1 00:00:07,257 --> 00:00:09,259 [unsettling music plays] 2 00:00:12,303 --> 00:00:15,974 [man] When you're walking around the Trenton State College campus, 3 00:00:16,558 --> 00:00:18,727 Kendall Hall looms over you. 4 00:00:20,562 --> 00:00:22,272 Anybody who sets foot in Kendall 5 00:00:22,355 --> 00:00:26,234 seems to get really creeped out by the vibe of the place. 6 00:00:28,445 --> 00:00:32,615 There was a story that a girl was haunting the building. 7 00:00:33,950 --> 00:00:37,787 If you were to go on the main stage late at night, 8 00:00:37,871 --> 00:00:40,999 you'd hear someone playing piano, even if there's no one there. 9 00:00:43,001 --> 00:00:46,504 As it turns out, a graduate student was murdered there. 10 00:00:48,423 --> 00:00:52,844 And it has all the details of an Agatha Christie story. 11 00:00:54,471 --> 00:00:59,559 This young woman in her early twenties with her entire life ahead of her, 12 00:00:59,642 --> 00:01:02,228 she was brutally, brutally murdered, 13 00:01:02,812 --> 00:01:06,900 in a place that she felt free and… and creative. 14 00:01:06,983 --> 00:01:12,405 And for her to take her last breaths on that stage 15 00:01:12,489 --> 00:01:14,657 is heartbreaking. 16 00:01:16,117 --> 00:01:18,119 [unsettling music plays] 17 00:01:50,151 --> 00:01:51,152 [music fades] 18 00:01:51,236 --> 00:01:54,739 [bells ring] 19 00:01:59,452 --> 00:02:01,079 My name is Scott Napolitano. 20 00:02:01,162 --> 00:02:04,374 I got involved with this story when I was still a film student 21 00:02:04,457 --> 00:02:07,085 at Trenton State College in 2002. 22 00:02:08,086 --> 00:02:10,672 My senior year, we had to do a thesis film, 23 00:02:10,755 --> 00:02:14,968 and my group mates had suggested doing some kind of a ghost story, 24 00:02:15,051 --> 00:02:19,389 and that's when I heard there'd been a murder back in 1977 25 00:02:19,472 --> 00:02:21,599 in an empty theater on campus. 26 00:02:22,183 --> 00:02:24,727 And a pretty sadistic kind of murder. 27 00:02:27,063 --> 00:02:29,691 So I started going through microfiche, 28 00:02:29,774 --> 00:02:33,319 and I finally found an article talking about the case. 29 00:02:35,029 --> 00:02:36,447 And it was unsolved. 30 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:42,287 I know I have no claim to being a detective, 31 00:02:42,912 --> 00:02:45,665 but there was something about it that intrigued me. 32 00:02:45,748 --> 00:02:49,419 And it became, "How can I possibly solve this?" 33 00:02:50,044 --> 00:02:51,880 [ominous music plays] 34 00:02:55,592 --> 00:02:56,467 [music fades] 35 00:02:57,802 --> 00:03:01,890 It was Sunday night, after Labor Day weekend, 36 00:03:01,973 --> 00:03:03,975 before school had started. 37 00:03:05,393 --> 00:03:09,022 College before school technically starts, pretty quiet place. 38 00:03:10,398 --> 00:03:12,400 Janitorial staff would've been there to clean up. 39 00:03:12,483 --> 00:03:14,319 There would be grounds crew coming in 40 00:03:14,402 --> 00:03:16,487 to make sure everything looked good for the students. 41 00:03:16,571 --> 00:03:19,282 There were campus police officers working. 42 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:23,661 I was a campus police officer at the time. I was 22. 43 00:03:24,787 --> 00:03:26,998 We weren't expecting a busy night. 44 00:03:27,081 --> 00:03:29,667 You just ride around, do your patrolling, and that was it. 45 00:03:29,751 --> 00:03:31,628 No student calls, nothing like that. 46 00:03:34,130 --> 00:03:36,090 My shift started at eleven o'clock. 47 00:03:37,258 --> 00:03:39,969 I'm driving on campus, past the theater. 48 00:03:42,931 --> 00:03:44,515 As my car pulled up, 49 00:03:45,308 --> 00:03:47,810 my headlights captured a bicycle 50 00:03:47,894 --> 00:03:51,981 that was chained to the, uh, to the railing right here. 51 00:03:52,732 --> 00:03:55,318 I could see that it was a female's bike. 52 00:03:55,860 --> 00:03:59,322 No one was supposed to be on campus for another three to four days. 53 00:04:00,531 --> 00:04:02,700 I called it in. I asked the dispatcher, 54 00:04:02,784 --> 00:04:05,578 "Was anyone supposed to be in the building at this time?" 55 00:04:06,079 --> 00:04:07,455 They said, "Negative." 56 00:04:08,164 --> 00:04:11,584 I said, "I'll be going in to investigate." 57 00:04:13,336 --> 00:04:15,463 I unlocked the door, which was locked. 58 00:04:18,299 --> 00:04:19,300 I came in. 59 00:04:20,718 --> 00:04:24,013 I turned my police radio down, not to make noise. 60 00:04:26,015 --> 00:04:28,017 'Cause I'm looking for a trespasser. 61 00:04:28,810 --> 00:04:33,314 And the lighting was only by the red emergency exit signs. 62 00:04:33,398 --> 00:04:34,524 That's it. 63 00:04:34,607 --> 00:04:36,818 So it was kind of an eerie glow. 64 00:04:39,737 --> 00:04:43,866 Kendall Hall, it's kind of a very spooky setup 65 00:04:43,950 --> 00:04:45,660 because it's such an old building. 66 00:04:46,661 --> 00:04:49,706 There's, like, small cavernous-type hallways. 67 00:04:51,416 --> 00:04:53,543 I listen, don't hear anything. 68 00:04:53,626 --> 00:04:55,586 I proceed toward the main stage. 69 00:04:58,339 --> 00:05:03,970 And I saw what looked to me initially as a person would be sleeping. 70 00:05:06,014 --> 00:05:10,268 On their side, with a covering up to their neck. 71 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:14,397 I started thinking, 72 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:16,983 "Is this a prop?" 73 00:05:18,276 --> 00:05:22,030 I start walking closer to the body, and as I'm halfway there, 74 00:05:22,113 --> 00:05:24,240 I could see a large amount of blood. 75 00:05:26,826 --> 00:05:30,121 And then I crouched down, got real close. 76 00:05:30,204 --> 00:05:32,415 I knew it was a person at that point. 77 00:05:34,042 --> 00:05:37,337 The only thing led me to believe that it could be a female, 78 00:05:37,420 --> 00:05:40,298 in the caked blood and everything, I could see an earring. 79 00:05:41,549 --> 00:05:42,383 On one ear. 80 00:05:43,259 --> 00:05:44,886 I grabbed onto her wrist. 81 00:05:45,386 --> 00:05:48,056 It was cold. It was hard. 82 00:05:48,931 --> 00:05:52,018 It felt like rigor mortis was already in the arms. 83 00:05:53,519 --> 00:05:54,520 I drew my weapon. 84 00:05:57,023 --> 00:05:59,359 I didn't know if the person was still here. 85 00:06:01,903 --> 00:06:04,113 And then I called it in. 86 00:06:04,197 --> 00:06:06,240 I told our dispatcher, 87 00:06:06,824 --> 00:06:10,328 "Send me a backup. Notify Ewing police." 88 00:06:10,411 --> 00:06:13,831 "I believe I have a homicide victim on the stage." 89 00:06:16,167 --> 00:06:20,254 At that point, it was dead silence for what felt like eternity, 90 00:06:20,338 --> 00:06:23,257 'cause they've never heard a call like that come in. 91 00:06:27,136 --> 00:06:32,016 That's when every Ewing cop that was working that night, everyone… 92 00:06:32,100 --> 00:06:33,434 [sirens wail] 93 00:06:33,518 --> 00:06:35,895 …came onto that stage, walking around. 94 00:06:35,978 --> 00:06:37,438 Sergeant, everybody. 