Deborah Roberts

I'm Debra Roberts, and thank you so much for taking some time to be with us today to take a deeper look inside our latest 2020 episodes.

If you saw it, it was a riveting program, and if you didn't, we're gonna break it down for you now.

It was called Footprints in the Snow, and it centers around Ashley Schwalm,

a mom of two kids, an interior designer.

She had a lovely marriage, it appeared, to a respected fire captain, James Schwalm.

The family lived what looked like an idyllic life next to a ski slope, of all things, so sort of a basic winter wonderland existence.

And that's where she met her husband, by the way.

She and James fell in love.

in this ski area.

But on January 26, 2023, what appeared to be a fairy tale kind of life really became a nightmare.

Ashley's body was found burned beyond recognition inside her car at the bottom of a ditch.

Well, of course, investigators initially thinking it was an accident thought this was just a tragic, horrible story.

And they quickly discovered that it was not an accident.

But a cold, calculated murder.

And the big question was, who would want this young mom dead?

And how did they zero in on their killer?

Well, now we're going to take a good look behind the scenes of how this investigation played out and how the Snow played a pivotal role in their investigation.

And there's also some material we're going to tell you about that you didn't get a chance to see in our 2020 piece.

So Juju Chang, my colleague, is here.

Hi, Juju.