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EXCLUSIVE: Who Killed Michelle Martinko

YOUR DESCRIPTION HAS REACHED THE LIMIT OF CHARACTERS ALLOWED AND WAS CUT. CEDAR RAPIDS, IA (CBS2/FOX28 ) It is the cold case murder that s haunted the Cedar Rapids area for 35 years. On the night of December 19th, 1979 someone killed 18-year-old Michelle Martinko inside her car in the parking lot at the new Westdale Mall. It was the height of the Christmas shopping season. This week her sister Janelle and brother-in-law John are making a plea for those who know the truth about what happened to come forward and contact police. Janelle says the pain inflicted on her family over the decades is almost impossible to describe. Early on the morning of the 20th her mother phoned and could barely get out the words, Michelle s been murdered. The teen, popular in music, dance and drama at Kennedy High School stopped at Westdale to shop for a new coat. Friends saw her there at 8:00pm, but by 10:30 she hadn t come home. Police found her dead in her car, in the middle of the parking lot at 4:00am. Janelle says the savage nature of the attack made it appear very personal, like someone in a jealous rage, It was brutal, a violent struggle in that car. The police said that she was stabbed 19 times, in the face, in the chest, with defensive wounds on her hands. At the time, even in an era of investigation before DNA testing, police seemed confident the killer would quickly be caught. But inside the car they found no signs of fingerprints, no murder weapon and no motive, money was still in Michelle s purse. John says he s gone over the facts of the case in his head thousands of times, The hardest thing is the lack of any reason. If you re killed in a war, if you re killed in an automobile accident you can go back and explain the reason or understand, but here there just is no reason. Janelle says the killer seemed to only have one goal, They didn t want here money, they didn t want her sexually, they just wanted to end her life .. and that was just not something we could understand. The Martinko family held funeral services for Michelle and then waited as police conducted their investigation and days turned to weeks, then turned to months. The violent crime scared some people so much they didn t go out at night. Rumors ran wild about who might be responsible, a jilted boy, a relative, a teacher, even a jealous girl. Janelle says that theory was only strengthened by cruel phone calls to Michelle s parents, Girls would call, at Christmas time .. is Michelle there, can I talk to Michelle? Well no, Michelle is dead. Then they would laugh .. ha ha ha ha. Police focused on a boy Michelle once dated. John says all the pieces seemed to fit, He was at Westdale Mall that night and ran into her in the hallway and they had words. Police would later clear the boy of any involvement. Investigators say in the violent frenzy inside the car, the killer apparently stabbed himself and likely had a large gash. DNA testing in recent years on the blood left behind has cleared more than 70 people that Michelle knew and thousands more in prison databases all across the country. For Janelle and John even after 35 years the emotions are raw and the pain does not completely go away. Michelle s mother and father both passed away never knowing the truth. Janelle says the heartbreak of losing their youngest daughter literally killed them, My mother just didn t go out of the house anymore. She didn t want%