Trail of Blood from 'Bad Guy's Car' Is Key to Solving Melissa Witt's 1994 Murder — But Who Was the 'Bad Guy?'
'At Witt’s End – The Hunt for a Killer' streams Aug. 6 on Hulu
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Melissa WittIn 1994, 19-year-old Melissa Witt disappeared from a bowling alley in Fort Smith, Arkansas.
Her body was found six weeks later in the Ozark National Forest, 50 miles from where she went missing.
What happened to the murdered teen 30 years ago is now the subject of a four-part docuseries, At Witt’s End – The Hunt for a Killer, which streams Aug. 6 on Hulu.
The series, a collaboration between ABC News Studios and Ridley Scott and his Scott Free Productions, delves into Witt’s case and “follows investigators as they uncover new information in the search for her killer while featuring unprecedented access to the ongoing investigation with never-before-seen footage and interviews,” according to an ABC News Studios press release.
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According to 5NewsOnline, the teen went to Bowling World on the evening of Dec. 1, 1994, to visit her mother, who played there in a league.
“She was running low on money, she was going to come out and have her mother buy her a hamburger,” JC Rider, a retired Fort Smith Police Department detective who was the lead investigator in the case, told THV11 in 2021.
The college student was abducted in the parking lot on her way inside.
Police later discovered blood in the parking lot and a set of keys belonging to Melissa. (An exclusive clip is shown below.)
“The trail led from the back of her car over to where the bad guy’s car was parked,” Rider said, per THV11.
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Trappers found her nude body on Jan. 13, 1995, along a logging trail in the Ozark National Forest, according to THV11. Police said she had been strangled and robbed of her jewelry, according to 5NewsOnline.
The series, directed by Devon Parks, also follows detectives as they pursue a lead “about a local serial killer’s reign of terror through a small-town Arkansas community before and after Melissa went missing," according to the press release.
At Witt’s End – The Hunt for a Killer, streams Aug. 6 on Hulu.
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