95 00:06:40,650 --> 00:06:42,527 When Ewing police showed up, 96 00:06:42,610 --> 00:06:44,737 no one knew how to turn these lights on, 97 00:06:44,821 --> 00:06:47,907 so they got a hold of the electrician for the college. 98 00:06:47,990 --> 00:06:49,283 [tense music plays] 99 00:06:51,994 --> 00:06:55,081 He started throwing all the switches, lit the whole place up. 100 00:06:56,374 --> 00:06:57,875 It was a gory sight. 101 00:07:00,795 --> 00:07:04,590 There was a large amount of blood all over the head. 102 00:07:04,674 --> 00:07:06,551 Her face was distorted. 103 00:07:08,094 --> 00:07:10,221 [Scott] She was covered in a piano blanket. 104 00:07:10,721 --> 00:07:14,475 Her clothes were found a few feet away by the piano, 105 00:07:14,559 --> 00:07:15,977 along with her belongings. 106 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:21,315 They were able to eventually get an identity from her driver's license 107 00:07:21,399 --> 00:07:22,233 in her bag. 108 00:07:23,651 --> 00:07:27,738 It was Sigrid Stevenson, 25, a music major at Trenton State College. 109 00:07:27,822 --> 00:07:29,824 [somber music plays] 110 00:07:34,829 --> 00:07:37,039 [woman] When I heard that Sigrid had been murdered, 111 00:07:37,123 --> 00:07:38,624 it was heartbreaking to me. 112 00:07:39,709 --> 00:07:43,337 The Stevenson family was a very close family. 113 00:07:45,339 --> 00:07:46,883 When Sigrid was killed, 114 00:07:46,966 --> 00:07:49,385 her parents lived in California, 115 00:07:49,469 --> 00:07:53,222 and she was killed 3,000 miles away back east. 116 00:07:53,723 --> 00:07:58,519 The first thought that I had was that I hope they will make it through this, 117 00:07:58,603 --> 00:08:03,941 because she was such an elemental part of that family. 118 00:08:08,863 --> 00:08:11,365 I was two years old when I first met Sigrid. 119 00:08:12,241 --> 00:08:14,660 We grew up in Livermore, California. 120 00:08:15,453 --> 00:08:17,538 We were born one month apart, 121 00:08:17,622 --> 00:08:19,957 so she's one month older than I am. 122 00:08:20,791 --> 00:08:24,962 She had one younger sister who she absolutely loved. 123 00:08:27,048 --> 00:08:31,052 Sigrid's personality, the best word I can use is "quirky." 124 00:08:32,011 --> 00:08:36,766 She could be really funny, and she could also be silly. 125 00:08:38,059 --> 00:08:40,895 I remember watching her take little pretzel pieces 126 00:08:40,978 --> 00:08:43,356 and throw them up in the air for Penny the dog, 127 00:08:43,439 --> 00:08:46,234 and then she'd throw one and catch it in her own mouth. 128 00:08:48,819 --> 00:08:50,863 [gentle piano melody plays] 129 00:08:50,947 --> 00:08:52,823 Sigrid was a piano prodigy. 130 00:08:55,284 --> 00:08:57,036 When she would play the piano, 131 00:08:57,119 --> 00:08:59,914 a completely different side of her would emerge 132 00:08:59,997 --> 00:09:03,292 that was just calm and powerful. 133 00:09:04,210 --> 00:09:06,462 I did not know any other child 134 00:09:06,546 --> 00:09:09,924 that could be handed a piece of difficult music 135 00:09:10,007 --> 00:09:12,802 and given a few minutes to literally look it over, 136 00:09:12,885 --> 00:09:16,347 and then sit down and play a pretty reasonable version of it. 137 00:09:17,557 --> 00:09:18,891 [Scott] At Trenton State, 138 00:09:18,975 --> 00:09:22,228 Sigrid was pursuing music and education for her master's degree 139 00:09:22,311 --> 00:09:24,897 and wanted to become a teacher. 140 00:09:26,274 --> 00:09:29,235 [Carol] I know she was driven to accomplish 141 00:09:29,318 --> 00:09:34,156 and just become the absolute best pianist and musician that she could. 142 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:36,242 [piano melody continues] 143 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:41,914 [music fades] 144 00:09:45,334 --> 00:09:47,587 [intriguing music plays] 145 00:09:47,670 --> 00:09:49,297 My name is Julia Caldwell. 146 00:09:49,380 --> 00:09:53,634 I'm a retired detective from Ewing Township, New Jersey. 147 00:09:54,510 --> 00:09:59,181 The first time I actually heard about the Sigrid Stevenson murder 148 00:09:59,265 --> 00:10:01,601 was during one of our blocks of instruction 149 00:10:01,684 --> 00:10:03,477 on cold case homicides. 150 00:10:04,186 --> 00:10:10,192 It is a cold case that spanned over 40-some-odd years. 151 00:10:10,776 --> 00:10:15,031 I dreamed of being able to solve a case like this. Specifically this case. 152 00:10:15,615 --> 00:10:18,326 Because when I looked at the crime scene photos, 153 00:10:18,409 --> 00:10:19,535 I was horrified. 154 00:10:20,119 --> 00:10:22,121 [unsettling music plays] 155 00:10:22,955 --> 00:10:25,708 This was a very messy murder. 156 00:10:27,918 --> 00:10:32,548 And I wouldn't be lying if I told you that it didn't keep me up certain nights. 157 00:10:32,632 --> 00:10:35,593 Because I did become a little bit obsessed with it. 158 00:10:36,135 --> 00:10:39,972 And I feel like this case has done that to a lot of other investigators. 159 00:10:45,394 --> 00:10:48,564 The piano was, like, right around this area of… of the stage. 160 00:10:49,565 --> 00:10:53,736 Her body was found about four and a half… four, four and a half feet away. 161 00:10:53,819 --> 00:10:55,946 I was eight years old when Sigrid was murdered. 162 00:10:56,947 --> 00:11:01,118 In 2003, I was a sergeant for Ewing Police Department. 163 00:11:01,702 --> 00:11:05,956 And every day I went into the station, I'd open that door, 164 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:11,087 and in the back of the room to the left, I would see Sigrid's 1977 case file. 165 00:11:11,170 --> 00:11:15,841 And I was thinking to myself, "I wonder if we have any evidence from that case." 166 00:11:16,801 --> 00:11:20,763 So I wrote a letter to the chief of police at the time 167 00:11:20,846 --> 00:11:25,601 and requested to work on the Sigrid Stevenson case. 168 00:11:26,352 --> 00:11:29,980 The initial investigators on the case had retired at that point in time. 169 00:11:30,690 --> 00:11:36,070 And I had a long, long process of putting things together. 170 00:11:36,153 --> 00:11:38,197 I read through every file. 171 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:41,951 Things written on the back of notebooks, inside of notebooks. 172 00:11:43,869 --> 00:11:46,330 I got involved with the investigations 173 00:11:46,414 --> 00:11:50,835 in the timeframe something around the late 2013, 2014. 174 00:11:51,752 --> 00:11:55,047 We had, like, interview notes who police talked to, 175 00:11:55,131 --> 00:11:58,759 but just no real chronological order of things they did 176 00:11:58,843 --> 00:12:00,594 or what they were kind of keying on. 177 00:12:01,095 --> 00:12:03,055 It hampered us from the beginning. 178 00:12:03,681 --> 00:12:07,643 We just had to kind of re-break everything back down and try to go from square one. 179 00:12:12,898 --> 00:12:15,818 While the original investigation was going on, 180 00:12:15,901 --> 00:12:19,655 the medical examiner at the time, Dr. Ahmad, responded to the scene. 181 00:12:20,322 --> 00:12:23,242 My name is Dr. Raafat Ahmad. 182 00:12:23,325 --> 00:12:29,790 And I was the deputy medical examiner at the time the incident happened. 