Episode Summary
When young mother goes missing from the reservation border town of Mobridge, South Dakota, investigators struggle to find any leads in the case. A chance discovery along the muddy banks of the Missouri River answers one question. But it’ll take 15 years and a whole lot of chance to finally unravel the mystery of what happened – and why – on one fateful night in 1980.
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Episode Info
Candace “Candi” Rough Surface
Nicholas Scherr
Nicholas Scherr
Homer Eagle – Candi’s son
Episode Source Material
- Discovery Plus: Swamp Murders: Missouri River Murder
- The Monitor: 1980 murder threatens to divide community over racial lines, by Brian Bonner
- The Bismarck Tribune: The Murder of Candi Rough Surface, by Jennifer Olson
- The Charlotte Observer: Mystery ends; bitterness stays, by Joe Kafka
- Washington Post: Revisiting a murder across racial divide, by Anita Parlow
- The Bismarck Tribune: Body discovered; victim said shot, by Associated Press
- Argus-Leader: A long wait for justice, by Terry Woster
- The Reporter: Wisconsin man testifies in 1980 rape-murder case, by Associated Press
- The Bismarck Tribune: Sheriff defends probe, by Jennifer Olson
- The Sheboygan Press: Charges brought in 15-year-old rape/murder, by Bob Bushner
- The Bismarck Tribune: Victim’s son tells of the pain, by Jennifer Olson
- Argus-Leader: 2nd man sentenced in ’80 murder, by Joe Kafka
- West River Eagle: Mobridge man who raped and killed Standing Rock woman granted parole, by Shannon Marvel
- Rapid City Journal: Two arrested for 15-year old Mobridge murder, by Associated Press
- Argus-Leader: Man suspected in 1980 murder appears in court, by Associated Press
- Stevens Point Journal: State man accused in 1980 murder case, by Associated Press
- Rapid City Journal: Tape plays key role in plea in Rough Surface murder, by Bob Mercer
- Sioux City Journal: Riders remember slain woman, by Associated Press
- The Bismarck Tribune: Judge drops rape charge in murder case, by Jennifer Olson
- The Bismarck Tribune: Plea deal ends family’s wait, by Jennifer Olson
- The Sheboygan Press: Plea bargain reached in S. Dakota killing, by Associated Press
- The Bismarck Tribune: Killer’s kin apologizes, by Jennifer Olson
- The Bismarck Tribune: Woman’s killer gets 100 years, by Jennifer Olson
- Argus-Leader: Scherr’s manslaughter sentence affirmed, by Associated Press
- Rapid City Journal: Man who raped, killed South Dakota woman in 1980 paroled
- Argus-Leader: Man who raped, killed teen released, by Katie Nelson