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Erin Moriarty

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48 Hours
Help Find Molly Bish's Killer

In 2007, her father, John Bish, who worked so closely with police, had a stroke.

48 Hours
Help Find Molly Bish's Killer

Heather would now face the daunting task to take over where her father had left off.

48 Hours
Help Find Molly Bish's Killer

And it would not be easy.

48 Hours
Help Find Molly Bish's Killer

The police have always stayed very careful about what they let us know.

48 Hours
Help Find Molly Bish's Killer

In 2008, a man who resembled the sketch, named Rodney Stanger, was arrested for murdering his girlfriend in Florida.

48 Hours
Help Find Molly Bish's Killer

The victim's sister reached out to Heather and claimed that Stanger may have been involved in Molly's murder as well.

48 Hours
Help Find Molly Bish's Killer

He has this violent history.

48 Hours
Help Find Molly Bish's Killer

He lived very close to where Molly trained to be a lifeguard.

48 Hours
Help Find Molly Bish's Killer

Was he a smoker?

48 Hours
Help Find Molly Bish's Killer

He was also a smoker.

48 Hours
Help Find Molly Bish's Killer

He was known to fish at Cummins Pond and hunt in the area where Molly was found.

48 Hours
Help Find Molly Bish's Killer

Police were notified about this tip, but Heather says she was told that Stanger had been on one of the investigators' lists of persons of interest from the very beginning.

48 Hours
Help Find Molly Bish's Killer

Sean Murphy is a lieutenant with the Massachusetts State Police.

48 Hours
Help Find Molly Bish's Killer

Stanger was convicted of murdering his girlfriend and was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

48 Hours
Help Find Molly Bish's Killer

In 2012, state police went down to Florida again to search Stanger's trailer.

48 Hours
Help Find Molly Bish's Killer

Detective Murphy says the items were tested for DNA to see if they could be connected to Molly.

48 Hours
Help Find Molly Bish's Killer

But there was not enough evidence to make him an official suspect.

48 Hours
Help Find Molly Bish's Killer

And then in 2011, a private investigator came to Heather with a new tip about a man named Gerald Battistoni.

48 Hours
Help Find Molly Bish's Killer

He had actually raped a woman in the woods where Molly was found.

48 Hours
Help Find Molly Bish's Killer

His ex-wife had a white car that she reported he was driving in Warren the day Molly disappeared.