183 00:12:30,458 --> 00:12:31,751 I remember it well. 184 00:12:32,501 --> 00:12:34,003 The scene was very bloody. 185 00:12:35,004 --> 00:12:37,047 Her scarf was in a pool of blood. 186 00:12:38,632 --> 00:12:42,428 Her one earring was broken off and was found in a pool of blood. 187 00:12:43,971 --> 00:12:45,723 Her panties are off. 188 00:12:47,475 --> 00:12:50,811 Her blouse is off and is tied around her mouth, 189 00:12:50,895 --> 00:12:53,022 so that she wouldn't scream, most likely. 190 00:12:54,565 --> 00:12:58,861 It was one of the most gruesome murders. 191 00:13:00,446 --> 00:13:04,033 The autopsy was done the following morning at 10:00 a.m. 192 00:13:08,370 --> 00:13:10,372 On the external examination, 193 00:13:10,456 --> 00:13:14,126 I found lacerations on the back of the head, 194 00:13:14,210 --> 00:13:17,755 deep lacerations on the front of the face. 195 00:13:18,464 --> 00:13:23,803 The cause of death is the massive cranial cerebral trauma to the head. 196 00:13:25,262 --> 00:13:31,101 She was beaten very savagely and repeatedly with a blunt object. 197 00:13:31,185 --> 00:13:32,728 It could be a baseball bat. 198 00:13:33,354 --> 00:13:36,023 It could be a baton. It could be a pipe. 199 00:13:36,607 --> 00:13:40,820 And there was bruising on the body, on the thighs. 200 00:13:40,903 --> 00:13:43,072 The pelvic area had bruises. 201 00:13:44,532 --> 00:13:46,534 I took vaginal swabs. 202 00:13:47,201 --> 00:13:49,703 There were no live sperms there. 203 00:13:49,787 --> 00:13:52,248 It was dead heads of the sperms. 204 00:13:52,915 --> 00:13:57,127 It tells us that some kind of sexual activity was there, 205 00:13:57,753 --> 00:14:02,132 and if you add on all the other things that happened to her, 206 00:14:02,216 --> 00:14:05,261 we can surely say that this could be the result 207 00:14:05,344 --> 00:14:07,638 of the sexual assault that she had. 208 00:14:09,181 --> 00:14:12,852 She was found at 11:30 p.m. that night. 209 00:14:12,935 --> 00:14:17,648 And the time of death can be approximated between, I would say, 210 00:14:17,731 --> 00:14:21,569 7:30 to 10:00 p.m. that evening she was found. 211 00:14:22,403 --> 00:14:23,779 She lost so much blood, 212 00:14:23,863 --> 00:14:27,324 and she died within minutes after being attacked. 213 00:14:31,495 --> 00:14:35,416 [Edward] Looking at the crime scene photos, this was violent. 214 00:14:35,499 --> 00:14:37,251 There was blood everywhere. 215 00:14:37,793 --> 00:14:39,378 It would have been on the killer, 216 00:14:39,879 --> 00:14:44,049 on his clothes, on his hands, on his shoes. 217 00:14:45,175 --> 00:14:49,597 There was also blood spatter on the music that she was playing. 218 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:51,807 [unsettling music plays] 219 00:14:53,392 --> 00:14:55,853 [Patrick] The fact that you see the blood, 220 00:14:56,645 --> 00:14:59,690 I would believe that there would be some type of footprint 221 00:14:59,773 --> 00:15:01,942 or something left at the scene. 222 00:15:02,526 --> 00:15:06,405 We don't see any of that in any of the crime scene photos that were taken. 223 00:15:06,488 --> 00:15:09,742 Not even walking away, leading away. Nothing. 224 00:15:11,327 --> 00:15:15,164 Also, I'm kind of shocked that there was no fingerprints, 225 00:15:15,247 --> 00:15:17,291 no partial prints, no anything. 226 00:15:17,875 --> 00:15:21,545 It's kind of intriguing that we didn't find them. Not… Not one. 227 00:15:23,088 --> 00:15:24,506 [Edward] That's a mystery in itself. 228 00:15:24,590 --> 00:15:26,467 I don't know how the killer pulled that off 229 00:15:26,550 --> 00:15:28,218 and why there's no footprints. 230 00:15:28,302 --> 00:15:31,388 He's getting the piano cover, wrapping her up in the piano cover. 231 00:15:32,348 --> 00:15:35,184 Looks like he's trying to drag her into a different area. 232 00:15:35,976 --> 00:15:40,564 As far as the suspect trying to clean up afterwards, I… 233 00:15:40,648 --> 00:15:41,607 There's nothing. 234 00:15:41,690 --> 00:15:46,695 There was no smears in the blood like you were trying to wipe blood up. 235 00:15:47,279 --> 00:15:48,739 No indication of any of that. 236 00:15:49,531 --> 00:15:50,908 The murder weapon was never found. 237 00:15:50,991 --> 00:15:54,453 They checked the lakes, checked around the surrounding area, around the building. 238 00:15:54,536 --> 00:15:56,830 They checked the campus in general. Nothing. 239 00:15:58,415 --> 00:16:01,377 So, out of the gate, even within the first couple of days, 240 00:16:01,460 --> 00:16:03,128 there's not a lot to work off of. 241 00:16:11,178 --> 00:16:15,641 Now, we know by the autopsy report 242 00:16:15,724 --> 00:16:19,353 that Sigrid was murdered on September 4th. 243 00:16:20,229 --> 00:16:25,401 But on September 2nd, she had just got back from a trip 244 00:16:25,484 --> 00:16:28,529 in which she hitchhiked through Nova Scotia. 245 00:16:29,571 --> 00:16:35,494 Sigrid was lined up to have a room with a local fireman's family. 246 00:16:35,577 --> 00:16:37,830 By the time she got back from her trip, 247 00:16:37,913 --> 00:16:41,458 that family was gonna be gone on vacation down to the Jersey Shore. 248 00:16:42,126 --> 00:16:44,211 They weren't gonna be able to let her stay there 249 00:16:44,294 --> 00:16:47,131 until they got back in a few days. 250 00:16:47,214 --> 00:16:51,427 So Sigrid decided, "I'll stay in one of the buildings over on campus, 251 00:16:51,510 --> 00:16:55,180 and I'll practice the piano, and I'll just crash on a couch." 252 00:16:55,764 --> 00:16:58,809 So she was staying in Kendall Hall over Labor Day weekend. 253 00:17:02,104 --> 00:17:05,190 Kendall Hall was known for being easy to sneak into. 254 00:17:05,274 --> 00:17:07,401 That the doors didn't close all of the way. 255 00:17:08,027 --> 00:17:11,488 The green room was fairly well stocked. There was a couch downstairs. 256 00:17:13,907 --> 00:17:18,996 The last time Sigrid was seen was on Saturday night, September 3rd. 257 00:17:20,539 --> 00:17:23,876 There had been a play, which was being put on by a local theater group 258 00:17:23,959 --> 00:17:27,880 in the Black Box Theater, which is adjacent to the main theater space 259 00:17:27,963 --> 00:17:29,089 in Kendall Hall. 260 00:17:30,299 --> 00:17:32,926 [Edward] On Saturday evening before the play started, 261 00:17:33,010 --> 00:17:35,763 one of the cast members walked into the green room 262 00:17:35,846 --> 00:17:38,766 and turned the light on, and Sigrid was startled. 263 00:17:40,934 --> 00:17:44,021 Other cast members saw that she had her backpack 264 00:17:44,104 --> 00:17:46,523 and sleeping bag with her in the green room. 265 00:17:47,483 --> 00:17:50,319 [Scott] Sigrid had been in attendance for the production. 266 00:17:51,070 --> 00:17:54,948 An actress ended up seeing Sigrid kind of watching the show from the side. 267 00:17:55,616 --> 00:17:58,118 [Julia] Later on, during the play, 268 00:17:58,202 --> 00:18:00,370 one of those witnesses in the cast 269 00:18:00,454 --> 00:18:06,251 stated that Miss Stevenson was happy and friendly and talkative. 