On February 14, 2026, 48 Hours aired an episode titled The Girl from Wahoo, chronicling the decades-long pursuit of justice in the 1969 murder of 17-year-old Mary Kay Heese in Wahoo, Nebraska. This latest...
Mary Kay Heese was a 17-year-old junior at Wahoo High School in Nebraska in 1969. She was known to be a kind, bright, and well-liked student. Those who knew her described her as cautious...
Joseph A. Ambroz was 21 years old and living in Nebraska in 1969 when 17-year-old Mary Kay Heese was brutally murdered and left in a ditch near Wahoo. At the time, Ambroz was not...
