Cold Case Files - Season 5 Episode 4

It's a quiet Sunday in Edmonton, Alberta on September 6, 1992. Corrine "Punky" Gustavson and her 5-year-old friend Lindsey are playing in the backyard of their townhouse complex when a man approaches them. He grabs 6-year-old Punky and drives off with her in his car. Lindsey tells her mother that a man took Corrine and the police are called. Constables from the Edmonton Police Service (EPS) arrive and they interview Lindsey and Punky's father, Ray Gustavson. Ray says he was watching the girls and stepped away for a moment. Soon after, his neighbor told him Punky was missing. Lindsey isn't able to provide a good description of the perpetrator and nobody else seems to have seen the man. Cst. Dave Bittman surveys the yard notices a patch of mud with a shoe print that looks like a sporting cleat. Bittman sketches the print. Soon after police begin a door-to-door search. Local media quickly picks up the story, and volunteers join in on a citywide search for a missing girl. Two days later, a truck driver finds Corrine's body face down in the mud of a trucking yard just outside of Edmonton. Investigators believe the young girl was raped and murdered elsewhere and then dumped at the site. At autopsy the medical examiner determines the six-year old was most likely smothered to death. The only evidence he gleans from the body is a single pubic hair. In 1992, however, analysts are able to do little with the hair. Part 2; Robert Wigley is suspected in the death of Camilla Randall.