270 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:08,712 That was at the end of the first act. 271 00:18:09,588 --> 00:18:14,551 [Edward] And sometime afterwards, she ran into her again, 272 00:18:14,635 --> 00:18:16,929 and Sigrid seemed a little down. 273 00:18:17,971 --> 00:18:20,682 She was explaining to this witness 274 00:18:20,766 --> 00:18:23,227 that she had got into an argument with a man. 275 00:18:23,811 --> 00:18:27,689 And that, ultimately, she lost the argument. 276 00:18:27,773 --> 00:18:32,236 This interaction most likely was with somebody who was there. 277 00:18:32,319 --> 00:18:36,073 Maybe a cast member, maybe a stagehand. 278 00:18:37,116 --> 00:18:38,909 [Scott] So whatever good spirits she'd been in, 279 00:18:38,992 --> 00:18:42,496 somehow she'd encountered somebody who… who brought her down. 280 00:18:44,164 --> 00:18:45,499 Who is she fighting with? 281 00:18:46,542 --> 00:18:49,253 Less than 24 hours after these arguments happen 282 00:18:49,336 --> 00:18:50,879 and after the show's done, 283 00:18:50,963 --> 00:18:52,631 Sigrid's brutally murdered. 284 00:18:52,714 --> 00:18:56,468 It could have nothing to do with that. It could have everything to do with that. 285 00:18:57,970 --> 00:19:02,599 [Julia] Then that particular witness last saw Sigrid 286 00:19:02,683 --> 00:19:05,352 after the play had ended, around 11:30. 287 00:19:06,478 --> 00:19:10,649 And that was the last time that she saw the victim alive. 288 00:19:13,527 --> 00:19:15,445 After that, she sort of disappears. 289 00:19:16,321 --> 00:19:19,449 She could have been there on that stage practicing piano. 290 00:19:21,785 --> 00:19:24,580 Or she could have gone out wandering during the middle of the day 291 00:19:24,663 --> 00:19:26,623 and gone out to eat. 292 00:19:28,125 --> 00:19:29,418 We just don't know. 293 00:19:31,503 --> 00:19:34,756 Unfortunately, we do know where she ended up. 294 00:19:39,219 --> 00:19:43,307 [Julia] So if we look at the stage, the piano is right in this area. 295 00:19:44,558 --> 00:19:48,979 The victim's body was face down, 296 00:19:49,062 --> 00:19:52,816 partially covered by a piano cover. 297 00:19:53,650 --> 00:19:57,321 I strongly believe that she's on the stage, 298 00:19:57,905 --> 00:20:00,240 and the perpetrator comes in, 299 00:20:00,324 --> 00:20:03,327 and she's here at the piano, sitting on the stool. 300 00:20:04,286 --> 00:20:07,372 They knew she was gonna be there. They knew she was gonna be alone. 301 00:20:07,873 --> 00:20:09,708 They knew the building was gonna be empty. 302 00:20:11,168 --> 00:20:12,920 [Edward] I believe the killer came in 303 00:20:13,003 --> 00:20:16,465 with the intent of having some kind of sexual encounter with her. 304 00:20:17,549 --> 00:20:20,802 He probably made advances on Sigrid, 305 00:20:20,886 --> 00:20:22,012 and she rebuffed him. 306 00:20:22,804 --> 00:20:26,058 And he became violent. 307 00:20:27,768 --> 00:20:31,980 He takes it out on her with some sort of blunt instrument, 308 00:20:32,064 --> 00:20:33,899 striking her multiple times. 309 00:20:35,776 --> 00:20:38,737 It was an overkill. She was beaten so bad. 310 00:20:39,446 --> 00:20:44,493 I think she tried to get up, make a run for it, 311 00:20:44,576 --> 00:20:48,622 at which time he struck her, violently, 312 00:20:48,705 --> 00:20:50,582 maybe once, maybe twice, 313 00:20:50,666 --> 00:20:54,211 knocking her scarf off of her head, 314 00:20:54,294 --> 00:20:57,047 which was located in this area over here, 315 00:20:57,130 --> 00:21:00,342 along with a piece of jewelry of the victim's. 316 00:21:01,593 --> 00:21:06,181 I could see that there was some smear marks, too, of blood, 317 00:21:06,265 --> 00:21:10,519 that made it look like she was either dragged or was being moved. 318 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:16,483 There was also ligature marks on her wrists. 319 00:21:17,901 --> 00:21:20,904 The ligature marks, they're all symmetrical, 320 00:21:20,988 --> 00:21:26,493 which leads me to believe that she was restrained with, uh, with handcuffs. 321 00:21:27,411 --> 00:21:32,249 [Julia] To me, the ligature marks revealed something more sinister. 322 00:21:33,917 --> 00:21:35,877 May it have been a fetish? 323 00:21:35,961 --> 00:21:40,007 May it have been that that person likes control? 324 00:21:40,090 --> 00:21:44,094 Most sexually-driven crimes are about control. 325 00:21:44,845 --> 00:21:47,556 You don't come in to rob something and all of a sudden, 326 00:21:48,098 --> 00:21:51,059 "Oh, let me bind them and take all their clothes off 327 00:21:51,143 --> 00:21:54,730 and place their body in a very revealing position." 328 00:21:58,734 --> 00:22:01,320 [Edward] When you look at the crime scene photos, 329 00:22:01,403 --> 00:22:05,282 you can see there's an interrupted pattern of blood 330 00:22:05,365 --> 00:22:07,993 on her right side of her back 331 00:22:08,076 --> 00:22:11,913 where her arm was… could have been in this position, 332 00:22:12,456 --> 00:22:15,042 where she's in a… in a handcuffed position. 333 00:22:15,125 --> 00:22:18,920 With her last breath of life in her, 334 00:22:19,004 --> 00:22:22,174 it looks like she drug… she drug her hand across her back 335 00:22:22,799 --> 00:22:27,429 and reached out to try to crawl away, try to get help. 336 00:22:27,512 --> 00:22:30,223 But that's when she expired. 337 00:22:32,351 --> 00:22:38,148 The person who perpetrated the crime was able to leave undiscovered, 338 00:22:38,690 --> 00:22:40,650 most likely covered in blood, 339 00:22:41,443 --> 00:22:44,446 and was able to disappear into the night. 340 00:22:50,827 --> 00:22:52,579 [Patrick] Obviously, word gets out. 341 00:22:52,662 --> 00:22:55,582 And just based on the location, how it happened, 342 00:22:55,665 --> 00:22:58,335 a lot of people were upset and alarmed. 343 00:22:59,961 --> 00:23:02,881 There was a lot of coverage in the newspapers, from The Trenton Times 344 00:23:02,964 --> 00:23:03,799 and The Trentonian, 345 00:23:03,882 --> 00:23:07,094 and even The Daily News had picked it up for a brief while. 346 00:23:07,844 --> 00:23:10,055 It's scary stuff 347 00:23:10,138 --> 00:23:13,016 because no one expects to start their first week of school 348 00:23:13,100 --> 00:23:14,684 with a huge police presence. 349 00:23:15,352 --> 00:23:20,107 [Patrick] Detectives from Ewing police did a ton of interviews. 350 00:23:20,899 --> 00:23:24,277 They probably spoke to a hundred people. 351 00:23:25,237 --> 00:23:28,115 Police officers, witness, family members. 352 00:23:28,865 --> 00:23:34,037 The investigation was initially broad, looking at a lot of different people, 353 00:23:34,121 --> 00:23:35,539 but it narrowed down 354 00:23:36,206 --> 00:23:39,584 and seemed to focus around suspicions 355 00:23:39,668 --> 00:23:42,170 that campus police could have been involved. 356 00:23:42,838 --> 00:23:46,299 A lot of people theorized, "Oh, it must be law enforcement 357 00:23:46,383 --> 00:23:48,510 because, you know, they have handcuffs." 358 00:23:49,469 --> 00:23:51,680 [Edward] It's not a high-percentage situation 359 00:23:51,763 --> 00:23:55,100 where you're gonna stumble across a girl on a stage of a college campus 360 00:23:55,183 --> 00:23:58,437 and you're just so happen gonna have, you know, handcuffs in your pocket. 