Texas couple buys suspect's car to investigate their daughter's mysterious death
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Cayley Mandadi was a 19-year-old sophomore at Trinity University when she arrived at a hospital in Texas on Oct. 29, 2017. She was nearly naked, bruised and not breathing. Her sometime boyfriend Mark Howerton told doctors they'd taken ecstasy at a music festival, and she passed out after consensual sex in his car. She died at the hospital.
Mandadi's mother Alison Steele and stepfather Lawrence Baitland believed something far more sinister happened and set out to prove it. "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant reports on the case in "For the Love of Cayley Mandadi" to be broadcast Saturday, Jan. 20 at 10/9c on CBS and streaming on Paramount+.
At 4 a.m. on Oct. 30, 2017, Mandadi's parents woke up to an alarming phone call. They were told Cayley had been life-flighted to Kyle, Texas and had been involved in an incident.
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