Who Killed Jennifer Judd? - Official Trailer: Who Took Misty Copsey?

Episode Date: July 9, 2025

In September 1992, 14-year-old Misty Copsey goes to the Washington State Fair with her best friend. Misty doesn’t make it home that night, and she is never seen again. Police initially deem her a runaway. Misty’s mom, Diana, insists they are wrong. Five months later, a search party finds a potential clue: a pair of jeans, socks and underwear crumpled along the side of a highway. Diana recognizes the jeans immediately, but the police are skeptical. More than 30 years later, through multiple investigations, no other trace of Misty has ever been found. How does a young girl disappear into thin air? And how could investigators fail to pursue leads that were right under their noses? In this captivating new series from ID, cold case investigator Sarah Cailean works through anonymous tips, interviews with Misty’s family and friends, police records, and media reports in an attempt to get to the bottom of whether Misty’s disappearance is the work of a serial killer or that of someone who knew Misty. Sarah won’t stop until she answers a question that’s haunted western Washington for more than three decades: Who Took Misty Copsey?Episode 1 releases on July 16th. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The detectives never found Misty's remains and they have not been able to tie those genes or any evidence to any suspect. In September of 1992, 14-year-old Misty Copsey leaves the Washington State Fair with her best friend. Misty is never seen again. Part of the problem was habeas corpus, right? There's no body. They have never found her.

And so it's a story without an ending. Five months after Misty's disappearance, investigators find a pair of jeans crumpled up along the side of an isolated stretch of highway in the woods of Washington, squarely in the dumping grounds of the second most prolific serial killer in American history,

the Green River Killer. This area was sort of a shark tank for predators, not just the Green River Killer, but others. There's a number of people that were at work in this area during that timeframe that could have done this. And the biggest challenge with this case is that we don't have Misty. Western Washington was a veritable killing field for young women.

I'm Sarah Kalin, an investigator who specializes in cold cases and serial killers, and I'm determined to find out what happened to Misty Copsey. That's the biggest case in Puyallup. A 14-year-old just disappears, never seen again. That's a serious case. If you profile it, this was someone that knew her. Did he give her a ride? We do not know. Did he tell the cops, I drove up to an area that is not that far from where these genes were discovered.

Yes, he did. To me, there's no one who was floated as a suspect that we could absolutely rule out. All in the pursuit of answers to the question, who took Misty Copsie? I don't ever want to rehash the feeling of being with her at the very last time and not knowing it was going to be the last. How? Why? What happened to her?

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