361 00:23:59,020 --> 00:24:01,940 Unless you're law enforcement, campus police. 362 00:24:03,525 --> 00:24:08,405 Also, looking at the photos from the autopsy, 363 00:24:08,488 --> 00:24:13,326 you can see where the long cylindrical strike marks that were on her back 364 00:24:13,410 --> 00:24:18,498 could very well be indicative of a police nightstick or a baton. 365 00:24:18,582 --> 00:24:21,084 [Edward] A campus police officer would be a good suspect 366 00:24:21,168 --> 00:24:23,545 because he knows the campus. 367 00:24:24,087 --> 00:24:25,380 He knows Kendall Hall. 368 00:24:25,922 --> 00:24:31,887 He knows that the campus is… is pretty much a ghost town at this point in time. 369 00:24:32,721 --> 00:24:38,143 And also, he knows that Sigrid may frequent these buildings. 370 00:24:39,811 --> 00:24:42,397 Sigrid had a reputation for sneaking into buildings. 371 00:24:42,481 --> 00:24:47,444 She might be in there sleeping, playing the piano. 372 00:24:47,527 --> 00:24:52,032 The campus police had interactions with her over the course of the year, 373 00:24:52,115 --> 00:24:54,367 chasing her out of different buildings. 374 00:24:56,703 --> 00:25:00,790 Ewing PD investigated the campus police officers. 375 00:25:02,250 --> 00:25:06,880 Fifteen officers gave statements throughout the investigation. 376 00:25:08,173 --> 00:25:12,135 There were a lot of officers who were asked to be polygraphed. 377 00:25:12,219 --> 00:25:15,972 The results were either inconclusive 378 00:25:16,056 --> 00:25:19,309 or the people were deemed not to have been involved. 379 00:25:20,101 --> 00:25:23,313 I did give a polygraph to Ewing police. 380 00:25:23,396 --> 00:25:25,232 A number of our officers did also. 381 00:25:26,358 --> 00:25:29,402 They took our handcuffs and nightstick, 382 00:25:29,486 --> 00:25:32,405 and they sent it to the state police for examination. 383 00:25:33,114 --> 00:25:36,284 [Edward] They tested the batons and handcuffs, looking for blood. 384 00:25:36,368 --> 00:25:39,120 They did find blood on one of the handcuffs 385 00:25:39,204 --> 00:25:40,789 from one of the officers, 386 00:25:40,872 --> 00:25:45,377 but it was determined that it was from an incident sometime prior. 387 00:25:46,127 --> 00:25:49,839 But not finding the blood on any of the batons or… or handcuffs, 388 00:25:49,923 --> 00:25:53,468 I mean, it's a situation where somebody could've washed it off. 389 00:25:53,969 --> 00:25:59,391 I'm not sure what the process was in 1977, how good it was, how thorough it was. 390 00:25:59,474 --> 00:26:00,350 We don't know. 391 00:26:02,811 --> 00:26:04,020 From everything I know, 392 00:26:04,104 --> 00:26:11,111 two campus police officers were on duty at the time of the homicide. 393 00:26:12,529 --> 00:26:14,489 [Patrick] They both passed a polygraph, 394 00:26:14,990 --> 00:26:18,118 but then a couple of months after Sigrid's murder, 395 00:26:18,910 --> 00:26:25,041 one of them was talking to another officer in the locker room at the police station, 396 00:26:25,125 --> 00:26:28,712 and basically said to him that he had killed Sigrid. 397 00:26:30,255 --> 00:26:33,842 The officer who heard it thought he was kidding, 398 00:26:33,925 --> 00:26:37,846 but yet went to the detectives that were involved in the case and explained, 399 00:26:37,929 --> 00:26:40,056 "There's been a couple of incidents with this guy, 400 00:26:40,140 --> 00:26:42,350 where we've been at parties, he's been drinking a lot, 401 00:26:42,434 --> 00:26:44,811 he's been mean to women that were at the party." 402 00:26:45,812 --> 00:26:47,147 He wasn't on my shift. 403 00:26:48,106 --> 00:26:50,275 My shift started at eleven o'clock, 404 00:26:50,358 --> 00:26:52,861 so I'm not in the locker room with him at the same time. 405 00:26:52,944 --> 00:26:54,779 So it wasn't me that overheard it. 406 00:26:54,863 --> 00:26:57,115 But I was a friend of his. 407 00:26:57,198 --> 00:26:59,701 We'd go out, go to the college pub, 408 00:26:59,784 --> 00:27:02,871 but he had a little bit of a peculiar disposition about him, 409 00:27:02,954 --> 00:27:04,914 especially when it came to women. 410 00:27:05,915 --> 00:27:08,209 [Edward] The officer passed the polygraph. 411 00:27:08,293 --> 00:27:10,795 But everybody passed the polygraph. 412 00:27:11,379 --> 00:27:13,381 Now, my feeling on polygraphs, 413 00:27:13,465 --> 00:27:17,636 if you've looked back at other cases over… over the years, 414 00:27:17,719 --> 00:27:21,681 you've seen the killer pass the polygraph. 415 00:27:22,265 --> 00:27:23,975 It's an investigative tool, 416 00:27:24,517 --> 00:27:27,729 but it's something that you shouldn't lay your hat on. 417 00:27:30,815 --> 00:27:34,736 [Patrick] This officer, he was on campus at the time, 418 00:27:34,819 --> 00:27:37,280 but there was nothing in any report 419 00:27:37,364 --> 00:27:40,241 or the statement that they took from this officer 420 00:27:40,325 --> 00:27:43,286 indicating or asking him any questions 421 00:27:43,370 --> 00:27:47,040 in regards to the comments that he made about killing Sigrid. 422 00:27:47,999 --> 00:27:51,002 I'm not sure if it was followed up 423 00:27:51,086 --> 00:27:54,339 and it just came down it was a joke 424 00:27:54,422 --> 00:27:57,175 or he was just… made an inappropriate comment. 425 00:27:57,676 --> 00:27:58,677 I just don't know. 426 00:28:00,553 --> 00:28:04,140 [Edward] It seemed like, reading the statements from everybody 427 00:28:04,224 --> 00:28:06,017 during, uh, the investigation, 428 00:28:06,101 --> 00:28:10,021 that they did look at a second officer of interest. 429 00:28:11,648 --> 00:28:16,403 This officer came in at 12:30 in the afternoon the day of the homicide. 430 00:28:16,486 --> 00:28:20,448 Now, he comes into campus police headquarters off duty. 431 00:28:21,032 --> 00:28:22,325 Why does he do that? 432 00:28:22,409 --> 00:28:25,954 Maybe just to walk around, catch up on reports, 433 00:28:26,037 --> 00:28:27,747 but it's something that… 434 00:28:27,831 --> 00:28:29,833 I know, over the years, 435 00:28:30,333 --> 00:28:32,419 I have never went into the station off duty. 436 00:28:33,336 --> 00:28:37,006 That's a little bit of an oddity here that definitely raised some eyebrows. 437 00:28:37,090 --> 00:28:39,676 But the original investigation has a statement from him, 438 00:28:39,759 --> 00:28:42,387 and also a polygraph, which he passed. 439 00:28:43,763 --> 00:28:45,849 If you just look at the bare facts, 440 00:28:45,932 --> 00:28:48,643 campus police had keys to the building. 441 00:28:49,227 --> 00:28:51,104 They had restraints on them. 442 00:28:51,938 --> 00:28:54,566 They had the opportunity to interact with the victim. 443 00:28:55,191 --> 00:28:58,528 So, yeah, it's pretty easy to look down the path of, 444 00:28:58,611 --> 00:29:00,321 "Could it have been a campus police officer?" 445 00:29:01,156 --> 00:29:05,243 But there's no evidence to any of it, so you can only theorize. 