Melody Rohrer was out for her morning jog when she was intentionally struck by a pickup truck and murdered. Just twenty-four hours later, her body was discovered in the woods of Michigan. The same day, a man would confess to hitting Melody with his pickup truck but her death was not an accident, it was premeditated murder.
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