16 year old

old Ashley Turniac died on the side of the highway in Massachusetts during a busy weekday

morning commute. Was it a terrible accident or an intentional act?

Despite the numerous drivers passing by who likely witnessed the final moments of her life.

More than 25 years later, investigators are still trying to determine what exactly

happened to the teenage girl, and who,

who, if anyone, is responsible.

I'm Kylie Lowe, and this is the case of Ashley Turniac on Dark Down East. down east. It was just before 8 a.m. on Monday, November 9, 1998, an Interstate 91 in Western Massachusetts was busy as usual,

with commuters on their way to work.

For one of the drivers on 91 that day, a trucker, he was already at work, behind the wheel of his semi-truck.

From where he sat up high in the cab in the center lane, he had a unique view of the other vehicles and their occupants around him.

One passenger in particular caught the trucker's attention, a girl in a black tank top sitting in the front seat of a car in the left lane.

The car disappeared from view seconds later, but the trucker saw it pop up again beside his

truck in the right lane, still speeding down the pavement towards Connecticut,

except the girl in the black tank top was no longer in the car. The trucker must have checked his mirrors and tried to make sense of the vanishing

act, but when he figured out what just happened, he was stunned. At that same moment, Massachusetts State Trooper Alan Jubert was parked facing the northbound lane in a turnaround, keeping an eye out for a report of a possible intoxicated driver.

Behind him in the southbound lane, he heard screeching tires.

And then when he turned his head to see what the commotion was all about,

he saw several vehicles swerve and then something come flying out of a

car and onto the pavement below. The object landed in the breakdown lane just 30

feet from where his cruiser was parked.

It was a person, a girl.

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