446 00:29:09,164 --> 00:29:12,375 When I first got involved with the case, 447 00:29:12,459 --> 00:29:18,298 I had an opportunity to speak to one of the initial detectives on the case, 448 00:29:18,381 --> 00:29:20,842 just kind of get a feeling, a background from him 449 00:29:20,925 --> 00:29:22,969 about what happened. 450 00:29:23,052 --> 00:29:25,180 But one thing he kept harping on 451 00:29:25,263 --> 00:29:28,224 was that an individual by the name of Chuck 452 00:29:28,308 --> 00:29:29,684 may have been involved. 453 00:29:30,935 --> 00:29:35,148 I found out that Chuck was an actual member of the play 454 00:29:35,231 --> 00:29:38,568 that was going on the three days prior to Sigrid's death. 455 00:29:40,028 --> 00:29:42,947 During the investigation, they recovered a playbill 456 00:29:43,031 --> 00:29:44,365 that Sigrid had. 457 00:29:44,449 --> 00:29:47,452 And in the playbill circled was Chuck's name, 458 00:29:47,535 --> 00:29:52,290 and underneath written was, "Nice man. Gave me a beer." 459 00:29:53,249 --> 00:29:54,876 At one point, Chuck, 460 00:29:54,959 --> 00:29:57,796 I guess when they were getting ready for the show or whatever, 461 00:29:57,879 --> 00:29:59,881 he went downstairs to the green room 462 00:29:59,964 --> 00:30:04,511 and did see her sleeping on the sofa and had woken her up. 463 00:30:05,178 --> 00:30:07,347 He'd spoke to Sigrid. 464 00:30:07,430 --> 00:30:09,891 We don't know what the extent of the conversation was, 465 00:30:09,974 --> 00:30:12,018 how long they talked, where they talked, 466 00:30:12,101 --> 00:30:13,895 any of that information. 467 00:30:14,854 --> 00:30:17,565 To me, it establishes that she had contact with Chuck, 468 00:30:17,649 --> 00:30:20,860 uh, whether it was for ten minutes, 20 minutes, a half an hour, 469 00:30:20,944 --> 00:30:23,446 however long it took her to drink her beer. 470 00:30:24,447 --> 00:30:26,741 We know that Sigrid was involved in an altercation 471 00:30:26,825 --> 00:30:28,785 or some kind of argument with somebody. 472 00:30:29,619 --> 00:30:31,996 Now you're thinking, "It could have been Chuck." 473 00:30:32,872 --> 00:30:35,041 All the details are interesting enough, 474 00:30:35,124 --> 00:30:37,752 but then I find out, "What was his role in the play?" 475 00:30:38,545 --> 00:30:41,256 "Oh, he was dressed up as a cop." 476 00:30:42,924 --> 00:30:46,469 [Patrick] When we found out he played a security officer 477 00:30:46,553 --> 00:30:49,931 and his props were handcuffs, baton, police uniform, 478 00:30:50,014 --> 00:30:52,892 obviously, it sets off some red flags, 479 00:30:52,976 --> 00:30:55,395 and you're like, "Hey, wow, this is interesting." 480 00:30:56,062 --> 00:30:58,273 Just based off what I read through the case folder, 481 00:30:58,356 --> 00:31:01,067 when they took the statement from him, it was very limited. 482 00:31:01,150 --> 00:31:02,819 But there was no evidence, 483 00:31:02,902 --> 00:31:06,614 just the investigators' gut feeling that this guy was involved. 484 00:31:08,616 --> 00:31:13,037 I don't see anywhere where they secured his props from the play 485 00:31:13,121 --> 00:31:18,376 and had them tested to see if potentially the victim's blood could have been on 'em. 486 00:31:19,711 --> 00:31:22,005 Also, Chuck passed a polygraph, 487 00:31:22,088 --> 00:31:25,049 and at that point, there was no other follow-up with him. 488 00:31:25,133 --> 00:31:29,429 So you have all this circumstantial stuff, but no evidence. 489 00:31:36,019 --> 00:31:38,646 So this is the part that everybody knows about. 490 00:31:38,730 --> 00:31:41,232 This is… You know, this is where the crime's happening. 491 00:31:41,733 --> 00:31:43,401 -[Patrick] The piano was… -Piano over there… 492 00:31:43,484 --> 00:31:45,612 [Patrick] When I was working Sigrid's case, 493 00:31:45,695 --> 00:31:50,033 I had the opportunity to meet Scott Napolitano. 494 00:31:50,658 --> 00:31:55,830 Scott did a ton of interviews, a lot of legwork in this case. 495 00:31:56,581 --> 00:31:58,166 [Scott] I've worked with campus police, 496 00:31:58,249 --> 00:32:02,378 and I've worked with, uh, Ewing police off and on pretty much out of the gate. 497 00:32:02,462 --> 00:32:05,173 And I know I have no training. 498 00:32:06,090 --> 00:32:08,343 I don't have a news affiliation. 499 00:32:08,426 --> 00:32:11,137 I'm just someone who cares. 500 00:32:11,220 --> 00:32:15,183 And as I started to come back with more information and more questions, 501 00:32:15,266 --> 00:32:18,269 it seemed like they started to trust me a little bit more. 502 00:32:19,687 --> 00:32:23,816 [Patrick] Scott's initial reaction after talking to a bunch of people was, 503 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:27,403 "I really think this Chuck guy had something to do with it." 504 00:32:28,655 --> 00:32:31,491 The fact that he was in the play, all the little pieces 505 00:32:31,574 --> 00:32:33,201 kind of were pointing to him. 506 00:32:34,035 --> 00:32:38,331 [Scott] Prior to meeting Pat Holt around 2011, 2012, 507 00:32:38,414 --> 00:32:42,502 I had put out a note on the New Jersey message boards, 508 00:32:42,585 --> 00:32:46,464 and I explained some of the details of what had happened in the case 509 00:32:46,547 --> 00:32:49,801 and if anybody was interested, to reach out. 510 00:32:49,884 --> 00:32:55,390 And I got an alert, and it said, "I think I know who may have done this." 511 00:32:55,473 --> 00:33:01,479 And the poster said, "I think it was someone I dated in the '80s." 512 00:33:02,522 --> 00:33:07,235 Okay. "Well, what about him makes you think that he could have done it?" 513 00:33:08,027 --> 00:33:12,323 And they say, "Oh, because he said that he'd killed before 514 00:33:12,407 --> 00:33:13,908 and could do it again." 515 00:33:14,909 --> 00:33:17,120 That's enough for me to sit up and take notice. 516 00:33:17,203 --> 00:33:20,665 So the poster, I found out, was named Susie, 517 00:33:20,748 --> 00:33:24,252 and she said, "My ex was involved with the play." 518 00:33:24,794 --> 00:33:27,964 And her ex was named Chuck. 519 00:33:28,047 --> 00:33:29,549 [unsettling music plays] 520 00:33:29,632 --> 00:33:34,345 After speaking to Scott, I went and spoke to Chuck's old girlfriend, Susie. 521 00:33:34,929 --> 00:33:38,182 She did relay to me in the statement that I took from her, 522 00:33:38,266 --> 00:33:40,643 there were some incidents of abuse. 523 00:33:41,769 --> 00:33:45,773 [woman] In 1987, I was a single mother. 524 00:33:45,857 --> 00:33:46,983 I'd met Chuck. 525 00:33:47,483 --> 00:33:49,402 We started a relationship, 526 00:33:49,485 --> 00:33:51,571 and I eventually moved in with him. 527 00:33:51,654 --> 00:33:53,948 He became extremely abusive. 528 00:33:55,742 --> 00:34:00,038 This one night, after I had experienced quite a bit of abuse, 529 00:34:00,121 --> 00:34:03,249 is when he said to me, 530 00:34:03,332 --> 00:34:06,335 "I could kill you and get away with it. I've done it before." 531 00:34:07,045 --> 00:34:09,297 And that's when I got scared, 532 00:34:09,380 --> 00:34:12,800 and I started to think about all the things he told me 533 00:34:12,884 --> 00:34:15,094 about him being afraid of the police. 