'It's always the boyfriend, the girlfriend, the husband - someone really close to the person.' 'It looks personal, it's a lot of stab wounds, it's overkill,' said lead Detective Matt Denlinger of the Cedar Rapids Police Department. A struggle followed in which Michelle was stabbed and sliced by a knife almost 30 times in a horrific murder that police initially believed had to be a crime of passion. Martinko was 18, a senior in high school in 1979, when she was accosted as she was getting into her car on a chilly night in December following a trip to the mall. 'Murder at the Mall: The Michelle Martinko Case,' reported by '48 Hours' contributor Jamie Yuccas, airs on Saturday, August 7 at 9/8c on CBS. And the crucial link is a man named Jerry Burns. The murder of Michelle Martinko in the parking lot of Cedar Rapids' Westdale Mall has some eerie connections to the Huisentruit case. Michelle Martinko, left, and Jodi Huisentruit Now, the solving of another long-cold case-a young blonde woman murdered in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, two hours away may shed new light on Huisentruit's disappearance and presumed murder. The case got nationwide media attention but has remained an unsolved mystery for more than 25 years. In late June of 1995, Jodi Huisentruit, a young anchor at KIMT television in Mason City, Iowa, disappeared from the parking lot of her apartment building on the way to work, never to be seen again. Sneak peek: Murder at the Mall: The Michelle Martinko Case 03:08

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