MURDERED: Pamela Butler and Marta Rodriguez
When a successful career woman goes missing in Washington, D.C., her family immediately knows something is wrong. And when the investigation’s winding path eventually leads detectives right back to the place they started, her family’s long fight for justice produces a stunning result.
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Episode Source Material
- Dateline: A Haunting Stretch of Road (Season 30, Episode 18).
- The Washington Post (Washington, D.C.): Family sees clues in D.C. woman’s disappearance, by Paul Duggan.
- The Washington Post (Washington, D.C.): D.C. woman’s disappearance leaves a trail with no end, by Paul Duggan.
- The Washington Post (Washington, D.C.): Timeline: Jose Rodriguez-Cruz and Pam Butler’s relationship.
- Fox 5 (Washington, D.C.): Still missing 7 years later, family of Pamela Butler plans to declare her legally dead, by Paul Wagner.
- The Washington Post (Washington, D.C.): Man accused of killing Pamela Butler linked to 1989 disappearance of ex-wife, court documents state, by Keith L. Alexander and Peter Hermann.
- The Washington Post (Washington, D.C.): Suspect in death of Pamela Butler told witness it was ‘easy’ to get rid of a body, by Keith L. Alexander.
- Jose Angel Rodriguez Cruz arrest warrant.
- My Fox (Washington, D.C.): DC Police Search For Missing Woman, by Paul Wagner.
- NBC Washington (Washington, D.C.): Police to Search for DC Cold Case Murder Victim Pamela Butler’s Remains, by Mark Segraves and Derrick Ward.
- HBO Max: Black and Missing (Television Series) Directed by Geeta Gandbhir and Soledad O’Brien.
- NJN Network (Newark, NJ): Pamela J Butler still missing from Washington DC, by Stephen Pate.
- The Washington Post (Washington, D.C.): Eight years after Pamela Butler disappeared from her D.C. home, her killer admits guilt, by Keith L. Alexander and Paul Duggan.
- WTOP (Washington, D.C.): Man sentenced to 40 years in killing of estranged wife whose case went unsolved for 3 decades, by Neal Augenstein and Jack Moore.
- Fox 5 (Washington, D.C.): Solving the Pam Butler case: A detective unravels a lie, by Paul Wagner.
- The Washington Post (Washington, D.C.): Imprisoned for killing one woman, D.C.-area man is charged with murder in another woman’s death, by Paul Duggan.
- The Washington Post (Washington, D.C.): D.C. police believe they’ve solved 8-year murder mystery; arrest boyfriend of woman who vanished from home in 2009, by Peter Hermann.
- ABC 7 (Washington, D.C.): ‘Black and Missing’: Brother of murdered Pamela Butler featured in HBO documentary, by Sam Ford.
- United States Department of Justice: Virginia Man Pleads Guilty to 2009 Murder of Pamela Butler in Northwest Washington.
- The Washington Post (Washington, D.C.): Remains found in 1991 identified as those of missing Arlington woman, by Keith L. Alexander and Dana Hedgpeth.
- NBC Washington (Washington, D.C.): Pamela Butler’s Remains May Be Located But Too Difficult to Recover: Brother, by Mark Segraves and Derrick Ward.
- WUSA9 (Washington, D.C.): Partial remains found of Pamela Butler, brother says, by WUSA.
- Fox 5 (Washington, D.C.): Remains of Jose Rodriguez-Cruz’s 1st wife ID’d in Virginia, sources say, by Paul Wagner.
- NBC Washington (Washington, D.C.): Brother of Pamela Butler Fighting for Her Killer to Be Charged in Another Slaying, by David Culver and Gina Cook.
- Fox 5 (Washington, D.C.): Murder victim’s brother seeks justice for first wife of man who killed sister, by Paul Wagner.
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