534 00:34:15,803 --> 00:34:21,142 I'm starting to think, "Okay, Chuck is starting to check off a lot of the boxes." 535 00:34:21,225 --> 00:34:23,061 But I needed some kind of evidence. 536 00:34:28,733 --> 00:34:30,359 [Edward] Back in 1977, 537 00:34:31,527 --> 00:34:34,072 even though the scene was covered with blood, 538 00:34:34,614 --> 00:34:36,866 there was no testing for DNA. 539 00:34:38,493 --> 00:34:40,745 It was not available at that point in time. 540 00:34:42,413 --> 00:34:45,958 So 30 years later, we took evidence, 541 00:34:46,042 --> 00:34:50,379 vaginal slides taken from the autopsy that had possible DNA, 542 00:34:51,005 --> 00:34:54,008 and submitted it to the New Jersey State Police lab. 543 00:34:55,176 --> 00:34:57,512 [Patrick] We did get some partial profiles, 544 00:34:57,595 --> 00:35:02,183 but nothing that could be used as evidentiary value at that time. 545 00:35:04,393 --> 00:35:06,562 Then, a couple of years later, 546 00:35:07,188 --> 00:35:11,234 we honed in on the red blouse that was wrapped around her head by the suspect. 547 00:35:12,068 --> 00:35:16,030 There was two or three knots that the blouse was tied in, 548 00:35:16,114 --> 00:35:19,534 and they were actually able to, like, open up those knots, 549 00:35:19,617 --> 00:35:24,413 and they were able to get a partial male DNA profile 550 00:35:24,497 --> 00:35:26,165 off of the knots. 551 00:35:26,249 --> 00:35:29,210 The DNA profile that was found on the knots 552 00:35:29,293 --> 00:35:32,922 was from skin cells that were left behind 553 00:35:33,005 --> 00:35:35,174 during the process of the knot being tied off. 554 00:35:35,883 --> 00:35:41,681 It was a situation where we need a suspect's DNA to be able to match. 555 00:35:43,015 --> 00:35:45,601 [Patrick] I still felt Chuck was a pretty viable suspect, 556 00:35:45,685 --> 00:35:50,940 and so I was trying to get enough probable cause developed 557 00:35:51,023 --> 00:35:53,401 to get a sample from Chuck 558 00:35:53,484 --> 00:35:55,653 before I actually went and tried to speak to him. 559 00:35:57,738 --> 00:36:00,825 Then, in 2016, Chuck passed away. 560 00:36:03,870 --> 00:36:05,788 [telephone rings] 561 00:36:05,872 --> 00:36:09,208 [Patrick] I got a hold of a biological family member out of state 562 00:36:09,292 --> 00:36:11,085 and explained to them what was going on 563 00:36:11,169 --> 00:36:15,047 and asked them if they would be willing to provide a sample for us 564 00:36:15,131 --> 00:36:16,632 to compare to what we had. 565 00:36:18,259 --> 00:36:19,927 Chuck's brother agreed. 566 00:36:21,220 --> 00:36:23,514 And a few months later, got the results back 567 00:36:23,598 --> 00:36:27,351 that the swab did not match. 568 00:36:28,895 --> 00:36:33,065 So that pretty much ruled out our suspect Chuck. 569 00:36:33,900 --> 00:36:37,153 [Scott] Getting a call from Pat and hearing it's not him 570 00:36:37,236 --> 00:36:39,322 was a rough moment. 571 00:36:41,115 --> 00:36:43,784 You're back to square one. You're looking at everybody all over again. 572 00:36:52,376 --> 00:36:56,881 [Julia] When I took over the case, it was in October of 2018. 573 00:36:57,465 --> 00:37:01,135 And that's when I started looking at specific theories 574 00:37:01,219 --> 00:37:04,055 of who could have possibly been the assailant. 575 00:37:04,722 --> 00:37:07,516 I knew that they needed access to the building. 576 00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:10,728 I knew that they had to know their way around the building. 577 00:37:10,811 --> 00:37:12,730 I knew that they probably needed a key. 578 00:37:13,689 --> 00:37:16,776 I started going through all the files, 579 00:37:16,859 --> 00:37:22,323 and I got down to roughly 12 individuals 580 00:37:22,406 --> 00:37:23,699 who met that criteria. 581 00:37:24,283 --> 00:37:27,286 And then, as I went through the files, 582 00:37:27,370 --> 00:37:29,664 I started eliminating those people. 583 00:37:30,539 --> 00:37:33,292 And at the end of my investigation, 584 00:37:33,376 --> 00:37:40,132 I felt confident that I had discovered two very viable suspects. 585 00:37:40,883 --> 00:37:46,597 The first suspect was a part of the production of the play. 586 00:37:47,390 --> 00:37:49,892 He worked in lighting. 587 00:37:51,727 --> 00:37:56,107 When she was discovered, she was discovered in the dark. 588 00:37:56,190 --> 00:38:01,529 But she had to have had some lights on during that time 589 00:38:01,612 --> 00:38:04,407 in this pitch black theater. 590 00:38:06,158 --> 00:38:07,952 The lighting is very tricky in there, 591 00:38:08,035 --> 00:38:11,497 and if you don't have that knowledge and expertise of the building, 592 00:38:11,580 --> 00:38:14,583 you're not gonna be able to even turn on basic lights. 593 00:38:14,667 --> 00:38:16,877 So I looked at the lighting guy, 594 00:38:16,961 --> 00:38:21,757 and I noted that he had intimate knowledge of the lighting system 595 00:38:21,841 --> 00:38:23,968 and the infrastructure of the theater. 596 00:38:24,802 --> 00:38:27,972 He was described by one particular witness 597 00:38:28,055 --> 00:38:33,394 that his mood had changed drastically during the time of the play. 598 00:38:35,771 --> 00:38:38,691 [Scott] Also, in a statement, the lighting technician claimed 599 00:38:38,774 --> 00:38:41,610 not to remember they had the keys to Kendall Hall. 600 00:38:41,694 --> 00:38:45,239 And then it had to be pointed out, and they still had the keys. 601 00:38:46,240 --> 00:38:47,742 [Julia] It's pretty cut and dry to me. 602 00:38:47,825 --> 00:38:50,911 If I say, "Hey, do you have keys to the building?" 603 00:38:50,995 --> 00:38:52,121 and you say, "No," 604 00:38:52,621 --> 00:38:55,333 to me, that's not an omission. It's a lie. 605 00:38:56,208 --> 00:38:58,210 Why are you lying about something like that? 606 00:39:02,173 --> 00:39:05,885 He was polygraphed and passed the polygraph, 607 00:39:05,968 --> 00:39:07,636 and he did provide a statement. 608 00:39:07,720 --> 00:39:11,557 But I don't believe that he was 609 00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:14,935 really taken serious as a suspect at that time. 610 00:39:16,812 --> 00:39:20,483 The second suspect is a maintenance worker at the college. 611 00:39:22,610 --> 00:39:25,112 [Scott] The janitors are interesting candidates 612 00:39:25,196 --> 00:39:30,159 because they do match a lot of the needs for a suspect in this case. 613 00:39:30,242 --> 00:39:32,370 They had keys to the building. 614 00:39:32,453 --> 00:39:36,374 They would've had exposure to Sigrid because she's sneaking into the buildings. 615 00:39:37,166 --> 00:39:41,170 [Julia] The maintenance person worked in one of the buildings 616 00:39:41,253 --> 00:39:44,298 that was a music building that the victim frequented. 617 00:39:45,424 --> 00:39:49,220 And he had a history of letting her in the buildings 618 00:39:49,303 --> 00:39:51,305 when she wasn't supposed to be in there. 619 00:39:51,806 --> 00:39:56,060 And at the time when her property was inventoried, 620 00:39:56,143 --> 00:40:00,564 the maintenance worker's contact information and address, 621 00:40:00,648 --> 00:40:01,774 phone number, 622 00:40:01,857 --> 00:40:04,485 were found amongst her possessions. 