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Over 30 years later, Natasha Atchley's murder remains a mystery.
In 1992, 19-year-old Atchley's charred assemblage was recovered successful the trunk of her Chevy Camaro stuck connected a muddy ungraded way successful Shepherd, Texas.
During a 2020 occurrence of Dateline, retired San Jacinto County Sheriff's Office Chief Deputy Tom Branch said investigators believed Natasha was killed astatine oregon adjacent enactment astir a mile distant from wherever her assemblage was yet found, past driven to the ungraded roadworthy wherever her car was past acceptable connected fire.
Now, veteran prosecutor Kelly Siegler and a squad of experts are moving to lick the notorious lawsuit by investigating the conditions wherever her car was found, arsenic seen successful an exclusive sneak peek of the Feb. 25 occurrence of Oxygen's Cold Justice.
"This spot was conscionable a rutted ungraded way not precise antithetic from this," San Jacinto County District Attorney Todd Dillon says portion examining the country of the transgression successful contiguous day. "It had rained the nighttime before. It rained the nighttime the car was found. You spot a clump of sago palms and worldly similar that successful the side. That means there's a batch of h2o retention."
When Siegler attempts to recognize however heavy the spread surrounding Atchley's car mightiness person been astatine the time, San Jacinto Country Assistant D.A. Robert Freyer says it could person been "easily a foot."
"That deep?!" Siegler responds successful shock. "I thought y'all were going to accidental 3 inches. Dang!"
When Siegler and aggregate members of the investigative unit recognize they each utilized to thrust the aforesaid Camaro arsenic Atchley, a revelation comes to mind.
"Y'all retrieve erstwhile you would thrust these cars and you would conscionable parkland excessively adjacent to a curb?" Siegler asks. "You couldn't unfastened the door. It wouldn't open."
The radical concludes that Atchley's car became "high-centered," meaning the "drive wheels are nary longer successful interaction with the ground."
That find leaves 1 precise large question unanswered.
"When Natasha's car became high-centered, a partition of mud on the sides of the car apt blocked the doors from opening, trapping her wrong and not allowing anyone other entree to that vehicle," an researcher says. "So, however would a slayer propulsion this off?"
Not to mention, however would her assemblage person ended up successful the trunk?
Find retired if they tin lick the lawsuit erstwhile Cold Justice airs Saturdays astatine 8 p.m. connected Oxygen.
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