Episode Summary
Teenage mother, Amy Weidner, stays home from school one day with her daughter because she isn’t feeling well. Just a few hours after her family leaves the house, she is brutally attacked. Surely, it had to be someone she knew. Did they know she would be home that day? It is a case that goes cold for nearly two decades before someone unexpected comes in and cracks the case wide open.
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Episode Info
This is Amy and her two year old daughter shortly before her murder.
Sergeant Bill Carter from IMPD who solved the case even though he isn't even a homicide detective!
Rodney Denk - the man who murdered Amy. At the time he was just a teenager.
Sergeant Carter giving the emotional press conference telling the public that there was finally justice for Amy.
Bill Carter is a Nuisance Abatement Detective Argent with IMPD. He does a lot of work to prevent animal cruelty which just makes him even more amazing. He still looks into cold cases in his free time.
Episode Source Material
- Rodney Denk arrested for killing Indianapolis teen mom 23 years ago; bloody palm print key
- 48 hours takes on 1989 rape, murder of Amy Weidner
- Caught by a bloody palm print: ‘Killer’ arrested 23 years after he ‘broke’ into honor student’s apartment to rape and murder her
- Decades of Deceit – 48 hours on CBS
- Amy Weidner’s 1989 cold-case murder solved by IMPD officer Bill Carter via Facebook