623 00:40:05,694 --> 00:40:09,698 So he had a relationship with her. 624 00:40:09,782 --> 00:40:12,368 It was unknown if it was anything intimate. 625 00:40:13,702 --> 00:40:17,331 Other witnesses had reported seeing them together, 626 00:40:17,415 --> 00:40:20,418 including campus police officers. 627 00:40:20,501 --> 00:40:24,004 He was known to really go out of his way for her. 628 00:40:25,339 --> 00:40:29,093 Also, what concerns me 629 00:40:29,176 --> 00:40:32,638 is that he was fired from the college 630 00:40:32,721 --> 00:40:35,141 shortly after a lot of this occurred. 631 00:40:36,183 --> 00:40:39,270 He was going through some substance issues, 632 00:40:39,353 --> 00:40:41,397 and he went to, like, a detox program. 633 00:40:43,190 --> 00:40:46,360 The maintenance worker was not polygraphed, 634 00:40:46,444 --> 00:40:48,737 according to documents that I reviewed. 635 00:40:49,697 --> 00:40:52,241 And poring over these files, 636 00:40:52,825 --> 00:40:56,495 he was not investigated as thoroughly, 637 00:40:56,579 --> 00:41:00,374 I believe, as I would have investigated him. 638 00:41:02,084 --> 00:41:05,963 Unfortunately, I had to take an early medical retirement 639 00:41:06,046 --> 00:41:09,842 due to injuries sustained while performing in the line of duty. 640 00:41:10,634 --> 00:41:14,013 So I don't have access to the files anymore. 641 00:41:14,096 --> 00:41:18,225 However, I do hope that the next investigator 642 00:41:18,309 --> 00:41:19,810 who takes on this case, 643 00:41:19,894 --> 00:41:23,647 I would like to sit with them and give them a background 644 00:41:23,731 --> 00:41:28,402 on why I would like them to look at these two individuals. 645 00:41:28,486 --> 00:41:32,114 Because I strongly feel that one of these suspects 646 00:41:32,198 --> 00:41:33,741 could have killed Sigrid. 647 00:41:39,413 --> 00:41:41,457 [melancholy music plays] 648 00:41:41,540 --> 00:41:43,417 [Scott] I started looking at this case 649 00:41:43,501 --> 00:41:46,670 as a curiosity of what happened in Kendall Hall. 650 00:41:47,421 --> 00:41:48,881 But as time has gone on, 651 00:41:49,715 --> 00:41:55,304 it's curiosity mixed with, uh… with empathy for… for Sigrid. 652 00:41:55,804 --> 00:41:57,723 Because it feels like she was sort of left behind, 653 00:41:57,806 --> 00:42:01,852 and her whole life then became this compacted story 654 00:42:01,936 --> 00:42:04,355 that you tell freshmen on a ghost tour. 655 00:42:05,689 --> 00:42:08,484 To be left behind and essentially forgotten, 656 00:42:08,567 --> 00:42:10,236 that doesn't sit well with me. 657 00:42:12,071 --> 00:42:15,616 [Patrick] Sigrid carried a diary around pretty much wherever she went. 658 00:42:16,408 --> 00:42:19,328 She wrote a lot about where she went, what she did. 659 00:42:21,872 --> 00:42:24,750 One of the most difficult things reading through her diary is 660 00:42:24,833 --> 00:42:28,254 her last thoughts that she wrote down. 661 00:42:29,004 --> 00:42:31,257 Her last entry is September 3rd. 662 00:42:32,508 --> 00:42:34,260 "It's 11:43 p.m." 663 00:42:35,010 --> 00:42:38,264 "They're breaking down the stage, and they're gonna turn the lights out, 664 00:42:38,347 --> 00:42:41,183 and it's gonna be dark here in Kendall Hall." 665 00:42:42,601 --> 00:42:45,854 That entry will never leave my mind. 666 00:42:48,023 --> 00:42:53,237 I always thought it was a little chilling to be able to read her last thoughts, 667 00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:55,364 knowing that it's gonna be dark soon. 668 00:42:55,447 --> 00:42:57,449 11:43 p.m. and 669 00:42:58,867 --> 00:42:59,952 there's nothing else. 670 00:43:01,412 --> 00:43:03,289 This is where the actual play would've been. 671 00:43:03,372 --> 00:43:06,750 So this is one of the last places that people would have seen her alive. 672 00:43:07,835 --> 00:43:12,006 [Scott] My ultimate hope for the case is that if the word gets out enough, 673 00:43:12,089 --> 00:43:15,217 enough people share what they remember, 674 00:43:15,301 --> 00:43:18,762 and that some detail that they were too hesitant to bring up 675 00:43:18,846 --> 00:43:21,432 gets brought to the police. 676 00:43:22,558 --> 00:43:24,310 [Julia] It might jog somebody's memory. 677 00:43:24,393 --> 00:43:29,106 "Oh, I saw so-and-so the day after the play, 678 00:43:29,189 --> 00:43:32,568 and he was throwing out a bag of garbage, 679 00:43:32,651 --> 00:43:35,029 and I thought that was really strange." 680 00:43:35,988 --> 00:43:38,699 I really believe that this case is solvable, 681 00:43:38,782 --> 00:43:40,242 and it will be solved. 682 00:43:41,702 --> 00:43:44,955 [Scott] I got involved because it was a ghost story and I was making a movie. 683 00:43:45,039 --> 00:43:50,461 But I'd like to think that Sigrid's been watching the investigation 684 00:43:50,544 --> 00:43:54,423 and maybe sticking around because… she wants the story told. 685 00:43:55,174 --> 00:43:56,800 Sigrid deserves justice. 686 00:43:58,636 --> 00:44:00,346 [Edward] This case is personal. 687 00:44:00,929 --> 00:44:03,849 It's something that's stayed in my head and stayed in my heart. 688 00:44:05,017 --> 00:44:07,936 I started with this case, I was… I was 21 years old. 689 00:44:08,020 --> 00:44:10,022 [melancholy music plays] 690 00:44:12,733 --> 00:44:13,942 Not knowing… 691 00:44:14,026 --> 00:44:15,486 Not knowing that, um… 692 00:44:15,569 --> 00:44:17,821 Not knowing we… we would be here right now. 693 00:44:19,823 --> 00:44:24,995 It's not fair that a 25-year-old girl was snuffed out here 46 years ago. 694 00:44:25,079 --> 00:44:27,081 She should still be with us today. 695 00:44:29,166 --> 00:44:30,542 That guy shouldn't be here. 696 00:44:32,461 --> 00:44:35,631 He shouldn't have been able to walk free for 46 years. 697 00:44:36,882 --> 00:44:39,093 [Carol] I think it still really matters 698 00:44:39,176 --> 00:44:44,056 for the many of us that were in her circle of friends and family, 699 00:44:44,139 --> 00:44:46,308 to know that she matters enough 700 00:44:46,392 --> 00:44:50,312 that this will be pursued as thoroughly as possible. 701 00:44:52,481 --> 00:44:54,692 We need to find out what happened here 702 00:44:54,775 --> 00:44:58,362 and bring some belated justice to this family. 703 00:44:58,445 --> 00:45:00,489 [melancholy music continues] 704 00:45:00,572 --> 00:45:02,825 [Edward] Every morning, I can wake up, 705 00:45:02,908 --> 00:45:05,994 and I look out my bathroom window, and I can see the campus. 706 00:45:07,246 --> 00:45:08,747 I live right across the street. 707 00:45:08,831 --> 00:45:11,500 And I say, "Good morning, Sigi," every morning. 708 00:45:11,583 --> 00:45:13,585 [melancholy music continues] 709 00:45:16,588 --> 00:45:18,507 And I tell her that we… 710 00:45:20,050 --> 00:45:21,885 that we… that we didn't forget. 711 00:45:22,553 --> 00:45:23,512 [cries] 712 00:45:27,307 --> 00:45:28,475 We're still looking. 713 00:45:28,559 --> 00:45:30,561 [somber music plays] 714 00:45:42,364 --> 00:45:43,449 [music fades] 715 00:45:47,953 --> 00:45:49,955 [unsettling music plays]