When Inna Budnystka is found brutally beaten and left for dead, investigators struggle to explain how she could disappear from a hotel filled with surveillance cameras. In Part One, we trace Inna’s survival, the early investigation, and the troubling gaps in the timeline — leading to a private investigator, Ken Brennan, who begins to question everything police thought they knew. And for the first time in months, the case gets it big break.

Sources Used

• ABC News: Serial rapist loose for years before abandoned suitcase put stop to attacks
• ABC 20/20: Michael Lee Jones Arrested: Inna Budnystka Breakthrough
• ABC News video reporting and interviews
• Court records and investigative summaries included in the provided PDF source packet