Washington 1989 Cold Case Solved — He Never Stopped Treating Women Like They Were His to Control
On the day after Thanksgiving in 1989, 18-year-old Mandy Stavik went for a run along a familiar road in her small Washington hometown. Her dog came home alone. Mandy never did.
For thirty years, the case remained unsolved. Then, in an ordinary conversation between two women at a water park, something happened that would give investigators a name they had never seriously considered.
This is the story of Mandy Stavik — and the decades-long search for the truth behind what happened to her.
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Video Summary
AI GeneratedAfter nearly 30 years, the 1989 murder of 18-year-old Mandy Stavik in Acme, Washington, was solved. Through a chance encounter between two women and the covert recovery of DNA from a discarded soda can, investigators identified and convicted Tim Bass, who had lived as a respected community member while hiding his crime for decades.