Ted Green

What did you learn about what the connection was between him and Mary Kay?

How long did you end up working this case?

Did you think, well, I couldn't make any more headway here, it's never gonna be solved?

Her body was found where, roughly?

When you were first assigned this case, did you think, well, I'm the guy.

I'm going to solve this.

I'm going to get the answer.

What happened after more than 50 years in this case?

Jennifer Jochum, Saunders County attorney, and Richard Register, deputy county attorney, worked on what is believed to be the longest unsolved cold case in Nebraska history, the 1969 murder of 17-year-old Mary Kay Hesse, a high school junior.

This right here is what Wahoo is really known for, right?

Oh, yeah.

Cow country, corn country.

Ted Green was the criminal investigator for the Saunders County Attorney's Office.

He started working on the case in 2015.

Memories of Mary Kay Hesse's murder loom large in this small town.

This black and white footage was filmed by a local television station shortly after the murder.

Much of Wahoo looks like it did on March 25th, 1969, when Mary Kay Hesse never made it home after school.

That evening, Mary Kay's parents reported her missing, and the community came out in force to search for her.

Nothing was found until close to midnight when a farmer spotted Mary Kay's schoolbooks and purse stacked neatly on a road near his field.

Not far from Mary Kay's bloodied body, investigators discovered her shoes in the road, tire tracks from a car, and shoe prints potentially from the killer.