You can read more about the long quest for justice in the CBS News report or listen to a detailed summary on the Crime Junkie Podcast .
: Investigators believed the murder was a result of a "robbery gone wrong". Amy had been beaten, sexually assaulted, and killed with a pipe after confronting the intruder. Sandy Blaze Masked Man Amy Weidner.wmv
Amy Weidner was an 18-year-old honor student and mother from Indianapolis who was brutally murdered on November 13, 1989. She had stayed home from school that day with her 2-year-old daughter because she wasn't feeling well. Her mother, Gloria Weidner, later returned home to find Amy dead in her bedroom; remarkably, the toddler was unharmed. Key Details of the Incident You can read more about the long quest
: The killer left a bloody handprint on the bedroom wall and DNA evidence at the scene, but the case went cold for over two decades because there was no match in existing databases at the time. Amy Weidner was an 18-year-old honor student and
: In 2011, nearly 23 years later, an officer named Bill Carter utilized social media and renewed detective work to revisit the case. This led police to Rodney Denk , whose DNA matched the samples taken in 1989. Justice and Sentencing
In 2012, Rodney Denk reached a plea agreement and confessed to the murder. He was sentenced to for the rape and murder of Amy Weidner.