, the abductors
got rid of the victims' bags

while fleeing the crime scene.

Michael Klunder

threw one of his
victims in a river.

Lyric and Elizabeth,
their bodies

were found near a river.

Investigators are examining

Klunder's work schedule
and credit card purchases.

They're also looking
at DNA evidence

and comparing the
killer's MO in both cases

to determine if
Klunder also murdered

the Evansdale cousins.

I know what happened
to the cousins

and I can't say whether

what Michael Klunder
did is or is not

what we know happened
to the cousins.

There are things that we know

but I can't say what they are

without tipping a
hand that I can't tip.

There are things that
happened in Evansdale

that only that person knows.

So, we worked hard
doing interviews,

did he know anybody
in Black Hawk County

or in Evansdale?

Did he know the victims?

Did he know the
victims' families?

There are still no arrests

in the cousins'
death a year later.

DCI continues investigating

a possible Michael
Klunder connection.

We were trying to do
everything we could

to attach Michael
Klunder to our case.

Were there ties
to our community?

Were there ties
to Seven Bridges?

When Klunder was in his teens

he went to a youth
detention center

in Waverly, Iowa,

which is located
in Bremer County.

It's just miles away from
where Seven Bridges is.

Recently we had found
out that at one point

while Klunder was at
Bremwood he escaped

and when he ran he
went to Seven Bridges.

That's relevant to this case

because that's where the
girls' bodies were found.

Klunder's whereabouts on the day

Lyric Cook and Elizabeth Collins

disappeared last summer are
still being investigated

by the Black Hawk
County Sheriff's Office.

We wanted Michael
Klunder to be able

to be tied into our case.

We wanted the answers
that we'd been seeking

for almost a year, and to
know that we didn't have

a serial killer running
on the loose anymore.

I wanted, in the worse
way I wanted it to be him.

After the police
investigated Klunder

for about a year,

they announced that he
wasn't a suspect anymore.

Can you say why he's ruled out?

Um...

it goes to the information
that we received

and whether or not it
puts him in this area

at a particular time.

I guess without getting
too specific on that,

there's a lot of data that
you're able to collect

to really put a person
in a certain spot,

and with Michael
Klunder it would be,

it would be next to
impossible for him,

based on the information
we collected.

It wasn't Klunder.

Evansdale Police say
they have ruled him

out as a suspect.

They say for months they
tracked his whereabouts

and that he was likely at work

during the time Cook and
Collins were kidnapped.

At the end of the day,

not only could we
not find any ties,

but the physical timelines
that we could definitively say

he could not have gone
from where we knew he was

to Evansdale, abduct the girls,

take them to Seven Bridges,

commit the crime and
get back in that time.

It's physically impossible.

There wasn't time.

Knowing that we still
had someone out there

who's responsible
for the cousins,

I've gotta be true to myself,
I've gotta be true to Lyric,

I've gotta be true to Elizabeth

and their families,

and he's not our guy.

I fear now going forward

is if Klunder didn't
take the girls,

then who did and are
they gonna do it again?

They're gonna catch you.

You are as good as
caught right now.

It might not be today,
it might be tomorrow,

be ready for that
knock on your door.

It's coming.

Two Carroll County girls

have gone missing

near the Monon High
Bridge Trail in Delphi.

There's some cellphone evidence

where they were able to
take a picture of a guy

walking along the trail
that they had encountered

and there's audio.

We kind of hear part
of the guy's voice.

Guys, down the hill.

Guys, down the hill.

That's the killer on
her cellphone footage.

If you're watching,

we'll find you.