Two murders, weeks apart.
Teen cheerleader Amie Hoffman vanished after leaving her part-time job. Two days later, her body is found floating in a retention tank at a local reservoir. Hoffman has been sex assaulted and stabbed repeatedly.
Twelve days later 25-year-old Deirdre O’Brien, 25, bangs on a truck driver’s door at a desolate rest stop pleading for help. She also has been stabbed. Before O’Brien dies, she describes her attacker as tall and slender with bushy hair and some facial hair.
No arrest is immediately made, but the next year, 1983, a break in the case surfaces. James Koedatich calls police, describing his escape from an attacker, who stabbed him. As emergency responders take Koedatich out on a stretcher, a responding officer sees a car that matches descriptions of a vehicle spotted at the mall the night of Hoffman’s disappearance and at the rest stop where O’Brien is attacked.
The next day, Koedatich is named a suspect in the cases.
Joining Nancy Grace today:
Additional Guests
- Laurelle Ivey – Cheerleader Squad Mate and Classmate of Amie Hoffman, Class of 1983
- Dr. Monte Miller – Director, Forensic DNA Experts LLC; Specialist in Sexual Assaults and Murder, and Former Forensic Scientist for Texas Dept. of Public Safety State Crime Lab
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[Feature Photo: State troopers escort accused serial killer James Koedatich into the Warren County Courthouse, Feb. 18, 1983. Koedatich, 34, of Morristown, may face the death penalty if convicted of the fatal stabbing of Deirdre O’Brien, 25, at an Interstate 80 rest stop after she was abducted from her car in December of 1982. (AP Photo)]
