48 Hours

The Girl From Wahoo

February 16, 2026·45 min·6-min readnarrativetrue crime
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TLDR
The 1969 murder of 17-year-old Mary Kay Hesse in Wahoo, Nebraska, remained unsolved for over five decades, haunting a tight-knit community and defying multiple investigations — until a cold case breakthrough led to the indictment of Joseph Ambrose, a man with a criminal past and ties to t

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Natalie Morales

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Books, people, and resources mentioned in this episode.

People

Mary Kay HesseJoseph AmbroseBob FrankTed GreenWayne GreaserKathy TollMark MillerJennifer Jochum

Companies

Nebraska State PatrolAdventures With Purpose

Topics

Cold CasesCriminal Justice ReformForensicsInvestigative JournalismLong Form JournalismTrue Crime

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