Episode Summary
When a beloved college student disappears on her way home one January day in 2007, a massive city-wide ground search is initiated, and the community is hopeful that she’ll be found and brought safely home. But as hope starts to dwindle, investigators realize that a predator has been stalking their community for years, hiding in plain sight.
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For more information on Texas Equusearch, please visit their website, texasequusearch.org.
For more information about the Stalking Prevention, Awareness, & Resource Center (SPARC),
please visit their website, stalkingawareness.org.
- If you or someone you know is a victim of stalking, please reach out to the VictimConnect Resource Center at 1-855-484-2846, or you can chat online at victimconnect.org.
- You can also contact the following resources:
- The National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233
- RAINN’s National Sexual Abuse Hotline: 1-800-656-4673 or chat online at online.rainn.org
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College student Jodi Sanderholm.
Jodi Sanderholm.
Special Agent David Falletti, now Cowley County Sheriff.
Justin Thurber.
Episode Source Material
- Discovery Plus: Murder Under The Friday Night Lights: Devil Came To Dance (Season 2, Episode 8).
- Discovery Plus: Solved: Extreme Forensics: Deadly Obsession (Season 2, Episode 3).
- Discovery Plus: Your Worst Nightmare: Every Step You Take (Season 4, Episode 1).
- The Wichita Eagle (Wichita, KS): As feared, it’s Jodi, by Amanda O’Toole and Beccy Tanner via Newspapers.com.
- The Wichita Eagle (Wichita, KS): Testimony centers on search and alibi, by Ron Sylvester via Newspapers.com.
- The Wichita Eagle (Wichita, KS): Witness saw Jodi, suspect, by Barbara J. Isenberg via Newspapers.com.
- The Wichita Eagle (Wichita, KS): Trial begins for man accused of killing Cowley College student, by Associated Press.
- The Wichita Eagle (Wichita, KS): Trouble was suspect’s companion, residents say, by Barbara J. Isenberg via Newspapers.com.
- The Wichita Eagle (Wichita, KS): Searchers focus on lake, by Barbara J. Isenberg via Newspapers.com.
- The Wichita Eagle (Wichita, KS): He’s charged as Jodi’s killer, by Barbara J. Isenberg via Newspapers.com.
- KLTV (Tyler, TX): Body Found in Missing Kan. Student Case, by Associated Press.
- NBC News (National): Divers find missing Kansas college student’s car, by NBS News and news services.
- The Wichita Eagle (Wichita, KS): Trouble was suspect’s companion, residents say, by Barbara J. Isenberg via Newspapers.com.
- The Wichita Eagle (Wichita, KS): Prosecutor: Thurber was ‘ticking time bomb’, by Tim Potter via Newspapers.com.
- The Wichita Eagle (Wichita, KS): Women say Thurber was stalker, by Ron Sylvester via Newspapers.com.
- The Wichita Eagle (Wichita, KS): Witness saw Jodi, suspect, by Barbara J. Isenberg via Newspapers.com.
- The Wichita Eagle (Wichita, KS): Thurber allegations mount, by Tim Potter via Newspapers.com.
- The Wichita Eagle (Wichita, KS): Witnesses describe Thurber as cruel bully, by Tim Potter via Newspapers.com.
- The Iola Register (Iola, KS): Charges amended in CCC death, by Associated Press via Newspapers.com.
- The Kansas City Star (Topeka): Kansas anti-stalking bill becomes law, by David Klepper via Newspaper.com.
- State v. Thurber. 2018. Supreme Court of Kansas decision.
- Texas EquuSearch Search and Recovery: Tim Miller, Founder and Director.
- Texas EquuSearch Search and Recovery: About Us.
- SPARC: What is Stalking? Definition and FAQs.
- VictimConnect Resource Center: Stalking.
- uncovered: ‘Lost is Not Alone’: Texas EquuSearch, by Emily Froming.
- SPARC: What to Do if You are Being Stalked.
- FBI.gov: Decades Later, Investigators Still Searching for Answers in Murders of Four Women.