Ted Green

Green and Kathy Toll had been in close contact through the course of his investigation.

Kathy was always pushing to learn more, so she gave her permission to have Mary Kay's body exhumed.

It was hard.

But what kind of answers could be found from a body that had been buried for more than 50 years?

Mary Kay had been buried for 55 years when her casket was lifted out of the ground to perform another autopsy.

Remarkably, say prosecutors, her body was well preserved, allowing a pathologist to learn more about her knife wounds.

According to investigators, the manner in which Mary Kay was stabbed was consistent with how slaughterhouse workers are taught to kill animals.

For Ted Green, it was another piece of the puzzle tying Joseph Ambrose, who had worked on the kill floor of a slaughterhouse, to Mary Kay's murder.

There was also that shoe print at the murder scene, a size nine and a half.

But it was more than just the size.

Green says it was also the pattern of the print.

It matched a prison issue shoe that Ambrose, on parole at the time of Mary Kay's murder, could have been wearing.

At what point, though, do you feel you have enough that you can then go to the county attorney's office and say, I think I've got a pretty good case here?

In 2021, Green interviewed Ambrose, traveling to Ohio where he was living.

According to Green, people told him they had seen blood on Ambrose's car around the time of the murder.

Green says when he asked Ambrose about this, he admitted there was blood on his car because he ran over a deer or rabbit.

The back, the back fender.

Green believed Ambrose pinned Mary Kay on the car trunk and the blood was hers from those 14 stab wounds.

In 2023, Green presented his investigation's findings to the county attorney.

The witness statements, the shoe print evidence, Ambrose's interview.