Fatal Crossing - Encore
A beautiful mom and her young daughter are found dead near train tracks under mysterious circumstances -- was is it a murder-suicide or a cold-blooded killing? Questions from "48 Hours" help get police to reopen the case. Correspondent Peter Van Sant reports.
- Duration
- 42m
- Broadcast on
- 04 Aug 2019
- Audio Format
- other
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(upbeat music) - It was January 16th, 2008. The weather that night was icy, cold, sleedy. It was one of the coldest nights that year. I will never be able to ever forget the details of that night. They are burned into my mind forever and ever. That was the night that my daughter and granddaughter died. Katie just loved Riverland with all of her heart. She was so proud of her. She loved being a mother. She was just a person that was so full of life. She's right here and she is not on the track. She her body is actually right here beside the track. - Her body was right here. - Beside the track. - My name is Rick Olic, and in 2008, I was the case agent in charge of the overseeing the death of Katie Major. I've had several train incidents, but not one where I had a mother deceased and a child. - The baby was found over here in this ponding area. See, it's all full of water and drowned in that area. - So is your opinion of what happened out here, that this essentially was a murder suicide? - That's my theory. - Do you think your sister, Katie, committed suicide? - Absolutely not. - Do you believe that your sister, Katie, murdered her daughter? - Absolutely not. She loved her daughter with all her heart. - My name is River, and Katie made keep up. - For 10 years, it just was really hard to get any communication with the sheriff's department. They didn't want to hear from me. - What they said happened back then is absolutely not the truth. It can't be. My name is Jessica Sanders. I'm a private investigator, and I've been investigating the death of Katie Major. - She didn't step in front of that train. If she had been, there would have been no open casket. There would have been pieces everywhere. It was ruled a suicide within days. - I knew no way. And I would fight with everything I had to prove that. - My mom was trying to get justice for her daughter. - And then here's where Katie called me.
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A beautiful mom and her young daughter are found dead near train tracks under mysterious circumstances -- was is it a murder-suicide or a cold-blooded killing? Questions from "48 Hours" help get police to reopen the case. Correspondent Peter Van Sant reports.