Assassin’s Ex-Spouse Breaks Chilly Case Open After 35 Years in New Doc

Oxygen’s newest true crime particular is exploring a homicide case that took over three a long time to resolve.

In 1984, 12-year-old Jonelle Matthews disappeared from her Greeley, Colo. residence, and never even a nationwide lacking youngster milk carton marketing campaign—one of many first in U.S. historical past—proved profitable in serving to discover her.

“After 20 years, I simply felt like there was nothing I might do,” Angela Hicks, who was married to Jonelle’s assassin on the time of her disappearance, admits in E! Information’ unique sneak peek at The Woman on the Milk Carton. “I attempted to do one thing and that did not work. It was lots of ready and lots of years.”

Angela had beforehand suspected her ex-husband, true-crime fanatic and former Idaho gubernatorial candidate Steve Pankely, was someway concerned in her disappearance. However Angela’s efforts to carry justice had been unsuccessful—till 35 years later when Jonelle’s stays had been found in 2019 simply 20 miles from her residence.

That is when Angela acquired a name from Robert Money, who reopened the tragic chilly case.