She has an incredible story of cruelty to tell, one that is so horrific that for years, no one has believed her. The woman on the other end of the tip line tells the operator her name is Terry Knorr. But no one had reported this young woman missing, either, so her case went cold as well. The only identifying features they could find on her remains were her chipped front teeth. Her remains had been too decomposed to identify or determine her cause of death. The second victim, found a year later, had been hog-tied, stuffed into a large popcorn-cup box, and discarded in Martis Creek Lake, near Truckee, California. But police couldn?t identify her, and she didn?t match anyone who had been reported missing. An autopsy would reveal that she had been alive when she was set on fire. In her back was a long gash, as though from a knife.Ī few of her belongings, as well as several diapers, were found around her remains, leading police to worry that she had an infant who was now missing and possibly in danger.
She had been burned almost beyond recognition, and had duct tape covering her mouth and around her wrists.
The first victim was found off a rural road in Placer County, California, in 1985. They?ve just aired a segment about two unidentified murder victims, both young women in their late teens or early 20s, whose cases had gone cold. 20, 1993: A woman working the tip lines for the popular show America?s Most Wanted receives a call from a tearful young woman.