A Nebraska girl went looking for a date to a high school dance. One week later, she was murdered.

On March 25, 1969, 17-year-old Mary Kay Heese by no means returned dwelling from college in Wahoo, Nebraska. Hours later, her physique was discovered overwhelmed and stabbed to loss of life on the facet of the highway outdoors of city. 

Investigators tried to retrace Mary Kay’s final recognized whereabouts. One witness noticed Mary Kay get right into a automobile with two males on a avenue nook close to her dwelling. However investigators on the time had been unable to determine who was in that automobile. Weeks become months with no arrests. Mary Kay’s homicide would stay unsolved for many years.

“48 Hours” correspondent Natalie Morales reviews on how the homicide was lastly introduced again into focus in “The Woman from Wahoo,” an all-new “48 Hours” airing Saturday, Feb. 14 at 10/9c on CBS and streaming on Paramount+.