When an Illinois veterinary medicine student is attacked in her own home, she uses the last of her strength to seek help, but dies before being able to name her killer. No explanation—or potential suspect—is off the table as investigators seek the truth behind an unlikely crime in this episode of Last Seen Alive.

If you have any information on the death of Maria Caleel, please contact the Urbana Police Department at 217-384-2320.

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